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Billie Jean Dunn arrested, arraigned

March 19, 2011

I’ve got to start keeping a change of clothes in my car. Thursday night, after I’d already put in 8 hours at work, we heard about a development in a case we’ve been covering for months. In December, Hailey Dunn was reported missing from Colorado City, Texas. We’ve written dozens of stories on the disappearance [...]

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Colorado City Wildfire

February 28, 2011

Sunday night, around 8 p.m., I was looking for some centerpiece art at the circus, when I got a call from my editor. He told me I needed to head to Colorado City, a town of about 4,500 an hour west of Abilene. A fire we’d been keeping tabs on all day (and had been [...]

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The Wheels of Justice?

February 18, 2011

I don’t like this picture. The second one doesn’t bother me as much, though. I’ve only been covering cops and crime for a few months now. We’ve had a few big things happen since then: a murder-suicide, a missing child, high-speed chases, a 16-year-old kid shot and killed by his 17-year-old friend, now a road-rage [...]

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It was the papers, officer!

October 4, 2010
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So, today was my first day as a multimedia journalist for the Abilene Reporter-News. I’ve been freelancing for the paper since early 2008, and the opportunity came along to join the staff full-time, albeit temporarily,  I jumped at it. Anyway…today I was assigned a story about the opening of the bowhunting season, and a luncheon [...]

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Apartment Fire

July 28, 2010
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Monday night I got home from work and within minutes of walking in the door, the phone rang. It was the newsroom. A few minutes previously, a call had come across the scanner about a major structure fire at an apartment complex on the south side of town. I grabbed my kit (I really need [...]

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