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A supporter of Democrat candidate Joe Biden was arrested after he shot at two Trump supporters who honked at him in a pick-up truck while he was putting up a Black Lives Matter sign, police said. Police arrested Douglas Kuhn, 50, after shooting at Neal Houk and his son Bradley Lang, both supporters of President Donald Trump, in Kingsville, Maryland, on Saturday afternoon, WJZ reported. Houk and Lang honked at him while Kuhn was putting up a Black Lives Matter sign in his front yard around 2:30 p.m.

AUGUSTA, Georgia (CNN) — Among the possible evidence in the government's case against former federal contractor Reality Winner is a notebook with information handwritten in Farsi, prosecutors said in court Tuesday. The writing is being translated, federal prosecutors told a judge at a hearing. Winner, who is accused on one count of taking classified information home from work and leaking it to a media outlet, remains in jail awaiting an anticipated October 23 trial. She has pleaded not guilty. Winner was a linguist while in the US Air Force from 2010 to 2016 and speaks Farsi, Dari and Pashto, her...

BROWNSVILLE — U.S. Border Patrol agents rescued two unauthorized immigrants from Guatemala who had been bitten by a rattlesnake on a ranch near Kingsville, Customs and Border Protection said Tuesday. The agents came across the men early Tuesday morning and took them to the emergency room at Christus Spohn Hospital Kleberg in Kingsville. Since the fiscal year began in October, Rio Grande Valley sector agents have rescued nearly 200 people and found the remains of 64. Rescues often escalate in the summer, when agents come across or are called by unauthorized immigrants suffering from heat exhaustion.

Officer had shot man who was combative KINGSVILLE — A Kleberg County grand jury cleared a border patrol agent on Thursday in the July shooting of a suspected undocumented immigrant. Authorities have said border patrol agent Rafael Cortez shot a 34-year-old man on July 1 after he tried to grab Cortez’s baton during a struggle inside a convenience store. Cortez had followed the man into the Kingsville store after several suspected undocumented immigrants fled from a vehicle. Cortez tried to apprehend the man who became combative and grabbed Cortez’s baton. That’s when authorities say Cortez drew his gun and fired,...

Account was apparently hacked Kleberg County wants the money back that someone recently helped him or herself to by hacking into one of the county's accounts at Kleberg Bank. During Wednesday's special session, Kleberg County Judge Pete De La Garza said he'd been in contact with bank president Joe Hinkle regarding the matter and he was only now getting around to filing a claim with the bank's insurance company. "Kleberg Bank has been working with us on this except for getting our money back," De La Garza said. Although De La Garza refused to divulge the amount of money drained...

Paul powers way to three TDs in victory KINGSVILLE - Tyler Paul came to Texas from Emporia (Kan.) State with the same aspirations and hopes as the other 80 players in Friday night's fourth annual Whataburger Cactus Bowl. He just wound up standing out a little more than his counterparts at Javelina Stadium. Paul scored three touchdowns, including the game-winning reception from Midwestern State's Philip Boggs on the West's first play in overtime after an East field goal, to give the West a 30-27 victory, snapping its three-game losing streak in the NCAA Division II all-star game. "You never really...

<p>CAMP VIPER, IRAQ -- Lance Cpl. Roland Castellanos was manning a machine gun atop a 7-ton truck when an Iraqi ambush hit his Marine convoy Friday night.</p> <p>He couldn't see the attackers, only tracer rounds. Swiveling his weapon, he fired 100 rounds into the darkness. In the cab below, the driver also was firing and lost control. The truck rolled, throwing out Castellanos.</p>