Lead stories from "First Look with Scott Cox's" Top Stories: DEPUTY WHO STRUCK, KILLED TWO PEDESTRIANS TAKES PLEA DEAL: A plea deal was reached Thursday in the case of a Kern County sheriff's deputy who struck and killed two pedestrians in Oildale in 2011. That brings an abrupt end to a case that outraged local residents and led to a payment of $8.8 million to the victims' families.