2 Bodies Found in Ariz.'s Salt River After Kayakers Disappeared on Easter

Photo: GoFundMe, Shane C Coates/Facebook After a week of uncertainty, the bodies of two missing Arizona men have been found. Shane Coates, 38, and Ryan Jacobs, 38, went out kayaking on the Salt River in Phoenix, Arizona on April 9 and were declaredmissingaround 10 a.m. local time that day. Over the weekend, Phoenix police recovered two bodies from the riverbank, which are now confirmed to be Coates and Jacobs....

March 16, 2025 · 2 min · 391 words · Troy Hall PhD

2 Illinois Teens on Spring Break Killed Sledding in Colorado

Copper Mountain.Photo: Getty Images Two teenage boys from Illinois are dead following a tandem sledding accident near Breckenridge, Colorado over the weekend. The teenagers, who were on spring break vacation, were aboard the sled when it “launched off a large snowbank” at the bottom of the half pipe, the sheriff’s office said. “The two individuals came down hard on the hard ice below, causing blunt force trauma,” the agency added on Facebook....

March 16, 2025 · 2 min · 305 words · Lisa Williams

2-Year-Old Ala. Boy Is Fatally Shot While Lying on Couch with His Mom, and Shooter Is at Large

Photo: Go Fund Me Police in Alabama are searching for the “punks” responsible for the death of a 2-year-old boy who was shot as he was lying on the couch with his mother. On Thursday evening, 2-year-old Major Turner and his mother were shot when someone opened fire outside their first-floor west Birmingham apartment,WFTMandWBRCreport. Major, his mother and another sibling had just finished dinner and were sitting on the couch when the shots were fired, his godmother, Dominique Howard, toldAL....

March 16, 2025 · 2 min · 341 words · Emily Peck

2-Year-Old Triplets Found Safe the Day After Father Kills Mother in Murder-Suicide

Maisah Larkin and children.Photo: GoFundMe After a frantic overnight search, a set of 2-year-old triplets were found safe on Dec. 19 after their mother was murdered in her living room the night before, according to a statement from the Philadelphia police. On Sunday, Dec. 18, around 8 pm, officers responded to the Philadelphia home of Maisah Larkin, 39, on reports of a “person screaming,” per a police incident update....

March 16, 2025 · 2 min · 303 words · Linda Green

20-Year-Old with 'Biggest Heart' Dies After Crash Just 'Yards' from Home: 'I Miss Him Dearly,' Says Dad

Photo:GoFundMe GoFundMe A 20-year-old man died in a single-vehicle car crash near his home in Massachusetts on Sunday evening. Kory Ouellette died as a result of the crash on Puritan Road, according toSalem Police. Steven Ouellette, Kory’s father, toldThe Boston Globethat the crash happened “300 yards from our home” as his son was on his way there. Kory slammed into a fence and died of his injuries,NBC affiliate WBTS-CDandBoston.comreported....

March 16, 2025 · 2 min · 387 words · Alan Thomas

2022 Critics Choice Awards Postponed amid Spike in COVID-19 Cases Due to Omicron Variant

Photo: The Critics' Choice Awards The in-person ceremony for the 2022 Critics Choice Awards has been postponed. On Wednesday, the Critics Choice Association announced the news that the televised awards show, which was set to take place in Los Angeles, will no longer take place on Jan. 9. “After thoughtful consideration and candid conversations with our partners at The CW and TBS, we have collectively come to the conclusion that the prudent and responsible decision at this point is to postpone the 27th Annual Critics Choice Awards, originally slated for January 9, 2022,” the statement read....

March 16, 2025 · 2 min · 372 words · Benjamin Perez

28-Year-Old Firefighter Who Died in Australia Leaves Behind a Wife Pregnant with Their First Child

Samuel McPaul and wife Megan.Photo: NSW RURAL FIRE SERVICE Australians are mourning the loss of a volunteer firefighter and father-to-be who died while battling intense wildfires. McPaul, a 28-year-old member of Morven Rural Fire Brigade, was the only fatality in the incident, while two other firefighters suffered non-life threatening injuries, the RFS said. Making the loss even more devastating, the service revealed that McPaul’s wife Megan is pregnant with their first child, who is due in May....

March 16, 2025 · 3 min · 496 words · Melinda Hart

30 Facts About Ashcan

Ashcan artis a captivate move that emerged in the early 20th century , focus on the gamy realities of urban life . But what make it so intriguing?Ashcan artistsbroke forth from traditional , idealized portrayals , pick out instead to depict the raw , unfiltered meat of casual vista . This movement , conduce byartistslike Robert Henri and George Bellows , aimed to trance the look of the streets , tenements , and working - stratum neighborhood ....

March 16, 2025 · 3 min · 591 words · Thomas Wallace

30-Year-Old Firefighter with ALS Works to Raise Awareness: 'You're Racing Against Time'

FirefighterEric Stevensis hoping to raise awareness for a debilitating and incurable disease with which he was diagnosed just one month after his wedding day. “You definitely don’t think about it, especially when you’re 29, and you just got married,” Stevens, of the Los Angeles Fire Department, toldKTLAthis week while seated next to his wife, Amanda Stevens. “What I’m thinking about is, what are we going to name our kid? Where are we going to move?...

March 16, 2025 · 3 min · 470 words · Alexandra Shannon

4-Year-Old's 'Scalp Was Torn Off' in Dog Attack, Says Relative, as Mom and Boyfriend Arrested

A stock image of a dog leash.Photo:GETTY GETTY A Nebraska girl is recovering after a brutal dog attack last month left her with severe injuries. “Her cheek bone was broken, she has torn ligaments in her neck and stitches all over her body,” Lillianna’s great aunt Kimberly Lane Koterba wrote on fundraising page in February, adding that her great niece was previously diagnosed with spina bifida and that she expected the girl to have multiple surgeries....

March 16, 2025 · 2 min · 423 words · Miss Kathleen Jones

44 New Cases of Coronavirus Confirmed on Quarantined Cruise Ship

Forty-four more people have tested positive for thecoronavirusaboard the quarantined Diamond Princess cruise ship docked in Yokohama, Japan, Princess Cruises confirmed to PEOPLE Thursday. The total number of cases on the ship, which has 2,666 guests and 1,045 crew members on board, is now at 219, according toCNNand theWashington Post. Last Wednesday, Princess Cruises confirmed to PEOPLE that 20 passengers had tested positive for the illness,including three Americans. The remaining people affected included seven people from Japan, three from Hong Kong, two from Australia, two from Canada, one from New Zealand, one from Taiwan and one from the Philippines....

March 16, 2025 · 2 min · 326 words · Caroline Miller

5 NFL Players Suspended After Violating the League's Gambling Policy

Photo: Nic Antaya/Getty The policy prohibits anyone in the NFL from gambling in any club, league facility, or venue, including the practice facility. According to theleague’s announcementon Friday, Quintez Cephus and C.J. Moore of the Detroit Lions, and Shaka Toney of the Washington Commanders, are suspended indefinitely through at least the conclusion of the 2023 season for betting on NFL games. According to the announcement, they can petition for reinstatement at the end of the season....

March 16, 2025 · 2 min · 271 words · Kelly Hays

5 Philadelphia Zoo Meerkats Die from Accidental Poisoning Suspected to Be Linked to Dye at Zoo

Meerkats.Photo:Getty Getty ThePhiladelphia Zoois mourning the loss of five of its beloved residents. A group ofmeerkats— named Lula, Nkosi, Nya, Kgala, and Ari — died suddenly at the zoo last week from exposure to an unknown toxin that zoo officials believe came from a dye that’s routinely used to mark animals to differentiate them, the zoo confirmed to PEOPLE. According to Amy Shearer, chief experience officer, the zoo has used the topical dye, called Nyanzol-D, for more than 30 years without incident, including on small primates....

March 16, 2025 · 2 min · 355 words · Joshua Brown