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16-year-old breaking baseball barriers for women
PARIS (AP) — Simply by playing ball, Melissa Mayeux is busting through barriers. Becoming the first ever woman on Major League Baseball’s international registration list, making her eligible to be...
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How to protect your home from thieves while you’re on vacation
(WRIC) — Your vacation may not be too relaxing if you come home to find your house ransacked by thieves. This happened to one Chesterfield family while they were in Europe back in May. Thieves broke...
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Expert: Shark attacks ‘won’t go on all summer’
RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — The summer of 2015 may be remembered as the year of the shark. That’s what some are calling it after another attack Wednesday off the coast of the Outer Banks That brings this...
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7 hospitalized after two-car collision on Jahnke Road
RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — A total of nine people were injured after two vehicles collided on Jahnke Road Wednesday evening. The accident involved two sedans and occurred at around 5:30 p.m. in the 5800...
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Court hearing today for man charged with abducting 4-year-old daughter from...
PETERSBURG, Va. (WRIC) — The Petersburg man accused of abducting is 4-year-old daughter back in April is due in court Thursday. Phillip Ketter is charged with abduction by a parent. An AMBER Alert...
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Thousands evacuated after train carrying toxic, flammable gas catches fire in...
MARYVILLE (WATE) – As many as 5,000 Blount County, Tennessee, residents were forced to evacuate their homes Thursday night after a train carrying flammable and poisonous material derailed and caught...
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Richmond man gets community service for defacing Confederate monument
RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — The man accused of defacing the Jefferson Davis monument appeared in court Thursday morning. 39-year-old Joseph Weindl pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of destruction of...
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Unsettled weather expected into holiday weekend; rain and thunderstorms possible
RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Clouds have rolled in over the region as a cold front sinks southwards. That same front will eventually stall out over the mid-Atlantic and keep some unsettled weather in the...
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Grand jury indicts man in connection to deadly Henrico shooting
HENRICO, Va. (WRIC) — Officers have indicted a man in connection to the shooting death of a Richmond man. Henrico Police responded around 8:50 p.m. on Thursday, May 14, 2015, for reports of a shooting...
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1.2 million Virginians to hit the highway for Fourth of July holiday travel
RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — 1.2 million Virginians are expected to travel this week for the Fourth of July holiday. AAA is predicting the highest number of holiday travelers in the last several years....
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“All clear” given at Washington Navy Yard after reports of shots fired
WASHINGTON, D.C. (WRIC/AP) — The “all clear” message was given at the Washington Navy Yard Thursday morning after no active threat was found. Officials say there were no shots fired at the yard. A...
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Man recovering day after ‘frightening and painful’ shark attack in North...
A 68-year-old man bitten by a shark off the coast of Ocracoke Island, North Carolina on Wednesday has been upgraded from fair to good condition today. The man described the attack as “frightening and...
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Shark pulls Florida fisherman from kayak
A video of a shark pulling a Florida fisherman from his kayak is going viral right now. Captain Ben Chancey was grouper fishing on his kayak in Florida when he got a big surprise. He was reeling in a...
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Fireworks-filled van explodes on California freeway
Jay Rutherford and his bandmates were mesmerized by the billowing smoke and small “psychedelic explosions” emanating from the van on the side of the freeway. “We had the fantasy it was filled with...
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American woman’s measles death is first in U.S. since 2003
SEATTLE (AP) — A woman in Washington state died from measles in the spring — the first measles death in the U.S. since 2003 and the first in the state since 1990, health officials said Thursday. The...
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8News viewer snaps photos of shark captured on N.C. beach
KILL DEVIL HILLS, N.C. (WRIC) — An 8News viewer sent us photos of a shark being pulled out of the surf on Friday. Anna Korman said the shark was caught on a beach at mile post 8.5 in Kill Devil Hills,...
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Video shows Florida trooper saving toddler from moving car
PASCO COUNTY, Fla. (WRIC) – A Florida Highway Patrol trooper is being credited with jumping into a moving car and saving a 2-year-old. Over the weekend State Trooper Paul Rawland pulled over a car...
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Local police agencies alerted to heightened terror attacks
RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — The holiday weekend is almost here, but this year the FBI and Department of Homeland Security has alerted local police agencies to the “heightened threat of attack by ISIL and...
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State Police stepping up patrols over the holiday weekend
RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — The summer driving season is the most deadly on Virginia roadways each year, according to AAA. In the month of July 2014, there were close to 9,500 motor vehicle accidents in...
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Where to watch fireworks in the Richmond area this weekend
RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Got any plans for the upcoming holiday weekend? There will be tons of fireworks displays in Richmond and the surrounding counties for the Fourth of July. Here’s a look at the...
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