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A Department of Public Safety trooper was injured after his car was T-boned in Upshur County Friday morning. On Highway 271 about five miles south of Gilmer, trooper Drew Nipp attempted to do a U-turn in pursuit of another vehicle for a traffic violation when a truck from behind struck the patrol car’s side door. Trooper Nipp was taken to a Longview hospital with minor injuries. The pick-up truck driver, 64-year-old Donna Young of Gilmer, was sent to ETMC in Gilmer with non-life threatening injuries. No charges have been filed. Authorities continue investigation on the collision.

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A former Henrietta High School student died in a two-vehicle accident on Interstate 20 west of Eastland Thursday morning. Jessica Marie Rogers, 20, of Henrietta, had been in Stephenville to visit friends when the fatal accident happened. At about 7:45 a.m., she was driving to Abilene in a 2011 Chevrolet Camaro when her vehicle struck the rear of a 1998 Freightliner, driven by Danny R. Howell of Ranger. Jessica was pronounced dead at the scene at 8:02 a.m. Investigators believe the cell phone played a role on the cause of the accident. The Hardin Simmons student was a standout on…

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Grammy-winning country-music singer Randy Travis was arrested late Tuesday near his hometown of Tioga, about 60 miles north of Dallas where the entertainer lives, after his Pontiac Trans Am veered off the roadway  and smashed into highway construction barriers. The “He Walked on Water” singer was charged with driving while intoxicated and threatening law officers after the crash. At the time of his arrest, Travis was not wearing clothes and made threats to shoot and kill the troopers working the case. The singer refused sobriety tests so a blood specimen was taken, said Texas Department of Public Safety spokesman Tom…

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Three teenagers were involved in a deadly car crash in Hallsville Tuesday that killed a 16-year old male Hallsville High School student and injured two others. Texas Department of Public Safety troopers said the fatal accident occurred at around 5:00 p.m. when Samuel Ellis, 17, was driving a SUV with his 2 passengers down the road in Hallsville.  They were westbound down willow road, just south of Highway 80, when their vehicle lost control and crashed into a tree. Ellis and passenger 17-year old Austin Urbelis were taken to Good Shepherd Medical Center in Longview for injuries sustained in the…

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A 20-year-old Midland man was discovered dead at a Hess lease approximately 4/10 of a mile south of 62-180 Tuesday. Daniel Sauls and a co-worker were cleaning up a pipeline right of way. Both were employed by AAW services out of Midland, TX. Sauls was working with a weed eater and was last seen between 11:00a.m. and 11:30a.m. The co-worker went to check on Sauls at approximately 3:00 p.m. and discovered the 4-wheeler had turned over on him. Authorities arrived after getting a 911 call and Sauls was discovered to be deceased. He was pronounced dead at the scene by…

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A one-vehicle rollover in U.S. Highway 79 on Monday killed an Arkansas man and injured two from Alto. Lance Nolan Elrod, 28, of Alto, was driving west on the highway in a 2003 Dodge 1500 truck along with passengers Michael James Griffin Jr., 22, of Arkansas, and Timmy Lynn Newman, 16, of Alto. According to Trooper Jean Dark, public information officer with the Texas Department of Public Safety, the accident occurred 1.8 miles east of New Summerfield at 6:50 a.m. Elrod fell asleep at the wheel. He overcorrected causing the truck to roll on the right side of the roadway.…

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A woman died in a one-vehicle accident on Sunday, just north of Fayette. At about 2:42 a.m., Tabatha F. Davis, 40, of Fayette, was driving north on Mississippi 553 when her SUV ran off the roadway, turned over and crashed into a tree. Davis was ejected from her vehicle, according to a Mississippi Highway Patrol spokesman. Investigators continue to look for the cause of the accident.

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A Bowie County man died as a result of a head-on collision between an 18-wheeler and a Chevy Camaro on Interstate 44 north of Wichita Falls on Monday. The accident happened shortly after 5 p.m. near the Bacon Switch Road intersection. According to the Department of Public Safety, a Chevy Camaro was heading north when it swung to the median and crashed into a southbound 18-wheeler truck. The car was ravaged by the impact and emergency crews had to rescue the car’s driver from the wreckage. The driver of the Camaro, Timothy Little, 21, of Bowie County in northeast Texas,…

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Two Mineola people were taken to separate hospitals after a motorcycle smashed into a car on Highway 80 Monday night. According to Department of Public Safety Trooper Tommy Barrett, the accident happened at about 7:48 p.m. on Highway 80 west of Mineola in front of County Road 2841. A Kawasaki Ninja 600 motorcycle was travelling westbound on 80 when a four-door Concordia pulled out from a driveway. The motorcyclist, Cody Hamrick, 19, was going about 50 or 55 miles per hour and was unable to stop. He slammed into the back left door of the car with so much force…

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Police stresses the importance of using approved walkways especially at night after a woman was struck on a roadway Sunday night and died. Haskell Richardson, 47, was driving his 1969 Chevy pickup truck and was on his way to his girlfriend's house Sunday night. He was on Vine street, about to take a right at the intersection of Glenwood, when 39-year-old Nikeisha Smith of Arlington suddenly appeared on the road and his vehicle struck her. “I don't know if she was trying to cross or- she was just standing there like she was in a daze. There wasn't anything I…

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