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Pittsburgh local news reporter Dave Crawley is suing Red Bull and others over injuries sustained in an August 2017 river plunge

Crawley is suing the EQT Three Rivers Regatta, Red Bull and a marketing agency over a river plunge stunt in 2017, when he was 70.

Mississippi meteorologist snapped his fingers at coworker on-air during tornado report, prompting Twitter commentary

"John! John! I need you off the phone, I need you to check radar, and I need you to look at this tornado warning up on ABC here and see if I need to be on it."

WTOL 11 tried too hard to be cool, from “slay all day” to “stay woke” to “weather’s going to be lit” (updated)

"Yeet! Stay woke, be on fleek, and get that Gucci breakfast." "GOOOOALLLLS! Say 'Bye, Felicia' to that testing stress! Weather's going to be turnt, right, Chris?"

Local Networks

WGN’s attempt to crush news vans with a tank on live TV, in a “morning news primetime special,” had quite the result

Wisconsin local sports anchor hilariously reenacts highlights from the first half of Packers-Rams

"There's Aaron Rodgers, looking better than normal, I must say."

Dave Scott’s San Diego local news inflatable run segment, one of the worst ever, tops Reddit’s “cringe” subreddit

"Now, does that mean that everyone here becomes an inflatable today?" "Do they want to be inflatables?"

General

A pet raccoon that ate too much weed was brought to an Indianapolis firehouse, and hilarity ensued

Cow gets extremely personal with reporter for Hawaiian news station

A cow got very friendly with Jobeth Devera, a reporter for Hawaiian stations KGMB and KHNL.

A very important breakdown of the 14-way snowmageddon coverage on Atlanta local news

Southern panic over a very slight amount of snow is a guilty pleasure of mine. To be fair,...