Blanket fire in Brooks County chars an estimated 3,000 acres
Brooks County's Blanket Fire, which began Saturday evening, has been 70 percent contained according to firefighters.
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Brooks County's Blanket Fire, which began Saturday evening, has been 70 percent contained according to firefighters.
I grew up hearing the many stories that my Uncle Fred Chesnutt enjoyed telling. It occurred to me, after he died in 2012, that his father must have told him
Divisions among Montanans regarding how elk should be managed on private lands were center stage in a short Sept. 24 Fish and Wildlife Commission meeting.
If you grew up watching Western movies as I did, you’re familiar with the cowboy’s dastardly adversary — the cattle rustler. Turns out that the Wild West practice of swiping cattle (or money) from under somebody’s nose isn’t dying with the rest of the cowboy life. Get our free mobile app A Sweetwater man named Stewart Kile Williams has been sentenced to roughly 15 years in prison after staging two different scams in Texas. The real cowpie-kicker? He committed the second scam while on trial for the first one. The First Scam Williams was first found guilty of wire fraud and aggravated...
May 27, 2021 FALFURRIAS, Texas — The last time Deputy Don White recovered a corpse, in early May, it had been ripped apart by feral hogs. He found human body parts and clothing scattered over about a 100-foot area on a cattle ranch in Brooks County, Texas, about 70 miles from the U.S.-Mexico border. The man had been dead for about three weeks. The hogs, says White, “took the arms — the scapula will oftentimes come loose, and so the whole arm goes. So, the arms all the way up to scapula, and the feet were gone.” At that point in the decomposition process, explains the 68-year-old White...