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At a shuttered Texas coal mine, a 1-acre garden is helping feed 2,000 people per month
Read full article: At a shuttered Texas coal mine, a 1-acre garden is helping feed 2,000 people per monthThe garden in the middle of a 35,000-acre former mine is supplying thousands of pounds of fresh produce to families in three counties that have few grocery stores.
Rural Central Texas’ plentiful trees make power outages a frustrating way of life after storms
Read full article: Rural Central Texas’ plentiful trees make power outages a frustrating way of life after stormsLeon County’s judge wants the state to help clear trees around power lines after residents again go without electricity following another storm.
Texas suspends most transportation of inmates while it reviews convicted murderer’s escape
Read full article: Texas suspends most transportation of inmates while it reviews convicted murderer’s escapeThe review comes after Gonzalo Lopez escaped from a prison bus last month. Authorities say he killed a family of five before they found and killed him.
Authorities fatally shoot convicted murderer who killed family of five while on the lam
Read full article: Authorities fatally shoot convicted murderer who killed family of five while on the lamAuthorities say Gonzalo Lopez killed a man and his four grandchildren in Leon County. He escaped from a prison bus nearly three weeks ago.
Family devastated after Texas escapee kills man, grandsons
Read full article: Family devastated after Texas escapee kills man, grandsonsResidents of the small Texas town of Centerville remained vigilant for three weeks while authorities searched for a murderer who escaped a prison bus and stabbed and wounded the driver last month near their rural community.
Search for Texas inmate expands as land, air operations end
Read full article: Search for Texas inmate expands as land, air operations endAuthorities say the search by ground and air in the Texas county where a convicted murderer escaped from a prison transport bus and stabbed the driver last week has concluded as the hunt for him expands.
Texas inmate who escaped bus got out of restraints, cage
Read full article: Texas inmate who escaped bus got out of restraints, cageAuthorities say a Texas inmate who was serving a life sentence for murder when he escaped from a transport bus last week got out of his restraints and a caged area before stabbing the driver.
Four days after audacious escape from prison bus, Texas still hasn’t found convicted murderer
Read full article: Four days after audacious escape from prison bus, Texas still hasn’t found convicted murdererOfficials are still trying to piece together how Gonzalo Lopez managed to cut through a metal door and hijack a prison bus Thursday. An extensive manhunt continues in Leon County.
Reward increased for information leading to capture of Texas inmate who escaped prison bus
Read full article: Reward increased for information leading to capture of Texas inmate who escaped prison busAuthorities are hoping an increase in reward money will bring them closer to the capture of a Texas inmate who escaped a transport bus earlier this week after allegedly stabbing the driver.
Texas prison inmate stabs guard, escapes from transport bus, officials say
Read full article: Texas prison inmate stabs guard, escapes from transport bus, officials sayTexas authorities say a prisoner escaped from a transport after stabbing a guard in a rural county roughly halfway between Houston and Dallas.