Mary Staes
Mary Staes is Digital Content Lead for Very Local. She works with our freelancers and crafts content for our social media platforms and website. Before Very Local, she worked with CBS affiliate WWL-TV as a web producer and weekend assignment editor for about 4 years. She has also handled broadcast coverage for 160 Marine Reserve training facilities while she served as an active duty Marine. As a native New Orleanian, she takes being "very local" to heart. She loves being intertwined with the culture and figuring out how there are less than two degrees of separation between us all, whether we're natives or not.
Watch KSBW’s Share Your Holiday
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Watch WPBF’s coverage of the Palm Beach Boat Parade
Get live streaming as well as on-demand access to the Poinsettia Christmas Parade available exclusively on the Very Local app
Stream coverage of the Brian Walshe Trial from the beginning
When Ana Walshe vanished around New Year’s Day 2023, the search for the 39-year-old mother of three gripped two cities—Cohasset, Massachusetts, and Washington, D.C. As investigators uncovered a chilling trail of evidence, suspicion turned to her husband, Brian Walshe. Prosecutors allege he murdered and dismembered her, though her body was never found. Now, years later, […]
The Freedom Center: Truth, Trauma, Triumph
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New Hampshire Chronicle | Road Trippin’
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Stream live coverage of the “First Date” Murder Trial
The trial for the accused killer of 19-year-old Sade Robinson is now underway. Police say Robinson was brutally murdered while on a first date. Her story was recently featured in an episode of the streaming true crime series Hometown Tragedy. Stream live, gavel-to-gavel trial coverage on the Very Local app. Daily Live Coverage from the […]
Watch Highlights from the Big Sur Marathon
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Stream coverage of the Karen Read Trial from the beginning
It’s a case that made national headlines. A Boston woman accused of driving into her police-officer-boyfriend and leaving him to die in a snowstorm. But after ending in a mistrial last year, Karen Read’s case has come to a close. Get caught up on the story from the very beginning of the first trial to […]
Stream the 2025 Big Sur International Marathon
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Hometown Tragedy: The Oklahoma Girl Scout Murders
As Girl Scouts at Camp Scott settle into their tents one evening, eerie footsteps and distant cries haunt the campers throughout the night. The unsettling sounds turn out to be the echos one of the largest murder investigations in Oklahoma’s history.