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Mississippi middle school students stop bus from crashing after driver blacks out
Quick-thinking middle school students in Mississippi kept their school bus from crashing after their driver passed out while on a four-lane highway.The bus had just left Hancock Middle School in Hancock County on Wednesday with about 40 children on board when Leah Taylor, 46, had an asthma attack. She reached for her medication but blacked out before she could get it.
In a matter of seconds, the students sprang into action.
Sixth grader Jackson Casnave, 12, who was sitting directly behind the driver, noticed the bus beginning to swerve. Casnave jumped up to... Read More
Forest takes big step to ensuring Premier League survival by drubbing Sunderland
SUNDERLAND, England (AP) — Nottingham Forest took a huge step toward ensuring its Premier League survival in a stunning 5-0 win at Sunderland on Friday.Less than a week after beating Burnley 4-1, Forest rose eight points clear of the relegation zone and sent shivers down the spine of Tottenham Hotspur fans. Spurs occupy the third relegation spot, two points behind West Ham.
With Burnley and Wolves already relegated, Spurs or West Ham are now the most likely candidates to join them.
“It gives us some breathing room and puts pressure on the two chasing... Read More
US won't renew Iranian and Russian oil waivers, Bessent says
WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Friday that the U.S. does not plan to renew a waiver allowing the purchase of Russian oil and petroleum products that are currently at sea. And, he said, a renewal of the one-time waiver for Iranian oil at sea is totally off the table.“Not the Iranians,” Bessent told The Associated Press. "We have the blockade, and there’s no oil coming out.”
"And we think in the next two, three days, they’re going to have to start shuttering production, which will be very bad for their wells.”
Bessent's... Read More
Jake Reiner describes the 'living nightmare' of losing his parents, Rob and Michele Reiner
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jake Reiner, the older son of Rob and Michele Reiner, says learning his parents were killed and living in the aftermath has been “too devastating to comprehend.”In a post on Substack on Friday, Jake Reiner shares his sweetest memories of the beloved Hollywood director and the photographer and philanthropist who was his wife for 36 years. And he describes the horror of losing them when they were stabbed to death on Dec. 14 in the Los Angeles home he grew up in. It is his first detailed public account of his experience. He had previously only issued brief... Read More
Growing wildfires blamed for death of Florida firefighter, destruction of 120 Georgia homes
NAHUNTA, Ga. (AP) — A volunteer firefighter died battling a wildfire in northern Florida while more than 120 homes have been destroyed in southeast Georgia and thousands more remain threatened by two large blazes, one of which investigators suspect was sparked by a foil balloon touching power lines, officials said Friday.An unusually large number of wildfires are burning this spring across the Southeast, where scientists say the threat of fire has been amplified by a combination of extreme drought, gusty winds, climate change and dead trees still littering some forests after... Read More
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- Jake Reiner describes the 'living nightmare' of losing his parents, Rob and Michele Reiner
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