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Water experts discuss safety for July 4th weekend So far this year the number of boating accidents in the state of Texas are at an all-time high. Author: Alan Kasper Updated: 9:39 PM CDT June 28, 2021 SMITH COUNTY, Texas — Summertime means boating fun, but so far this year the number of boating accidents in the state of Texas are at an all-time high. Water safety experts explain why the accident numbers are going up. “It happens sadly throughout the state, th...

Lets say instead of a lone actor like that guy in colorado who submitted his wifes -- dead wifes ballot for donald trump who he is actually under suspicion of murdering. those lone actors really are not a problem. you bring up 400 -- what i think you said hundreds of -- i disagree with you. i think thats incorrect. in the scheme of things were talking about more than 11 million people voted in texas and youre talking about a teeny tiny fraction of that that would not at all affect the outcome of...

Texas. >> you bring up your county, greg county, i believe, right? >> thats the county i represent. thats one of them. >> i want to be clear on where that investigation is. yes, shannon brown, the lone black member of -- who is the lone black commissioner on the court is one of four black defendants in this case. this has not been determined, the outcome of this. you also have a county, your county is one that voted to keep its confederate monument there. so we have to wait and see where all of ...

Licenses. this is a right decision. >> some of the numbers the, hispanic voters are 4550% more likely to not have drivers license. keith is from greg county texas. hes a republican chairman. he said that this is playing the race card. he says all of this, once again, im sorry so say, people playing the race card. its time for that to end. im tired of the democratic party playing the race card and calling the republicans racist when they are the ones playing the race card. are you and the democra...

March 4th, circumstance that on your calendar, ladies and gentlemen, that is the one to look at. >> all fun and games until big bird gets hurt. luke russert on capitol hill. so now to a story out of texas where a death at a local county jail is raising questions about just how mentally ill people are treated when they are taken into custody. now one jail in greg county, there have been nine deaths since 2005. the most recent, lynn cali who suffered from bipolar disorder but denied medication b...

>> what the jail officials and the doctor at the jail say is that they did provide medical care to amy lynn coulding. they say her death wasnt their fault. its unclear what medications she did receive in total there. we do know when she started having seizures and nurses reported she was aekticted out injected hermann with hal halidol. the 29th of december is when jailers found her dead in her cell. >> when we talk about her death, this was the ninth at a gregg county jail since 2005, isnt that ...

Deaths. so nine was an unusually high number. >> also, when we -- through your reporting, gregg county reported to have a high staff turnover rate. were you able to pinpoint why that is? >> well what we found that is, over the last -- each of the last two years, about 40% of the staff at that jail was either terminated or turned in their resignation. the sheriff says, you flow, the pay is low. its hard to find qualified staff in that rural area of the state and they work under stressful conditio...