60 lbs of pot seized at Los Indios bridge (KGBT 4 Rio Grande Valley)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers working at the Los Indios International Bridge discovered $60,000 in marijuana hidden in a Ford Taurus.
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Scrap-yard fire is extinguished (WFAA Dallas-Fort Worth)
A four-alarm fire that began Wednesday evening at a South Dallas scrap metal yard was extinguished Thursday.
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Drunk man flips car with family inside (The Elyria Chronicle-Telegram)
ELYRIA — An Elyria man who once served 18 months in prison for driving drunk and killing a man in the late 1990s flipped his car Monday night with his family inside after again getting behind the wheel after drinking, police said. Shawn Dooley, 30, was charged with two counts of endangering children, a [...]
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Solis indicted in traffic death (San Marcos Daily Record)
A San Marcos woman has been indicted in connection with the June death of a neighbor.
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'It's not coming back' (The Joplin Globe)
PICHER, Okla. — John Baker and some of his friends were picking through the rubble of what remained of his cousin’s tornado-ravaged house in Picher. There wasn’t much left, but they found a few things they thought might be salvaged and threw them in the back of a pickup.
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Nick Myers' Republican National Convention blog w/ links to learn more about the convention (The Joplin Globe)
Editors note: The same invitation and opportunity was extended to Doug Brooks, a Joplin resident and member of the Missouri delegation to the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Co., but was declined.
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Resilient Red a true champion (The Joplin Globe)
Red has won 13 championships in obedience and agility competitions.
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Jopiln council to hear police substation pitch (The Joplin Globe)
A proposal to locate the Joplin Police Department’s special-enforcement unit on the west side of the city in the Iron Gates neighborhood will be presented today by Chief Lane Roberts to the Joplin City Council.
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Mike Pound: On a roof during a hurricane? Moron (The Joplin Globe)
Really, the Republicans didn’t have any choice. They had to cut back on their national convention this week. They had to scale the whole thing down. It was the only smart thing to do.
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Laboring together (The Joplin Globe)
PITTSBURG, Kan. — Just a few weeks after their recent 40th anniversary, Dennis and Pat Pickering attended a wedding and overheard a guest say, “… just so I’m not working with my spouse.”
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