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2 days ago
- Entertainment
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Longtime KFDX, KJTL cameraman retires
WICHITA FALLS (KFDX/KJTL) — After more than six decades, longtime KFDX and KJTL cameraman Steve Corbitt is calling it a career. 'I've already retired once, so this is my second retirement,' Corbitt said. 'This is official, official, especially according to my wife. I'm about ready to settle back and enjoy life with my wife and family, and my dogs. There are several things that we would like to do together, and, better do it now while I still can.' For the last 61 years, Corbitt has worked in a handful of different fields. 'An awful lot of it has been news coverage,' Corbitt said. 'But an awful lot of it has been production, commercials, politicals.' Corbitt's career began in the 1960s in his hometown of Wichita Falls. After a few years, he made the move to the Texas Gulf Coast, joining the team at KPRC in Houston in his early 20s. 'There was a lot of amazing things that happened to me early on because of KPRC,' Corbitt said. 'We did several ball games out of the Astrodome. The Astrodome at that time was brand new. The big new wonder of the world. Some of us wound up covering George Wallace. Some of us also ended up covering the racial problems in the South. The Vice President of the United States at that time came to Houston, and we covered that. There was a lot of history being made at that time.' Speaking of history, KPRC provided national and international news coverage of every NASA space mission, from Gemini 4 in 1965 to the Challenger explosion in 1986, and every single Apollo mission in between. 'The first time that they actually put a crew together to go out to NASA and everything, I got left off of it,' Corbitt said. 'So I wasn't very happy about that.' But all of that changed in 1970, when Corbitt was a part of arguably NASA's greatest moment. 'Apollo 13, NBC was the pool situation for all three networks,' Corbitt said. 'And an old-time director, Jack Dillon, for NBC, recommended that I be the lighting director on it.' Corbitt and his fellow KPRC crewmembers headed to Los Angeles, then to Hawaii, and ultimately, Pearl Harbor. Before Apollo 13 even left Earth's atmosphere, Corbitt and his team boarded the USS Iwo Jima. While astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Hays, and Jack Swaggart were preparing for their mission to the moon, Corbitt and the team from KPRC had a mission of their own. 'Our remote trucks for video and everything else, and a lighting truck, and all that, they were all pulled into the hangar bay. They were all parked down there,' Corbitt said. 'We had to assemble a studio in their hangar bay. That's lights, that's everything, control room, and video tape machines. Video tape machines in those days were as big as that news desk.' It's one thing to build an entire working studio on solid ground. It's another thing entirely to build one on an aircraft carrier while being at the mercy of the South Pacific Ocean. 'On the way, we also went through three days of a typhoon, which was no fun,' Corbitt said. The KPRC team wasn't the only crew looking adversity in the face. For days, Americans bowed their heads, hoping and praying that the three astronauts aboard the Apollo 13 would make it home safe. Then, on April 11, 1970, the Command Module re-entered the Earth's atmosphere, going radio silent for what felt like an eternity. 'We get to the pickup zone,' Corbitt said. 'Communication wasn't like it is now, and they were saying they didn't know if they were alive or not. All of our cameras were trained on the UDT team, and everything out there opening up and all this.' With the world watching, thanks to Corbitt and his team, an entire nation breathed a sigh of relief and rejoiced when the three astronauts emerged from the Apollo 13 Command Module. 'It was a shock to us that they were alive because they'd lost transmission on their way back, and that's the last we heard of them,' Corbitt said. 'They all come out, and we're just very happy. Extremely. Then, we had to turn around and come back.' Even now, some 55 years later, Apollo 13 was the highlight of Corbitt's long, incredible career. 'That stands out as one of the most prominent things, you know. I was so young. That normally doesn't happen,' Corbitt said. 'I felt like I was a part of history.' Corbitt spent the next several decades in production, film, and photography across Texas, and even beyond, before returning home to Wichita Falls. 'The reason why I came back is because, you know, family,' Corbitt said. In 2005, Corbitt joined the KFDX family, first as a photojournalist, then moving to the studio, where he's played a number of roles on the production team. Of course, Texoma probably knows him best from his cameos on the morning show. Things are going to be different around the studio in the mornings without Corbitt, and it goes without saying, he will certainly be missed. 'I think my time spent here has been well-spent,' Corbitt said. 'I've met some very good people, I've worked with some really great people, and I will regret not seeing some of them every day.' 'A lot of people that I've done interviews with over the years and so on, I've gotten to become very good friends with,' Corbitt said. 'And I'm going to miss seeing them, because a lot of them come in once a week or once a month.' After a career of over 60 years, the last twenty spent here with us, from the entire KFDX, KJBO, Texoma's Fox, and Texoma's Homepage family, thank you, Steve, and congratulations on a well-deserved retirement. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Solve the daily Crossword
Axios
02-07-2025
- Automotive
- Axios
Free bike repair event helps women and nonbinary cyclists
A bike repair night in downtown Des Moines is helping women, femme-identifying and nonbinary cyclists learn how to fix and maintain their bikes for free. Why it matters: WTF Night is focused on helping people gain maintenance skills in a sport that is male-dominated. How it works: Twice a month, the Street Collective holds the free repair events, which are run by Kristi Ehlers from Bike World in Urbandale and Becca Corbitt, who works at the Collective. People can drop in without signing up, whether they need help fixing a neglected bike or want to learn how to change a flat. Volunteers work with all types of bikes, from beaters to high-end road models. Reality check: Women face barriers to biking, especially as they enter their teen and adult years. A 2024 report from Strava shows that men generally ride farther and for longer than women because women feel less safe taking bike rides and are less likely to go out in the dark. A study from People for Bikes shows that girls from certain religious or cultural backgrounds may also be less likely to bike, especially if they aren't allowed to wear pants. And while the majority of women say they feel more comfortable riding in a group of the same gender, only 12% end up doing it, per the Strava report. What they're saying: "The more people know, the better," Corbitt says. "It's empowering, and it can be really intimidating to go into an all-male shop and ask questions." The intrigue: One of Corbitt's favorite memories is when a woman brought in an old bike from her late father, unsure whether it could even be saved.
Yahoo
19-04-2025
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Twice-convicted Ohio woman sent to prison after third Medicaid fraud case
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – An Ohio woman could serve nearly a decade in prison after pleading guilty to theft and identify fraud felonies in a Medicaid scam. According to the Ohio Attorney's General's Office, a Montgomery County woman previously banned from working as a Medicaid provider was sentenced for defrauding the program once again. On March 17, Janay Corbitt, 36, of Dayton, pleaded guilty to second-degree theft and third-degree felony counts of identity theft. Corbitt was indicted in May after an investigation revealed that she stole multiple identities to open and operate two sham behavioral health-counseling agencies in the Dayton area. The Attorney General's Office said that Corbitt stole the IDs of several licensed counselors, using their credentials to bill Medicaid for service that were never reported. Corbitt, who was previously convicted of theft in 2019 and barred from the Medicaid program, was arrested in August at a bus stop in Dallas after she fled Ohio and had not been seen in months. A Franklin County Common Pleas Court judge sentenced her to serve 6-9 years in prison and ordered her to pay $1.5 million in restitution. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
19-04-2025
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Dayton woman gets prison sentence for $1.5 million theft from Medicaid
Apr. 18—A Dayton woman who had been banned from being a Medicaid provider will be serving six to nine years in prison for stealing $1.5 million from Medicaid. "Some thieves don't know when to quit," Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost said. "The investigators and prosecutors in our Health Care Fraud Section did a great job of putting a stop to this costly scheme." Janay Corbitt, 36, pleaded guilty last month to second-degree felony theft and three third-degree felony counts of identity fraud. In addition to the prison sentence, she must pay $1.5 million in restitution. Corbitt was previously licensed as chemical dependency counselor assistant by the Ohio Chemical Dependency Professionals Board, first from March 2015 to April 2016 and then again from April 2017 to April 2019. A previous theft conviction in 2019 had barred her from the Medicaid program. Corbitt had been convicted of fifth-degree felony theft in Franklin County, and she was ordered to five years of probation. She also had to pay restitution to CareSource, a Dayton-based health insurer that primarily serves Medicaid members. For this most recent case, Corbitt was indicted in May 2024 after an investigation by Yost's office revealed that she stole multiple identities to open and operate two sham behavioral-health-counseling agencies in the Dayton area. Corbitt also stole the identities of several licensed counselors, using their credentials to bill Medicaid for services that were never provided, the attorney general's office said. Law enforcement caught up to Corbitt in Dallas, Texas, where authorities arrested Corbitt in August 2024 at a bus stop. She previously fled Ohio and spent months as a fugitive. Attorneys with Yost's Health Care Fraud Section prosecuted the case in Franklin County Common Pleas Court. The Ohio Medicaid Fraud Control Unit receives 75% of its funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services under a grant award of about $15.3 million for federal fiscal year 2025. The remaining 25%, or $5.1 million, is funded by the Ohio Attorney General's Office.
Yahoo
17-04-2025
- Yahoo
Dayton woman gets prison time for stealing $1.5 million from Medicaid
DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) — A local woman will spend six to nine years in prison after defrauding Medicaid of $1.5 million. Janay Corbitt, 36, was sentenced to prison this week after pleading guilty to several theft and identity fraud charges. Joint Terrorism Task Force arrests 20-year-old over 'dangerous destructive device' Corbitt was indicted in May 2024 after an investigation by the Ohio Attorney General's office revealed that she stole multiple identities to open and operate sham counseling agencies. Prosecutors say she also stole the identities of several licensed counselors, using their credentials to bill Medicaid for services that were never provided. Corbitt was arrested by authorities in Dallas, Texas after she fled Ohio. Officials also say she was previously banned from working as a Medicaid provider due to a 2019 theft conviction. Beyond the prison sentence, Corbitt was also ordered to pay $1.5 million in restitution. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
