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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...
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(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 ...
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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...
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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...
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LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - Extreme Heat Warning and heat advisory in North and central Texas. Hot and sunny with highs in the 100s. Major to Extreme heat related impacts , heat index values 105-115. Elevated fire weather risk continues to be a concern. Little overnight relief from the...
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SARASOTA, Fla. ( WWSB /Gray News) - A former Florida police officer has been arrested and fired after an investigation into the alleged misuse of law enforcement databases. The Sarasota Police Department said Tuesday that 38-year-old Cory Waiters faces felony charges of offenses ...
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HAMPTON, Tenn. ( WVLT /Gray News) - Authorities in Tennessee responded to a deadly crash involving a car and a group of bicyclists Wednesday morning. Sixty-nine-year-old John Benfield, of North Carolina, was arrested in connection with the crash, according to District Attorney St...
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LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - A section of the Bartlett Soccer Complex will be renamed in honor of Roque Vela Sr. , a veteran, advocate, former commissioner and Laredo ISD board member who died last month. Many said the decision to honor Vela reflects the impact he made in the Laredo com...
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MINNEAPOLIS (Gray News) - Billionaire Elon Musk is calling for the release of Derek Chauvin. Musk took to X on Wednesday, stating that “Chauvin was unjustly convicted of murder” and therefore “He should be freed.” The chief executive officer of Tesla also retweeted others who spo...
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WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - A handful of states held primary elections Tuesday to determine which candidates will move on to November’s midterms, including Florida, where results on both sides of the aisle pointed to a different kind of election year. State Rep. Angie Nixon, a progres...
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LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - Cooler airmasses are tracking through the central and northern Great Plains and through the Tennessee Valley to the east. This leaves Texas in a very hot and dry airmass with our 105F afternoon heat persisting. A shallow layer of humid gulf air will arrive l...
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COLUMBIA, Tenn. ( WSMV /Gray News) - County animal services in Tennessee says a dog recently needed emergency care after it was reportedly dragged behind a vehicle. According to Maury County Animal Services , it received a tip earlier this week about the injured animal. The anima...
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LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - Laredo College is wrapping up the Laredo Police Department’s “Frontier to Future” exhibit next Friday, Aug. 28. The exhibit features major cases, advances in police technology and a memorial honoring fallen officers. Because of gaps in the archives, the depa...
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LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - Laredo city leaders say they need more money to fix the city’s water pipes, on top of a multimillion-dollar project that started after years of breaks and boil-water notices. The pipe repair budget has already grown to more than $130 million. City Manager Jo...
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LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - Fewer domestic violence victims are asking Laredo police for help this year, and investigators believe fear of deportation is why. Authorities believe undocumented migrants are afraid to come forward because of nationwide immigration enforcement. Victim serv...
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WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - The Supreme Court is considering whether construction of a ballroom at the White House is within the president’s power, as historic preservation groups seek to block the project on an emergency basis. Justices heard arguments Tuesday on the case. Lawyers fo...
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EAST WINDSOR, Conn. ( WFSB /Gray News) - A father in Connecticut was charged after his 1-year-old son died in a hot car at a strawberry farm, according to authorities. Kevin Pell, 47, is charged with risk of injury to a minor. His attorneys told a judge they are cooperating with ...
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LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - Items not meant to be flushed down toilets are piling up at Laredo’s wastewater treatment plant, according to the Laredo Utilities Department. Socks, plastic toys, T-shirts and pieces of wood were found in a pile that came from toilets flushed around north L...
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Gray DC) - Democrat Mary Peltola was the top vote-getter in Tuesday’s Alaska Senate primary, besting incumbent Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan. Peltola, a former Alaska congresswoman, received about 48% of the vote in a 16-person race. Sullivan, who is seeking a t...
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WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - President Donald Trump temporarily halted new tariffs against Canada late Tuesday, citing a last-minute deal. The 50% tariffs, scheduled to take effect at midnight, would have impacted about $20 billion worth of Canadian imports. “They called yesterday and ...
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GRETNA, La. ( WVUE /Gray News) - A Jefferson Parish deputy has been fired after the authorities say he misused their Flock camera system. Jefferson Parish Sheriff Joe Lopinto said Nathan Rome admitted to using the agency’s Flock cameras while working as a deputy to track the move...
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. ( KCTV /Gray News) - A Kansas City man has been charged with murder after allegedly starting a house fire that killed his mother. Ryan Willis, 36, is facing charges that include second-degree felony murder and first-degree arson following a deadly house fire on T...
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GREENVILLE, S.C. ( WHNS /Gray News) — Police officers were called to Hayden Panettiere’s boyfriend’s family home in Greenville on Wednesday morning, city officials said. According to the city, officers with the Greenville Police Department were at Brian Hickerson’s family home to...
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LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - The Laredo Animal Protective Society (LAPS) is looking for a home for Uma, a four-year-old dog. Sofi Juarez with LAPS said Uma had heartworms when she first came to LAPS but was treated and is now healthy. Juarez said she fostered Uma for two days. “She gets...
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SOMERS, Conn. ( WFSB /Gray News) - A man is under arrest and another is dead following an early-morning home invasion this week in Connecticut. State police said Joshua Freitag, 33, has been charged with murder, home invasion and two counts of risk of injury to a child. Connectic...
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WINCHESTER, Tenn. ( WSMV /Gray News) — A 16-year-old Tennessee girl is facing charges after authorities said she ran onto the field and tackled a middle school football player during a game Tuesday night. The game between South Middle School and Cornersville Middle School was hel...
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HUNTSVILLE, Mo. ( KCTV /Gray News) - Some deputy U.S. marshals and other law enforcement officers in Missouri were injured after the deck they were standing on collapsed. A task force consisting of the Moberly Area SWAT Team, the U.S. Marshals Service and other law enforcement ag...
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LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - A Laredo woman faces a felony charge after police said she shoved a disabled client out of her wheelchair at an adult day care. Police said 34-year-old Jeanette Medina was caught on surveillance video allegedly pushing the woman, causing her to fall back and...
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HARNETT COUNTY, N.C. (Gray News) - A man in North Carolina is accused of kidnapping a 12-year-old girl from a sleepover, according to multiple reports. Harnett County Sheriff Wayne Coats said deputies arrested Daniel Francis Gear, 38, who they said kidnapped the girl from a home ...
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( InvestigateTV ) — The FBI is warning the public that scammers are impersonating employees of its Internet Crime Complaint Center, known as IC3, to target victims a second time. IC3 is where people who have been scammed online can report the crime. Paul Keener, a cybersecurity s...
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JACKSON COUNTY, Ala. ( WAFF /Gray News) - A woman who worked payroll for an Alabama business is facing charges for stealing from employees. Jackson County authorities said Jasmin Vargas Levya faces 39 counts of theft. Sheriff Rocky Harnen said Levya was allegedly skimming from em...
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LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - The Laredo Stroke Support Group is hosting a F.A.S.T. 5K run and walk. The race starts at 8 a.m. on Sept. 12, 2026, at North Central Park, according to Maria Garcia, the group’s newly hired executive director. On-site registration begins at 6:30 a.m. Online ...
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ATLANTA ( ANF /Gray News) — The woman accused of abducting two young girls in Georgia waived her first court appearance Tuesday, hours before Atlanta police released body camera video showing officers rescue the children and arrest her. Lakesha Brown, 42, is charged with kidnappi...
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LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - The Laredo Fire Department and Firefighter’s Association Local 872 are hosting the city’s 3rd Annual 9/11 Memorial Stair Climb to honor first responders who died in the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. The event honors the 343 firefighters killed in the attac...
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LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - Parents in the U.S. are opting out of providing their children certain vaccines for non-medical reasons, according to the CDC. The CDC says more than 4% of kindergartners had a vaccine exemption this school year, up from last year. Both Laredo school distric...
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LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - Increasing clouds and hot temperatures this afternoon, highs in the 100s. Moderate to extreme heat related impacts with heat index values of 105-113. Elevated fire weather concern continue this week. Breezy southeasterly winds gust 22-25 mph. Overnight lows ...
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NĀʻĀLEHU, Hawaii ( HawaiiNewsNow /Gray News) - Residents in the rural town of Nāʻālehu on Hawaii Island’s south side could never have imagined a once peaceful resting place for their loved ones would be unearthed by weather. A torrent of water from Hurricane Lala brought a wall o...
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COLUMBIA, S.C. ( WIS /Gray News) - A mother has been arrested after her 6-year-old was found Tuesday with a loaded gun on a school bus, according to authorities in South Carolina. The Richland County Sheriff’s Department said a resource officer at JP Thomas Elementary School was ...
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ORANGEBURG COUNTY, S.C. ( WIS /Gray News) - A school bus carrying more than 40 students crashed into a vacant mobile home in Orangeburg County on Tuesday morning, officials said. The bus had 42 students from Clark Middle School and Orangeburg-Wilkinson High School on board, accor...
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LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - Texas has four active screwworm cases. Webb County has no screwworm cases , but state and county leaders are reminding ranchers of steps to keep their livestock safe. Dr. Sandra Leyendecker, Laredo regional director for the Texas Animal Health Commission, sa...
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KINGSTON, Tenn. ( WVLT /Gray News) - Property managers in Tennessee say they discovered something unexpected when cleaning out a vacated rental property over the summer. Authorities say the crew reported finding a cardboard box containing a collection of bones in July. A newly re...
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LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - A hot airmass over the western U.S. will merge with the southern Great Plains hot airmass by the end of this week. This will mean no end to our hotter than average weather during the 7 day time frame, perhaps well into next week. Dry air above will continue ...
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LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - Don Cuauhtémoc Rodríguez Meza, known as Chito, has died, the Tecolotes de los Dos Laredos announced in a statement issued today. He was 90. Rodríguez Meza pitched for the Tecolotes in the late 1950s before building his reputation in the front office. He won ...
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LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - A woman wanted in a deadly human smuggling case is in custody. Federal records show Karina Garcia was arrested Sunday. She is one of 11 people indicted in July on charges accusing them of using shipping containers to smuggle migrants farther into the U.S. Pr...
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. ( WAVE /Gray News) - A family is speaking out after their 18-year-old son was struck by a hit-and-run driver on his way home from work, left in the road, and had his bike and phone stolen in the aftermath. Kingston Maestas graduated from Valley High School in May....
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DISCLAIMER : LPD initially reported the suspect’s name as Juan Antonio Vergara, but directed name clarification to the Webb County Sheriff’s Office, which lists the suspect as Juan Antonio Vergara-Nieto Jr. LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - A gun was fired inches from a teenager’s head, and ...
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RAY CITY, Ga. ( WALB /Gray News) — Georgia authorities are investigating after a family says a neighbor shot and slit the throat of their pet pig in their backyard. Angela Burnett said she was resting before a night shift when her children alerted her that something was happening...
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LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - Border Region Community Health Center invites community to gathering at Jovita Idar Park The Border Region Community Health Center is inviting the community to a candlelight vigil to reduce stigma and strengthen suicide prevention. The gathering will be held...
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LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - A Laredo smuggling case that turned deadly has ended in a guilty plea. Gerardo David Zarate Martinez, 19, pleaded guilty Monday, Aug. 17, to helping smuggle migrants into the United States for cash. In January, police tried to stop a car packed with people. ...
