Vehicle slams through guard rail into spectators at Texas mud race
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Fabens, Texas — At least eight people – perhaps dozens -- were injured Sunday evening when a vehicle plowed into a crowd at a mud racing event in Texas.
The El Paso County Sheriff's Office said in a statement that at 6:35 p.m., a vehicle left the mud track and crashed through a guard rail and into spectators. It happened on the 17600 block of Island Guadalupe Road, according to CBS El Paso affiliate KDBC-TV. Three spectators were transported to a hospital in critical condition and five others were taken there with non-life-threatening injuries, the Sheriff's Office statement said. None of the injured were identified by authorities.Monterey, California — The battle over President-elect Trump's pick for Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, may become a test of loyalty for Republican stalwarts — some of whom stood at the center of a bid 10 years ago to remove Hegseth as the head of a veterans' charity over allegations of financial mismanagement, repeated intoxication and sexual misconduct.
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