Click here for updates on this story HOUSTON (KTRK) — Every once in a while, opportunities present themselves to help a neighbor in need. The next time that happens, will you rise to the occasion? Maybe Ms. Bobbie can be your inspiration. Houston resident Bobbie Tallent drives the only pink taxi in the city. It
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Click here for updates on this story FREEPORT, Texas (KTRK) — The family of a little girl from Freeport who touched many hearts got an emotional surprise Wednesday. Abigail Arias captured attention when she became an honorary Freeport Police Officer. She said she wanted to fight the bad guys, and her rare cancer. Sadly, she
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Click here for updates on this story MOBILE COUNTY, Alabama (WALA) — Alabama Rep. Shane Stringer is no longer a captain with the Mobile County Sheriff’s Office, the office announced Friday. According to the MCSO, Sheriff Sam Cochran made the decision Wednesday “because of different political views held by his administration.” The MCSO statement did
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story FRESNO, California (KFSN) — Less than two weeks after the state announced it would increase early release credits for 76 thousand inmates, 41 of California’s 58 district attorneys are challenging the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. “We’re talking about the most violent offenders that are now subject to
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Click here for updates on this story FIREBAUGH, California (KFSN) — The community of Firebaugh is mourning the loss of a high school student after a devastating accident inside a tire shop. The sheriff’s office says 16-year-old Omar Gutierrez was working under a car at the Firebaugh Tire shop when it suddenly slipped off a
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MADISON, Wisconsin (WDJT) — Gov. Tony Evers signed Assembly Bill 154, now Wisconsin Act 31, designating May 14 as Hmong-Lao Veterans Day in Wisconsin. The governor issued Executive Order #115 ordering the flags of the United States and the state of Wisconsin to be flown at half-staff in
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story LOS ANGELES (KABC) — In the two years since their 6-year-old daughter Roxie drowned at a summer camp in Altadena, Doug Forbes and Elena Matyas say every day is spent weeping and working. “Drowning is something people think won’t happen to them, won’t happen to their children, until
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Cooper Smith, 19, of Jefferson City, was driving on Blackberry Lane when his 2019 Kia Forte went off the road, hit a trash can and a guy wire and overturned, according to a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report. Smith was wearing a seat belt, the patrol reported.
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story SOUTH EL MONTE, California (KABC) — Disturbing video captures a man robbing and pistol-whipping a Lyft driver at a gas station in South El Monte. The video, which was recorded on the driver’s camera, may serve as a critical clue to help police track down the suspect. The
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China could soon join the United States as the second country to land and operate a rover on Mars. Beijing’s Tianwen-1 Mars probe is expected to land on the red planet in the coming days, as early as Saturday morning (Friday night Eastern time), according to China’s space agency. The landing window extends until Wednesday.
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story PORTLAND, Oregon (KPTV) — Portland police are investigating a shooting that injured one person in the Beaumont-Wilshire neighborhood early Friday morning. Just after 4 a.m., officers responded to shots fired in the 4400 block of Northeast Shaver Street. Officers arrived to the scene and found a man with
Continue Reading An MIT graduate student wanted in connection with the fatal shooting of a Yale University student in February has been arrested, authorities said Friday. The US Marshals Service did not provide details of the arrest other than to say that “Gulf Coast Regional Fugitive Task Force, in conjunction with the U.S. Marshals Middle District of
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Taylor Stout, 26, pleaded guilty to a Class A misdemeanor of animal abuse in a Boone County courtroom, the Audrain County prosecutor’s office said in a news release.
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Click here for updates on this story REGO PARK, Queens, New York (WABC) — It is a racial slur that would set off any Asian American. “One of them said ‘Ch*** ch****,” said Leting Cai. 15-year-old Cai was in a playground in Rego Park, Queens with two friends on May 1, when two other teens
Continue ReadingCarole Baskin, founder of Big Cat Rescue and star of the Netflix series “Tiger King,” is offering a $5,000 reward in connection with the tiger that has been missing in Houston since Sunday, according to a video posted on her verified Instagram account. Baskin is offering the money to whoever has the big cat, provided
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story LOWER MANHATTAN, New York (WABC) — Three people were slashed and a fourth punched in separate incidents within 12 minutes on a subway train as it moved through Lower Manhattan early Friday, and an additional incident may be linked. Police say the spree began at 4:25 a.m., when
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The Family Access Center of Excellence (FACE), will highlight the plan to enhance mental health support for about 24,000 school-aged children and their families in Boone County schools during a news conference Friday at the Boone County Government Center.
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story FLETCHER, North Carolina (WLOS) — A local longtime educator received a surprise sendoff Thursday. Co-workers and friends gathered at Fletcher Park to show their appreciation for Avery’s Creek Elementary School principal Denise Montgomery, who is preparing to retire. Montgomery has spent 30 years as an educator in Henderson
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story BAY CITY, Michigan (WNEM) — A community came together to rescue some ducklings that fell through a sewer grate and reunite them with their mother. The Bay City Public Safety Department was called to help scoop the four ducklings out while the Saginaw Basin Land Conservancy found the
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The US Coast Guard said Friday that transit on the Mississippi River waterway under Interstate 40 bridge in Memphis has reopened after a crack forced the closure of the vital highway bridge. Earlier Friday, the Coast Guard said more than 60 vessels with over 1,000 barges had been held up on the river. The first
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