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Eight months after the Agriprocessors raid, Postville is still grappling with what its leaders call a "humanitarian and economic disaster," compounded by the recession and a harsh winter. Life isn't much easier for "legal" workers. Inside a faded community hall serving as a relief center are Michael Barner, 47, and Patricia Williams, 41, who moved to Postville last month to work at Agriprocessors but had to leave their jobs soon after because of illness. They have arrived with an eviction notice and are seeking help to return to Dubuque. "We came here. We tried. I got sick. We just...
...Lola Barner of Monticello, Iowa, is not so fortunate. The retired schoolteacher, 72, failed her local test and has no way to get to her garden and crafts clubs. "It made me feel like I was hardly a person anymore," she laments. Although senior vans fill the gap in some communities and other alternate transportation programs are being created, their availability--especially in rural areas like Barner's--lags far behind the need. Her embarrassment at having lost her license, she says, holds her back from asking others for rides...
Franek and her friend Elizabeth Barner, who came in together to have casts made, both said they thought the project seemed to celebrate breasts and bodies...
Ornstein noted the retirement of respected Republican New York representative, Barner B. Conable Jr., as an example of about a halfdozen senior House GOP members who are stepping down this year...
...Cleveland, police arrested for violation of the liquor law Negro Barner Barry, 37, 493 lb., waistline, 66 in. shaped like a hogshead because "I drink good beer." They found him too fat to wedge into the police car. They called a patrol-wagon, budged him in with difficulty, shoehorned him through the central police station doorway, shouldered him quarterway through a cell door, pried him out, let him sit on a bench. In the morning they opened both the courtroom's double doors to arraign him before Judge Westropp where he pleaded not guilty. They sent him away. Fingernail...