June 2022

Sarah Symes

Sarah “Linda” Symes was called home on Saturday June 11,2022 to be with her Lord and Savior. Linda couldn’t stand the way her relatives would pronounce her first name so she preferred to be called by her middle name from an early age.

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Donella Long

Joan Donella Taylor Long, age 79, of Early, passed away Friday, June 24, 2022. Funeral services for Donella will be held at 10:00 AM of Tuesday, June 28 in the Heartland Funeral Home Chapel. Visitation will be held on Monday, June 27, from 6-8 P.M.

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A global look at suffocation deaths of trafficked migrants

Officials said 46 people have been found dead and 16 others were taken to hospitals with heat-related illnesses after a tractor-trailer rig containing suspected migrants was found Monday on a remote back road in southwest San Antonio. The deaths were the latest in what has become a global series of mass deaths occurring during human trafficking attempts. Big rigs emerged as a popular smuggling method in the early 1990s amid a surge in U.S. border enforcement in San Diego and El Paso, Texas, which were then the busiest corridors for illegal crossings.

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