James Ryan Kurth Dies in Late Night Crash on Rural Central Texas Road
A Fort Hood soldier was killed Wednesday night in a motorcycle accident in Copperas Cove. The fatal wreck happened before 11 p.m. about three miles south of Copperas Cove on Farm-to-Market Road 116, just inside the Bell County line. James Ryan Kurth, 26, was heading south on FM 116 riding a 2010 Harley Davidson motorcycle […]
Wreck Claims Life of Malcom James Barclay
An elderly man died in a single-vehicle rollover crash in Jeff Davis County Wednesday afternoon. At about 4:45 p.m., Malcom James Barclay, 83, of Alpine, was driving a Chevrolet truck traveling south on Texas Highway 17, about 11 miles from the Reeves County line and 17.8 miles north of Fort Davis, when the crash occurred. […]
Wesley Caskey Charged With DWI After Pickup Crashed House
Police arrested a 24-year-old man Wednesday night after his pickup truck slammed into a house in northeast Abilene. Deputies found Wesley Caskey in his truck when they arrived at the house near the corner of Campus Court and East Ambler Avenue. Caskey was traveling east when the vehicle swerved across the road and ran through […]
Georgetown High School Teacher Deirdre Furr Dies in Car Crash
A Georgetown High School English teacher was killed in a wreck Wednesday morning. Deirdre Furr, 54, was on her way to pick up her daughter in Bertram when the wreck occurred at about 7:09 a.m. on Texas 29 two miles east of Bertram in Burnet County. Texas Department of Public Safety officials said Furr was […]
Damon Barraza Jr. Charged in Connection With Wreck at The Intersection of 82nd and Quaker
A high-speed pursuit through Lubbock ended in a three-vehicle accident at the intersection of 82nd Street and Quaker Avenue Wednesday afternoon. The incident started when a DPS trooper tried to pull over a gray Dodge pickup on south U.S. 87. The driver, 27-year-old Damon Barraza Jr., refused to stop and the trooper chased after the […]
Frank Ortega, Manuel Loera and Joshua Stearns Killed in Midland County Fatal Accident
A collision of two trucks in Midland County on Tuesday left three men dead and one in critical condition. Frank Ortega, 26, of Odessa, was driving a truck with two passengers when he tried to pass another car. He swerved to avoid hitting another truck driven by Manuel Loera, 47, but both drivers swerved in […]
Melissa A. Flores and Andrew Jared Swope Died in Highway 287 Crash
Two people have died in a fiery crash Tuesday just north of the Canadian bridge on Highway 287. The Potter County Fire Department responded to the scene of the accident at about 11:12 a.m. and found a pickup fully engulfed in flames. Department of Public Safety officials said a 2011 Ford Mustang was traveling south […]
Richard Carl Wood Dies in Hall County Rollover
A man was killed after his car rolled off the road and onto a cotton field in Hall County Monday morning. According to the Department of Public Safety, a 1994 Chevrolet S-10 pickup truck was heading south on FM 657 when, for unknown reasons, the pickup swerved to the left and crashed at about 7:30 […]
Rosalinda Santana, Lydia Jimenez, and Margarito Cavazos Victims of Rollover Accident Near El Paso
Three people, including a 6-year-old boy, died and three others injured in a single-vehicle rollover accident Sunday afternoon near El Paso. Police said a vehicle carrying six people may have had a tire blowout, which caused it to overturn on Interstate 10 in Culberson County shortly before 2:30 p.m. Pronounced dead at the scene were […]
DPS Trooper Bob Sims Hurt in an Accident Involving Son Near Breckenridge
A Texas Department of Public Safety trooper was injured Sunday night after his patrol car was hit by a pickup driven by his son. Trooper Bob Sims was working patrol Sunday evening and was on the way to have dinner with his family when the crash happened near the intersection of U.S. Highway 180 and […]