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SAN ANGELO, TX — U.S. forces captured de facto Venezuelan ruler Nicolás Maduro Moros early Saturday morning, January 3, 2026, during a targeted military strike on Caracas. President Donald Trump announced the operation, stating that Maduro and his wife, Cilia Adela Flores de Maduro, were "captured and flown out of the Country" amid airstrikes that toppled the regime. Maduro, now detained at Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Center in New York, faces extradition and trial on federal charges unsealed in a superseding indictment that details his alleged role in flooding the U.S. with tons of cocaine, fueling the drug crisis that has ravaged communities across North America.

AirMed1 was dispatched to a rollover crash near Water Valley that shut down part of U.S. Highway 87 Saturday afternoon.

Police say an 18-year-old was fatally injured while handling fireworks in a Lubbock neighborhood on New Year’s Day.

After receiving more than 220,000 applications from "patriotic Americans to join ICE," the agency blew past its original hiring target.

Corrections officers at the Tom Green County Jail report 12 bookings in the past 24 hours.

The No. 21 Texas Tech Lady Raiders added a new presence to their roster this week with the arrival of 7-foot-1 center Stephanie Okechukwu, the tallest women’s college basketball player in the sport’s history.

San Angelo police are asking for the public’s help to identify a man suspected in an auto burglary at a local memory care facility.

A crash Friday on a Houston Harte frontage road sent two people to the hospital.

Basketball season is well underway, and the Christoval Lady Cougars are off to an impressive start but somehow unranked again.

A man charged after a high-speed chase that began in San Angelo and led to drug and firearm allegations is scheduled for a jury trial next week.

A woman was killed in what officials believe was a rare mountain lion attack in northern Colorado.

A three-vehicle crash is backing up traffic Friday at the intersection of Bryant Boulevard and 29th Street.

A 63-year-old Bovina man died Wednesday following a single-vehicle rollover crash on State Highway 194, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety.

A New Year’s Eve crash left one person dead and a San Angelo man seriously injured, according to state officials.