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Pensacola, FL (NewsRado 92.3) -- A twenty-one-year-old Pensacola woman is headed to prison for eighteen years after a deadly DUI crash. A judge sentenced Terriny Krepps Thursday for killing a sixty-year-old Uber driver and seriously injuring two Navy sailors back in June of twenty twenty-four. Troopers say Krepps ran a red light at Navy Boulevard and Gulf Beach Highway, and her blood alcohol level tested at point-one-eight-six. She's now being held without bond, awaiting transport to state prison.

Escambia County, FL (NewsRadio 92.3) -- Deputies are investigating after a sixteen-year-old boy was shot overnight in Escambia County. It happened around one in the morning on Deauville Way, off Massachusetts Avenue in the Montclair community. The sheriff's office says deputies found the teen with a gunshot wound and took him to the hospital in stable condition. He told deputies someone in a passing vehicle shot him at his home. No arrests have been made, and there's no suspect information at this time.

Washington, DC -- Florida Senator Rick Scott wants Congress to crack down on scammers. He's backing four new bills targeting fraud — from foreign scam networks to A-I-powered cybercrime. One bill would treat foreign scam operations like terrorist organizations, freezing their assets. Another creates a one-stop website for reporting scams. Scott says criminals are using new technology to target Americans' savings, and he wants lawmakers to act now.

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