By KERA News & Wire Services
Dallas, TX – A nighttime collision involving a motor boat and three kayaks on a North Texas lake has left one person dead and another hurt.
A game warden says crews found and recovered the body of a man floating near the northwest shore of Eagle Mountain Lake about 2:30 p.m. Tuesday. The body was believed to be that of a man missing since the accident late Monday night on a poorly lit part of the lake.
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department Capt. Neal Bieler says a man in another kayak suffered a leg injury. He's being treated for a broken leg.
The driver of the boat stopped to help after the Fourth of July evening accident.
Longhorn Network to carry 2 games exclusively
ESPN's Longhorn Network will carry at least two Texas Longhorns football games exclusively on the cable channel, including one Big 12 game.
According to an ESPN statement released Tuesday, the Longhorn Network will carry the Rice-Texas game from Royal-Memorial Stadium in high definition exclusively at 6 p.m. CDT Saturday, Sept. 3. The second game will be a game still to be determined between Texas and a Big 12 opponent.
The Longhorn Network will begin carrying programming 24 hours a day, seven days a week on Friday, Aug. 26.
1 burned in Dallas senior apartments fire
One resident is being treated for burns after a fire in a Dallas high-rise apartment complex for senior citizens.
Dallas Fire-Rescue spokesman Jason Evans says the woman suffered second- and third-degree burns in the fire Tuesday morning. Evans says the woman, whose name was not immediately released, has been transferred to Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas.
Investigators say the fire apparently started in a fourth-floor unit of 12-story Dickinson Place, which promotes itself as an affordable housing complex. Some residents were evacuated, as a precaution.
The cause of the blaze is sought.
Pilot shot down in Bosnia running for Texas House
A U.S. fighter pilot who was shot down over Bosnia is running for the Texas House of Representatives.
Capt. Scott O'Grady was flying an F-16 when he was shot down by Bosnian Serbs in 1995 while enforcing a NATO no-fly zone. He evaded capture for six days before he was rescued by U.S. Marines.
Now he is running as a conservative Republican in District 33, which will be in North Texas after redistricting. The district is centered on Rockwall, but forms a fish hook shape into Collin County. The area's current legislator is Republican Rep. Jodie Laubenburg.
O'Grady said in a statement that he will champion small business, oppose big government and defend gun rights.
District maps are redrawn every 10 years and must account for population changes.
Body found in abandoned refrigerator
An autopsy has been ordered on a body a father and son found in an abandoned refrigerator while using a metal detector on rural land south of Dallas and Fort Worth.
Ellis County Sheriff's Chief Deputy Dennis Brearley tells the Waxahachie Daily Light that investigators were called to the scene about 11 p.m. Monday. He says investigators are looking into whether the remains are those of a 62-year-old Arlington man missing since May 6.
Two people have been charged with murder in the presumed death of the missing man, 62-year-old Jerry Roberts. A police welfare check at Roberts' Arlington home found him and his refrigerator missing and blood stains on a chair. Blood also was found in the bed of his pickup truck, which a suspect was found driving.