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Yahoo
14-05-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
‘Major spike in demand': Community Blood Center in urgent need for donors after multiple serious car crashes
APPLETON, Wis. (WFRV) – The Community Blood Center is in urgent need of blood donors throughout northeast Wisconsin after a spike in demand due to multiple recent serious car crashes. Officials with the Community Blood Center (CBC) are encouraging all eligible donors to schedule an appointment as soon as possible to help rebuild its blood supply after a 'major spike in demand.' After multiple car crashes since Friday, May 9, CBC reportedly sent out 70 units of Type O blood to community hospitals, while also sending hospital partners 11 platelet units and 60 units of plasma. Officials noted that several patients required Massive Transfusion Protocols (MTPs), where patients required large quantities of blood products in a short period. Wisconsin State Patrol: Don't pass agricultural vehicles in no-passing zones All blood types are urgently needed, especially with the summer months ahead. 'Donors are critical to ensuring blood products are available to provide timely, lifesaving care to patients in need,' said John Hagins, President & CEO, The Community Blood Center. 'We can't predict when emergencies will happen, but thanks to generous donors, we can be prepared. Community support ensures blood is available for patients relying on vital transfusions when every second counts. Act now to make a difference in your area.' To schedule an appointment, donors can click here, use the CBC Donor App, or call (800) 280-4102. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
04-02-2025
- Yahoo
Man gets 8 years in prison for threatening mass shooting at Florida's Embry-Riddle university
ORLANDO, Fla. — A former Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University student was sentenced Monday to eight years in prison after threatening to commit a mass shooting at the school, according to prosecutors. John Hagins, 22, was sentenced after pleading no contest to charges of attempted manslaughter (firearm), attempted terrorism and written threats to kill or do bodily injury, according to a news release from the State Attorney's Office for the Seventh Judicial Circuit of Florida. He was also sentenced to 22 years probation. Hagins, a flight student at the school, was arrested by the Daytona Beach Police Department on Dec. 9, 2021 — the last day of classes. He was booked into the Volusia County Jail where he remains in custody, jail records show. His arrest came after a former roommate told campus security Hagins had talked about buying a gun that could fold and fit in his backpack so he could take it to ERAU to 'shoot it up,' arrest records show. On Dec. 8, 2021, Hagins showed his roommate the gun he bought off Facebook Marketplace and told him he had 800 rounds of ammunition and said 'I finished my back to school shopping,' according to his arrest report. He also said he wanted to buy a silencer so he could shoot inside the school library. Hagins told the roommate he was loading his bag for the next day and sent him a Snapchat message of the bag filled with ammo and the gun, the report said. Police arrested Hagins the following morning as he left his apartment with the gun in his backpack, arrest records show. He told police he was going to a shooting range. He admitted to detectives he had talked about 'shooting up' the school and had made references to the Columbine High School mass shooting, his arrest report said. According to his arrest report, Hagins told investigators the gun he bought was a 'Kel-Tec' with about 400 9 mm rounds paid for using money from a pickup he recently sold as well as a refund he received from the university. _____
Yahoo
04-02-2025
- Yahoo
Man gets 8 years in prison for threatening mass shooting at Embry-Riddle university
A former Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University student was sentenced Monday to eight years in prison after threatening to commit a mass shooting at the school, according to prosecutors. John Hagins, 22, was sentenced after pleading no contest to charges of attempted manslaughter (firearm), attempted terrorism and written threats to kill or do bodily injury, according to a news release from the State Attorney's Office for the Seventh Judicial Circuit of Florida. He was also sentenced to 22 years probation. Hagins, a flight student at the school, was arrested by the Daytona Beach Police Department on Dec. 9, 2021 — the last day of classes. He was booked into the Volusia County Jail where he remains in custody, jail records show. His arrest came after a former roommate told campus security Hagins had talked about buying a gun that could fold and fit in his backpack so he could take it to ERAU to 'shoot it up,' arrest records show. Michael Jordan's son, a former UCF basketball player, arrested on cocaine possession charge in Maitland On Dec. 8, 2021, Hagins showed his roommate the gun he bought off Facebook Marketplace and told him he had 800 rounds of ammunition and said 'I finished my back to school shopping,' according to his arrest report. He also said he wanted to buy a silencer so he could shoot inside the school library. Hagins told the roommate he was loading his bag for the next day and sent him a Snapchat message of the bag filled with ammo and the gun, the report said. Police arrested Hagins the following morning as he left his apartment with the gun in his backpack, arrest records show. He told police he was going to a shooting range. He admitted to detectives he had talked about 'shooting up' the school and had made references to the Columbine High School mass shooting, his arrest report said. According to his arrest report, Hagins told investigators the gun he bought was a 'Kel-Tec' with about 400 9 mm rounds paid for using money from a pickup he recently sold as well as a refund he received from the university.
