Mar. 16, 2025
Mark Bryson.Photo:GoFundMe
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A father of four died in Florida after rescuing one of his kids from a rip current.
“He wasn’t going to leave anybody out there,” she told the outlet. “They fought to try to get to each other and it just kept pulling him further and further out.”
Lifeguards eventually arrived at the scene and helped bring the man out of the water, who had no pulse at the time, according to theNews-Journal.
Mar. 16, 2025
Donnell Hunter.Photo: KOB 4After 549 days, ninedifferent hospitalsand a police escort, Donnell Hunter is finally home for the first time since he contracted COVID-19 in Sept. 2020.Hunter, 43, was able to return to his home in Roswell, New Mexico after a year and a half battle with the virus that had himheavily sedated and on a ventilatorfor most of that first year.“I can’t even put it into words,“he told KOB Newsof what it felt like to be back with his family — wife Ashley; their five kids aged 4, 8, 11, 13 and 14; his two kids aged 21 and 27 and his 1-year-old grandson.
Mar. 16, 2025
Maksym Vechirko.Photo:Maksim Vechirko/ Facebook
Maksim Vechirko/ Facebook
According to astatementfrom the Utah Department of Public Safety, the crash occurred in Tooele County on Saturday morning at around 9:09 a.m. Officials identified the victim as Maksym Vechirko, 35, from Sacramento, Calif.
Per aGoFundMe pageset up to support Vechirko’s wife and their seven children, Vechirko — whose name is spelled Maksim on the page — was delivering fruit to provide for his family at the time of the incident.
Mar. 16, 2025
Jerry Lopez.Photo:GoFundMe
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A woman is mourning her husband and the father of her seven kids after he died in a carjacking in the southwest valley of Las Vegas last Wednesday.
According to theLas Vegas Metropolitan Police(LVMP), authorities were notified around 3:46 a.m. about a shooting near Placid St. and Maulding Ave. They later learned that the suspect, Justin Davidson, 36, was allegedly shooting a rifle in the wash area behind his parents’ residence.
Mar. 16, 2025
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A California man whose eight-month-old daughter was found dead one week earlier in her car seat behind a funeral home surrendered to the FBI on Monday at the U.S.-Mexico border.
“He was cooperative,” Sgt. James Wilcox, supervisor of the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Child Abuse Bureau, said at a Monday press conference. “He was not agitated.”
According to Wilcox, Echeverria faces charges “related to the death of his daughter.