BATON ROUGE, La. ( WAFB /Gray News) - Authorities in Louisiana say a man has been taken into custody in connection with the death of his 92-year-old father. According to the Baton Rouge Police Department, the victim was identified as Larry Salisbury. Police said he was found with injuries consist...
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BATTLE GROUND, Wash. ( KPTV /Gray News) — A child sustained minor injuries Monday morning when a sedan passed a stopped school bus and hit the student while crossing the road, according to authorities in Washington. Clark County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded around 8:51 a.m...
government
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - Eighty-seven Eastern Iowa veterans traveled to Washington, D.C., Tuesday to visit the memorials built in their honor. The first Eastern Iowa flight of this kind took off in the 1990s. There have been 61 flights since then. Among the 87 veterans on board was...
government
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - The deadline to register to vote in the midterms ends Tuesday for Kansas, Maine, West Virginia, Oregon and the District of Columbia. Ninety-eight people born in 50 different countries became American citizens Tuesday morning at the federal courthouse in dow...
safety
DeKalb County police say a man who was holding a woman and her child at gunpoint was shot by police after refusing to drop his gun. Police were responding to a domestic violence call on Central Drive near North Hairston Road at 8 a.m. on Tuesday. When the officers arrived, they e...
safety
ADDIS, La. ( WAFB /Gray News) — A man accused of firing a shot at high school students during a homecoming prank says he feared for his safety and did not know the people outside his home were teenagers. Josiah Arrington was arrested and charged with aggravated assault with a fir...
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Early voting across Georgia started today with voters packing into polling locations already. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks ] At the Alpharetta Library early voting location just beyond the square, it took Fulton County residents a moment to find parki...
safety
ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — A Gwinnett County officer fired at a vehicle that rammed into a patrol car Tuesday morning, according to the police department. The driver is now in custody. Two officers were traveling north on Rockbridge Road near Stone Drive in a marked patr...
safety
Hackers hit an unusual target in France as part of a cyberattack: freezers and refrigerators in hundreds of supermarkets. Read more trending news The massive attack raised temperatures as high as 122 degrees Fahrenheit overnight, causing food to spoil and sparking fires, Reuters ...
News
GREENVILLE, S.C. ( WHNS /Gray News) - South Carolina authorities say a hunter has been charged after a donkey was shot and killed over the weekend. According to the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, officers were called to a property in Anderson County after a repor...
safety
A fatal fall from the Goliath roller coaster at Six Flags Over Georgia has prompted a state investigation into what caused a 42-year-old rider’s death. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks ] Investigators with the Georgia Office of Commissioner of Insurance a...
safety
A driver aggressively rammed a Gwinnett County patrol car with two officers inside Tuesday and pushed it onto a median, then nearly ran over an officer who opened fire as the driver got away, police say. It happened around 9 a.m. near Rockbridge Road and Stone Drive. Police say t...
business
ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — Georgia Power is giving an inside look at how it keeps electricity flowing across the state. The company uses drones to inspect transmission lines and identify potential problems before they lead to service disruptions for customers. At the McG...
