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By Adam Roberts

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    FORT SMITH, Ark. (KHBS, KHOG) — Law enforcement released bodycam video from an incident in which a driver was shot and killed after shooting and injuring a Fort Smith police officer.

In May, Officer Kyle Newman approached Joshua Keller’s truck after it crashed into a ditch near the amphitheater, according to the Fort Smith Police Department.

The department said Newman then began investigating Keller for driving while intoxicated. Police said Keller became argumentative, got back in his truck, and attempted to drive away. Authorities said Keller then shot Newman in the neck as the officer tried to detain him outside the truck.

Fort Smith police said Newman fired his gun as he fell to the ground. A nearby officer heard the gunfire, reported it to dispatch, and then fired at Keller’s truck before helping Newman.

Keller sped away at up to 110 miles per hour and intentionally drove the wrong way on Interstate 540. One officer rammed his patrol vehicle into Keller’s truck to stop him.

Police officers then fired shots at Keller, killing him.

“Had Officer Tabor and Officer Grayham not shot Keller at the end of the pursuit, I could just as easily been writing a letter about the homicide of an FSPD Officer or a citizen driving northbound on I-540,” Prosecutor Daniel Shue wrote in a letter announcing his decision that police were justified in their use of deadly force.

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    TEXAS (KTVT) — A rescue operation took place in Lewisville after a contract worker reportedly fell into a hole just before 5 p.m. on Tuesday at a lift station, officials said.

The man was installing a new tank at a lift station in the 600 block of Holfords Prairie Road when he fell 30-40 feet into the hole, officials said. The man suffered injuries to an arm and a leg, but they are not considered life-threatening, according to the City of Lewisville, and he remained conscious and talking throughout the rescue process.

The Lewisville Fire Department conducted a rope rescue to bring the man to the surface. The city said the man will be taken by helicopter as a precaution because it has been a prolonged incident.

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    TEXAS (KTVT) — From a symphonic stage in Dallas comes the story of a tragedy that struck a nation in its heart.

But this time, the story is being told through hundreds of voices, an orchestra and bodies in motion — not to recreate the terror of Sept. 11, 2001, but to search for what can come after it.

“Better Is Peace: 9/11 Remembered Through Song and Dance” brings more than 400 community artists to the Meyerson Symphony Center Wednesday night for a sweeping commemoration 25 years after the attacks.

“This is a pretty special once-in-a-lifetime deal for the Chorale and probably one of the largest performances the Turtle Creek Chorale has ever taken on in 46 years,” Artistic Director Sean Baugh said.

The production has been in the making for two years.

At its center is British composer Karl Jenkins’ “The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace,” an anti-war work that has become closely associated with 9/11. For this performance, the work was specially arranged for the tenor and bass voices of the Turtle Creek Chorale.

But the challenge was bigger than arranging music.

“We struggled a little bit with how to use music to commemorate the events of 9/11,” Baugh said.

The answer was not to reenact what happened. It was to interpret what remains.

Current flight attendants will read excerpts from voicemail messages left by passengers aboard the hijacked planes for loved ones back home. Bruce Wood Dance will give those emotions movement, joining the Chorale and Dallas Chamber Symphony throughout the work.

Choreographer Joy Bollinger said some of that movement may initially look like chaos. Watch closer, she said, and something else emerges.

“You’re seeing people taking care of one another and doing everything they can to hold on to each other and find each other and support each other and move each other through that moment,” Bollinger said.

For her, creating the work also became intensely personal.

Bollinger’s father died in August. The loss put grief — and the possibility of healing — close to the surface as she worked on a piece confronting another kind of enormous loss.

“It felt really cathartic to create a mass for peace and healing in a way,” she said.

That is where the production reaches beyond history.

Twenty-five years later, millions of Americans know 9/11 only as something that happened before they were born. Those who lived through it remember where they were, what they saw, and the fear that followed.

Baugh is among them.

“Personally, I’m speaking for me. I think we haven’t felt peace since 9/11,” he said. “And peace for me means being void of fear.”

The second half of Wednesday’s program turns toward what comes next. About 100 singers from the Glee Club at Dallas ISD’s Barack Obama Male Leadership Academy will join the performance, shifting the evening toward hope and resilience.

It makes for an enormous tribute. But its message is remarkably intimate.

Honor is not locked into a day on the calendar. Grief does not always surrender to words. Sometimes expression has to go where words cannot.

And 25 years after a nation took a blow, replacing fear with voices, movement, unity, and art may look a lot like peace.

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    MIAMI (WFOR) — A Miami Gardens Police Department K-9 that went missing while on duty has been found safe and returned home following an almost weeklong disappearance.

K-9 Gael was reunited with officers Monday after spending two days at VCA Hollywood Animal Hospital, where veterinarians evaluated and cleared him.

Police said Gael ran from his handler last week while responding to a business alarm call. Officers launched an extensive search but were unable to locate him immediately.

During the search, investigators reviewed surveillance video that appeared to show Gael being struck by a vehicle. Despite the impact, the dog continued running. Police have not identified the driver involved.

A Miami Gardens resident eventually spotted Gael and alerted authorities, leading to his recovery.

“He is a great big part of our family,” Miami Gardens Police Chief Delma Noel-Pratt said. “Those couple of days he was missing, we really, truly missed him.”

Police said they are still investigating what caused the K-9 to run from the scene.

“I don’t have any idea what prompted him to run off,” Noel-Pratt said. “We are still going to look into that matter.”

Despite spending a week on his own, Gael returned in good condition, healthy, and even gained weight during his time away, according to police.

“He is very happy, very vibrant, and we will give him a little bit of rest and then he will be back on duty again,” Noel-Pratt said.

Authorities noted they still do not know where Gael spent most of the week before he was found.

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    September 16, 2026 (Houston Style Magazine) — Thirty years after Reasonable Doubt introduced Shawn “JAŸ-Z” Carter to the world—and 25 years after The Blueprint cemented his place among hip-hop’s elite—Hov is doing something increasingly rare: slowing down long enough to explain himself. Houston Style Magazine – ‘Keeps It Real’ as First Seen in VIBE Magazine

HBO’s eight-part JAŸ-Z IN 8, directed by legendary producer Rick Rubin, premieres Friday, September 18, with its first two chapters airing back-to-back on HBO and streaming simultaneously on HBO Max. Two new episodes arrive each Friday through October 9. The series uses classics including “Can’t Knock the Hustle,” “Brooklyn’s Finest,” “Meet the Parents” and “What More Can I Say” as doorways into Carter’s childhood, creativity and evolution.

The timing could hardly be better. JAŸ-Z has spent 2026 celebrating three decades of Reasonable Doubt, and just this week the documentary received a star-powered premiere at New York’s Metropolitan Opera House.

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For longtime listeners, the first two episodes feel less like a documentary and more like being invited into the studio after everybody else went home.

Here are three things that stood out. 1. JAŸ-Z Never Really Wanted to Be Famous Imagine creating one of hip-hop’s defining debut albums—and thinking that would be your exit.

JAŸ-Z explains that his original plan was essentially to record Reasonable Doubt, establish Roc-A-Fella Records and move behind the curtain as an executive. Stardom was not the dream.

The revelation reframes his entire career. The man who would become a stadium-filling performer, billionaire entrepreneur and cultural institution considered himself naturally introverted and uncomfortable with interviews, videos and celebrity obligations.

That may also explain part of his mystique. Hov rarely appeared desperate for attention. The music did the talking.

And three decades later, it is still talking loudly. 2. He Understood Early That Every Rap Battle Wasn’t His Battle One of the most revealing moments concerns “Brooklyn’s Finest,” JAŸ-Z’s legendary collaboration with The Notorious B.I.G.

During the height of East Coast-West Coast tensions, Biggie reportedly recorded an additional provocative reference aimed toward California. JAŸ-Z asked him to remove it.

That decision looks even more significant through history’s rearview mirror.

Rather than inserting himself into an increasingly dangerous rivalry, Carter recognized a line between competition and conflict. Hip-hop has always celebrated lyrical warfare, but wisdom sometimes means knowing which fight not to join.

It is a fascinating reminder that even young Hov was thinking several moves ahead. 3. The Secret Sauce Is Controlled Imperfection JAŸ-Z’s famous ability to compose lyrics mentally without writing them down is already rap folklore. JAŸ-Z IN 8 goes deeper.

He describes a “free play” studio process in which he would enter the booth, let the track roll and unload melodies, phrases, concepts and rhymes until something connected. Music—especially strings—could steer him toward darker, more introspective storytelling.

That instinct extends to performing. JAŸ-Z admits he does not like becoming too rehearsed. A little uncertainty keeps him alert, present and emotionally inside the song rather than simply reciting it.

The documentary also finds him reconsidering decisions surrounding The Black Album—from its retirement narrative to sequencing and single choices. That willingness to critique even celebrated work may be the biggest lesson of all.

Greatness, apparently, does not mean believing you got everything right.

It means remaining curious enough to ask what you could have done better.

For hip-hop fans who grew up studying every bar, JAŸ-Z IN 8 offers something better than nostalgia. It gives context.

And when Hov finally starts explaining the hustle, you listen.

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    ATLANTA (WUPA) — Gwinnett County police are searching for a 23-year-old suspect in a road rage incident that turned into a shooting earlier in September.

Officials say the scary situation started when Sierra Iman Little pulled out in front of the victim on Sept. 7 around Hog Mountain Road and Braselton Highway.

According to police, the victim honked at Little, which led the woman to speed toward the victim’s vehicle and hit it. Little then drove away from the scene but returned a few moments later and opened fire, hitting the victim’s vehicle multiple times, police say.

Investigators say the victim was not injured in the shooting and that they identified Little as a suspect in the case after looking at surveillance footage and Flock camera data.

Authorities say they have now obtained arrest warrants for Little on charges of aggravated assault, possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony, hit and run, and reckless driving.

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