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Abilene Bridge Jumper

July 7, 2011

Three officers from the Abilene Police Department (left) talk to a 23-year-old Hispanic man who threatened to jump off the Winters Freeway bridge at the intersection of with North First Street on Tuesday evening. After about 40 minutes, they were able to convince the man to leave the ledge, at which point he was taken [...]

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Fire at night

May 24, 2011

Nothing special, just amazed, again, at the quality of the files I can get from this D3. This was ISO 6400…after sunset, only a little twilight and light from the trucks to illuminate the scene.

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611 Gas Plant Fire

May 22, 2011

There’s something about Sundays. Usually, there’s just two of us working in the newsroom, and according to the Law of Murphy, stuff always goes wrong on a Sunday. We’ve had, in the span of a month, fires, tornadoes, hail, Osama bin Laden…all on a Sunday. So, it was no surprise when, a few Sundays ago,  [...]

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Woman dies in apartment fire

April 27, 2011

I got off work late Monday night, and got home around 11. I was sitting in my chair, catching up on some TiVo’d shows with my wife, when my phone rang. A large building was on fire downtown. I grabbed my cameras, and headed out the door. A large building was indeed on fire. I [...]

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Homeless man killed by train

April 21, 2011

This afternoon, right as I walked into the newsroom after fetching the grand jury results from the courthouse, another reporter told me he’d heard a report of a man being hit by a train on the scanner. I grabbed my cameras and headed to the location. I was there before they put the sheet over [...]

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