Hoopeston teen paralyzed after rollover accident

HOOPESTON – Terri Prather was getting ready for bed when she got the call no parent wants to receive.

She got in her car and drove down a country road, hoping her 18-year-old son, Tyler Prather, had only had a fender-bender.

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