Spoiled Liver Heist: Trailer Stolen From West Plains
Police traced a missing tractor-trailer to Air Products and Chemicals Inc as more than 20 tons of frozen beef livers spoiled after the driver took a break. The trailer vanished June 10 from a Junction truck stop, then reappeared near Batesville. FBI fingerprints found none. investigators list few leads.
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GM closes Arlington plant as strike drains parts supply
Arlington GM plant idles about 1,400 hourly workers after a Michigan strike cuts truck parts. The plant, which builds sport utility vehicles and pickups, faces uncertain reopening with workers ineligible for GM benefits or state unemployment or UAW strike funds. About 440 skilled trades stay on to finish maintenance. 475 are furloughed at Lear Corp. and Mackie Automotive Systems.
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Flower sparked lifelong hunt for Texas past in Hempstead
Clarence Miller, a 62 year old retired electrical engineer from Houston, has explored Waller County fields since 1986 turning up home sites from Stephen F. Austin’s era to the Civil War. He traces a Donoho plantation footprint near a cistern, a shed, slave cabins, and a tavern site, sharing finds with landowners and recording discoveries from private pasture digs.
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Groundbreaking planned July 1 on vets' homes
AUSTIN AP The Austin firm Grae ber Simmons and Cowan will oversee four long term care homes for Texas veterans with groundbreaking set for July 1 in Big Spring Bonham Temple and Floresville. Veterans Land Board heads outsourced design and build group The Park Associates Rees Associates MW Builders to design and operate the projects. The homes are the first in Texas since a Civil War era facility in Austin closed in the 1970s.
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Pilot familiar with rescue plan in helicopter crash report
NTSB preliminary facts say the pilot Tony Martinez knew the nearby unmanned airstrip eight miles north of La Gloria and planned to use it to reach an injured driver. The Val ley Air Care helicopter crashed on June 5 en route to the truck driver, killing all three aboard. wreckage found after about 30 hours, roughly 30 miles from the tractor-trailer crash in Brooks County.
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