Hailey Persinger
Web ProducerHailey Persinger edits and posts stories, video, and other multimedia elements to KPBS.org. She also helps maintain the KPBSNews Twitter, Facebook and Google+ accounts. Before joining KPBS, she worked as a reporter at U-T San Diego and the Killeen Daily Herald. At both papers, she reported on local government and added to breaking news coverage. Hailey contributed reports to the Killeen Daily Herald's coverage of the November 2009 mass shooting at Fort Hood, which won numerous awards from the Texas Associated Press Managing Editors. Hailey has a bachelor's degree in English literature from the University of North Texas in Denton. When not at work, Hailey is either running, attempting to learn computer coding or compulsively checking Twitter.
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Premieres Monday, May 20, 2024 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS App + Wednesday, May 22 at 7 p.m. and Sunday, May 26 at 4 p.m. on KPBS 2. Travel to all five cities of ROADSHOW's Season 28 Tour for never-before-seen appraisals, including a 1976 Mark Hamill-signed Star Wars poster, a 1979 Bob Ross landscape oil, and a 1973 Iditarod Race sled!
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More than 5,000 Mercedes-Benz workers who build luxury SUVs in Alabama were eligible to vote on whether to join the UAW. Workers faced intense anti-union messaging from Mercedes in the run-up.
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Saturday, May 18, 2024 at 2 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with the PBS App + Encore Thursday, May 23 at 2 p.m. on KPBS TV. Test cook Keith Dresser makes host Julia Collin Davison a Southern Thai speciality, Khua Kling (Pork Stir-Fry). Science expert Dan Souza explains how broccoli and dogs are more similar than you think, and test cook Elle Simone Scott makes host Bridget Lancaster Khao Niaow Ma Muang (Sticky Rice with Mango).
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom's administration says it will cost more than $20 billion to build a giant tunnel to capture and store more water.
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U.S. figures show that San Diego became the busiest corridor for illegal crossings in April.
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A shot of pure joy to start off the weekend: a charming video of kids from Cork, Ireland, rapping about finding and following their creative voice.
- Minimum wage violations rise in major California cities, including San Diego
- News watchdogs alarmed by proliferation of ‘pink slime’ sites in San Diego and elsewhere
- What's in and how much is out for education in the revised California state budget?
- Six years after an assessment found a ‘climate of anti-Blackness’ at Southwestern College, what’s changed?
- Mexico’s only tall ship makes port in San Diego