Kids participating in the Frontline Innovation Studios program were in for a special treat on Saturday.

Larry “Gator” Rivers, who helped integrate high school basketball in Georgia before playing for the Harlem Globetrotters and becoming a county commissioner in his native Savannah, has died.

During that same newscast, WBRC News Director Shannon Isbell offered an on-air apology to Pearce. Pearce, 24, hands the tangerine back to Ferguson before someone behind the camera once again throws the fruit back at Pearce. He notified the team about the incident, and he says it reached out to the Birmingham news station back in February. Foxs reaction was to have me call them to receive an apology from the news director, and not from the actual anchors who threw the fruit, Pearce said. An on-air segment promoting a Globetrotters event with Mr. Pearce in January was intended to be lighthearted," she said.