Snaps ties to Garner.

• Position: Triangle - ConAgra Foods Inc. - Garner Fast Foods Inc. - Brief article

For about 40 years, Slim Jim meat snacks have been made in Garner. But ConAgra Foods Inc. plans to close the plant by the end of next year, laying off 450. An explosion caused by a natural-gas leak damaged the factory last summer, killing four workers and injuring dozens more. Since then, Omaha, Neb.-based ConAgra has been considering whether to pump more money into repairing the plant or move production. Garner officials tried to put together a package of state and local...