Month: March 2026

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    NEW YORK (WABC) — A woman who lost her engagement ring while running the New York City Half Marathon received news on Wednesday from a jeweler who wants to help with her emotional and sentimental loss.

Big Apple Jewels in the Diamond District has offered to make a replacement ring for Isabel Lahn-Schroeder.

She believes she lost her ring around mile ten in the area of Central Park South.

The couple tried to look for the ring but had not had any luck.

On Wednesday, the owner of Big Apple Jewels delivered the great news.

“What we’d like to do is make you a replica of the exact same ring that you lost without any pay. We’re happy that you came out to New York, ran the marathon and it’s an opportunity for us to take part in your special day that will last with the family and with you forever,” Zak Nissanov with Big Apple Jewels said.

The ring was originally a tie clasp and when the family member who owned it passed away, one of the female family members turned it into a ring and it has been passed down to generations ever since.

The jeweler said hopefully, the new ring can create new traditions for the family.

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By Darla Miles

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    ROSELLE PARK, New Jersey (WABC) — A 9-year-old girl in New Jersey grieving the sudden loss of her father has been reunited with the dog he gave her after the pet sitter caring for him could not be reached.

“My heart dropped finding out what happened, finding out that his family was worried sick about wondering where Major was,” said pet sitter Grace Reyes.

On Wednesday, Major trotted into the Roselle Park Police Department – almost like he knew he was going to be reunited with his family.

The 2-year-old cockapoo was a birthday gift from a father to his daughter – and had been in total limbo with his pet sitter since Friday.

“He was supposed to be picked up on Friday and so the messages stopped going through on Thursday and I started getting worried,” Reyes said. “Because he never goes that long without texting me.”

Major’s owner died unexpectedly last week on vacation abroad. His family spoke exclusively to Eyewitness News on Monday – desperate to find the pet sitter.

“On Tuesday morning, my aunt calls me with this anxiety,” Reyes said. “And she sends me this post of Major and she says, ‘isn’t this the dog that you take care of all the time, Major?'”

At the same time, Reyes had been searching social media to find his family.

“Thanks to Eyewitness News and other friends and family that blasted this all over social media, they were able to locate where Major actually was,” Officer Vincent Picarelli said.

Roselle Park police received a call from Reyes’ aunt.

“We have Officer Picarelli and I told him yesterday we have to this young puppy for this 9-year-old daughter,” said Roselle Park Chief Dominick Frino. “He told me ‘Chief, don’t worry about it’ and he said ‘I’ll have this dog for you by the end of the day.'”

And he did. On Wednesday, Major went home to his 9-year-old owner who is already dealing with the loss of her father – but now doesn’t have to also deal with the loss of her dog.

“I’m a father of two daughters and this just broke my heart when I heard this story,” Frino said.

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    CHICAGO (WBBM) — Would you send your child to a private school with no teachers and learning driven by AI? And would you pay to do so?

Alpha Schools, a private school that teaches students entirely using artificial intelligence programs, is now enrolling for classes in Chicago this fall.

The schools will teach from kindergarten through eighth grade at the Lakeshore East building, the former Gems World Academy.

An AI school sounds like students are learning from robots, there are no teachers, and kids stare at computers all day. That’s not exactly how it works.

The curriculum is unique. Each child is assigned a “guide” instead of a teacher. The kids learn from AI for one to two hours a day on a computer, learning core subjects like science, math, and reading. When screen time is over, the guides lead the children in workshops from public speaking to coding to outdoor education.

“We are using the same curriculum that students in the classroom are learning from. This is not ChatGPT coming up with made-up questions,” said founder Mackenzie Price.

Price said their AI system can precisely assess what a student knows and doesn’t know. She said that’s good for basic learning, their guides teach students the rest, and they are paid well with six-figure salaries.

“Teachers are not going to be replaced. They are the most important part of making a model work, and they are the reason that our model is so successful,” Price said.

“It’s really not that new, to be honest, it’s personalized learning,” said Liz Gerber with the Center for Human-Computer Interaction and design at Northwestern University.

Gerber said the Alpha School is self-directed learning with Montessori principles.

She hesitates to call this an AI school. However, it is $55,000 per child to attend, and that only attracts a wealthy clientele.

“What’s concerning to me is it’s not going to be available to everybody, it’s just not scalable. I mean, the cost is just prohibitive,” Gerber said.

Why is it so expensive?

“It’s our afternoons and the activities we do during those life skills workshops that is where a lot of this is going,” Price said.

Price says kids are able to move at the pace and level right for them.

According to Alpha Schools, their classes rank in the top 1% pon national standardized tests, and their students grow, on average, 2.6 times faster than peers on nationally informed MAP tests.

Currently, they have 35 students interested and two enrolled for the next school year. Their goal is to have 50 students enrolled by the fall of 2026, and they are currently taking applications.

There are 22 Alpha Schools currently across the country. Their website mentions that the tuition includes a slew of activities, like a trip to Formula 1, Poland, and even a summer program in the Hamptons.

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By Taylor Locke

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    CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Virginia (WTVR) — A spontaneous bicycle journey from Montreal to Virginia has given a 23-year-old rider a firsthand look at how bike safety laws and infrastructure vary from state to state.

Jan Martinez was biking along Newby Bridge Road in Chesterfield County this week when we met him during his hundreds-of-miles trek. He was on his way to his aunt’s house in Midlothian, but his journey started much further north.

Martinez began his trip on March 12. He bought a used bicycle in Montreal and relied on it for hundreds of miles, catching trains for parts of his journey after biking to Boston.

“So I did that, just staying at cheap motels and friends’ houses,” Martinez said.

Along the way, Martinez noticed major differences in bike infrastructure and how seriously bike safety laws are enforced.

“In New Hampshire and Massachusetts, there is a law that explicitly says that when you’re crossing … a person who is biking in the road, you have to give them four feet,” Martinez said.

In Virginia, a similar law requires drivers to give cyclists three feet of space. If that is not possible, drivers must move to another lane to pass safely. Martinez noted this small difference can make a big impact on how safe riders feel on the road.

He also observed stark differences in the bike lanes themselves.

“In the north, like in New England and Montreal, even with the snow, there was a lot of snow when I was there, they cleaned them up, the bicycle lanes, so you can bike through them,” Martinez said. “But here it was just like a glorified shoulder, pretty much. I just noticed you can’t even see the sign, the bicycle sign, because it’s covered in mud and stuff.”

Despite the challenges of ever-changing traffic patterns and weather, Martinez hopes drivers everywhere remember that sharing the road safely makes all the difference for cyclists.

“I have some anecdotes, some good memories of what I’ve done and I’ve really enjoyed it. I met some really nice people, like you guys,” Martinez said. “These things, you can’t just plan it. So it’s just a really nice experience overall. I’ve learned a lot.”

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    NASHVILLE (WTVF) — Advocates in Tennessee are pushing for a simple change to gun-dispossession forms to hold domestic abusers and designated third parties accountable for surrendering firearms.

Under Tennessee law, individuals accused of domestic abuse who have a protective order filed against them are prohibited from possessing firearms. They are required to dispossess all guns within two days.

However, current rules do not require offenders to name who is keeping the guns or where they are stored. Advocates argue this loophole often allows firearms to end up back in the hands of an abuser, as seen in the case of Nashville resident Marie Varsos.

“When he first assaulted her, and assaulted her with a deadly weapon, those charges were pressed, and when he was arraigned, he had to fill out the form,” said Christina Judeich, a friend of Marie Varsos. “We are asking the guilty party to be forthright and on an honor system, to dispossess their firearms, and, you know, to do their own due diligence. Which I think is kind of insane.”

The Tennessee Domestic Violence Council is now urging judges to require that gun-dispossession forms list exactly who is responsible for the relinquished weapons.

“There are judges that have said people ask them, ‘Well, does this mean I cannot go hunting in the fall?’ Well, yes, that’s what it means,” advocate Gail Witherspoon said.

Wilson County Judge Ensley Hagan already requires this additional information. He made the change after learning the father of the Waffle House shooter, Travis Reinking, had returned firearms to his son. In the 2018 Waffle House shooting, Joe Perez Jr., Taurean Sanderlin, Akilah Dasilva, and DeEbony Groves were shot and killed by Reinking, although he was not legally allowed to possess firearms.

“We found out his father had given him back guns that he was dispossessed of in Michigan,” Judge Ensley Hagan said. “It’s good, responsible practice to demonstrate to that third party who is taking control of those weapons the importance of this, and to convey to them, this is important, and making sure they understand their role as that third party is to keep the firearms, and keep them away the individual who has had the order of protection granted against them.”

Twelve counties, including Wilson and Davidson counties, have updated their forms to include these details, largely due to advocates pushing for the change.

“We’re seventh in the nation for overall gun violence, death, and injury, and we know that there are women living with intimate partners who still have firearms because our law does not provide the kind of enforcement we need,” said Linda McFayden-Ketchum. “This form change would just start the process. It would give the court more power to hopefully impress upon the respondents to dispossess, and do it right.”

While lawmakers could mandate the courts to update the form statewide, previous attempts have failed. Legislation related to firearms typically faces strong debate in Tennessee.

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    NASHVILLE (WTVF) — A program has just launched in a few local schools. The hope is the idea goes national. It’ll take some pretty great kids to help make that happen.

“When me and Olive first met we played with walkie talkies!” said seven-year-old Bellaire, sitting next to nine-year-old Olive.

“Wait. Do you still have the other one?” Olive asked.

“No.”

“Aw! I don’t know where mine went!”

The girls are today students at Neely’s Bend K-8 School, and they’re part of this whole big thing. Sounds like something where you’d want to be dressed your best.

“Are these real diamonds?” Olive asked Bellaire, looking at a bracelet.

“No!”

“That’d be funny if they were.”

There’s a lot to this. It starts with an idea by Mary Frank.

“It’s the Peace Partner Project,” Frank explained. “Peer group pressure gets in the way of children reaching out and being friends with children who are different.”

Through a Metro Arts grant, Frank got three schools involved in the Peace Partner Project.

“Goodlettsville Elementary, Neely’s Bend, and Episcopal School of Nashville,” Frank listed.

Students of the three schools have become pen pals.

“They write letters back and forth to each other,” Frank nodded.

This sounded like a pretty good idea to Neely’s Bend K-8 principal Kimberly Bullock.

“Having a connection with people who do not live in the same area, neighborhood with you, to embrace different backgrounds, ethnic diversity, we are all together,” Bullock said. “We share a common theme, and that’s respect and love.”

Right now, the kids have not met their pen pals from other schools in person. That will happen at a peace rally at Shelby Park in May. The peace rally will include a monument to peace. Until then, the kids are reading about famous peacemakers and keeping journals about acts of kindness. A song is being learned that will be performed by the kids of all three schools at the peace rally.

Here’s where Olive and Bellaire come in. Frank put them at the center of a documentary about the Peace Partner Project. The girls didn’t actually know each other before this journey started. It made the two of them friends.

“Yup. It did!” Bellaire confirmed.

Frank’s hope is the documentary can showcase the Peace Partner Project idea to schools across the country.

“We want people to see Tennessee is really reaching out and trying to make a difference,” Frank said. “We are seeing this for every third grade in the nation to be able to rally for peace. We’re hoping they’ll be friends forever. Peace can be a reality.”

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By Erin Holly

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    CHESAPEAKE, Virginia (WTKR) — 82-year-old Wayne McClain is thanking the Chesapeake neighbors who he says saved his life after his SUV crashed into Indian Creek last week.

McClain was driving his silver Tahoe home to Pungo from his fiance’s house in the Outer Banks last week when he veered off Indian Creek Road. He does not know what caused his vehicle to leave the roadway.

“The tire slipped off, but next thing you know I heard crank, crank, crank, I looked up and I was going through the guy’s fence. And I was trying to maintain control, and next thing I was in the water,” McClain said.

Chris Kenney, a Chesapeake neighbor and former firefighter, was driving home from dinner with his two children when he saw the crash happen directly in front of him.

“The vehicle, it was a silver Tahoe that was directly in front of me, for no reason that I could see, just went off the right side of the road,” Kenney said. “It then struck the ditch on the right side, went airborne, and flew probably somewhere between 15 and 20 yards, and then crashed unfortunately through the neighbor’s fence here and then went into the water behind me.”

Kenney pulled over immediately and saw the SUV floating down the waterway. The rescue was already underway by the time first responders arrived at the scene.

“So I went over to the back seat, and I was in the back seat and trying to kick the windows out. Then I started panicking a little bit because I’m going ‘You know, I’m not gonna get out of here.’ And thank goodness that’s when Chris said, he said he saw me kind of, panicking,” McClain said.

“He had shifted from the front seat into the back seat because the water filled up the front of the vehicle and he started banging on the glass and he was in a panic — and it was at that point I decided I had to go in,” Kenney said.

Knowing the vehicle would soon sink, Kenney yelled to a nearby neighbor who had come outside after hearing the crash. The neighbor retrieved a hatchet for Kenney to use to break the glass.

Kenney used the hatchet to break the windows, jumped into the water and successfully pulled McClain out of the water. Just minutes after the rescue, McClain’s SUV became fully submerged under water.

The nearby neighbor also brought towels and blankets to help keep McClain warm once he was safely on the shoreline.

McClain was taken to Chesapeake Regional Medical Center for further evaluation. He said he did not get any major injuries, and walked away with just a couple of bruises. McClain says his car is totaled after the accident.

“The Lord is definitely looking out for me. To have a firefighter riding behind me, a lady has a hatchet. It’s just too much to deny,” McClain said. “This man saved my life.”

Kenney echoed McClain, saying divine intervention stepped in.

“The Lord put me in the right place at the right time,” Kenney said.

Kenney credited the neighbor for her crucial role in the rescue, calling it a community effort.

“By her providing me that hatchet, that was instrumental in me being able to do what I did, and so I believe a lot of the credit does go to her,” Kenney said.

Kenney said he wanted to show his kids, who were in the car, how important it is to try to leave a positive impact everyone—even strangers.

“The world is a very negative place right now,” Kenney said. “And I just wanted to bring light to the fact that if we continue to keep positivity in our lives and work to improve in ourselves, that we can make positive change at a time where you never know it’s gonna happen.”

McClain said he is glad to be alive and make it home safely to his family.

“Means a lot to me. Means a lot to me. And especially thankful for a man there and glad to be alive with my family,” McClain said.

McClain is grateful to be alive to meet his first great-grandchild soon.

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    BOYNTON BEACH, Florida (WPTV) — A Boynton Beach man says he is running out of options to save his childhood home from demolition, turning to a recent “Let’s Hear It” community forum as a last resort.

Javis Sims says the house on Northwest 11th Avenue has been in his family for decades. For years, it has also been at the center of an ongoing dispute with the city.

“The house has been sitting empty since 2009,” Sims said.

Sims inherited the property after his mother passed away, hoping to one day restore it and move back in. More than a decade later, that goal remains out of reach. He says the process has been filled with setbacks.

“I’ve been going back and forth with the city for years now,” Sims said.

Sims says he attempted to comply with city requirements by applying for permits and investing thousands of dollars into surveys, contractors, and engineers. Still, he says he was never able to begin renovations.

“They’ve been giving me fines and penalties, I’ve been paying them… they said to put grass in the yard,” Sims said.

Adding to the challenge, Sims says he discovered significant liens tied to the property. He says the liens have led to loan denials, making it even harder to secure funding for repairs.

For Sims, the home represents more than just property. It is the last physical connection to his childhood and his mother.

“I just want to fix it and live there,” Sims said.

In a petition filed Dec. 5, 2025, in Palm Beach County Circuit Court, the city of Boynton Beach states the home has been considered unsafe for years.

According to an affidavit from the city’s building director, the property was officially flagged in November 2022 under the Florida Building Code and deemed unlivable. The city says Sims was given 30 days to submit a plan to repair, rehabilitate, or demolish the structure.

Court documents indicate that while some steps were taken, deadlines were missed and progress was incomplete.

The city says a building permit issued in October 2023 eventually expired in April 2024 without required inspections being completed. A final demolition notice was later issued in August 2024, with a deadline that also passed, according to the filing.

While the legal process unfolds, Sims says he feels stuck. He maintains he has been trying to meet the city’s requirements, providing documentation of his efforts over the years, but says each attempt has led to new obstacles.

After years of back and forth, both sides now appear to be waiting on the court’s next move. Sims says he is hoping for a path forward.

“I need this to be done. I just want to move on. It’s a big standstill in my life right now,” Sims said.

We reached out to the city of Boynton Beach’s building department to better understand what options, if any, may still be available for Sims to move forward with rehabilitation. As of publication on Wednesday, we have not yet received a response.

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    MARTIN COUNTY, Florida (WPTV) — A Martin County man is suing the Martin County Sheriff’s Office after he says he spent 14 days in jail for a crime he never committed.

Michael Brewer said it all stemmed from deputies mistakenly identifying him as a felon because of an error in a national crime database.

Brewer filed a lawsuit against the Martin County Sheriff’s Office and the deputies involved in his arrest, accusing them of false arrest, false imprisonment, and malicious prosecution.

Body camera video shows Brewer in March 2025 pleading with Martin County deputies not to arrest him after they pulled him over, believing he was a felon in possession of a firearm.

“They asked me immediately about firearms and I told them I did have a firearm in my work bag and I was taken out of the vehicle, I was handcuffed and I was told I was under arrest as a felon in possession of a firearm,” Brewer said.

“I’m not a felon, I have a real estate license, I have a concealed carry license out of Kentucky,” Brewer said.

The investigation started days earlier when Brewer went to Lotus Gunworks in Jensen Beach to buy a gun. Surveillance video shows him talking to staff and looking at a gun display.

Brewer said he put down a deposit and filled out paperwork for a background check.

“I went home and was told it was denied,” Brewer said.

“I didn’t know why. I went back and got my refund… I didn’t think anything of it, just kind of went about my day and said I would look into it another time,” Brewer said.

The failed background check was flagged by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, alerting the Martin County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies believed Brewer was a felon trying to buy a gun, but Brewer and his attorney say that was not the case.

The confusion came from the FBI’s National Crime Information Center database, used nationwide by law enforcement agencies to check criminal records. Brewer’s NCIC record showed a felony arrest in Kentucky more than a decade ago, but court documents from Kentucky confirm the charge was reduced to a misdemeanor.

That update was not reflected in the NCIC.

“I said this has to be a mistake. I’m sure they hear that from every body I was adamant,” Brewer said.

The State Attorney’s Office told me they, the FDLE, and the sheriff’s office all saw the same NCIC record regarding the Kentucky arrest, which read the severity was a felony and the disposition was guilty. NCIC had no mention of the felony charge being amended down to a misdemeanor.

As a result, Brewer spent 14 days in jail.

“The whole time I thought my life was over,” Brewer said.

His attorney, Andrew Strecker, said his team worked to prove otherwise.

“We were able to show original documents establishing Mr. Brewer is not a felon…the remedy we were offered was to reduce the monetary bond and to release him on an ankle monitor,” Strecker said.

Brewer felt he should have been immediately released without having to pay any money for a bond, and without having to wear an ankle monitor.

“So I’m dealing with clients and my ankle monitor is going off constantly, it was making noises,” Brewer said.

That immediately hurt his job and reputation.

“People are going to make up their own assumptions, they’re going to say to themselves well he had to have done something if it went that far,” Brewer said.

Assistant State Attorney Kristen Chase said prosecutors needed certified official records from Kentucky, which can take time.

“I can understand the defendant’s frustration but at the same time, the system did exactly what it’s supposed to do. As soon as we were alerted to the issue, we agreed to a bond reduction so he wasn’t sitting in any longer than necessary but still gave the community the benefit of having a bond in place and GPS monitoring,” Chase said.

Prosecutors eventually dropped the case after receiving certified records showing the misdemeanor conviction.

“I mean that’s all it would take is one phone call to verify I’m not a felon,” Brewer said.

Sheriff John Budensiek defended the actions of his deputies.

“At the end of the day, the deputies did their job, enforcing the law like they’re empowered to do and used the mechanisms in place. If bad information is in the database, it was not information input by MCSO,” Budensiek said.

The FBI, which maintains the NCIC, told me it is up to the agency that made the arrest or that court system to update the database when a case changes.

“Whoever reported it into NCIC reported it as a felony conviction,” Chase said.

I learned it would have been the authorities in Kentucky who were responsible for updating Brewer’s case outcome.

I reached out to Kentucky authorities to ask whether Brewer’s record was properly updated.

“We have reviewed the electronic record response, which reflects a felony charge. However, the disposition section indicates that the charge was later amended to a misdemeanor,” Kentucky State Police said.

Kentucky State Police could not confirm when the NCIC record was updated to reflect the change, but for Brewer, it did not come soon enough to keep him out of jail.

“I’m speaking out because I don’t want anyone else to have to go through this,” Brewer said.

Chase stressed it is very rare for NCIC data to be wrong. She said the system is used in nearly every criminal investigation, and this is the first error like this she has seen in her more than 12 years on the job.

Brewer has started a GoFundMe account to help cover ongoing legal expenses.

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    BALTIMORE (WMAR) — *Editor’s Note*: Baltimore County initially stated that Trooper was thrown after being struck by a vehicle but later stated that this was not accurate. It was also confirmed that a fourth person was involved in the rescue. All newly given details have been added.

Baltimore County Animal Services officers recently rescued a dog from a dangerous situation, and now he needs a home.

On March 12, a rottweiler now named Trooper was spotted on the roadway near the I-695/I-795 overpass and was followed by good Samaritans who stopped to help.

In fear, Trooper ran and jumped over the railing, falling nearly 100 feet down a steep and muddy embankment.

Officers Jacob Collins, Hannah Sterrett, and Hope Nesbitt, along with their supervisor, Shelby Schultz, responded in the middle of a rainy, snowy day to reach the injured dog.

Schultz said it wasn’t easy.

“It was, I would say, about 100 feet down an embankment of straight mud and ice,” she said. “We were able to safely set him up in a harnessing position, and the four of us were able to maneuver him up the hill.”

Wednesday, the officers involved were honored by County Executive Kathy Klausmeier for their work.

“They are very, very hardworking, and they take excellent care of their pets, not just dogs but cats, guinea pigs,” Klausmeier said.

Surprisingly he had no broken bones, but Jamie Hundt with Lazy Days Rescue told us that he’s not out of the woods yet.

“There might be some ligament issues in both of his front paws, so we’ll probably need some more orthopedic follow-up care that we’re hoping to fundraise to provide,” Hundt said.

Lazy Days connected Trooper with Kelly Mayer, who will foster the 2-year-old pup as he recovers.

“I had pulled a dog with Jamie a few years ago that was the same situation, and he was the best dog, so these ones kind of speak to me, and I messaged Jamie and said, ‘Do you really wanna get that dog?'” Mayer said.

After Trooper finishes crate rest, Lazy Days will follow up with its own vet and continue his care from there.

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