CRYSTAL BEACH — A Longview man has drowned in the Gulf of Mexico. Jeffery Buttram, 42, was found Sunday afternoon in the water near the 1900 block of Avenue J in Crystal Beach. John Florence, a spokesman for the Galveston County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office, said CPR was performed on Buttram on the beach. He was flown by a medical helicopter to the University of Texas Medical Branch, where he died Monday afternoon. An autopsy has been ordered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
CRYSTAL BEACH — A Longview man has drowned in the Gulf of Mexico. Jeffery Buttram, 42, was found Sunday afternoon in the water near the 1900 block of Avenue J in Crystal Beach. John Florence, a spokesman for the Galveston County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office, said CPR was performed on Buttram on the beach. He was … Continue reading Gregg County Man Drowns in Gulf<\/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-202922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-03 02:42:56","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\/202922","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=202922"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203161,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202922\/revisions\/203161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=202922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=202922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=202922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}