Cody Hollums Fighting For His Life After Accident With A Bull In East Texas
A well-respected Midland County rodeo bullfighter is critically injured after a tragic accident at a bull riding memorial in Lufkin Saturday night. The 27-year-old bullfighter, Cody Hollums, is still in a coma Tuesday at the East Texas Medical Center Hospital in Tyler. The incident happened when a rider was thrown off a bull and Hollums […]
Jason Smith Dies In Alexander Crash
A man was killed and three others injured in a two-vehicle crash on Highway 85 Sunday evening. At about 8:30 p.m., Jason Smith, 43, of Murrieta, Calif., was driving a 1985 Dodge pickup travelling south on the highway when he drove onto the west shoulder, overcorrected and entered the northbound lane. Then a 2011 Ford […]
Dr. Leonard Ledet, 2 Sons And Brother Die In North Texas Plane Crash
A well-respected dentist along with his two teenage sons and an older brother were killed in a plane that crashed after departing from a regional airport near Roanoke. A Beechcraft Bonanza, owned and operated by Dr. Leonard Ledet, 60, disappeared about 25 miles southeast of Terrel after it took off Saturday morning from the Northwest […]
Karl Oney Jr. Dies In Upshur County Crash
A Gilmer man was killed in a one-vehicle crash in Upshur County early Sunday morning. The accident happened at about 4:00 a.m. on rural Bluebird Road, east of Bob-O-Link Road. Karl Oney Jr., 23, was driving a 1997 Chevy S10 pickup heading west on Bluebird Road when his truck ran off the oil top county […]
Trey Pupenbroke And Joshua Armstead Killed In Fiery Car Crash
Two men were killed in a fiery crash in Dallas early Friday morning. Two other passengers were injured. According to Dallas police, 25-year-old Joshua Armstead was travelling at a high rate of speed in a gray Dodge Stratus along North Central Expressway near Lemmon Avenue when he lost control of the vehicle, slammed into a […]
Sharla Watts Killed In One-Vehicle Accident
A one vehicle accident in Hunt County Thursday evening claimed the life of a Greenville woman. At around 8:20 p.m., a 1992 Chevrolet Euro was travelling east of County Road 4106 on Farm-to-Market Road 499 when the car left the roadway and struck an object. The driver, identified as 47-year-old Sharla Watts, was ejected from […]
Debby Jean Austin Dies In 4-Vehicle Crash
A Nacogdoches woman driving the wrong way on U.S. 59 hitting three other vehicles was killed Friday morning. The victim of the fatal crash was identified as 52-year-old Debby Jean Austin. According to a Department of Public Safety report, Austin was driving south on US 59 in a Ford Taurus when she crossed the median […]
Pilot Carl Amos Dies In Helicopter Crash
A Bristow helicopter pilot was killed in a test flight in Intracoastal City, Louisiana Friday. The Vermilion Parish Sheriffs Office was notified of a Bristow’s Bell 407 helicopter that crashed at around 8:00 a.m. The chopper took off from the Chevron heliport near Intracoastal City and crashed only a quarter mile away from the heliport. […]
Rocky Lee Padgett Killed In South Tyler Wreck
An East Texas man died and his passenger injured in a one-vehicle accident in south Tyler Thursday. Rocky Lee Padgett, 29, of Malakoff, was pronounced dead at the scene of the wreck. Police found his vehicle in a ditch of about six feet of weeds and bush. The incident happened at around 12:40 a.m. after […]
Man Convicted Of Manslaughter In Crash That Killed Peggy Jean Cantrell
A guilty verdict was returned Wednesday in the trial of a Waco man charged in connection with a fatal traffic accident that killed 64-year-old Peggy Jean Cantrell. Jurors found 27-year-old Jacob Scott Turner guilty of intoxication manslaughter with a deadly weapon in the accident on July 21, 2011. Cantrell, who was driving a 2002 Dodge […]