The child, police said in previous testimony, was not wearing a safety grounding wrist strap that could have prevented the static spark that lit the flames.
—
Kristen Jordan Shamus,
Freep.com,
31 Aug. 2026
Many from the Liberty and William Jewell communities, including Barnett’s high school coaches, lit a candle in his name.
—
PJ Green
August 30,
Kansas City Star,
30 Aug. 2026
This was a funhouse reality, in which children were lost and predators roamed, but through which white harts leapt through shafts of sunlight, songbirds trilled, and where honey and berries and acorns might be foraged for free.
Soon afterward, the Ohio State Highway Patrol says the 20-year-old got out of his Toyota Avalon on the shoulder of Interstate 70 and stepped into westbound lanes of traffic.
—
Catherine E. Shoichet,
CNN Money,
2 Sep. 2026
Adames also committed an error on a routine grounder in the bottom of the seventh that could’ve spelled disaster, but Houser got out of the inning unscathed.
—
Justice delos Santos,
Mercury News,
20 Aug. 2026
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