Talented TXDOT Pros Pack It In After Long Careers
Eleven Texas Department of Transportation retirees mark Aug. 22, totaling three centuries of service. Among them Bob Parker, 54, exits as Del Rio area engineer, with four decades in state highways and a career beginning as a summer worker in 1968. Parker reflects on change as colleagues celebrate longstanding achievements at Northside Baptist Church.
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Texas
Texas Department of Transportation
Bob Parker
Jane Schumann
Raul Flores
Efrain Santana
Emiterio Salinas Jr
Antonio Gonzalez
Leonel G. Barrera
Ezequiel Cedillo
Reymundo
Val Verde
Maverick
Kinney
Edwards
Real
Parker
Txdot Laredo
Luis Ramirez
Salvador A. Mercado
Robert C. Parker
Ezequiel H. Cedillo
Ramirez
Antonio F. Gonzalez
Raymundo V. Mendoza
Jane P. Schumann
Alfonso Moncibais Jr
Ricardo S. Veliz
Mercado
North American farmers unite against policy impacts
Farmers from Mexico and the United States gathered in Des Moines to fault both governments for failing family farmers. Led by Miguel Angel Colunga and Chris Petersen, the forum, backed by the National Catholic Rural Life Conference, cited NAFTA subsidies and domestic policy as squeezing smallholders and favoring corporate farms.
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Des Moines
Iowa
United States
Mexico
National Catholic Rural Life Conference
Miguel Angel Colunga
Chihuahua
Democratic Peasant Front
Colunga
U.S
Chris Petersen
Seniors Die When Church Bus Hits Tractor-Trailer
A church bus driver fell asleep and crashed on Interstate 20 near Tallulah Louisiana, killing eight seniors and injuring seven others. Fifteen aboard. cotton truck driver lightly hurt. Names listed at West Texas church. church members mourn in El Dorado.
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Julie Lewis
Louisiana
West Texas
el Dorado
First Baptist Church
Associated Press
First Baptist Church of
Eldorado
Texas
Separated twins Ahmed and Mohamed recover after complex surgery
In Dallas the Egypt ian twins Ahmed and Mohamed Ibrahim are recovering well after a 34 hour operation to separate them at Children's Medical Center. Both remain in critical but stable condition with no brain hemorrhage detected and pain management via coma. The neurosurgical team cautions ongoing hour to hour monitoring for stroke infection or brain damage risks.
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Dallas
Ahmed Ibrahim
Mohamed
James Thomas
Children’s Medical Center
Ahmed
Thomas
Borh
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