12 On Your Side Digital Team
Digital Team
The 12 On Your Side Digital Team writes breaking news, sends app alerts and creates social media posts. The digital team consists of:
> Producer Joi Bass on weekday mornings.
> Producer Samantha McGranahan on weekday evenings.
> Producer and News Editor Jessica Redwood on the weekends.
> David Hylton is the digital content manager.
Updated: Oct. 20, 2026 at 11:20 PM CDT
|By Desiree Montilla, 12 On Your Side Digital Team and Gray News staff
A woman is facing charges after she allegedly punched a 9-year-old boy in the face at his school bus stop.
Updated: Oct. 18, 2026 at 5:18 AM CDT
|By 12 On Your Side Digital Team and Gray News staff
A 2-year-old got a daycare administrator's loaded gun out of a fanny pack and put the barrel in their mouth, according to a state report.
Updated: Sep. 17, 2026 at 7:43 AM CDT
|By 12 On Your Side Digital Team, Maggie Glass and Gray News staff
A Meadowbrook High School student suffered brain injuries during an altercation and is recovering at home, according to his family.
Updated: Aug. 15, 2026 at 2:56 PM CDT
|By 12 On Your Side Digital Team and Gray News staff
Five people were injured in an early morning shooting at Virginia State University (VSU), prompting the campus to go on lockdown.
Updated: Aug. 5, 2026 at 4:21 AM CDT
|By 12 On Your Side Digital Team and Gray News staff
A mother and her 12-year-old son both drowned in a pond after the boy began struggling and his mother went in to try and save him.
Updated: Jul. 21, 2026 at 3:52 PM CDT
|By 12 On Your Side Digital Team and Gray News staff
A 29-year-old man is in ICE custody and faces murder and sexual assault charges after a 2-year-old girl died earlier this month.
Updated: May 29, 2026 at 6:18 PM CDT
|By 12 On Your Side Digital Team and Debra Worley
Virginia State Police say a bus struck six vehicles on Interstate 95 as traffic slowed for a work zone, killing five people and sending 34 to hospitals.
Updated: May 28, 2026 at 8:00 PM CDT
|By 12 On Your Side Digital Team and Brandy Beard
A man was arrested and charged with murder in the death of his wife years earlier that police allege was staged to look like a suicide.
Updated: Apr. 30, 2026 at 7:49 AM CDT
|By 12 On Your Side Digital Team and Gray News Staff
An AMBER Alert has been canceled after a missing 2-year-old was found safe, according to Virginia State Police.
Updated: Apr. 9, 2026 at 2:42 AM CDT
|By 12 On Your Side Digital Team and Gray News staff
The father was trying to push the kayak back to shore when witnesses say he suddenly went under and never resurfaced.
Updated: Feb. 21, 2026 at 6:50 AM CST
|By 12 On Your Side Digital Team and Gray News staff
At least two people were killed in a overnight shooting in Richmond, Virginia.
Updated: Jan. 28, 2026 at 3:50 PM CST
|By 12 On Your Side Digital Team and Emily Van de Riet
A nurse in Virginia has been fired after she posted TikTok videos that were critical of federal immigration operations, according to reports.
Updated: Jan. 21, 2026 at 12:20 PM CST
|By 12 On Your Side Digital Team and Gray News staff
A 6-year-old boy was killed in a crash in Virginia that was caused by distracted driving, police said.
Updated: Jan. 19, 2026 at 12:45 AM CST
|By 12 On Your Side Digital Team, Sarah Chakales and Gray News staff
Part of her plea agreement requires she never practice nursing or any related healthcare job again.
Updated: Dec. 21, 2025 at 6:55 PM CST
|By 12 On Your Side Digital Team and Andrew McMunn
A community in Virginia is asking for help from the public to name the drunk raccoon that went viral last month for being found passed out in a bathroom.
Updated: Sep. 15, 2025 at 6:02 PM CDT
|By 12 On Your Side Digital Team and Andrew McMunn
A puppy that was abandoned in a dumpster in Virginia sadly did not survive, according to a Richmond animal shelter.
Updated: Aug. 24, 2025 at 6:29 PM CDT
|By 12 On Your Side Digital Team and Andrew McMunn
Officials in Virginia are investigating after a woman’s body was found by two bicyclists in a state park.
Updated: May 21, 2025 at 4:48 PM CDT
|By 12 On Your Side Digital Team and Gray News staff
A Virginia elementary school student is being hailed as a hero for saving his classmate recently.
Updated: May 6, 2025 at 8:49 AM CDT
|By 12 On Your Side Digital Team and Amanda Alvarado
Two children were taken to the hospital after a bus crashed into a home.
Updated: Apr. 25, 2025 at 5:41 AM CDT
|By 12 On Your Side Digital Team and Chris Anderson
A respected and well-known stunt pilot who was set to perform at a weekend air show has died.
Updated: Apr. 21, 2025 at 1:05 PM CDT
|By 12 On Your Side Digital Team and Debra Worley
A woman in Virginia died in a freak accident at her home on Easter Sunday.
Updated: Apr. 18, 2025 at 12:29 AM CDT
|By 12 On Your Side Digital Team and Sarah Chakales
The police chief says it’s something he’s never seen before.
Updated: Apr. 9, 2025 at 12:14 PM CDT
|By 12 On Your Side Digital Team and Dorothy Sedovic
Authorities have arrested four suspects, three of them teenagers, in a shooting that killed three people and injured three others.
Updated: Apr. 6, 2025 at 8:07 AM CDT
|By 12 On Your Side Digital Team and Amanda Alvarado
A woman is accused of abuse that led to the death of her niece.
Updated: Feb. 27, 2025 at 9:17 AM CST
|By Desiree Montilla, 12 On Your Side Digital Team and Amanda Alvarado
A woman saved a toddler who was wandering in a busy intersection.



































