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• n  a relatively narrow strip of land projecting from some larger area
  Wheeling is located in the northern panhandle of West Virginia
• n  the handle of a pan
• v  beg by accosting people in the street and asking for money

• Far beyond the Texas panhandle, Gene Howe, publisher of the Amarillo Globe and News, was fondly known as "Old Tack.
• The panhandle is being attacked daily by some 400 Air Force and Marine fighter-bombers that fly from Danang and four Thai bases, plus 240 Navy warplanes that come from three .
• In Texas' panhandle last fall, herds of cattle suddenly sickened and died of a strange disease.

News & Articles

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• Amarillo-Panhandle Humane Society conducts animal cruelty investigations
  The Amarillo-Panhandle Humane Society is doing their part to end animal abuse through their cruelty investigation program.
  June 12, 2013 - KVII 7 Amarillo
• Small plane crash in Texas Panhandle, pilot killed
  Small plane crash in Texas Panhandle, pilot killed Associated Press Copyright 2013 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Published 10:28 am, Tuesday, June 11, 2013 A two-seater plane possibly low on fuel has crashed in the Texas Panhandle in an accident that killed the pilot and left the passenger hurt. Trooper ...
  June 12, 2013 - Beaumont Enterprise
• E. Panhandle Transit Authority looks to expand
  MARTINSBURG -- The Eastern Panhandle Transit Authority is looking to expand public transportation services in Berkeley and Jefferson counties. Executive director Cheryl Keyrouze says the authority plans to split a line that runs through Martinsburg into...
  June 9, 2013 - Charleston Daily Mail

Quotes

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• Mike Huckabee in Forbes
  We knew we needed to get to the Panhandle, it is a very, very critical area,Huckabee said. "The Panhandle is historically a very conservative part of Florida and that would be an ideal constituency for us. I wish we could spend more time...
• Charlie Crist in Guardian Unlimited
  But doing so would hurt the Apalachicola River and Apalachicola Bay "resulting in a profound disruption of the socio-economic foundation in Florida's Panhandle region," Crist wrote in the letter dated Wednesday.