Month: August 2026

By Chris Roush

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    ST. JOSEPH, Missouri (KQTV) — The sports card hobby has become a multibillion-dollar business, and a few young collectors have now opened their own card shop.

Two brothers, Chase and Cade Frieden, and their friend, Kreightyn Johnson, started their own sports card business in St. Joseph called The Card Cave.

“You get into something as a kid, something you enjoy, and you have so much sitting at home that has value,” Johnson said. “You kind of have fun with it, and you start small.”

The Card Cave opened in late July. The three are just getting started, but they’ve already learned a lot about what it takes to run a business.

“I feel like we’ve put our minds to it pretty hard and straight in the past couple of weeks to get it done,” Johnson said. “It’s growing really well.”

Besides buying and selling sports and trading cards, the three have learned more about marketing a business, taking inventory and balancing their budget.

“It takes a lot,” Cade Frieden said. “Like comping the cards and seeing how their values go up and down.”

Just days into their new business, they’ve learned that some collectors are looking for unique cards.

“Sometimes people want things that you would never expect,” Chase Frieden said. “Like old cards — I feel like those would do way better than they do. But there are the older cards, and some are like a dollar now. They’re less than the newer ones.”

The Card Cave is located downstairs in the Polished Porch Antique and Boutique Mall at 3603 Frederick Ave. in St. Joseph.

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By Amanda Pitts

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    BLACKWOOD, N.J. (WPVI) — A South Jersey mother says her 9-year-old son was left alone on a school bus and was found wandering a bus yard after falling asleep on his way to summer school on Thursday.

Wanda Chandler spoke exclusively with Action News hours after the incident.

She said her son boarded the bus around 8 a.m., just as he had every weekday during the past five weeks of summer school at Union Valley Elementary School in Blackwood.

The school is within the Gloucester Township Public Schools district, which runs its own transportation department.

About two and a half hours later, Chandler said she received a phone call from the school district informing her that her son had not arrived for the start of his final day of summer school.

“He was just left asleep in the bus depot,” Chandler said.

According to Chandler, her son fell asleep during his morning bus ride and woke up alone on an empty bus parked in the district’s transportation yard.

The boy said he had to figure out how to open the bus door before getting off and searching for help.

“I lifted up this thing to open the door,” he said. “I got off the bus and looked for anyone. I found this man, so I asked him, ‘Do you know where I can go back?'”

The 9-year-old said he tried to remain calm despite the frightening experience.

“I was trying to be a big boy, so I just acted brave and normal,” he said.

Chandler said a district employee found her son walking through the parking lot, asked his name and age, and brought him inside.

“Someone found him in the parking lot, asked him his name and age, took him inside, and that’s how they discovered this whole thing happened,” she said.

Chandler said the district told her that Child Protective Services was notified and that her son was eventually transported to school for the remainder of his last day of summer classes.

However, she said she still has unanswered questions about exactly how long her son remained asleep on the bus and how long he was alone in the transportation yard.

“I still have a lot of questions that need answers. I was just given the bare minimum,” Chandler said.

She said her son has ADHD and believes the situation could have ended much differently.

“A lot of things could’ve happened. Thank God he’s safe – that’s number one – but what if he didn’t wake up? What if he walked out into that bus depot and a stranger took him? This could’ve ended altogether differently.”

Chandler, whose family recently moved into the district, said the summer program was intended to help her son become comfortable riding the school bus before the new school year begins.

“This was practice for him because we just moved into the school district. He will be riding the bus alone this upcoming school year, which was why I thought this would be a good idea,” she said.

She called the incident “unacceptable.”

“I asked if there was a bus driver and an aide because that’s very important, and they said yes. This is unacceptable. Shame on you. You should’ve known better. You should’ve practiced all safety protocols that were in place.”

Requests for comment were made to both the district’s transportation office and the superintendent’s office.

The transportation office referred inquiries to the superintendent’s administrative assistant. As of Thursday afternoon, the district had not responded to requests for comment.

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By Jack Susanin

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    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Attorneys for the next person scheduled to be executed by the state of Tennessee sent a letter to state officials Thursday asking for the test results of the execution drug they plan on using.

Darrell Hines is scheduled to be executed on August 13. His planned execution has gotten extra attention following the state’s failed execution attempt of Tony Carruthers in May.

In the letter, they ask that the drug’s execution date be checked, the drug be tested for quality assurance and quality control, and the drug be stored and handled appropriately according to United States Pharmacopeia standards.

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By Kalkidan Meyer

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    MERIDIAN, Idaho (KIVI) — The Meridian community is coming together to support a local family after their 5-year-old son, Finley, was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor.

Businesses across the Treasure Valley are organizing fundraisers and events to help ease the burden on the Domy family during treatment.

It all started on June 16, after a routine dentist visit when Alex and Dallas Domy noticed their son Finley’s face was drooping on one side. The couple initially wrote it off as a short-lasting effect of the dentist visit.

“We all thought it was going to be something minor,” they told me.

But after a few days, Finley’s condition got worse. He started throwing up and his balance was off. That’s when Dallas and Alex knew something was wrong and took Finley to their pediatrician, hoping to find answers.

“The pediatrician came in before and said, ‘we found something’…and my heart instantly dropped,” Dallas said.

After hearing this, Dallas immediately called her husband, telling him he needed to come right away.

“He was telling us all about it and I kind of started getting the picture so I asked him…is he going to be OK?…and he just kind of looked at me,” Alex said.

Doctors put Finley on an extensive treatment plan — radiation 5 times a day for 6 weeks, and specialized medications.

“That was the hardest day of our lives. But since then we’ve been making progress and taking it day by day,” Dallas said.

Hope slowly came after a few weeks, when doctors told the couple that Finley was responding well to the medication.

“He’s doing way better than he should be, you know, and so that’s a really good sign that he’s strong and he can, he can fight this thing,” Alex said.

Since then, the Meridian community has rallied, raising money for the family.

Robert Hernandez, a local barber and owner of Keystone Barbershop, says he has known Dallas since they were children, and helping the family felt personal.

“My older brother was diagnosed with the same brain tumor in ’98, so it really hits home for me,” Hernandez said.

He hosted a fundraiser where he cut hair for 24 hours straight and will donate the money to the Domy family at a benefit at the Frontier Club in Meridian on Sunday.

“There’s no words we’ll ever be able to say thank you with,” Dallas expressed.

A GoFundMe has been set up for Finley and his family.

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By JoBeth Davis

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    LEE’S SUMMIT, Mo. (KMBC) — Thunder and lightning put on quite a show in the Kansas City area overnight, and now some parts of the metro are cleaning up storm damage.

Neighbors in an unincorporated part of Cass County along Jeter Road, roughly between Lee’s Summit and Raymore, told reporter Martin Augustine that they love their neighborhood in part because of the tree-lined streets.

Those streets are now active with the noise of chainsaws after thunderstorms overnight twisted and downed tree limbs, creating a mess in the area.

In Raymore’s Creekmoor neighborhood, several boats and boat docks were damaged or flipped. The nearby QuikTrip distribution center also sustained damage.

First Alert Meteorologist Nick Bender said that while most of our overnight storms did not produce severe weather, there was a path from Stillwell, Kansas, to near Belton and Pleasant Hill in Missouri that saw wind gusts of up to 60 miles per hour. The National Weather Service has received a number of reports of tree damage from that line.

Evergy’s outage map shows more than 14,000 customers in the dark as of 8:30 a.m. Thursday, with numbers from the storms as high as 21,000 at one point.

While this round of showers and thunderstorms is expected to dissipate midmorning, we’ll likely see another round after 10 p.m. Thursday and into Friday morning.

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By Izzy Fonfara Drewel

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    OMAHA, Neb. (KETV) — A total of 200 identifications were made this year, but it’s barely a dent in Dr. Carrie Brown’s caseload.

“We estimate at any given time we have about a thousand active cases that we’re working through,” Brown said.

Brown managed the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency identification lab at Offutt Air Force Base. Her team focuses on naming soldiers from World War II, like the 26 caskets brought to Offutt from Europe this week.

“When we think about one transfer case as one person, that’s not always how it works,” Brown said. “Our anthropologists are worldwide experts in sorting remains that are mixed up.”

Her job also includes giving tours to families looking for answers. Among them, Col. Richard Dean II is hoping to hear about his grandfather, a Korean War soldier.

“My mom was really die-hard on trying to solve the case to find his remains, but that never happened,” Dean said. “So we’re carrying on; the third generation is carrying on the mission.”

Identification requires pieces like DNA samples, dental records, archaeological evidence and records. The team doesn’t stop until they make an identification.

“We keep trying,” Brown said. “We have cases right now that we have been stuck on for a long time and we keep going.”

Dean said it’s been years since he provided a sample, but he’s grateful for the lab’s work. There’s a second DPAA identification lab in Hawaii specializing in the Korean War and other Pacific conflicts.

“There’s no gravestones right now for them to go visit or for family members, and it’s great to see large families come together and actually celebrate the loss of their loved ones in a positive manner,” Dean said.

For Brown, reuniting these soldiers and their families is the ultimate honor.

“One of the comments from a family member last night was, ‘It’s amazing that you love our loved ones as much as we do, and you care for them,'” Brown said.

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By Zoe Blair

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    BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WVTM) — The Greater Birmingham Humane Society (GBHS) is reconsidering its plans for a new facility in Birmingham’s Oxmoor Valley neighborhood due to concerns from donors about its proximity to the Nebius data center project.

The organization has already filed a lawsuit against the proposed AI factory, aiming to stop the project from moving forward. Last month, GBHS initiated legal action over the site’s location.

GBHS CEO Allison Black Cornelius said the decision to potentially relocate comes after feedback from some of their largest donors.

“It is only smart of us after hearing back from some of our biggest donors and they’re big ones, to start looking for another location. That’s heartbreaking,” Black Cornelius said.

The organization has spent nearly $10 million on the Oxmoor Valley facility, which has been in development for decades. Cornelius said the AI factory’s construction next door has raised concerns about potential harm to staff and animals.

“Our donors are not comfortable with our staff and our animals being exposed to something that we aren’t sure is going to be harmful. We’re not going to allow our staff and animals to be an experiment and find out ten years from now that they have damages to their hearing or damages to their central nervous system or whatever might happen,” Black Cornelius said.

She added that GBHS would not have chosen the site had they known the AI factory was a possibility.

“There was a master plan in place that the city had approved called the Oxmoor Master Plan Covenant. That covenant assured all these folks who were buying these half-million-dollar homes and up that this area would not return to the type of industrial use it was before,” Cornelius said. “What’s being sold to our community is that a data center is different. Well, an AI factory doesn’t manufacture steel, and it doesn’t manufacture clothing. It manufactures intelligence, but it’s still a factory.”

The decision to potentially relocate comes as GBHS was preparing to break ground on phase two of the project, a teaching hospital dedicated to treating animals. Phase one, which was meant to house animals, is already complete thanks to millions in funding and support from the Jefferson County Commission. However, Cornelius said the building may remain vacant.

“There is no case statement without the county building, so we can’t really move and find a new location and build our buildings without those animals. So the county building, I say this, I’m not afraid to say it, we’d have to rebuild it. I’m not going to expect the county to pay for that or taxpayers to pay for it, but someone’s going to pay for it. If we’re going to try to build this again someplace else, we’ve got to redo it,” Cornelius said.

This is not the first time a data center has disrupted GBHS’s plans. Initially, the organization intended to build in Titusville, but that property is now home to the DC BLOX data center.

While GBHS hopes the lawsuit against the AI factory will allow them to proceed with construction at the Oxmoor Valley site, they are weighing their options as construction on Nebius continues.

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