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Another man said his friend, who regularly panhandles on a busy street, has been missing since the takeover began.

From Slate • Sep. 1, 2025

“Everybody just has cards or their phones now,” said Sylvester Harris, a 54-year-old Washington native who panhandles near Capital One Arena.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 9, 2023

For the fourth consecutive day, tornadoes strafed the middle of the country Thursday, this time concentrated in sparsely populated panhandles of Oklahoma and Texas.

From Fox News • May 24, 2019

A tornado threat was stalking the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles, and the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex.

From New York Times • Apr. 21, 2019

First off, I has a run of old timers, that panhandles me out of all the loose coin I has in my clothes.

From Odd Numbers Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe by Ford, Sewell