DPS trooper killed in crash on I-35 laid to rest Friday

BELTON, Texas (KXAN) — A Texas Department of Public Safety trooper killed in the line of duty last weekend was laid to rest on Friday.
Senior Trooper Thomas Nipper died when a driver crashed into his patrol car while he was conducting a traffic stop on Interstate 35 in Temple last Saturday.
At his funeral in Belton, his colleagues spoke highly of the man who spent more than four decades in law enforcement. He started working for Belton police in the 1970s before joining DPS in the early &r