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On a July evening 22 years ago, 20-year-old Terry Wallis climbed into a pickup truck with two friends and rode off down a rural Arkansas highway. He never came back -- or, more precisely, he never came back the same. The truck went off a bridge. One of Wallis' friends was uninjured; the other died. Wallis barely made it. First, he was in a coma, then in what doctors called a "vegetative state," and then in what they called a "minimally conscious state." He was paralyzed from the neck down and couldn't talk. His parents assumed legal guardianship from his...

Two people are dead after an unknown shooter entered the Verizon building at 342 S. Chadbourne Wednesday evening and began firing at a Verizon employee, said San Angelo Police Department Public Information Sgt. Tracy Fincher. After killing one person, the shooter then killed himself, Fincher said. The suspect was described over police scanners as a balding, white male, between the ages of 40 and 50 years old, wearing a red shirt and jeans. Both of the deceased are unidentified white males. No one else was injured, Fincher said. Police were called to the scene at 7:41 p.m. and were joined...