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KERA is a finalist for a national Online Journalism Award , for just the second time in the station's history. The honor — for breaking news among medium-sized newsrooms — is for coverage of the Dallas police shootings of July 7, 2016. Two other North Texas media outlets are also finalists for coverage of the shootings: NBCDFW.com in the same category as KERA, and the Dallas Morning News in the large-newsroom category. The Texas Tribune, a partner of KERA, is a finalist in five small-newsroom categories, including general excellence . NPR is a three-time finalist; PBS Frontline is also a finalist. Here is a complete list of the OJA finalists. The awards, to be presented Oct. 7 at the annual Online News Association conference in Washington, D.C., are the most prestigious honors in digital journalism . KERA won an OJA for topical reporting in 2015, for its Breakthroughs series, "The Broken Hip." KERA has won a station- record 39 awards this year, including a nation-...

Published: Saturday, August 26, 2017 @ 9:22 AM Updated: Monday, August 28, 2017 @ 10:50 AM By: Breaking News Staff UPDATE @ 10:50 a.m. (Aug. 28):  Ohio Task Force 1 will head to the southern part of Houston to perform boat rescues , after the Houston area received over 30 inches of rain from Hurricane Harvey .  LATEST: Hurricane Harvey slams into Texas coast MORE: Photos: Hurricane Harvey causes widespread damage The task force has been given a window until around noon Central Time before water will be released from a levy or dam.  News Center 7’s Gabrielle Enright remains with Ohio Task Force 1 in Texas, and we’ll continue to update this page as we learn more.  UPDATE @ 6:20 p.m. (Aug. 27) Ohio Task Force 1 is in Katy, outside Houston, ready to operate water rescue missions . The Houston area has been deluged by ‘unprecedented flooding” from torrential rains from Tropical Storm Harvey . Rainfall totals are approaching 20 inches, recorded at the Houston Intercontinental Airpor...

MLA Derek Fildebrandt went through the seven stages of a politician hoisted on his own petard after the Edmonton Journal broke a story that he was renting out his government-paid apartment on Airbnb, says columnist Graham Thomson." src="http://wpmedia.edmontonjournal.com/2017/08/20150221-forsyth-338-jpg.jpg?quality=55&strip=all&w=625&h=469&crop=1" width="625" height="469" /> August 12, 2017 9:00 am Sometimes a coincidence is just a coincidence. Unless it’s a political coincidence, that is. Then it can easily smell like a conspiracy. Just look at the political coincidences last Thursday. First, there was the suspicious timing of an anti- pipeline news conference held by the British Columbia government Thursday morning just as Premier Rachel Notley was about to hold her own pro- pipeline news conference in Alberta. It sure seemed like the B.C. government was trying to pour cold water on Notley’s good-news event. Then there was ...

Published: Saturday, August 26, 2017 @ 9:22 AM Updated: Saturday, August 26, 2017 @ 6:20 PM By: Breaking News Staff UPDATE @ 6:20 p.m. Ohio Task Force 1 has been deployed and is headed to Robstown, Texas, not far from Corpus Christi. Teams there requested support in the wake of Hurricane Harvey ’s landfall and subsequent torrential rains as it stalls in the region as a tropical storm, News Center 7’s Gabrielle Enright said. She and videographer Chuck Hamlin are traveling with the task force. LATEST: Hurricane Harvey slams into Texas coast MORE: Photos: Hurricane Harvey causes widespread damage Ohio Task Force 1 and Missouri Task Force 1 are leaving from San Antonio, and will meet up with Texas Task Force 1 in Robstown. Support efforts are expected to begin and first light. EARLIER Ohio Task Force 1 learned during a conference call today that they will remain on standby to assist with any search and rescue missions, however at this point they have not received any missions fr...

Australian tourists are among the injured after a deadly attack in the Spanish city of Barcelona Spain has been rocked by two terrorist attacks in less than 24 hours that left at least 13 dead and more than 100 injured. A NSW father is travelling to Spain to desperately try to find his seven-year-old son who is missing in Barcelona, while his mother remains in hospital following the horror terror attack . Julian Cadman , 7, is missing while his mother Jom is in a serious but stable condition in hospital after a white van ploughed into crowds on Las Ramblas. The first victim named as being killed in the attack was Italian father-of-two Bruno Gulotta. Julian’s aunt Hayley has posted a desperate appeal online to help find her nephew. “My nephew Julian Cadman is missing. Please like and share. We have found Jom and she is serious but stable in hospital,” she said. “Julian is 7 years old and was out with Jom and they were separated. Please share if you have family or friends in Barcelon...