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    Washington (Quincy News) — Market Recap: Stocks bounced back Thursday, with the S&P 500 rising 0.81% and the Nasdaq gaining 1.3%, led by a rebound in chip stocks. The Dow added 139 points. Yields eased slightly despite the ongoing disruption to Strait of Hormuz shipping, with crude roughly flat on the day but still up 5-6% on the week following renewed U.S.-Iran fighting. Treasury yields also have room to ease further after Thursday’s 30-year auction priced at 5.058%, the highest since 2007, though demand held up better than feared.

Today’s Focus: Delta Air Lines kicked off earnings season on a strong note, beating second-quarter expectations and reaffirming its full-year guidance of $6.50–$7.50 in adjusted EPS and $3–$4 billion in free cash flow. The company also announced a 15% increase to its dividend beginning in the third quarter. SK Hynix begins trading on Nasdaq today under ticker SKHYV after raising $26.5 billion at $149 per share, the largest-ever U.S. listing by a foreign company, topping Alibaba’s 2014 record.

With a light economic calendar, attention turns to next week’s CPI report for clues on Fed policy.

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    HUEFANO COUNTY, Colorado (KCNC) — The family of a Colorado man will receive a $10 million settlement after they say he was injured by a corrections officer and left to die while incarcerated in Huerfano County.

Sixty-nine-year-old Michael John Burch was an inmate at the Huerfano County Detention Center when he suffered multiple broken ribs during an interaction with a corrections officer, resulting in internal bleeding, according to the coroner’s report.

His family filed a federal lawsuit against the sheriff’s office, medical personnel, and the county’s board of commissioners, claiming that he was injured by the corrections officer and that staff then refused to treat him, resulting in his death more than a week later.

Burch was a former corrections officer in California who later moved to Walsenburg, Colo. He was arrested on suspicion of felony menacing and harassment on March 25, 2023.

His estate said that he entered the jail in the midst of a mental health crisis, but was in good physical health at the time. They claim that a detention officer broke several of Burch’s ribs after he refused to let go of a pencil, resulting in several punctured organs and internal bleeding.

However, his estate says he was not taken to a hospital for treatment. Instead, they allege that he was placed in a cell with the window covered up and was not given an examination, even as he physically declined and continued to plead for medical care.

Burch was discovered dead inside his cell on April 4, 2023.

Photos of Burch provided by his family appear to show extensive, deep bruising across his torso.

An autopsy report found Burch died “as a result of blunt force trauma to the chest and abdomen. These injuries were incurred when the decedent was tased and wrestled to the ground by law enforcement, striking his right chest and flank at the Huerfano County Jail.”

Court documents show that, on May 28, 2026, the Huerfano County Board of Commissioners and the sheriff’s office agreed to pay Burch’s estate $10 million to settle the lawsuit.

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By Brittney Ermon

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    GARDEN GROVE, California (KCAL, KCBS) — Anthony Scotti is now living in a motel after a stray firework destroyed his Garden Grove home, reduced nearly everything he owns to ashes and damaged his prosthetic leg.

“I saw some smoke in my peripheral vision. I saw flames flared up,” Scotti said.

Scotti said the firework shot through his window screen, landed inside his closet and ignited the blaze on July 5. Inside were family photos, momentos and a collection of vintage arcade games that he had spent years restoring.

He didn’t have his prosthetic leg on when he started thinking about what to save.

“My mind started to spiral. What do you grab? Do you go for photos? I totally spaced on my father’s military flag that was at his burial,” Scotti said. “I was a little confused, looking around, what to grab. I even skipped the prosthetic.”

Scotti left his prosthetic behind as he escaped. Back in a wheelchair, he hopes the leg can be repaired after the flames caused intense heat damage.

Since he couldn’t afford renter’s insurance, Scotti said the costs of the fire have skyrocketed. His niece created a GoFundMe to help him start over and rebuild his life.

“It’s tough too,” Scotti said. “Those little tidbits that you grew up with. I grew up in that neighborhood.”

Firefighters managed to save a few of Scotti’s belongings, including the American flag presented to his family at his father’s funeral.

Despite the struggles, Scotti promised to stay resilient.

“I chose to forge forward on and take the high road,” Scotti said.

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    SANTA CRUZ, California (KPIX) — Surfers from around the world have traveled to Santa Cruz to ride the waves at Steamer Lane, considered one of the best surf breaks in the world.

But the same ocean that makes Steamer Lane one of California’s most iconic surf spots is also slowly reshaping the cliffs above it.

Santa Cruz surfer Anthony Ruffo visits the iconic spot any day he can. He says he and other locals have watched chunks of the cliff give way over the years.

Last month, a Surfline camera captured the latest collapse.

“This one just fell straight down,” Ruffo said. “It didn’t fall over.”

Surfers say during big swells, the collapsing cliff has not noticeably changed the waves. But at lower tides, some say the new shape of the cliff has altered how surfers take off.

“The shape of the cliff’s different now,” Ruffo said. “It used to have a better angle for those smaller days. You take off and get like a slingshot, we call it.”

University of California, Santa Cruz professor Gary Griggs has spent decades studying California’s changing coastline, including the cliffs at Steamer Lane. He says the rock may look solid, but it is filled with natural weaknesses.

“As the water gets in there, the waves are acting like wedges, so it looks like rock,” Griggs said. “It’s actually almost like a series of dominoes that are stacked up there.”

The impacts extend far beyond the surf. Just a stone’s throw from Steamer Lane, a large section of West Cliff Drive collapsed during the winter storms of 2023, forcing a two-year rebuild.

Griggs says a warming climate is playing a role.

“It’s related to climate change because a couple studies that have been done show waves seem to be getting larger,” Griggs said. “If we look at 30 or 40 years of record, they may be a foot larger on average than they were. That’s consistent with a warmer climate.”

Surfers like Ruffo acknowledge breaks will change over time, but say that will never stop them from paddling out.

“As long as I can do a push-up, I can get on a board,” Ruffo said.

Like so much of California’s coast, Steamer Lane continues to be reshaped by the same ocean that made it famous, one wave at a time. Geologists say cliff erosion is a natural process, but rising sea levels and larger waves associated with a warming climate could accelerate that change in the years ahead.

They say Steamer Lane will continue to evolve, just as much of California’s coast has for thousands of years.

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By Sara Tenenbaum

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    CHICAGO, Illinois (WBBM) — The University of Chicago Law School is banning first-year students from using phones and laptops in the classroom as part of a broader strategy to curb AI usage.

In a long statement released Thursday, the law school wrote that they already see artificial intelligence impacting higher education and the legal profession. They said they spent the past year to reflect on how to adopt their curriculum and policies in response to AI, seeking input from their community, alumni, law firm leaders, business leaders, legal technology executives and law firm associates, as well as their faculty, staff and students.

“The feedback we have received throughout this process has been consistent,” they wrote. “We need to ensure that our students actually learn to think critically, strategically, and independently without relying on AI; but we also must face the reality that AI tools are already widely available to our students, and our graduates will be expected to be prepared to use them in legal practice.”

In response, the school said it’s launching a three-prong strategy in which they will “develop AI-resilient pedagogy and assessment,” elevate “‘essential human’ skills that distinguish excellent lawyers” and teach “responsible, effective, and ethical use of AI.”

As part of that strategy, first year law students will be prohibited from using electronic devices like laptops, tablets and phones in the classroom, university officials said. They said professors will be allowed to designate “classroom scribes” who can use electronic devices to take notes for the class, or authorize electronic device use in specific tech-reliant situations like interactive in-class polling.

But overall electronic usage will be banned to “ensure students actually learn to think critically, strategically and independently without relying on AI.”

Other requirements will include legal research and writing classes that require students to write without using AI while using AI for research, revision and preparations for oral arguments, after which their writing and their use of AI will be reviewed. There will also be upper-level elective courses explicitly focusing on the use of AI and the creation of AI tools for legal work.

“We recognize that no statement of an AI strategy or vision can be final,” the school wrote. “Technology is changing too fast. Thus, all the changes we are currently making will be subject to review, reconsideration, and revision as we learn more and as both technology and the practice of law evolve.”

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    CHICAGO, Illinois (WBBM) — The FBI is now offering a $50,000 reward to find a fugitive who is wanted for the 2021 murder of Illinois Army National Guardsman Chrys Carvajal.

Milwaukee Kings members Joseph “Troubles” Matos was indicted in 2024 alongside Gary “Gotti” Roberson with federal racketeering charges for Carvjal’s murder. Roberson was taken into custody at the time, but Matos was not and remains at large to this day.

“I keep praying for justice,” said Carvajal’s mother Lourdes Lara. “I believe in God and I know justice will be served.”

“Chrys was not just a soldier, he was not just a son, he was my brother, he was a friend,” said his sister Jennifer Ramirez.

Carvajal was 19 when he was killed. He had just returned home from Army National Guard training and was leaving a party on July 3, 2021, when he was shot and killed at the corner of Lockwood Ave. and Palmer St. in Belmont-Cragin as he was walking to his car.

Federal prosecutors say Matos and Roberson killed Carvajal “for the purpose of maintaining and increasing position in the Milwaukee Kings” street gang.

Now, more than five years since his death, the FBI has raised the reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Matos to $50,000. The Carvajal family and 36th Ward Ald. Gilbert Villegas held a service to honor the soldier’s life Thursday evening.

“I can’t believe he’s still out there,” Lara said. “I don’t know how he can live with that, because I know he’s watching me now.”

“Fifty-thousand dollars is not what a life is worth, but it’s about how to bring justice to the family,” said Villegas. “They have been very patient.”

Matos’ chest is tattooed with the words “Most Wanted,” and last year he was featured on the show “America’s Most Wanted” in connection to Carvajal’s death. Investigators believe someone within his circle may be helping him hide.

“The family deserves closure, the community deserves closure,” Villegas said.

“I know somebody knows something,” said Lara.

Four months after his death, Carvajal’s family and friends called on then-Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx to bring charges for the soldier’s murder, insisting there was video evidence and eyewitness testimony.

Matos was taken in to custody shortly after the shooting, but later released after Foxx’s office said at the time that there was not enough evidence to file charges.

The federal indictment did not provide details about the shooting.

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    HENNEPIN COUNTY, Minnesota (WCCO) — A Wisconsin family lost their ten-month-old daughter after she swallowed a water bead. They blame Target and the water bead manufacturer for her death.

This week, Taylor and Tyler Bethard filed a lawsuit against Target in Hennepin County, claiming that the company failed to warn them and other customers about the dangers of a water beads product that used to be sold exclusively at Target.

Water beads are marketed as toys that come with sensory kits or craft sets, but data shows the products are prone to injuring young children. The polymer material is extremely absorbent, allowing water beads – which are often colorful – to expand around 100 times their original size when they interact with water or liquid. This presents a hazard for kids; the United States Product Safety Commission states that between 2017 and 2022, there were 6,300 water bead-related ingestion injuries that required treatment from emergency departments across the country.

In 2023, a 10-month-old girl died. Her name is Esther “Jo” Bethard. According to court filings, Taylor Bethard found her daughter unresponsive in her crib on the morning of July 7, 2023, after she had suffered symptoms of a stomach illness overnight. Medical examiners told the family that her death was caused by swallowing a single water bead.

The Bethards had purchased a Chuckle and Roar water bead set in the spring of 2022 for Esther Jo’s older siblings, never intending for the infant to interact with the water beads.

Target and the Chuckle and Roar manufacturer, Buffalo Games LLC, mutually agreed to pull the product from the shelves in November of 2022. Court records show an email exchange between Buffalo Games and a product safety employee at Target where the manufacturer noted that while their water beads had met safety standards at the time, they wanted to “avoid any future unintended misuse of the product.”

That conversation was prompted after Buffalo Games was informed that an infant required surgery after ingesting a water bead from the Ultimate Water Beads kit. Target agreed to end sales, indicating that this would be classified as a “safety removal.”

The Bethard’s lawsuit alleges that Target clearly knew how dangerous these water beads could be, but failed to warn them or other customers. Target stopped selling the product about eight months before Esther Jo died. Daniel Mann, a personal injury attorney representing the Bethards in this case, said that Esther Jo would still be alive if Target had acted.

“With all this information Target didn’t do anything to reach out to the family or other consumers to let them know about this problem,” Mann said, “I think 10/10 people would say Target had a responsibility to do more than what they did, which was nothing.”

A spokesperson for Target said that they would not comment on ongoing litigation, but the company had already responded to an identical complaint filed by the Bethards in the State of New York. In 2025, the Bethards sued both Target and Buffalo Games in Erie County, N.Y., because that was where the manufacturer was based. In response to the lawsuit there, court filings show that Target denied the allegations that they knew of an extraordinary danger posed by the water beads and failed to notify customers.

The complaint was dismissed against Target in New York, Mann explained, due to jurisdiction. This lead to them refiling in Hennepin County this week.

In a statement to WCCO on the new legal action, a Target spokesperson said “We extend our deepest sympathies to those affected by this tragedy, and we worked closely with the manufacturer of the product at the time the incident occurred.”

Taylor Bethard, Esther Jo’s mother, has lead the charge to ban water beads entirely. Her efforts lead to the United States Consumer Product Safety Commision recalling the more than 52,000 Chuckle and Roar Ultimate Water Beads Activity Kits that were in circulation. The recall took effect in September of 2023. Target, Walmart and Amazon announced that they would stop marketing water beads to children.

Bethard is also working with Wisconsin U.S. State Senator Tammy Baldwin to establish federal legislation to permanently outlaw all water beads. This past spring, the CPSC established new legal guidelines that restrict the size of water beads to try to ensure high safety standards.

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    PLANO, Texas (KTVT) — At least two 8-year-old girls have said they were assaulted by their 2nd-grade teacher, Paul Campbell, at a Plano elementary school, a newly-released arrest affidavit states.

Plano police said they arrested 64-year-old Campbell on Wednesday after a student reported inappropriate physical contact while at Brinker Elementary, where Campbell has been a teacher for 28 years, the district said.

On July 4, one student’s father called police to report their child said she had been sexually assaulted by her teacher. According to the affidavit, the student told her siblings that her 2nd-grade teacher had touched her inappropriately, who then told their father.

The child said that Campbell would call girls over, behind his desk and “touch their private parts.”

She said she told her friend, who is also 8 years old, about the abuse when it was happening, and told police that her friend said Campbell had touched her inappropriately, too, the affidavit states.

According to the police affidavit, the child said she was in Campbell’s class in the fall of 2025 and spring of 2026. She said on several occasions, when she went to Campbell’s desk to ask questions, he would touch her inappropriately. She told police that she believes she saw it happen to other girls in her class.

Police contact possible second victim Investigators contacted the mother of the possible second victim on July 6. She told police that when she asked if Campbell had touched her inappropriately, the child at first denied it, but then cried and said he had, more than once.

When interviewed by police on July 7, the second victim said the abuse began within the first few weeks of the fall of 2025 and continued until the last day of school in spring 2026. She said Campbell would ask her questions and touch her inappropriately. She also said she saw the 64-year-old teacher inappropriately touch two other girls in class and that she knew it had happened to her friend, but she had not seen Campbell inappropriately touch any of the boys in class, the affidavit states.

Campbell jailed without bond Campbell remains jailed without bond. Detectives are interviewing additional people to determine whether there may be more victims

Wednesday, the Plano Independent School District released a statement saying in part, “the alleged conduct is reprehensible and is completely inconsistent with the values and expectations we hold for all Plano ISD employees.”

Plano ISD trustees voted to terminate Campbell at a special-called meeting on Thursday.

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