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...MEXIA, TEXAS Boomin' on the Fourth in Mexia is a weeklong festival that ends on Independence Day with a rodeo, concerts and, of course, an office-chair race through downtown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Your Independence | 7/1/2002 | See Source »

...corporate Goliath. A small-town lawyer from East Texas, Roberts was representing the parents of a 14-year-old girl, Jessica LeAnn Taylor, a junior high school cheerleader who died in a car accident Oct. 16, 1998, on the way to a homecoming football game outside her hometown of Mexia, Texas. A friend of Taylor's mother was driving that day, and as the tread on the left-rear Firestone ATX tire allegedly peeled off like a banana, the Ford Explorer SUV veered left and rolled over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anatomy of a Recall | 9/11/2000 | See Source »

...corporate Goliath. A small-town lawyer from East Texas, Roberts was representing the parents of a 14-year-old girl, Jessica LeAnn Taylor, a junior high school cheerleader who died in a car accident Oct. 16, 1998, on the way to a homecoming football game outside her hometown of Mexia, Texas. A friend of Taylor's mother was driving that day, and as the tread on the left-rear Firestone ATX tire allegedly peeled off like a banana, the Ford Explorer SUV veered left and rolled over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anatomy of a Recall | 9/3/2000 | See Source »

...Mexia, Texas...

Author: By Errol T. Louis, | Title: Violence in the Streets | 1/11/1983 | See Source »

...Freeman, 18, all drowned while in custody of three county deputies. They had been arrested on suspicion of marijuana possession at the annual "Juneteenth" public festival (commemorating June 19, 1865, when slaves in Texas first heard they had been freed). While the officers were ferrying the youths across Lake Mexia, the small boat capsized 80 feet from shore. The deputies swam to safety, which was impossible for their handcuffed captives. The Dallas Medical Examiner found that none of the suspects had any traces of marijuana in their bodies. The deputies were acquitted of negligent homicide...

Author: By Errol T. Louis, | Title: Violence in the Streets | 1/11/1983 | See Source »

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