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Fannin County

  • News

    October 27, 2011

    The End of Family Planning in Texas

    They say they defunded Planned Parenthood. But lawmakers' attack on family planning will cost Texas money, reduce access to healthcare and result in even more abortions.

  • Blogs

    September 29, 2010

    Once, Odell McDuffey and Sam Stillman Were Two Kids In a Photo Taken in Dallas in 1913. This Morning, At Last, They Come to Life.

    Lewis Wickes HineSix-year-old Odell McDuffey, left, and 7-year-old Sam Stillman on a Dallas street corner in October 1913​We first saw this photo of Odell McDuffey and Sam Stillman selling newspapers on a downtown Dallas street corner in December 2008, when it showed up on Shorpy accompanied only ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 18, 2010

    Shoeless Joe Comes to Leonard

    Dish Boggett ... er, D.B. Sweeney​By which I mean: D.B. Sweeney, who played Shoeless Joe Jackson in John Sayles's 1988 adaptation of Eliot Asinof's book Eight Men Out, and Leonard, Texas, a tiny town up in Fannin County. So happens that just as we were writing about all the TV shows shooting aroun ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 5, 2009

    Way Back in 1946, Bill Boyd and His Cowboy Ramblers Had Themselves a "Palace in Dallas"

    A recent late-spring clean-up resulted in the discovery of a stash of Dallas-related 78s I'd collected back when I was music editor, which was some time between the switchover from cylinder recordings to reel-to-reel. Most are the scratchy leftovers of forgotten footnotes; one or two sound like sand ... More >>

  • News

    June 27, 2002

    Case Closed

    The truth may set you free, but it takes a body to prove a 50-year-old murder

  • News

    June 20, 2002

    Siderius Named Texas Print Journalist of the Year

    Numerous Observer writers took home awards in recent competitions

  • News

    September 27, 2001

    Corraled

    The USDA backs off its tough new meat-inspection standards. That's a good thing, beef producers say.

  • News

    March 1, 2001

    Forget Me Not

    Harrison Ocie Jones born 1920 – lynched 1951

  • News

    January 11, 2001

    Off the Killing Floor

    Dallas-based Supreme Beef wins a major round in its court battle with the USDA

  • News

    December 21, 2000

    Slaughterhouse Jive

    Dallas-based Supreme Beef fought what it believes are unfair regulations, only to wind up on the USDA's killing floor

  • News

    November 9, 2000

    Sour Town

    Resident dreamer Robert Bledsoe has a plan to keep his hometown of Ladonia from disappearing off the map. His neighbors want him to wake up—and shut up.

  • News

    November 13, 1997

    Nobody Noticed

    Marilu Dennis lived in Lakewood for 36 years. One hot July day, she died alone in her home. For 15 months, the grass grew. The mail piled up. The bills went unpaid. Nobody saw Marilu. Nobody noticed

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