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Yahoo
08-05-2025
- Yahoo
9-Month-Old Baby Found Dead Days After Being Swept Away from Parents Whose Car Crashed into River
An infant has been found dead in the Trinity River in California, days after he was swept away following a car crash Baby Oliver disappeared following the crash on Friday, May 1, which left his mother and father with minor to moderate injuries Neither drugs nor alcohol are believed to have factored into the crash, officials saidA 9-month-old baby boy has been found dead days after he was swept away in a California river following an early morning car crash. Oliver Cox was 'lost in the Trinity River' after the crash on Thursday, May 1, according to a news release from the Trinity County Sheriff's Office (TCSO). CHP spokesperson Keith Krick told McClatchy News that the boy was with his 19-year-old mother and 21-year-old father early that morning when the Lexus sedan they were in went off State Route 299, 'down an embankment, and into the Trinity River.' Despite their attempts to save Oliver, Krick said the baby was ultimately 'swept away.' A diver from out of the area, who traveled to the Big Flat to assist with the search, 'located Oliver deceased and submerged in the Trinity River' on Tuesday, May 6, according to the TCSO. The baby 'was removed from the river" and his family was notified. The TCSO thanked 'all the search teams, who assisted in returning Oliver to his family.' 'Our hearts go out to the family and friends of Oliver,' authorities said in the news release. Michelle Huskey, Oliver's aunt, told NBC affiliate KNVN that the family was returning from a beach trip when the crash occurred. "He was always playful, always happy to see everybody,' she explained. 'He loved his mommy more than anything.' More than $7,800 has been raised through a GoFundMe campaign started to support Oliver's family following his disappearance and death. Huskey, who organized the campaign, thanked Juan Heredia, the volunteer diver with Angels Recovery Dive Team who located Oliver, and his crew for helping in the search. Officials with Trinity COSAR said in a previous news release that the terrain was 'extremely challenging' to search, including portions that were 'steep, rocky and in some areas impassable.' Heredia said in a Facebook video that the car was 'pushed by the current' several hundred feet downriver from where it entered the water. Also in the video, Heredia showed the tire tracks left behind by the Lexus as it veered into the river, and said he found the back rear window of the vehicle had been broken. Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. Several agencies assisted with the search for Oliver, including Trinity County Search and Rescue (Trinity COSAR), the Shasta County Sheriff Dive Team, the California Governor's Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES), California Highway Patrol (CHP), CalFire and the United States Coast Guard, according to the TCSO. The mother and father involved in the crash, from Shasta Lake, were transported to Trinity General Hospital with minor to moderate injuries, ABC affiliate KRCR-TV reported. Officials said neither drugs nor alcohol is believed to have factored into the crash, per KRCR-TV and The Sacramento Bee. An investigation into the crash is ongoing. Read the original article on People
Yahoo
08-05-2025
- Yahoo
9-Month-Old Baby Found Dead Days After Being Swept Away from Parents Whose Car Crashed into River
An infant has been found dead in the Trinity River in California, days after he was swept away following a car crash Baby Oliver disappeared following the crash on Friday, May 1, which left his mother and father with minor to moderate injuries Neither drugs nor alcohol are believed to have factored into the crash, officials saidA 9-month-old baby boy has been found dead days after he was swept away in a California river following an early morning car crash. Oliver Cox was 'lost in the Trinity River' after the crash on Thursday, May 1, according to a news release from the Trinity County Sheriff's Office (TCSO). CHP spokesperson Keith Krick told McClatchy News that the boy was with his 19-year-old mother and 21-year-old father early that morning when the Lexus sedan they were in went off State Route 299, 'down an embankment, and into the Trinity River.' Despite their attempts to save Oliver, Krick said the baby was ultimately 'swept away.' A diver from out of the area, who traveled to the Big Flat to assist with the search, 'located Oliver deceased and submerged in the Trinity River' on Tuesday, May 6, according to the TCSO. The baby 'was removed from the river" and his family was notified. The TCSO thanked 'all the search teams, who assisted in returning Oliver to his family.' 'Our hearts go out to the family and friends of Oliver,' authorities said in the news release. Michelle Huskey, Oliver's aunt, told NBC affiliate KNVN that the family was returning from a beach trip when the crash occurred. "He was always playful, always happy to see everybody,' she explained. 'He loved his mommy more than anything.' More than $7,800 has been raised through a GoFundMe campaign started to support Oliver's family following his disappearance and death. Huskey, who organized the campaign, thanked Juan Heredia, the volunteer diver with Angels Recovery Dive Team who located Oliver, and his crew for helping in the search. Officials with Trinity COSAR said in a previous news release that the terrain was 'extremely challenging' to search, including portions that were 'steep, rocky and in some areas impassable.' Heredia said in a Facebook video that the car was 'pushed by the current' several hundred feet downriver from where it entered the water. Also in the video, Heredia showed the tire tracks left behind by the Lexus as it veered into the river, and said he found the back rear window of the vehicle had been broken. Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. Several agencies assisted with the search for Oliver, including Trinity County Search and Rescue (Trinity COSAR), the Shasta County Sheriff Dive Team, the California Governor's Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES), California Highway Patrol (CHP), CalFire and the United States Coast Guard, according to the TCSO. The mother and father involved in the crash, from Shasta Lake, were transported to Trinity General Hospital with minor to moderate injuries, ABC affiliate KRCR-TV reported. Officials said neither drugs nor alcohol is believed to have factored into the crash, per KRCR-TV and The Sacramento Bee. An investigation into the crash is ongoing. Read the original article on People
CNN
03-05-2025
- Politics
- CNN
Peru's former first lady flees to Brazil for asylum after she and ex-President Humala sentenced to prison
Peru's former First Lady Nadine Heredia has fled to Brazil, where she has been granted diplomatic asylum after a court in her home country sentenced her and her husband, former President Ollanta Humala, to 15 years in prison on money laundering charges. She landed in the capital Brasilia with her son on Wednesday, her lawyer Julio Espinoza told CNN. According to the Peruvian Foreign Ministry, she had requested asylum at the Brazilian Embassy in Lima on Tuesday morning. Brazil granted asylum to her and her son and the Peruvian government provided guarantees for their safe passage, it said. Heredia's lawyer said she had applied for asylum due to an unspecified family reason. 'A family and personal decision happened about two to three hours before the sentencing,' he said, adding that he only found out about her asylum request through the media. Her arrival in Brazil comes just a day after she and her husband were sentenced in a trial relating to alleged illicit contributions to Humala's election campaigns in 2006 and 2011. Prosecutors had alleged that Humala's Nationalist Party received illicit contributions from the Venezuelan government and the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht to finance his campaigns. Humala and his wife had denied any wrongdoing. Humala was in attendance as a judge read out the verdict on Tuesday, three years after the trial began. Heredia did not attend. Moments after the ruling was announced, the judiciary ordered Humala to start serving his sentence immediately and be sent to prison. His lawyer, Wilfredo Pedraza, criticized the decision as unjustified and told CNN they would appeal. 'The panel has said that the illegality of the crimes can be verified along the way – that is inadmissible. Here, in oral trial and in sentencing, affirmations must be made, no longer presumptions,' he argued. The former first lady's lawyer said Wednesday that if the case is appealed, she may attend the hearings virtually from Brazil. Prosecutors were seeking 20 years in prison for the former president and 26 years for the former first lady.
Yahoo
01-05-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Two top Arizona health officials resign amid ‘unprecedented politicization' of process
Katie Hobbs in February 2023. Photo by Gage Skidmore (modified) | Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0 Two of Arizona's top public health officials have resigned rather than face an acrimonious confirmation process at the legislature, where Republicans have used agency director hearings to play hardball politics with Gov. Katie Hobbs and stymie her government. On Wednesday, Hobbs announced that Jennie Cunico, the director of the Arizona Department of Health Services, and Carmen Heredia, who heads Arizona's Health Care Cost Containment System, the state's Medicaid program, have stepped down from their positions. Heredia was scheduled to go before the state Senate's Committee on Director Nominations for consideration on Thursday. In her announcement, Hobbs blamed the Republican majority for co-opting the confirmation process to attack her nominations on political grounds. 'Unfortunately, the Senate's unprecedented politicization of the director confirmation process has ended the directorship of two healthcare professionals who have made our state government run more efficiently and more effectively,' she said in a written statement. 'The people of Arizona are tired of the relentless politics that has undermined good governance in the name of partisan retribution. It should not matter whether the leaders of our state government are Democrats or Republicans; it should matter that our state is run by public servants who do what's right for everyday people.' SUBSCRIBE: GET THE MORNING HEADLINES DELIVERED TO YOUR INBOX Under Arizona law, the governor's agency picks are required to be vetted and approved or rejected by the state Senate. The process has historically been uneventful, with candidates facing interviews from lawmakers on committees relevant to the agencies they've been chosen for, but Hobbs' election prompted Republicans to set up an entirely new committee to vet her choices. And that has resulted in aggressive, hourslong interrogations that more closely resemble federal confirmation hearings. After several of her candidates resigned or were shot down for political reasons, Hobbs attempted to circumvent the process by appointing them as executive directors. Cunico was appointed in 2023, following the withdrawn nomination of her predecessor, former Pima County Health Director Dr. Theresa Cullen, who underwent a contentious hearing that focused on her handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. Heredia was appointed in late 2022. But a failed court battle over the legality of Hobbs' actions meant the duo would eventually need to win approval from the state Senate to continue serving in their roles. Both Heredia and Cunico cited the contentious confirmation process in their resignation letters as the reason for their decisions to step down, despite their desire to continue working in public health. 'Serving the people of Arizona — especially our most vulnerable — has been one of the greatest honors of my professional life,' Heredia wrote. 'However, it has become increasingly difficult to carry out this mission in good faith under the current political climate. I am deeply concerned about the escalating politicization of state agency leadership roles under the Republican-led Legislature. The intrusion of partisan agendas that drag professionals through career damaging hearings is not an effective way to attract and retain qualified people in these critical roles and has made it increasingly challenging to serve Arizona agencies effectively.' 'It is clear to me that there is no path forward to confirmation,' echoed Cunico. Cunico, whose confirmation hearing hadn't yet been scheduled, had already faced criticism for a Child Fatality Report that recommended increasing gun safety regulations and advised parents to remove firearms to prevent gun-related deaths. Republican lawmakers accused the department of public health of advocating for 'stripping Arizonans of their Second Amendment rights.' While Cunico was not a part of the team that developed that report, it's likely that, as the figurehead of the state's public health department, the topic would have been brought up during her confirmation. Republicans celebrated the resignations. Sen. Jake Hoffman, a Republican from Queen Creek who chairs the Director Nominations Committee and who also heads the legislature's far-right Arizona Freedom Caucus, said they are a 'testament' to the work done by lawmakers to ensure candidates are the best choice for Arizonans. Hoffman denounced Heredia for what he said was 'mismanagement' of the state's Medicaid program and blamed her for the sober home living fraud that targeted Arizona's indigenous community and cost taxpayers $2.5 billion. 'Arizona is in the middle of a monumental Medicaid fraud crisis with a loss of more than $2 billion in taxpayer dollars,' he wrote. 'Under Katie Hobbs' leadership, Heredia's response has been incredibly disturbing, to say the least.' That widespread fraudulent scheme, under which behavioral health and addiction treatment facilities lured and neglected patients to obtain Medicaid reimbursements, began in 2019 and went unchecked by Republican Gov. Doug Ducey's administration. In a bid to clean up the mess and crackdown on fraudulent sober living homes, some legitimate businesses have had their payments suspended by AHCCCS. But officials have said that a process exists to release those payments and the department has sought to correct mistakes when they occur. Hoffman vowed to continue pushing for stringent reviews of Hobbs' candidates. 'Since its inception, the Committee on Director Nominations has been committed to honestly, thoroughly, and accurately vetting Katie Hobbs' nominees,' he wrote. 'We have served as Arizonans' last line of defense against incompetent, unqualified, and highly partisan picks to lead state agencies.' SUPPORT: YOU MAKE OUR WORK POSSIBLE
New York Times
16-04-2025
- Politics
- New York Times
Peru's Former First Lady Flees as She and Ex-President Are Sentenced to Prison
A former first lady of Peru fled to the Brazilian Embassy in Lima on Tuesday, seeking asylum as she and her husband were sentenced to prison in a money laundering verdict that makes him the third Peruvian president jailed on corruption charges in the last two decades. The former president sentenced on Tuesday, Ollanta Humala, had been convicted along with his wife, Nadine Heredia, of laundering money from a construction firm at the center of a sprawling Latin American corruption scandal to finance one of his campaigns for president. Both Mr. Humala, a former army commander who was president from 2011 to 2016, and his wife were sentenced to 15 years in prison. They had been accused of receiving almost $3 million in illegal contributions in his 2011 race, mostly from Odebrecht, the Brazilian construction giant linked to bribery cases across Latin America. He was also convicted of receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Venezuelan government of Hugo Chávez for an unsuccessful 2006 campaign. Mr. Humala and Ms. Heredia have denied wrongdoing. In a sign of Peru's longstanding struggles with corruption and political dysfunction, and the periodic attempts to rein those problems in, Mr. Humala is one of six former presidents to have faced potential jail time over the last two decades — so many that the authorities have turned a former police academy on Lima's outskirts into a small prison for them. On Tuesday, the police escorted Mr. Humala, 62, from the courtroom after his sentence was read out. But his wife did not attend the hearing — in which a judge ordered their immediate imprisonment. Instead she went with their youngest son to the Brazilian Embassy, Peruvian officials said later on Tuesday, adding that Brazil had granted them both asylum under the 1954 Convention on Diplomatic Asylum, an agreement both countries signed. The Peruvian government indicated it would not attempt to fight Brazil's decision, saying in a statement from the foreign ministry that it had given Ms. Heredia, 48, and her son guarantees for their safe transfer out of the country. A lawyer for Mr. Humala denied any wrongdoing by the couple and said he would appeal the sentencing. Several of Mr. Humala's predecessors and successors were also entangled in Odebrecht investigations. Alejandro Toledo, Peru's president from 2001 to 2006, was sentenced last year to 20 years in prison in a case revolving around $35 million in bribes. Alan García, who served terms in the 1980s and 2000s, died by suicide in 2019, just as the authorities arrived at his home to detain him. Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, the president after Mr. Humala, spent years under house arrest over the course of an ongoing inquiry. (He has denied wrongdoing.) But two others faced starker charges. Alberto Fujimori, who pulled Peru into authoritarianism with brutal tactics in the 1990s, was jailed for more than a decade after he was convicted of human rights abuses and corruption charges. He was released in 2023, following an intensely controversial presidential pardon, and died last year at 86. And most recently, Pedro Castillo, a former schoolteacher who became Peru's first left-wing president in more than a generation, faces charges of rebellion and abuse of authority for having tried to dissolve Congress and install an emergency government in 2022.
