A motorcyclist with a passenger was struck in a crash at the intersection of Avenue N and Oakes Street just after 4 p.m. According to witness accounts at the scene, both souls on the motorcycle were rushed to the hospital.
An early morning house fire in Abilene resulted in a resident sustaining burns while escaping the blaze that erupted at a duplex on the 600 block of EN 16th Street, shortly after 4:00 a.m. on Thursday.