Month: March 2026

By Ava Kershner

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    EL CAJON, Calif. (KGTV) — Two juveniles and one adult were taken to the hospital after a crash on Gustavo Street and Jamacha Road in El Cajon on Sunday.

One of the cars involved was split in half between the front and back seats, with the front end strewn across the road.

According to the El Cajon Police Department, one of the cars was driving north at a high rate of speed when it drifted into southbound traffic. Officials said the injuries are not life-threatening.

Laurie Debus lives just a few hundred yards from where the crash happened.

“It’s crazy. It’s really reckless,” Debus said.

“I fear for the cars that just come zooming down, down this hill that, that they’re going to come into me,” said Debus. “I’ve said that actually, as long as I’ve lived here, because they drive so fast.”

Neighbors say speeding on Jamacha Road is too common and can be deadly.

“So this, this stretch of road, in fact, a friend of my daughter’s that she went to high school with was killed just right up, right up the street on the left-hand side of the road. It’s been extremely dangerous,” Debus said.

Neighbors told ABC 10News that no one dying on impact from this crash is miraculous.

“This is astonishing that, that people survived this, because a car being split in half, no one should have walked away from that. And I’m grateful that, that too,” said Debus.

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    CALIFORNIA (KSBY) — A tribute to an iconic image from the Great Depression now has a permanent home at the Nipomo Library.

The “Migrant Mother” plaque honors the famous photograph taken in Nipomo by Dorothea Lange in 1936.

The image captures Florence Owens Thompson and her children. It’s recognized as a powerful representation of struggle during that era.

More than $3,000 was raised to create the plaque. The effort was spearheaded by retired history teacher Terry Handy.

“It’s been long overdue to kind of just celebrate why this photograph means so much to Americans and still does. It’s arguably one of the most famous photographs in American history. In fact, internationally as well. And it’s been a long, long over a year to celebrate that,” Handy said.

You can find the plaque at the library on West Tefft Street.

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By Leslie Solis

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    CALDWELL, Idaho (KIVI) — Juanita Sibert has lived to see more than a century of American history — and on Saturday, she celebrated 109 years of it with cake, ice cream, and the people who love her most.

Born March 7, 1917, in Marland, Nebraska, Sibert blew out her candles surrounded by family and community members who gathered in Caldwell to mark the milestone.

When asked the secret to her long life, Sibert kept it simple.

“Well, I didn’t drink, I didn’t smoke. I lived a healthy life,” Sibert said.

The Sibert family sold their farm and ranch in Nebraska and moved west to Idaho in October of 1946. Today, her legacy spans four generations across Idaho and Wyoming, with more than 50 living descendants.

“I come from a big family,” Sibert added.

Sibert recalled a moment when someone once read the lines of her palm and made a prediction that has since proven difficult to argue with. “I don’t know where the line is myself, anyways, he said, ‘My gosh, you are going to live forever.”

Her granddaughter, Mietta Sibert, said watching her grandmother’s life unfold across more than a century of change has been nothing short of remarkable.

“I look at it, and I’m blown away — from no phone, to a flip phone, to Bluetooth,” Mietta Sibert said.

Mietta said her grandmother has remained joyful throughout it all — a quality reflected in Juanita’s longtime nickname, “Happy.”

“Just learning about her stories and the impact and life that her family has built around her has been tremendous. Most people don’t survive past 89, 90, and for her to just keep on going, I think it’s her strong connection with family and friends and just love, pure love and joy,” explained Mietta Sibert.

Juanita said one thing she has learned throughout this century is to never stop laughing and to enjoy time with family.

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By Bob Hoffman

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    LANSING, Michigan (WSYM) — Every day, two friends lace up their shoes and walk side by side. They’ve been doing it since March 15, 2020. They have never missed a day. Most days they can be found right here on the Lansing River Trail.

What started during the uncertainty of the pandemic slowly became something much bigger than just a walk.

It became a routine, accountability, and friendship for Cherry Hamrick and Mark Buzzitta.

Mark says, “It’s based on work schedules and things like that. So sometimes, you know, maybe I have a meeting or something and I can’t get there till later in the afternoon, but at the same time, you know, hey, this weekend, we’re both free Saturday morning, so we could do a longer walk.”

“And when you walk every day for years,” Mark adds, “you learn the trail pretty well.”

“The Ingham County trails are great. We can meet in a lot of different places. We could start by Potter Park Zoo. We could start over at Hawk Island. We could even start in Old Town.”

In fact, the Lansing River Trail has a way of surprising people, even those who think they already know it. Kip Bohne is the president of the Friends of the Lansing River Trail.

“I think discovery is one of the best things about this whole trail system. I was riding my bike and saw part of this area that I had never, ever seen before, and it was so beautiful. I thought, does this keep going? And so I kept going and finding new discoveries. And I think that’s the best thing about it.”

Mark and Cherry discovered something else on this trail too.

Consistency.

“There’s no real reason to stop. It’s obviously good exercise, and it’s fun. It’s outside. There’s no downside to it.”

Cherry agrees.

“Neither of us have ever been sick enough that we couldn’t manage to get out. I buy a lot more running shoes than I used to and put in more miles between running and walking.”

Mark adds, “I wear a coat when I have to, if it’s really, really cold, but yes, definitely new shoes every few months. That goes with the territory, and that’s okay with me.”

Their walks have also turned into something else.

Looking out for the trail itself.

“Working with the county parks department, we came up with graffiti kits to clean signs,” Cherry says. “This has already been cleaned once, but then somebody got it again. So we have these little backpacks with graffiti wipes, Goo Gone, and gloves, and we come out when we find a sign. Mark and I are on the trails a lot, so we see a lot of signs.”

Kip thinks Mark and Cherry are great representatives of the trails.

“Mark and Cherry are good neighbors because they are goodwill ambassadors for the trail. They kind of set the tone for all the things that you can do on the trail system. They have been so great about talking about it with people. That’s part of our mission.”

We met Mark and Cherry out here on the trail last fall, and as March 2026 rolls around, their streak is still going. At their last count, they’ve walked a total of 7,470 miles.

Every day.

No matter the weather. No matter the schedule.

Just two friends walking side by side.

Proof that sometimes the best journeys…

Start with just one step.

And a friend willing to take it with you.

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By Ryan Dickstein

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    WHITE PLAINS, Maryland (WMAR) — Extremely graphic body-worn camera footage has been released of a deadly police involved shooting in White Plains last month.

The 11-plus minute video shows 36-year-old Demarcus Irish, of Clinton, charging at Charles County Sheriff’s Sergeant Andrew Coulby with a machete.

Coulby and Deputy First Class Brennan Kunz fires each fire killing Irish.

As the pair of officers tend to Irish, they discover he’s wearing a body-armored vest.

At the time of his death, Irish was wanted on a domestic violence related warrant.

The Maryland Attorney General’s Office is investigating the shooting.

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By Keith BieryGolick

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    NEW MIAMI, Ohio (WCPO) — There’s a decal on the back window of his truck that says, “thank you Jesus.” And inside, there are boxes of coats and hygiene supplies.

This winter, Daniel Hatfield slept in that truck. Not because he didn’t have a place to go. But because he didn’t want to forget where he came from.

Almost everyone I talk to about Hatfield tells me this story.

His wife tells me another one — one where she used to bang on the doors of drug dealers. If a red car pulled up outside, those dealers would yell.

“I’m here to take you back to your miserable life,” his wife would say.

Hatfield spent two years living in the woods because of his addiction. He’d gone from painkillers after surgery to heroin — it was cheaper — and eventually lost his business. He almost lost his family.

“I was horrible. I was a thief. I was a lying, cheating, conniving junkie,” Hatfield said. “I’m not ashamed of what I did. I’m proud of what I quit.”

Last month, Hatfield celebrated 10 years clean. And now he’s putting his energy — and thousands of dollars of his own money — into an outreach center in this Butler County village where one in four people live below the poverty line.

“He’s helping a place that’s been in dire need for a long time,” said William Norris, who works with Hatfield. “We all need a helping hand sometimes.”

Norris is one of several people remodeling an apartment with Hatfield in Fairfield. Downstairs, Joe Stout puts a Mountain Dew in his tool belt and smiles. He tells me he’s gained 15 pounds from eating the free meals at Hatfield’s Faith Mission Outreach.

I tell him it’s hard to tell.

“He means a lot to me,” Stout said. “He’s the only person I got.”

I met Hatfield this winter when I was doing a story about people experiencing homelessness during dangerously cold weather. I spent the afternoon with an outreach specialist who was trying to make sure people were OK.

Faith Mission Outreach was one of the places we checked.

“I see myself in some of these people,” Hatfield said. “I can see where they hurt, and I can see what they’re looking for.”

I interviewed him then, but didn’t have enough room to include him in my story. So I came back on a rainy evening in March, while they were serving dinner. When I get there, Tracey Myers-Birgel offers me cake. Then, she introduces me to her dog. He’s not allowed behind the gate where she’s making vegetable soup.

“That’s Junior Little Man,” Myers-Birgel said. “Daniel jokes that he’s kind of our mascot.”

Myers-Birgel is helping out because she’s one of the people who stayed here this winter, when Hatfield opened the building up as a warming center. She said without this place, she would’ve been living in a storage unit — because she couldn’t find anywhere else that would take her dog.

“It’s always warm in here,” Myers-Birgel said.

Hatfield tells me he’s helped 13 people get into rehab programs since Faith Mission Outreach opened in October.

Eddie Philpot tells me he’s never used drugs, like a lot of people here, but four heart attacks left him without a job. He comes here every day and says the food is great. He tells me he’s moving into new housing soon.

Thanks to the people Hatfield connected him with.

“You come here as a stranger,” Hatfield said. “But you leave as family.”

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