Mar. 16, 2025
Photo: JOSH EDELSON//Getty ImagesA California couple has been charged after their “gender reveal” party malfunction allegedly sparked theEl Dorado Firein September, killing one firefighter.San Bernardino County District Attorney Jason Anderson announced during a press conference Tuesday that Refugio Manuel Jimenez Jr. and Angela Renee Jimenez were charged with involuntary manslaughter, as well as three counts of recklessly causing a fire with great bodily injury, four counts of recklessly causing a fire to inhabited structures, and 22 misdemeanors of recklessly causing fire to property,BuzzFeed News reported.
Mar. 16, 2025
Photo:Stephen Bohn and Lauren LaLiberteWhile Boston couple Lauren Laliberte and Steve Bohn were busy preparing for their Cape Cod wedding, they were looking forward to celebrating alongside Bohn’s service dog — a yellow labrador named Orion. The plan was simple: They would make the trek from Boston to the Cape, and stay in an Airbnb the nights before and after their big day.Orion helps Bohn, a veteran, with everyday tasks after he survived a suicide bomb attack in Afghanistan in 2008.
Mar. 16, 2025
Photo: Marsha BradburyHurricane Florenceis creating cancelations and delays all over the Carolinas, but for one couple, it threw a major wrench in their wedding day.Marsha Bradbury and Jonathan Gillenwater, 56, who reside in Hurricane, West Virginia, were scheduled to get married in Salvo, a small town in theNorth Carolina outer bankson Sunday, September 16. They’d been planning theirdestination weddingsince March, and were preparing for 30 guests to attend their ceremony.“We had this beautiful rental home that overlooked the sound and we going to be married close to sunset because the photos during sunset there are phenomenal,” Bradbury, 56, tells PEOPLE.
Mar. 16, 2025
Photo: Becky Kekula
A Massachusetts couple has received a $15 million settlement after their 6-month-old son died during a sleep study.
Becky and Ryan Kekula — from Plymouth, Massachusetts — brought their son Jackson to Boston Children’s Hospital for a car seat test and a sleep study on February 18, 2022.
Although hospital staff performed CPR on Jackson, the Kekula family say he had severe brain damage and they made the decision to take him off life support 12 days later.
Mar. 16, 2025
Scratch-off lottery tickets.Photo:Getty
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A Michigan couple has hit two very different jackpots in just one week!
The ticket, which was purchased the day after the man got married, wound up being a winner, according to Wednesday’s press release.
“I bought the ticket the day after my wedding and gave it to my wife to scratch,” the man told Michigan lottery officials.
The man said both he and his wife “were in disbelief” when they realized the ticket was a $1 million winner.