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Connect Four-time Emmy award-winning journalist Marlei Martinez joined WESH2 News in 2021. Prior to soaking in the Florida sunshine, Marlei was a reporter in Sacramento, CA and reporter/fill-in anchor in Birmingham, AL. She moved into local news after being a managing producer at CNN and producer at ABC News networks in New York City. Marlei’s reporting journey has brought her to the front lines of California’s deadliest and most destructive wildfire in state history, the Camp Fire in Paradise, and to the streets of Birmingham where gun violence runs rampant. On one sunny afternoon in Al...

White House press secretary responds to backlash; FOX News correspondent Kristin Fisher has more on 'Special Report' Colorado Gov. Jared Polis and a group of bipartisan state officials are urging Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to reconsider and "pause" former President Donald Trump's decision to move U.S. Space Command from Colorado Springs to Alabama, saying it will "undermine" the country's ability to respond to national security threats in space. The U.S. Air Force last month announced that Space Command's headquarters would be officially moved to Huntsville, Ala.'s, Redstone Arsenal aft...

Former Brevard commissioner, ‘waterways activist’ Ron Pritchard dies Pritchard remembered as ‘force of civic pride and activism for Brevard County’ Published:  Tags:  The sunset above the Indian River in Merritt Island. (Image credit: John Speck) (WKMG 2020) BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. – Former District 2 Brevard County commissioner Ron Pritchard has died, according to a news release. Pritchard’s death was first announced earlier this week during a Brevard County Commissioners meeting by District 4 Commissioner Curt Smith, who remembered Pritchard as a “waterways activist.” “I ha...

In what some termed a political decision, President Trump chose Huntsville, Alabama, as the permanent home for Space Command on Jan. 13, triggering efforts by officials in Colorado to persuade

After riding in it, Larry Castagneto made a decision. “I said to my dad ‘I’m going to fly one of those one day,’” he said. “Eight years later, I was.” Castagneto flew Hueys on combat assault missions as an Army pilot in Vietnam from 1970-71. He was assigned to the 162nd Assault Helicopter Company, 13th Combat Aviation Battalion, 1st Aviation Brigade in Can Tho. He flew 850 combat hours in C-model gunships in the Mekong Delta from November 1970 to November 1971. He received 27 Air Medals with V devices for valor, and a Bronze Star. “We would generally go...