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AUSTIN, Texas (KLTV) - Gov. Gregg Abbott issued a directive Monday ordering a comprehensive audit of all proposed data center projects seeking to connect to the state’s power grid. Under the new mandate, the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) and the Electric Reliability C...
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( InvestigateTV ) — A new type of tax-advantaged investment account for children is now available through the U.S. Treasury. Called Trump Accounts, the program launched July 4 and provides eligible children with a $1,000 initial deposit to start investing. The program is administ...
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(Gray News) - Bettergoods Pistachio Nut Butter is being recalled for a possible salmonella contamination, according to the FDA. The recall was triggered when Walmart was informed on July 7 that the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services had tested three jars of t...
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Crane police arrested a suspect following an investigation into a social media threat directed at a local school campus.
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LUBBOCK, Texas (KOSA) - Six people have pleaded guilty to their roles in a conspiracy to steal crude oil from Permian Basin producers and resell it for profit, federal prosecutors announced. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas, the guilty pl...
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EDDY COUNTY, N.M. (KOSA) - People are pleading guilty in federal court to stealing crude oil — and a lot of it. According to the Eddy County Sheriff’s Office, the U.S. Department of Justice says that investigations have uncovered thefts of tens of thousands of barrels from oil pr...
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ODESSA, Texas (KOSA) - Backpacks are packed and school supply lists are checked, but state officials say Texas drivers have some homework of their own to do before classes start this month. The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) has launched its annual “Be Safe. Drive Sma...
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CAROLINA BEACH, N.C. ( WECT /Gray News) – A 14-foot scalloped hammerhead shark washed ashore in southeastern North Carolina early Sunday. The North Carolina Shark Conservancy received word of a shark at Freeman Park around 3 a.m. It slipped back into the ocean before washing asho...
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Big Spring/Howard County Crime Stoppers is seeking public assistance to identify an accomplice involved in a $42,000 oilfield equipment theft that occurred on July 22, 2026....
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MERIDEN, Conn. ( WFSB /Gray News) - A woman is accused of trafficking underage girls after detectives found two girls in a hotel room being advertised online for commercial sex services in Connecticut. During the investigation into a missing child, detectives with the Meriden Pol...
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SAN ANTONIO (Gray News) — A missing 2-year-old girl was found dead early Monday morning, San Antonio police said . Aryana Trevino Martinez was the subject of an AMBER Alert issued Sunday. She was found unresponsive near the home where she was last seen. She was pronounced dead at...
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BIG SPRING, Texas (KOSA) - Two suspects have been accused of stealing $42,000 worth of equipment from an oilfield site early July 22. According to the Big Spring Crime Stoppers, the theft happened at around 2:00 a.m. One of the two suspects described as a man with a beard has bee...
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LENOIR COUNTY, N.C. ( WITN /Gray News) - A man was arrested after leading officers on a chase where he reached speeds of 130 mph, according to police. Michael Hawks, 24, was arrested early Sunday. Deputies attempted a traffic stop after Hawks was clocked at 81 mph in a 60 mph zon...
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RICHMOND, Va. ( Aging Untold ) — For Ken Seibert, the sound never stops. “It sounds like when you take air out of a tire. It’s like a ‘ssssst’ type of noise,” Seibert said. “If you’re listening to music, TV, anything it can always be in the background of that.” Seibert is among m...
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CRANE, Texas (KOSA) - A social media post circulating on August 2 threatened violence at Crane Independent School District schools, according to the district. According to the Crane Police Department, an investigation was conducted on the threat, and they determined it was unsubs...
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MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. ( Aging Untold ) — On one of its busiest surgery days, the waiting room at McLeod Seacoast Hospital fills with something other than the sounds of monitors and footsteps: the soft notes of a harp. Peg Mann is a hospital volunteer who begins her shift by escortin...
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CALABASH, N.C. ( WECT /Gray News) - A man was arrested after a 4-year-old allegedly ingested cocaine. Timothy Lee was arrested Saturday in connection with the May 6 incident. Lee is charged with exposing a child to a controlled substance. He is being held on $75,000 bond and is e...
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ODESSA, Texas (KOSA) - Heading back to class is always exciting, but a little extra spending cash makes it even better! The Garriga Law Firm is teaming up with Wake Up West Texas to get local students off to a spectacular start this school year with a fantastic giveaway. Your stu...
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ODESSA, Texas (KOSA) - A milestone celebration is brewing in West Texas this month. Midland’s premier craft beverage event, the Tall City Brewing Invitational, is returning for its fifth consecutive year on Saturday, August 22. Organizers are planning their largest festival to da...
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ODESSA, Texas (KOSA) - FIRST ALERT 7 Forecast for Monday, August 3rd, 2026: Summer heat is forecast to continue across West Texas for the first full week of August... MONDAY To start Monday morning, skies are mostly clear, and temperatures are warm (70s and 80s). Throughout the d...
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. ( WSMV /Gray News) - A 2-year-old Tennessee girl drowned in a backyard pool after her father says she ran off while he was changing for a planned swim. Viomara Laura Ortiz, 2, died last Monday night after she was found unresponsive in her family’s backyard pool, ...
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MIDDLETOWN, Ohio ( WXIX /Gray News) - An Ohio police officer was found guilty of two counts of dereliction of duty after she encouraged and allowed a handcuffed 15-year-old to be whipped with a belt. Jamie Patterson, a Middletown police officer, was found guilty Thursday after a ...
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ATLANTA ( ANF /Gray News) - A 6-year-old Georgia girl reportedly died due to complications from tonsil surgery days before she was supposed to start first grade. Emersyn “Emmy” Bridgers, a student at Euharlee Elementary School, was excited for first grade. She had already picked ...
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska ( KTUU /Gray News) - Two people died after the 13-foot-deep trench they were digging collapsed on them, officials said. Alaska State Troopers identified the two people as Paul Hebert, 68, and Jacquelyn Wilder, 71. At 1:26 p.m., troopers received a report of two ...
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TERRELL COUNTY, Texas (KMID/KPEJ) - One man has been transported to the hospital after being invovled in a rollover accident at the Val Verde/Terrell County line. According to the Terrell County Sheriff's Office, this was a single vehicle rollover accident. TCSO says that the dri...
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TERRELL COUNTY, Texas (KOSA) - The Terrell County Sheriff’s Office responded to a single vehicle rollover crash at the Val Verde/Terrell County line. According to the sheriff’s office, the driver was traveling back to work in El Paso when they reportedly fell asleep at the wheel....
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PORTLAND Ore. ( KPTV /Gray News) — Six people, including a teenager, were shot early Sunday morning in a mass shooting at a home in Portland’s Cully neighborhood, authorities said. One adult man later died in the hospital. Officers responded to reports of a shooting in the 5800 b...
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ODESSA, Texas (The Texas Tribune) - A growing chorus of Texas lawmakers is calling on the state’s electric grid managers and utility regulators to halt an expansive and increasingly controversial project to build transmission lines that would cut through several thousand acres of...
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SANTA FE, N.M. (Gray News) - The New Mexico Supreme Court ruled that body camera video of Alexee Trevizo cannot be used as evidence in prosecuting her for the death of a newborn child. KOAT reported that the New Mexico Supreme Court said physician-patient privilege remained even ...
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WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - The Senate is facing a full agenda before lawmakers leave for August recess Thursday, with a potential confirmation vote, internal party divisions and questions about whether recess will happen at all. Among the items on the Senate’s to-do list is the poten...
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TOLEDO, Ohio ( WTVG /Gray News) - A 2-year-old boy is recovering after police said he shot himself in the stomach Friday night at a home in East Toledo. The Toledo police arrested Sulieman T. Rahim, 28, in connection with the shooting. He is facing two third-degree felony charges...
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NEW ORLEANS ( WVUE /Gray News) - Sam Meyer, the patriarch of Meyer the Hatter, turns 102 next week and is still running the show at the downtown New Orleans shop his grandfather founded in 1894. Meyer said he has been selling hats at the first block of St. Charles Avenue off Cana...
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. ( WSMV /Gray News) - One person was killed and three others were hurt when an elderly man ran a red light in downtown Nashville, police said. The driver, identified as 87-year-old Thomas Cahill of Bowling Green, Kentucky, was driving a Ford Fusion, ran the red li...
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TUCSON, Ariz. ( KOLD /Gray News) - Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos believes progress is being made in the Nancy Guthrie investigation. Saturday marked six months since Nancy Guthrie, the mother of “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie, was abducted. Nanos sat down with KOLD anchor M...
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Note: The booking photo of Justin Soll is from an earlier arrest in May. A booking photo of Shannon Wester was not available. OREGON, Ohio ( WTVG /Gray News) - An Ohio couple are facing felony charges for their alleged roles in the death of a 6-day-old infant. Court records show ...
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WATERTOWN, N.Y. ( WWNY /Gray News) - A New York Lyft driver who gave a murderer a ride believes a state trooper saved him from becoming the killer’s next victim. Larry Keech was driving for the ride-hailing app Lyft six years ago when he accepted a fare from Watertown to Massena ...
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MIDLAND, Texas (KOSA) - The GirlPower Flag Football Organization is set to launch NFL-affiliated flag football in Midland, becoming the first league in Tall City that is strictly all-girls. The league will be called GirlPower West Texas and is open to female athletes ages six to ...
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ODESSA, Texas (KOSA) - FIRST ALERT 7 Forecast for Sunday, August 2nd, 2026: Despite a summertime cold front to start the weekend, heat levels rise once again for the first full week of August... SUNDAY To start Sunday morning, expect mostly clear skies and warm temperatures in th...
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LEON COUNTY, Texas. ( KWTX /Gray News) - A man in Texas is accused of purchasing dozens of cattle with bad checks. Authorities began their investigation on July 17, 2026, after receiving a report that a person had purchased 77 head of cattle from Buffalo Livestock Marketing Inc. ...
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GULFPORT, Miss. ( WLOX /Gray News) — An Ohio woman faces a federal charge after authorities say she made dozens of bomb threat calls to Mississippi government offices last month following the death of Nolan Wells. Michelle Francine Edwards was charged Thursday in United States Di...
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DAVENPORT, Iowa ( KWQC /Gray News) - A woman once part of the reality show “Love After Lockup” will serve 15 years in an Iowa prison on forgery and theft charges . Latisha Collier, 39, was sentenced Thursday to 15 years on each charge, to be served concurrently. After being denie...
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CHANDLER, Ariz. ( KPHO /Gray News) — An eight-time Professional Bowlers Association Tour champion died unexpectedly this week. The PBA announced the death of Jakob Butturff on Friday. He was 32 years old. No cause of death was immediately given. Butturff was widely regarded as on...
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CAIRO (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump threatened more strikes on Iran as the United States presses for the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. Hours later on Saturday, Kuwait said it responded to a new round of drone attacks from Iran while a tanker was struck in the strategic ...
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GUYTON, Ga. ( WTOC /Gray News) - An Army helicopter pilot is warning others about the importance of leash laws as he recovers from a serious scooter crash caused by an unrestrained dog. Ryan De Leon said he was riding his scooter in a Guyton neighborhood in November 2025 when a n...
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WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - Some of the top American tennis players are competing in the nation’s capital this summer at the Mubadala DC Open, a warm-up tournament for the U.S. Open in New York City. The tournament was co-founded by tennis legend Arthur Ashe in 1969. Players including...
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( InvestigateTV ) — Countertops made from engineered stone are found in kitchens and bathrooms across the country. Made of crushed quartz mixed with resins and polymers, they’re marketed as being better than marble or granite. But some workers who cut and shape these stone slabs ...
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. ( WAVE / WLFI /Gray News) - A 6-month-old child abducted from Indiana was safely recovered in Kentucky late Thursday night, according to federal investigators. Police in West Lafayette, Indiana, were first notified of the possible abduction at Country Villa Apartm...
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. ( WVLT /Gray News) - A Tennessee woman is clocking out for the last time after working at the same company for 73 years. Sue Bunch, of Lenoir City, started at what is now called Family Brands back in 1953. Over her seven decades of service, she has done just abou...
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OCALA, Fla. ( WCJB /Gray News) — A Florida man accused of using a leaf blower on an infant and bouncing the child to death has been indicted for murder. James Westervelt, 38, was indicted on a first-degree murder charge two years after the death of a 6-month-old infant, according...
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MIDLAND, Texas (KOSA) - Nearly 600 athletes will put their strength, endurance, and mental toughness to the test this weekend as the first-ever West Texas HYROX Sim takes over the new Diamondback Energy Athletic Complex. The event brings the worldwide functional fitness competiti...
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LEA COUNTY, N.M. (KOSA) - Federal and local law enforcement officers seized suspected methamphetamine, cocaine and multiple firearms Wednesday during a narcotics investigation involving a Lovington man. According to the Lea County Sheriff’s Office, special agents with the DEA’s M...
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ECTOR COUNTY, Texas (KOSA) - Five people are in custody after a shooting in Ector County left one person hospitalized. According to Ector County Sheriff’s Office, deputies responded to the area of 16th Street and FM 1936, where they found one person who had sustained a gunshot wo...
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ODESSA, Texas (KMID/KPEJ) -UPDATE: According to Ector County Sheriff Mike Griffis, five people have now been arrested in connection with the shooting on 16th Street and FM 1936. There has been no update on the condition of the victim sent to the hospital. ------------------------...
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ANDERSON, S.C. ( WHNS /Gray News) - A South Carolina man is recovering after being the reported victim of a robbery and attack in a shopping center parking lot. Christopher Holdt, who is well-known in the area and frequents the Anderson Station shopping center, says teens attacke...
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Ronald McDonald House Charities provides lodging and essential services to families of hospitalized children in the Permian Basin, though campaign director Meagan Bratton noted that awareness remains low and demand often exceeds available space....
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ODESSA, Texas (KMID/KPEJ) - Check out today's 7-day forecast with our Chief Forecaster Horace Brown. Saturday starts off partly sunny and hot, topping out near 95, and we could see a few spotty showers or thunderstorms between about 1 and 4 in the afternoon, though chances stay l...
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The Dinosaur George Traveling Museum is scheduled to offer a free exhibit featuring prehistoric creatures and fossils at the Bush Convention Center in Midland on Saturday, August 1st....
