Laredo News
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LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - Laredo’s election for the vacant District 8 council seat will be held Dec. 5 after city leaders approved the motion during the Thursday, Aug. 21 special city council meeting. The seat opened after council member Alyssa Cigarroa announced her run for mayor. C...
safety
LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - Nine new cadets are officially joining the Laredo Police Department. The department held its Class A-26 pinning ceremony Friday morning, Aug. 21, at the LISD Fine Arts Complex. The eight men and one woman spent a year in training. “Coming in as a female into...
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ATLANTA ( ANF /Gray News) - The 15-year-old son of “Real Housewives of Atlanta” star Kim Zolciak has been arrested on multiple sex crime charges, according to authorities. Kroy Biermann Jr., known as “KJ,” was charged with aggravated sodomy and aggravated sexual battery. Accordin...
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MANCHESTER, Tenn. ( WSMV /Gray News) - Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival will not take place next year. Festival organizers announced the popular music festival is taking a “much-needed year off” to let the venue’s grounds, known as The Farm, recover from consecutive years of storms...
business
(Gray News) - Out with the old, in with the new. Walmart announced that it would begin adding tap-to-pay options at checkout in select stores and Sam’s Club locations, according to a press release. The company said it will add tap-to-pay options at select Walmart stores and Sam’s...
safety
HIGHLAND HEIGHTS, Ohio ( WOIO /Gray News) - A Northeast Ohio dispatcher resigned Thursday after police said she was caught misusing their Flock camera system over two years. Highland Heights Police Chief Dennis Matejcic said he learned Monday that a part-time dispatcher was accus...
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(CNN/Gray News) — The FDA is escalating a massive egg recall to its highest-risk classification over salmonella concerns. The recall involves more than 1.5 million dozen white and brown cage-free eggs. The new Class I designation means there is a reasonable possibility that expos...
schools
( InvestigateTV ) — Families with K-12 students spent about $858 in 2025 on back-to-school items including electronics, clothing, shoes and school supplies, according to a new LendingTree analysis . Matt Schulz, a consumer finance analyst at LendingTree, said the total represents...
schools
LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - Welcome back to another edition of Ellie-Vated Conversations. This week, in the studio, Monica Hamilton stopped by. Hamilton is an active certified interpreter for the deaf and works at Cigarroa High School. Hamilton has been at Cigarroa High School for 12 y...
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BATON ROUGE, La. ( WAFB /Gray News) — Doctors have used GLP-1 drugs for weight loss for about five years, and researchers say some of the benefits are catching them off guard. Dr. Steven Heymsfield, a professor at Pennington Biomedical Research Center and director of the Metaboli...
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LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - In a week that couldn’t have been scripted any better Sergio “Javi” Martinez he not only adds State Champion to his resume but this weeks Charlie Clark Hyundai Player Of The Week Award winner. Martinez claimed the top spot in the South Heavy Weight division ...
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LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - For more headlines, click here . This episode is all about local community organizers joining forces to uplift Laredo. We’re taking you on the Urbana Coffee Tour to sample local brews, exploring the free family-friendly missions of Noche de Museos , highligh...
schools
LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - A Laredo middle schooler got a surprise at school when her sister, an Air Force airman, walked into her classroom. Tori Alvarado was sitting in class at Lamar Middle School when her sister, Air Force Airman First Class Alexandrea Alvarado, walked through the...
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LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - Laredo-born artist Josephine Sacabo is returning to her hometown for a major retrospective featuring five bodies of work spanning her career. The exhibition opens next week at Texas A&M International University (TAMIU). An opening reception is scheduled for ...
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(Gray News) - Hayden Panettiere would be celebrating her birthday today, were she still alive. The actress would have turned 37 on Friday. According to a report from Page Six , Panettiere had plans to travel to Germany and celebrate her birthday with her 11-year-old daughter Kaya...
government
LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - The Laredo City Council is set to meet after the District 8 special election was pulled from the November ballot. Council members are expected to pick a new date for the election. The election was triggered after council member Alyssa Cigarroa announced her ...
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(Gray News) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has recalled nearly 40,000 bottles of Clear Eyes sold nationwide over contamination concerns. Prestige Consumer Healthcare said the recall involves Clear Eyes Maximum Itchy Eye Relief due to a lack of assurance of sterility. The...
safety
LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - Mostly sunny and hot with highs between 100 and 105 west, and in the 90s east. Heat index values will be between 108 and 115. South to southeast winds 10-20 mph. Daily elevated fire weather conditions continue into next week. Little to no relief from the hea...
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LAS VEGAS ( FOX5 /Gray News) — An innocent mother was shot and killed in front of her daughter while waiting at a red light. Karla Abarca was caught in the crossfire of a shootout initiated by a driver who was allegedly high on “whippets,” according to Las Vegas police documents....
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TEMPE, Ariz. ( AZFamily /Gray News) — An Arizona woman fostering a dog said she nearly died after the animal attacked her, leaving her with serious injuries and unable to use her arms months later. Liz Shidler had fostered dogs for nearly five years without a problem before she b...
government
LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - United ISD has vacancies for certified athletic trainers, and district leaders say qualified candidates have been difficult to find as student-athletes practice and compete in triple-digit heat. The staffing gap was raised during a recent UISD school board m...
safety
(Gray News) - Officials are speaking out after a truck stopped in the middle of a highway, causing a crash before driving off. The crash happened on Interstate 670 in Ohio. Video posted by the Ohio Department of Transportation showed the truck coming to a stop in the right lane, ...
parks
PORTLAND, Ore. ( KPTV /Gray News) - A jury has awarded two teens thousands of dollars after they were stuck upside down on an amusement park ride at Oaks Park. The teens were on a ride called the AtmosFEAR back in June 2024. Thirty riders in total were stuck for nearly a half hou...
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LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - A hot dry airmass occupies a deep layer of the atmosphere above Oklahoma to Arkansas south through Texas. Weather systems that could change our weather are forced to track around our deep hot airmass. There are no signals yet that this will change anytime so...
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LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - A group of San Ygnacio landowners and members of the coalition “No to the Border Wall” protested in front of the federal courthouse in Laredo. The group says the federal government seized their property for the proposed border wall without notice or payment....
safety
TUCSON, Ariz. ( KOLD /Gray News) — A police recruit who was just a week away from graduation was shot and killed in a home invasion in Arizona, officials said. The Pima County Sheriff’s Department (PCSD) said deputies were called to a shooting at a home in Tucson early Wednesday ...
government
LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - The United ISD board has voted to extend Superintendent Dr. Gerardo Cruz’s contract by an additional year, running through August 2029. Cruz has led United ISD since August 2024. He previously served as an administrator with Laredo ISD. The decision follows ...
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LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - The city of Laredo said rumors circulating on social media about a possible cause of an unusual smell in the water are not true. In a statement, the city and its utilities department said no human remains were found in the water system. The city said there i...
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LEBANON, Tenn. ( WSMV /Gray News) - Four people were hospitalized after a ride malfunctioned Wednesday night at the Wilson County–Tennessee State Fair, according to the Wilson County Emergency Management Agency. The agency responded to the fair Wednesday night after nine people w...
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LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - Tens of thousands of identical survey answers have Laredo officials suspecting a setup. The survey aims to gauge opinions on new data center standards, but officials say it was hijacked instead. Survey took a strange turn City Manager Joseph Neeb said it sta...
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ATLANTA ( ANF /Gray News) — A former NFL and University of Georgia player says he has been scammed out of his entire life savings. Tae Crowder was drafted by the New York Giants in 2020, where he spent three years with the team following a college career playing linebacker for th...
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LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - The City of Laredo and its Utilities Department said false information is circulating on social media about human remains being found in the water system. The city on Thursday, Aug. 20, said the claim is completely false. No human remains have been found in ...
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LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - A coordinated enforcement effort dismantled a human smuggling operation July 30 in the 400 block of Olive Street, U.S. Border Patrol said. Border Patrol, the Texas Department of Public Safety and Homeland Security Investigations launched an investigation aft...
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(Gray News) - A Texas inmate was sentenced to 10 years in prison and a lifetime of supervised release after he pleaded guilty to trying to sex traffic a woman in Utah while he was behind bars. Aaron Kern admitted to threatening a woman in an “unrelenting effort” to sex traffic he...
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WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - The man accused of attempting to assassinate President Donald Trump and members of his administration at April’s White House Correspondents Association Dinner was back in court Thursday. Cole Tomas Allen, the accused White House Correspondents Dinner shoote...
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(Gray News) — Hayden Panettiere’s boyfriend, who was with her when she died, has released a statement through his lawyer following the actress’ death. In a statement to TMZ Thursday, Brian Hickerson’s attorney Sloan Ellis said: “Hayden’s death remains under investigation and it i...
safety
NASHVILLE, Tenn. ( WSMV /Gray Media) - Nashville police said the Colorado man who was last seen early Sunday morning in the east part of the city was found dead Thursday evening. Conor Anderson, 31, flew to Nashville Saturday for a work conference and checked into the Millennium ...
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LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - Property owners from San Ygnacio are taking their fight over border wall construction to federal court. The announcement came during a demonstration in front of the federal courthouse in Downtown Laredo. The property owners say government crews with bulldoze...
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(Gray News) - A Colorado man was charged in connection with his wife’s death after claiming she died by suicide after suffering from postpartum depression. On Aug. 13, Lindsey Barnett, 37, was found dead in the home, Lakewood Police Department said. Her husband, Patrick Barnett, ...
business
TROY, Texas ( KWTX /Gray Media) — Fast food employees at a Troy-area McDonald’s are recovering after officials say they were exposed to carbon dioxide while working. First responders reported being called to a McDonald’s restaurant inside the Love’s Travel Center near Interstate ...
parks
(Gray News) - Def Leppard guitarist Vivian Campbell’s cancer has returned, the rocker confirmed in an interview. Campbell discussed the return of Hodgkin’s lymphoma, with which he was diagnosed in 2013, in an interview with Francisco Sigüenza on Radio YSKL FM . The 63-year-old ro...
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. ( WSMV /Gray News) — A 72-year-old woman was paralyzed and at least three other patients were harmed after a medication mix-up at a hospital in Tennessee. The family of 72-year-old Glenda Dorton said she went to Ascension Saint Thomas Hospital Midtown in Nashvill...
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LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - Property owners from San Ignacio are taking their fight over border wall construction to federal court. The announcement came during a demonstration in front of the federal courthouse in Downtown Laredo. The property owners say government crews with bulldoze...
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LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - A Mexican citizen is headed to federal prison after admitting he helped move millions of dollars in drug money through Laredo. Prosecutors said 52-year-old Gabriel Arturo Castillo was part of a “black-market peso exchange” scheme. The scheme took U.S. drug p...
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TOLEDO, Ohio ( WTVG /Gray News) - Two people have died after an explosion at an industrial facility in Toledo, according to Mayor Wade Kapszukiewicz. The explosion happened shortly before 5 a.m. on Tuesday during the shift change at the Brent Industries facility, an industrial cl...
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CINCINNATI (WXIX) - Ohio authorities have released a new interview video featuring a father admitting to killing his three sons. The murders happened in June 2023 after the Clermont County father, Chad Doerman, came home earlier than usual from work. He grabbed a Bible and began ...
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BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (Gray News) - A mother and her two daughters in California were killed in a three-vehicle crash while returning home from a concert, according to multiple reports. The crash happened around 12:45 a.m. on Monday, near Bakersfield, ABC7 reported. Three vehicles ...
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( InvestigateTV ) — The cost of raising a child to age 18 has climbed to more than $303,000 nationwide, according to a LendingTree study — a figure that comes out to nearly $17,000 a year after tax exemptions and credits. Matt Schulz, a LendingTree analyst, said the size of the n...
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DE PERE, Wis. ( WBAY /Gray News) - A construction worker died after a semitruck struck a forklift in a work zone on Interstate 41 in Wisconsin. The crash occurred at about 11:30 p.m. Monday near De Pere. The preliminary investigation indicated the truck, driven by 53-year-old Chr...
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LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - Laredo Animal Care Services (LACS) will hold its Clear the Shelters event Saturday, Aug. 22, from noon to 4 p.m. Clear the Shelters is a national initiative led by NBC Universal. The Laredo event will offer free adoptions for cats and dogs of all ages and si...
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EDMOND, Okla. ( KSWO /Gray News) — New body camera video shows the moment Oklahoma Secretary of State Benjamin Lepak was arrested at a McDonald’s on suspicion of public intoxication. Lepak was arrested in Edmond on Friday. According to court documents, the Edmond Police Departmen...
business
(Gray News) – It’s the end of a music era. Columbia House, a mail-order club that offered a dozen CDs for a penny each (if you committed to buying more at full price later) is closing for good. The club was famous for its ads promising “10 CDs for a penny” and its nostalgic “One ...
parks
LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - Residents can drop off bulky items at no cost during a city-hosted event. The bulky waste drop-off event will take place Saturday, Aug. 22, at Father McNaboe Park. It runs from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Residents will need to unload items themselves. They must also b...
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(Gray News) - A subscription dog food service in the U.K. is recalling all of its meals because it may cause sudden bilateral dry eye in pets, which can lead to vision loss. The company Years is recalling its fresh meals, excluding its Chef’s Collection line, as a precaution as i...
government
LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - Laredo City Council will hold budget workshops Thursday, Aug. 20, and Friday, Aug. 21. The workshops will begin at noon at the Joe Guerra Public Library multi-purpose room, located at 1120 East Calton Road. During the workshops, council members will review t...
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(Gray News) - Moderna and Merck say a new vaccine appears to prevent the recurrence of melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer. The companies say the vaccine is for people who have had melanoma. The vaccine, called Intismeran, is designed to be tailored to individual patients...
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LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - The deadline to file for a spot on the ballot has passed, and a random drawing at City Hall determined the order for 15 local candidates in November’s election. The drawing took only a few minutes, with a random number pull determining the order for the cand...
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MOULTRIE, Ga. ( WALB /Gray News) — A mother and her boyfriend were indicted in connection with the drowning death of the woman’s 8-year-old son. Julie Hurst and Dalton Johnson both face charges of murder and cruelty to children in connection with the boy’s death. Authorities said...
