By EMILY GUEVARAStaff Writer ATHENS — An Athens couple counted their blessings after an 18-wheeler crashed into their house mere feet from one of them. Bobby and Betty Thomas escaped with only minor injuries after the wreck, which occurred shortly before 8 a.m. Thursday. Texas Department of Public Safety trooper Joshua Jenkins said 40-year-old Gary
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By EMILY GUEVARA Staff Writer ATHENS — A truck driver who “black out” at the wheel has been transported to a hospital for injuries after his rig plowed into a home near Athens. Texas Department of Public Safety troopers on the scene said 40-year-old Gary Wayne Derrick of Aberdeen, Miss., was traveling west on Texas
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From KYTX CBS 19 and staff reports A Jacksonville High School teacher is dead after an early morning collision between her motorcycle and an 18-wheeler. It happened on Highway 135 south between Arp and Overton at about 6:45 a.m. The 18-wheeler was making a U-turn when the motorcycle slammed into it, killing the female driver
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Arp and Overton firefighters are trying to save a structure from a fast moving fire on Farm-to-Market Road 3053 in Rusk County. Flames are close to the home, and firefighters are summoning additional manpower to help protect it. Authorities in Jackson Heights are reporting that fires from Sunday destroyed a total of six homes, two
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A woman died when she was hit by at least two vehicles, including a big rig, after she apparently tried to walk across the Sam Houston Parkway in north Houston early this morning. Houston police said the 24-year-old woman had a single-car wreck in the 1600 block of eastbound North Beltway 8 near JFK about
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A pickup truck driver died when he tried to pass a big rig and slammed his truck into a utility pole on the Loop 610 service road in east Houston Wednesday afternoon. The wreck occurred in the 9500 block of North Loop East near Gellhorn about 2 p.m., according to the Houston Police Department. Police
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MARBLE FALLS — A tractor-trailer rig headed east on RR 1431 snagged an overhead utility line about 1:15 p.m July 26, knocking out power to about 250 Pedernales Electric Co-op customers for 68 minutes. One of those customers was Victory Publishing Co. Ltd., the owner of this website and The Picayune weekly newspaper, which was
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Our dependence on foreign oil is the greatest threat to America since we became a nation! In 2008, our country imported $475 billion dollars of oil. In ten years that will equate to almost $5 trillion going to other countries! This is the greatest transfer of wealth the world has known. What would happen in
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