Month: November 2025

By Brenda Teele

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    BOSSIER CITY, Louisiana (KTBS) — An Airline High School junior is using her story to inspire others living with scoliosis. Malayna Garrett, who was born with the condition, says she refuses to let it slow her down.

The congenital disorder runs in her family, but Malayna continues to cheer and stay active, proving that scoliosis doesn’t define her limits.

“This is my way of helping others,” she says. “With scoliosis, a lot of people believe that it will stop them from doing the things that they love. And I do not believe that at all.”

Malayna is leading a local chapter of Curvy Girls, an international non-profit support group that empowers young girls with scoliosis to stay confident and connected.

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By Gracie Palmer

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    ASHEVILLE, North Carolina (WLOS) — A veteran’s social media post received a lot of attention, offering an act of kindness during a traffic nightmare on I-40 Monday night.

Richard Gray served in the U.S. Army from 1989 to 1997.

On Monday night, he found himself serving his community once again.

“Right place, right time, you know,” said Gray.

Richard was leaving an event in Mills River—hauling his seafood food truck, The Bell Buoy. He was on his way home to Waynesville.

“I packed up and hit the road about 7:15 p.m. and when we got off 26 and hit 40, it was just gridlocked,” Gray said.

That’s when wintry weather stopped traffic on I-40 for hours.

“I was talking to one of my friends, and he said there was somebody up by the weigh station that had been sitting there for about four and a half hours, and they needed something to drink,” Gray said.

“I just thought to myself, ‘I have water and food and snacks in the truck, so let’s just post it and see if somebody wants something,'” Gray said.

He pulled his food truck off on Exit 37, posted on Facebook, and started giving out food and water.

One of the drivers he served was paramedic Destiny Burgess.

“So, I had just got off a 36-hour shift, [and I hit] standstill traffic,” Burgess said.

Burgess was scrolling on her phone when she saw Richard’s post and pulled over.

“He gave me a full meal, drinks, chips, sweets to take home,” Burgess said.

This was the fuel she needed for her now, 5-hour commute home.

“He didn’t have to offer that. It helped a lot to get me back across the mountain.”

Since then, Gray’s social media has blown up, and so has his business.

“I didn’t do this expecting anything to happen. I did this to help people out that were stuck like we were,” Gray said.

“It means a lot. You know, with everything going on in the world, kindness goes a long way,” Burgess said.

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    SHREVEPORT, Louisiana (KTBS) — A former Caddo Parish Schools teacher and coach was found guilty Wednesday of prohibited sexual contact between an educator and a student.

Dayton Corbett, 33, a former history teacher and football coach at Byrd High School, engaged in sexual acts with a student weekly throughout her senior year from September 2021 to May 2022.

District Judge Chris Victory found Corbett guilty and immediately sentenced him to six months in parish jail. Corbett received one year of active supervised probation and must register as a sex offender for 15 years. He was working at Northwood High School at the time of his arrest.

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    ONEIDA COUNTY, Wisconsin (WDJT) — Multiple suspects have been accused of child neglect out of Oneida County, Wisconsin.

Last summer, a 14-year-old girl was found severely malnourished in her father’s home.

When she was found, she weighed less than 40 pounds.

According to the criminal complaint, the first police officer on the scene said she appeared to be six or seven years old just based on her size.

This came to light when the girl’s father called 911 last August to report that his daughter was becoming lethargic and was consistently moaning with discomfort.

When she was taken to the hospital, she had signs of multi-organ dysfunction, including respiratory failure, cardiac dysfunction, pancreatitis and more.

“Quite frankly,” Outagamie County Court Commissioner Brian Figgy said in court. “These allegations before the court today are incredibly disturbing. And it’s alleged that the minor child was frankly living in a house of horrors.”

The girl’s father, Walter Goodman, along with two other people in the home have been charged with child neglect.

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