{"id":138457,"date":"2011-11-03T17:59:50","date_gmt":"2011-11-03T22:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=138457"},"modified":"2011-11-04T18:18:25","modified_gmt":"2011-11-04T23:18:25","slug":"crews-search-for-missing-fishermen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=138457","title":{"rendered":"One Missing Fisherman Found Alive, the Other Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=138517\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-138517\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2011\/11\/missing_fishermen_recovery-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"missing_fishermen_recovery\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-138517\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nLAKE PALESTINE (AP) &#8211; A fishing boat accident in East Texas has left one man dead and another saved by looping his belt around a stump in the middle of the lake. Officials say 61-year-old Mike Ammons of New London was in good condition Friday at a Tyler hospital.   Ammons and 64-year-old Tommy Cook of Overton went fishing early Wednesday at Lake Palestine. Relatives reported the pair missing Wednesday night. <\/p>\n<p>Department of Public Safety Trooper Jean Dark says searchers in a DPS helicopter spotted Cook&#8217;s body Thursday afternoon, then located Ammons about a quarter-mile away. Dark says Ammons looped his belt around a stump and partly pull himself from the water. DPS says the boat sank during choppy, windy conditions and that both men wore life jackets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAKE PALESTINE (AP) &#8211; A fishing boat accident in East Texas has left one man dead and another saved by looping his belt around a stump in the middle of the lake. Officials say 61-year-old Mike Ammons of New London was in good condition Friday at a Tyler hospital. Ammons and 64-year-old Tommy Cook of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=138457\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">One Missing Fisherman Found Alive, the Other Dead<\/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-138457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-29 08:11:59","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\/138457","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=138457"}],"version-history":[{"count":35,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139035,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138457\/revisions\/139035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}