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Coach’s Corner: St. Augustine Coach Arthur Smith chats about huge Homecoming win
LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - Week Six of Coach’s Corner takes us to six-man football to talk to head football coach Arthur Smith from St. Augustine. Coach Smith joins us to talk about his team’s homecoming win against Lutheran and what it’s taken to begin rebuilding a program. For more ...
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4 teens charged in murder of 16-year-old shot after high school football game, police say
NASHVILLE, Tenn. ( WSMV /Gray News) - Police in Tennessee say four teenagers have been charged after a 16-year-old boy was killed in a drive-by shooting after a high school football game. Cameron Frierson, 16, was killed in a drive-by shooting Aug. 21 after he went to a football ...
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Chase with DPS ends in rollover crash
LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - Authorities are searching for a man who fled on foot after a state trooper chase ended in a crash that downed power poles and left live wires hanging in an East Laredo neighborhood Sunday night. The pursuit involved a maroon Ford Focus that crashed near Clar...
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Woman dies after stopping to help driver of flipped car on interstate
NEW ORLEANS ( WVUE /Gray News) - A New Orleans woman died after she stopped to pull a trapped driver from a flipped car on Interstate 10 and was struck by another vehicle, according to her family. Ka’Sheena Daniels, 31, died Sept. 25 on westbound I-10 near Elysian Fields Avenue a...
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2 dead, 35 injured in homecoming party mass shooting in Georgia
VIENNA, Ga. ( WALB /Gray News) - Two people are dead and 35 people have been injured in a mass shooting at a homecoming party in Georgia, according to officials. According to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation , the shooting happened around 1:25 a.m. in Vienna, Georgia, during a...
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Drier Air Will Filter in by Tuesday
LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - Drier air will slowly filter in from west Texas early/mid this week. I cannot entirely rule out an isolated shower Tuesday, but we will see some sun in the afternoon. Much sunnier weather will arrive from west Texas Tuesday and Wednesday. Humidity will still...
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1 dead, 2 injured after downtown Las Vegas shooting
LAS VEGAS ( FOX5 /Gray News) — One person is dead, and two others are injured after a shooting during First Friday in downtown Las Vegas Friday night. According to a Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department press release, officers were in the area of South Main Street and West Ch...
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Week Ahead in Washington: October 4
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - The House and Senate are on recess until after Election Day as President Donald Trump campaigns for Republican candidates in the final weeks before the midterm elections. Vice President JD Vance is headed to Alaska Monday, while Trump is set to kick off thi...
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Former US attorney to conduct review of botched execution of Christa Pike
NASHVILLE, Tenn. ( WSMV /Gray News) - Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee’s Office announced Saturday that former U.S. Attorney Ed Stanton will be conducting the independent review of the botched execution of Christa Pike. The governor’s office said the Tennessee Attorney General’s Office re...
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A republic, if you can keep it: the work of civic participation and the cost of sitting elections out
LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - A republic, if you can keep it. Prescient words at the founding of a nation carried simple but firm instructions: Freedom requires work, self-governance requires responsibility, and keeping a republic requires both. That responsibility, in practice, means pa...
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Squishy toys recalled over potential hazards for children. Here’s how to get a refund
(Gray News) - About 37,000 popular squishy toys sold nationwide were recalled because they potentially pose a deadly hazard to children, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission . The water beads inside the recalled squishy toys expand larger than permitted by the...
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‘A hero’: 13-year-old killed shielding younger sister from gunfire at apartment complex
SHREVEPORT, La. ( KSLA /Gray News) - A 13-year-old Louisiana boy who was killed while shielding his younger sister from gunfire at an apartment complex’s basketball court is being hailed as a hero. Sha’michal Russell, 13, was among three children shot last Monday on a basketball ...