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EAST TEXAS (KLTV) - The accident that resulted in the car being overturned happened late Monday night on FM 2493, just east of Highway 69. Monie Rodgers, her sister Diyamon Martin and a friend say they were just trying to get back home to Troup. That's when the unthinkable and unbelievable happened. It was a curve they had taken many times before. Monday night, it was a turn for the worse. "I just let go of the wheel and covered my face," said Diyamon Martin. "We were just talking, laughing, and the next thing I know I heard like...shhhh...boom," said...

TROUP, Texas - The police chief and a sergeant in this eastern Texas town were arrested on drug and evidence tampering charges and the department shut down. Police Chief Chester Kennedy was charged Friday with tampering with or fabricating physical evidence. He was released from jail on a $400,000 bond. Sgt. Mark Turner, last year's chamber of commerce Officer of the Year, was booked into Smith County Jail late Thursday on a misdemeanor delivery of marijuana charge and a third-degree felony charge of tampering with or fabricating physical evidence. Turner was being held on bonds totaling $500,000. The department's equipment...