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Yahoo
05-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Sister Wives ' Janelle Brown Details Late Son Garrison's Final Hours
Originally appeared on E! Online Content warning: This story discusses suicide. The members of the Brown family can still remember the moment their hearts were divided. For Janelle Brown, March 4, 2024—the day before her and ex Kody Brown's son Garrison Brown died by suicide at the age of 25—felt entirely ordinary. Having recently relocated to North Carolina to be closer to eldest daughter , son-in-law Caleb Brush and their kids, "I was traveling back to Flagstaff," the Sister Wives star reflected on the May 4 episode of the TLC reality series. At the time, she and Arizona-based Garrison were "texting all day long," Janelle noted. "And this was not unusual because he and I talked probably three times a day." In fact, the mom of six—she and Kody also share Logan Brown, Hunter Brown, Gabriel Brown and Savanah Brown—made it a point to respond to all of Garrison's missives. "I knew he was struggling," Janelle said of her middle child's battle with anxiety and depression, "and I always just picked up the phone and I always make it a point to just talk to him." More from E! Online ACOTAR Book 6: Everything Sarah J. Maas Has Said So Far Miley Cyrus Debuts New Song "More To Lose" in Surprise Performance With "A Couple of Exes" in the Room How Ryan Reynolds Ignored Questions About Travis Kelce Unfollowing Him on Instagram Their conversation didn't involve anything particularly remarkable, she detailed, "it was just, I think he needed the connection." Nor was she particularly alarmed when he stopped responding to her texts. But since she knew he'd been drinking—"He would go through periods where he was really good and then he just would have a binge just as part of the cycle," Janelle explained—as she laid down in bed around 8:30 p.m., she called Logan and Hunter. "Because we've tag-teamed," Janelle explained of how the family continued to rally around the Nevada National Guard staff sergeant, "I said, 'Will you guys see if Garrison will repond to you?' And so they were on it." Confident her baby was in good hands ("They said, 'Mom, we're on it. We'll just kind of check on him and make sure he's OK'"), the 55-year-old fell asleep. She could have never imagined the wake-up call she received. "Gabriel had found him," Janelle said of Garrison, who died by suicide. "He's like, 'Mom, he's gone.' I mean, 'What do you mean?' He said, 'He's dead. He killed himself.'" The moments that followed were largely a blur. "I don't remember the next few minutes," Janelle admitted of her shock, "but I got in the car and drove." She made her way to Garrison's home, calling daughter Maddie along the way. And at some point, members of their expansive family began to rally around her. "I called Janelle," Meri recounted on the May 4 episode devoted to Garrison's passing, "I said, 'I'm stopping, I'm getting food and I'll be over in a little bit. I didn't know what else to do." Because, as a family, they'd fought with every fiber of their beings to avoid this type of outcome. "He had anxiety and depression," Janelle explained to her younger sister Carrie of Garrison's mental health struggles, "and then he started drinking as a way to sort of soothe that." Instead, she continued, it "became the animal he couldn't get a hold of." Though she and the rest of the brood did their best to wrap their arms around him. "We knew he was in a bad place," said Janelle. "We were doing everything we could for him, but he just, he just couldn't get on top of it." As their grief began to replace the shock, Kody and Janelle went about the business of burying their baby boy. "Kody and I decided that we would cremate him," Janelle detailed. "I knew that that's what he wanted, so we did that. And that way it gives us the opportunity to have the funeral in a better time of year." His final resting place is on the family's plot in Wyoming. "He loved it there," said Janelle, "so it felt appropriate." In this, she and her former husband were in lockstep. "I remember sitting there with Janelle and I was just going, 'Hey, I really just want to take my boy home,'" he reflected in the episode. "And so I said, 'Let's take him back to Wyoming and let's bury him next to Grandma Cheryl. We just totally agreed that would be the right thing." As Garrison's family mourns his tremendous loss, keep reading to familarize yourself with the outsized Brown brood. Logan Taylor BrownAspyn Kristin Thompson (née Brown)Leon "Leo" BrownMykelti Ann Padron (née Brown)Madison Rose Brush (née Brown)Hunter Elias BrownPaedon Rex BrownRobert Garrison BrownDavid "Dayton" Preston BrownGabriel Winn BrownGwendlyn Genielle Queiroz (née Brown)Aurora Alice BrownYsabel Paige BrownBreanna Rose BrownSavanah BrownTruely Grace BrownSolomon Kody BrownAriella Mae Brown If you or someone you know needs help, call 988 to reach the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. You can also call the network, previously known as the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, at 800-273-8255, text HOME to 741741 or visit for additional resources.
Yahoo
11-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Lombardo's the last person who should be yammering about handouts
Governor Anti-Handouts presses the flesh with Elon Musk in January 2023, a few weeks before Nevada rubber-stamped more than $400 worth of handouts to Musk. (Photo: Governor's office) Last week at the Hands Off protest in Carson City, likely the largest in that red town's history, and part of the largest mobilization in the U.S. since Donald Trump took office, I spoke against Joe Lombardo's cowardice from the perspective of a senior citizen who wants to give my 7th-generation Nevada grandkids a shot at a stable democracy and a livable planet. Apparently, Gov. Lombardo heard us. He told his supporters that the 7,000 Nevadans who showed up only wanted government handouts and we were paid to be there. To those of us who exercise our Constitutional rights as Americans to criticize our elected officials, Lombardo laughed and said, 'F**k you.' The April 5th crowd was largely older people like me, who came up before the normalization of public vulgarity and who worked our entire lives to pay into Social Security and Medicare. We vehemently oppose Elon Musk and Trump attempting to screw millions of workers and retirees out of these earned benefits. Lombardo knows about handouts. He has a solid track record of giving hundreds of millions of dollars in tax breaks, on behalf of Nevada workers, to his billionaire buddies like Elon Musk and the owner of the Oakland A's. As long as the oligarchic ruling class is on the receiving end, and not people with disabilities, seniors, or students, he's all for government handouts. Lombardo's track record of genuflecting to all things Trump goes back to when the former sheriff endorsed a convicted felon and claimed, 'Not only will President Trump bring down the rising costs of housing, groceries, and gas, he will usher in a new era of American prosperity.' And he has gone all out for Trump since. Lombardo led the applause, in a far right publication, for the abolishment of the Department of Education, which will further erode public education for Nevada's kids who can't afford the private schools Lombardo's rich buddies send their kids to. He cowered in silent acquiescence while Trump tried to seize control of our state's elections to federally restrain voting rights. Lombardo cosigned with other Republican governors and pledged to deploy the Nevada National Guard for mass deportations at Trump's command. He defended Trump's tariffs by saying Nevadans 'need to feel a little pain in the short term' and that he will deal with them 'on the fly.' Lombardo is also working hard to one-up Trump's dismantling of decades of efforts to address the climate crisis by replacing the Nevada climate plan with his own blueprint for fossil gas expansion. Like Trump, who has granted every wish of the oil billionaires to slow down the momentum we've made on climate change, Lombardo is bending over backwards for his buddies at Southwest Gas and NV Energy to build out polluting fracked methane plants. If and when Trump invokes the Insurrection Act to imprison those of us who lawfully protest, we can be sure that Lombardo will stand idly by. In short, Lombardo is a coward. He is afraid to say in public what he says behind our backs. At the most dangerous moment in American history since the Civil War, he is too fearful of MAGA primary voters to stand up to Trump. As someone who (illegally) campaigned in his sheriff's uniform to project himself as the embodiment of justice, truth and patriotic values, he is beyond absolution because he knows better. Lombardo's defense of the current state of affairs and his back room, expletive-laden attacks on Nevadans are dishonorable and despicable. His days are numbered because when we vote in the 2026 election, we'll send him packing back to Las Vegas.
USA Today
30-01-2025
- Politics
- USA Today
Can the Nevada National Guard be used to help with Trump's mass deportation plans?
Can the Nevada National Guard be used to help with Trump's mass deportation plans? • Question: Will the Nevada National Guard be used to assist in President Donald Trump's mass deportation efforts? • Short answer: It could be, but there are no current plans to do so. Can the Nevada National Guard be used in mass deportation efforts? Yes, the Nevada National Guard can be used to assist with deportation plans. 'The Adjutant General' — the Nevada Guard's top officer — 'is bound by law and oath to follow legal orders from the president of the United States and the governor of Nevada,' said Capt. Emerson Marcus, public affairs officer. 'If the president decides to activate the Nevada National Guard, he is well within the law to do so.' Has the Nevada National Guard been asked to participate in mass deportation efforts? No, the Nevada National Guard has not been asked to participate in deportation plans yet. Requests could come from the president or from a state governor who requests help in the event of an emergency — such as Texas' Greg Abbott, who this week ordered an additional 400 soldiers in his state's National Guard to the Mexican border. 'Neither the Nevada Army National Guard or the Nevada Air National Guard have received any requests from the federal government, governor of Nevada, or any other governor to assist in deportations,' Marcus said Wednesday. 'While we remain always ready, always there for requests, there have not been any made of the Nevada National Guard at this time.' What is Gov. Lombardo's position on deploying the Nevada National Guard to help with deportations? Gov. Lombardo has given different messages over the past month about using the Nevada National Guard to help with mass deportations. He is considered the commander-in-chief of the Nevada National Guard and could approve deploying their use. As an example, he activated 60 soldiers to help with Election Day security in case trouble broke out last year. In December, Lombardo co-signed a letter put out by the Republican Governors Association saying, 'As Republican governors, we stand united in support of President Donald Trump's unwavering commitment to make America safe again by addressing the illegal immigration crisis and deporting illegal immigrants who pose a threat to our communities and national security.' The letter went onto say that deploying state police or Guard members was possible. 'We stand ready to utilize every tool at our disposal — whether through state law enforcement or the National Guard — to support President Trump in this vital mission,' it said. After that letter came out, Lombardo would not be pinned down on actually using the Guard this way. 'The devil's in the details,' he said during a meeting with Western governors. It's 'too soon to opine on the nebulous or the unknown.' After his recent State of the State address, he was asked about mass deportations again. They are 'not what I believe is an appropriate policy,' Lombardo said, adding that he thought it would take the federal government 'an exorbitant amount of time' to get to the point where it can deliver on the promise of large-scale deportations because of a lack of staffing at Immigrations and Customs Enforcement. His office did not respond to a Reno Gazette Journal request for clarification on whether he would deploy the Nevada National Guard to help with mass deportations. The Nevada jobs with the highest share of immigrant workers, according to the American Immigration Council, are: Maids and housekeeping cleaners: 63% 63% Construction laborers: 61% 61% Food prep workers: 53% 53% Gambling services workers: 50% 50% Cooks: 46% About 30% of the state's total foreign-born population — immigrants — are estimated to be in the country without legal documentation. That works out to about 184,000 Nevada residents. More: How Nevada could be affected by Trump's deportation plan Mark Robison is the state politics reporter for the Reno Gazette Journal, with occasional forays into other topics. Email comments to mrobison@ or comment on Mark's Greater Reno Facebook page.
