Big Country Beat: Abilene ADA is arrested & a long closed factory condemned
ABILENE, Texas (BigCountryHomepage.com) – Tragedy, crime, and city news continues to trend in local headlines. Keep reading for a full look at the trending local articles of the week.
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This week’s top 5 in BCH’s Big Country Beat
Abilene driver, Demarcus Kelley, was arrested last weekend. He’s accused of doing donuts on Buffalo Gap Road in South Abilene, seriously injuring his passenger in the process, and evading arrest.
4. Abilene Assistant District Attorney charged with DWI
Kelsey Huddleston, an Abilene Assistant District Attorney, was booked into the Taylor County Jail Thursday morning. She’s accused of driving while intoxicated.
3. School bus hits car, crashes into north Abilene yard
For several weeks now, we’ve gotten breaking news on Thursday afternoons and evenings that take the community by storm and rocket into the top five list. This week was no different when a bus driver crashed into a stationary vehicle then ran into a residential lawn. No injuries were reported.
2. Left in Disrepair: Abilene commercial structure could be torn down
A building which was once used to manufacture defense products, like mission systems and items to support aeronautic business, was condemned by the City of Abilene this week. As reporter Tobin Smith explains in his article, the factory has been vacant for nearly 30 years, and has continuously been broken into.
1. Motorcycle crash in Abilene claims one life, leaves another injured
A motorcycle crash took the life of an Abilene woman just after midnight Saturday. Authorities later identified her as Shanna Bowman, 35.
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