{"id":110585,"date":"2011-07-22T02:29:20","date_gmt":"2011-07-22T07:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=110585"},"modified":"2011-07-23T03:25:19","modified_gmt":"2011-07-23T08:25:19","slug":"two-east-texans-honored-in-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=110585","title":{"rendered":"Two East Texans Honored in Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=110586\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-110586\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2011\/07\/Larry-Vaughn-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Larry Vaughn\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-110586\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAUSTIN \u2013 A couple of East Texans have received awards at the state\u2019s Public Safety Commission meeting.  Director Steven C. McCraw thanked all of the award winners and said, &#8220;Your exceptional service and sacrifice is in keeping with the proud tradition of the Texas Department of Public Safety and the State of Texas.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Purple Heart was presented to Trooper Larry Michael Vaughn, Quitman (pictured here). He received the award for injuries sustained when he served a warrant on a dangerous fugitive. The suspect discharged a shotgun through a closed window, striking Trooper Vaughn and causing serious bodily injury. Trooper Vaughn was temporarily disabled, but has now made a full recovery and has been able to return to work. <\/p>\n<p>A Director&#8217;s Award was presented to Kyle Evans of Canton. Evans received the award for his bravery and heroism when he entered a vehicle that crashed and was engulfed in flames in order to pull out the driver. Mr. Evans&#8217; actions saved the life of the vehicle\u2019s driver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN \u2013 A couple of East Texans have received awards at the state\u2019s Public Safety Commission meeting. Director Steven C. McCraw thanked all of the award winners and said, &#8220;Your exceptional service and sacrifice is in keeping with the proud tradition of the Texas Department of Public Safety and the State of Texas.&#8221; The Purple &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=110585\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Two East Texans Honored in Austin<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 03:57:53","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110585"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110814,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110585\/revisions\/110814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}