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Background photos of Muleshoe, Texas -- Tom Fox/The Dallas Morning News; high school picture of Lincoln Riley courtesy of parents Marilyn, Mike Riley
MULESHOE, Texas - Magann Rennels has been on the job as a local television newshound for almost four decades. Still, the savvy proprietor of the town's only cable station can't possibly know what stories might fall into her lap for the three times a week "Muletrain" report on her family-operated Channel 6.
How could she possibly have known nefarious souls would steal the portable outdoor air conditioning system down at the nursing home necessitating an emergency fundraiser; or the success of the after-school healthy snack program?