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A 34-four year-old man was sent to a Tyler hospital Wednesday after an auto-collision. Henderson County Sheriff’s Department reports indicated the collision was triggered by a disturbance in Cherokee Shores. The initial call reporting a disturbance at 206 Little Feather in Payne Springs was received by HCSO shortly after 5 p.m. The caller told authorities that James Dotson had rammed a vehicle with his vehicle. Soon thereafter, HCSO received a second call reporting that two individuals were headed for the ETMC Gun Barrel City facility after being involved in a motor-vehicle accident in Cherokee Shores. The individuals were James and…

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Twenty years after a train accident took the life of her husband, Lyndell Hall will bury her son, who suffered the same fate. “We take it a day at a time with the Lord’s help and the Lord’s direction,” she said Wednesday in a telephone interview from her Dalhart home. “And that’s just about all I can tell you, because that’s just the way it is.” Her son Dan Hall, a train engineer, lost his father, who was also an engineer, in a train accident two decades ago. Jim Hall was then 58. The collision Sunday morning has left the…

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A man on a Harley-Davidson stopped on the off ramp for eastbound I-94 at Portage Road on Monday when he was struck from behind by another vehicle and died. Just before the crash, at about 5:05 p.m., Portage police had been called to the area for a report of a van being driven erratically. Before officers arrived on scene, the van struck a vehicle on the I-94 off ramp that then struck the motorcycle driven by David Pease. The driver of the van, whose name has not been released, may have been experiencing a medical issue at the time of…

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The state highway was closed Monday night after a collision injured five people. At about 8 p.m. June 25th, four helicopters were sent to the west of Mt. Calm where two vehicles crashed on State Highway 31, according to Hill County Sheriff Jeffrey Lyon.  The rescue team had to cut three of the five victims from the wreckage of the vehicles. The victims were unnamed and their conditions were not revealed. No further details were issued Tuesday. Original story: http://www.kwtx.com/home/headlines/Accident_On_Rural_Central_Texas_Highway_Leaves_5_Injured_160410695.html

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The parents of fallen ICE Special Agent Jaime J. Zapata, along with injured Special Agent Victor Avila, on Wednesday filed notices of claims totaling $62.5 million against three federal agencies. The claims allege negligence, stating that acts and omissions of the government and its agencies created the opportunity for Zapata’s death and Avila’s injury in 2011. Zapata, of Brownsville, was slain and Avila, of El Paso, was injured Feb. 15, 2011, in what officials say was an attack by the Zetas drug cartel as the two agents were returning to Mexico City after meeting in San Luis Potosí with staff…

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A family of three was killed in a three-vehicle crash last week in Lavaca County, Texas. They were headed to a Van Halen concert on June 20th at the American Airlines Center in Dallas. Felipe Antonio Garcia, 39, of Brownsville, and his two children — Brandon Michael Garcia, 9, and Anthony Cesar Garcia, 10 — along with girlfriend Christine Salazar, 42, of McAllen, were traveling north on U.S. Highway 77 near Hallettsville when Garcia lost control of his 2003 Ford Explorer Sport Trac on the wet road and crossed into the southbound lane. According to a report by the Texas…

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A Rice University math professor was crossing the street on Tuesday when she was struck and killed by a car. Her baby was successfully delivered but died a day later. Her baby was delivered successfully via C-section hours after her death, but succumbed to injuries the following day and died, KVUE reports. Jennifer Young, a 30-year-old post-doctoral instructor who was seven months pregnant, was crossing the street near the Texas Medical Center in Houston when she was struck by an Acura MDX. She was rushed to Memorial Hermann Hospital but died shortly afterwards, reports The Houston Chronicle. The doctors performed…

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Thirty-three year-old Nick Hall slid more than 3,000 feet to his death as he was helping to evacuate four climbers on Mount Rainier. The last climber to be rescued, Stacy Wren, descended with Rainier National Park rangers on Friday during blizzard conditions and was whisked away by car that evening. Three other climbers were plucked off by a Chinook helicopter from Joint Base Lewis-McChord Thursday after the group fell and two of them ended up in a crevasse. Eight other climbers who were trying to retrieve Hall’s body from the 10,000-foot level of the mountain were pinned down in a…

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An 8-year-old boy is added to the four fatalities of a car crash earlier this week. It was Monday morning when a car smashed into a parked bulldozer, instantly killing a 31-year-old woman and two children, ages 2 and 3. Later that day, a 5-year-old child died at the hospital, police said. For three days, Abram Demers, 8, fought for his life at the University Hospital in San Antonio but suffered the same fate. The driver, Larry William Demers, 35, is now in jail for charges of intoxication manslaughter, two of intoxication assault and a probation violation, with $420,000 total…

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A three-vehicle accident near Hallettsville, east of San Antonio in Lavaca County left Anabel Salazar mourning the death of her two young sons and their father. The boys’ father, 39 year-old Felipe Garcia, was taking their sons, 10 year-old Anthony, and 9 year-old Brandon to a Van Halen concert in San Antonio when they were killed Tuesday afternoon. The boys started liking Van Halen after playing the group’s Guitar Hero video game and were excited when their father told them he would take them to the concert. They initially thought they would go to the show in Dallas, but they…

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