ABILENE, Texas (BigCountryHomepage.com)- It’s our second edition of Big Country Beat, a new segment in collaboration between news departments, from web to TV, featuring news from KTAB and KRBC. This week, breaking news led web traffic.
Introducing ‘Big Country Beat’: Fatal motorcycle crash, street name change and more
This week’s Top 5 in BCH’s Big Country Beat Weekly Countdown
1. Sheriff’s Office: Inmate re-arrested after escaping custody in Taylor County
Taylor County Jail: Angela Trueblood
Unfortunately, the Big Country isn’t exactly a stranger to reports of prisoner escapes. Although Angela Trueblood only had about 20 minutes of freedom, it was what she was wearing in her photo that caught people’s attention on Facebook.
While the five stories above were this week’s top five, we wanted to focus on something more than just death and destruction. So here are our other featured articles of the week:
Potential buyer emerges for million-dollar Abilene home; delay the demolition decision
It’s interesting how some stories seem to stand out from the rest, isn’t it? KRBC’s Annabelle Tuggle reported last week on a potential buyer who could save a million dollar home in Abilene.
In the Vaquero Ranch neighborhood, a large house has been unfinished for almost three years. At a Building Standards Board meeting on Tuesday, July 5, an attorney announced that a new owner, an entity called Speedy Sell Estates, LLC, could be its saving grace.
The board bought some time by proposing further discussion of the demolition for a month, hoping to approve a contract.
New businesses and B&Bs show Abilene’s SoDA district’s versatility in latest wave of changes
South Downtown Abilene, better known as the SoDA District, is getting another makeover. What was, until very recently, Moose Mountain Coffee will soon be a bed and breakfast. In addition, there will also be another bed and breakfast soon. This adds up to a multi-faceted homeware store.
UPDATE: Abilene junkyard owner says car ‘exploded’ and caused massive fire
The owner of an Abilene junkyard said a car exploded while he was moving it Tuesday afternoon, causing a large fire in a junkyard.
Investigators said “the owner of the property was at the scene and claimed he was moving scrap cars with his crane when one of the vehicles ‘exploded’ after he dropped it onto the pile.”
