farm & ranch
Quest Newberry pictured in the middle was one out of twelve youth whom received a $800 certificate at the San Antonio Rodeo Calf Scramble on Thursday, Feb. 18. Newberry wins calf scramble at San Antonio Rodeo
The calf scramble was held Thursday, Feb. 18th at the San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo. 4-H and FFA youth competed for $800 certificates to purchase a breeding animal to exhibit in the 2011 San ...
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Local youth participate in stock shows
This time of year 4-H and FFA members or busy washing clipping and packing for the major livestock shows over the past two weeks 4-H and FFA members have participated in Fort Worth and San Ant...
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Live Oak youths in SA Show, Rodeo
4-H and FFA members from Live Oak County participated in the San Antonio Livestock Show and Rodeo in the Market Lamb, Market Hog and Market Steer Divisions. Youth also participated in the Calf ...
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Pre-registration not required for Young Crafters Division
March 25, 26 and 27, 2010 Chairman Shirley Talley General Rules 1. This division is open to all Live Oak County Youth who are entered in public schools in a Kindergarten Class, First Grade Class, ...
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Rules for Eager Bakers division of Live Oak County Fair set forth
March 25, 26 and 27, 2010 Chairman Krystal Studlar General Rules 1. This division is open to all Live Oak County Youth who are entered in public schools in a Kindergarten Class, First Grade Class,...
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Live Oak County Fair Horticulture Show open to community
March 25, 26 and 27, 2010 (Open to the community) Entries must be at exhibit building before 12 noon on Thursday. Judging will begin at 1 p.m. Write name of exhibitor on a card and fasten to each ...
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Deadline is Friday to apply for USDA disaster program
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Friday, Jan. 29 is the deadline for county ranchers to apply for benefits under the Livestock Forage Disaster Program (LFP). The Refugio/Goliad USDA Farm Service agency (FSA) remind eligible ranch...
Taylor Thompson wins Overall Grand Champion at Live Oak County 2010 Pig Out
by Keller Hughes, Three Rivers 4-H club reporter
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Three Rivers 4-H club started the new year by sponsoring a swine prospect show on Saturday, Jan. 2. The Live Oak County 2010 Pig Out started with the showmanship judging at 9 a.m. Results were: P...
Brush Country Cattlewomen meet at Wolff’s
by Carole Jambers
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On Thursday, Jan. 7, as the cold, winter winds of our season’s  biggest  storm blew in, Brush Country Cattlewomen arrived at Wolff’s Travel Stop in Three Rivers for their first meeting of the new y...
McMullen also seeks input at community natural resource conservation meeting Feb. 9
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The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and the McMullen County Soil and Water Conservation District invite the public and any agencies with an interest in conservation issues to par...
Input sought at community natural resource conservation meeting
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The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and the Live Oak Soil and Water Conservation District invite the public and any agencies with an interest in conservation issues to participat...
Texas awarded more than $12.4 million in federal funds for emergency food, shelter program
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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency today announced that more than $12.4 millionhas been awarded to Texas non-profit agencies and others by the Emergency ...
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A Cornell University student crosses the Thurston Avenue Bridge and looks out onto the Fall Creek gorge along the college's north campus in Ithaca, NY, Tuesday, March 16, 2010. Three Cornell students have fallen to their deaths into the Fall Creek Gorge in the past month. (AP Photo/Heather Ainsworth)AP - Cornell University, an Ivy League school known for its spectacular gorges and haunted by a reputation for suicides, took the extraordinary step of posting lookouts on bridges and going door-to-door to check on students after three undergrads plunged to their deaths in the past month.


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The Eli Lilly warehouse is seen here in Enfield, Conn., Tuesday, March 16, 2010.  Authorities say tens of millions of dollars worth of prescription drugs have been stolen in a brazen, well-planned heist at a pharmaceutical company's regional warehouse in Connecticut.  (AP Photo/Journal Inquirer, Leslloyd F. Alleyne) MANDATORY CREDITAP - In a Hollywood-style heist, thieves cut a hole in the roof of a warehouse, rappelled inside and scored one of the biggest hauls of its kind — not diamonds, gold bullion or Old World art, but about $75 million in antidepressants and other prescription drugs.


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Convicted serial killer Rodney James Alcala, right, is escorted into the courtroom after jury deliberations during the penalty phase of his trial at the Central Justice Center in Santa Ana, Calif. on Tuesday, March 9, 2010. Jurors took just an hour to return the death recommendation after a six-week trial. (AP Photo/Pool, Sam Gangwer)AP - Relatives and friends of four women who have been missing since the 1970s told investigators they recognized their loved ones in photos found in the locker of a convicted serial killer, police said Tuesday.


Tue Mar 16 18:49:10 -0500 2010

Constance McMillen, an 18-year-old senior at Itawamba County Agricultural High School, is photographed Thursday, March 11, 2010, in Fulton, Miss., a day after the high school announced they wouldn't hold the senior prom April 2. McMillen wanted to bring a same-sex date and wear a tuxedo. (AP Photo/Matthew Sharpe)AP - School officials in a rural Mississippi county told a lesbian student to get "guys" to take her and her girlfriend to a high school prom and warned the girls against slow dancing with each other because that could "push people's buttons," according to documents filed Tuesday in federal court.


Tue Mar 16 18:35:35 -0500 2010