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 […]
SAISD Mourns For Loss Of Bus Driver Dolores Martinez
The San Antonio Independent School District community is coming together Thursday after losing one of their bus drivers in a crash. Fellow bus drivers of Dolores Martinez, 63, tied yellow and black ribbons to their buses in her honor. The yellow ribbons symbolize the school and school service as well as the color of the […]
Richard Kennedy Jr. Dies In East Feliciana Crash
A Texas man died in a single vehicle crash on La. Highway 10 in East Feliciana Parish just after midnight on Monday. Louisiana State Police troopers said Richard Kennedy Jr., 25, of Austin, TX, was driving a pickup towing a travel trailer east on LA Highway 10, east of LA Highway 961 in East Feliciana […]
John Wilkins And Jeanette Wilkins Killed In Oak Cliff Wreck
A two-vehicle crash in West Oak Cliff early Monday morning claimed two lives and injured four, including a pregnant woman and a child. Just before midnight on Sunday, a GMC Terrain carrying five people was stopped at a red light on the 3700 block of W. Davis St. when a Hyundai Santa Fe ran a […]