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    SALEM COUNTY, New Jersey (KYW) — For Jane and Guy Gaudreau, the 2026 Winter Olympics are a golden moment the two will never forget.

After the United States men’s hockey team won the gold medal over Canada, they honored their sons, Johnny and Matthew Gaudreau, who were killed by an alleged drunk driver in Salem County, New Jersey, in 2024. Team USA skated around the rink while holding Johnny’s No. 13 jersey.

The moment left Jane and Guy Gaudreau, Johnny’s parents, proud and emotional.

“Right there in the moment, I knew that John and Matty were so happy we went,” Jane Gaudreau said. “That we were there to be able to honor both of them.”

Along with holding Johnny Gaudreau’s jersey, the U.S. men’s hockey team had his children be a part of the team picture.

“That picture is worth 1,000 words to me, like it is so beautiful and so genuine,” Jane Gaudreau said. “For the team to give John’s children that opportunity, he wasn’t able to be there, but they were both there for him.”

The Gaudreaus said at first they declined the Olympic invitation because they thought it would be too hard, and then changed their mind. They said the hockey team embraced them with so much love and respect.

“I said, I just have a feeling this is a sign from John, saying, ‘I can’t be there. Can you be there for us?'” Jane Gaudreau said.

Jane and Guy Gaudreau said playing for their country was a dream. Guy even helped Johnny train.

“He worked all summer with me and was in tremendous shape and was ready to go, and obviously he didn’t get a chance to do that,” Guy Gaudreau said. “But that was his dream to get a gold medal.”

Many family and friends were watching from home and saw the special tribute.

“Everyone in the house lost it, and I thought, well really everyone in the world lost it,” Jane Gaudreau said.

An American flag hangs at the memorial where the brothers were killed on County Route 551 in Oldman’s Township in Salem County.

The Gaudreaus said they are touched by the outpouring of support.

“These are professional athletes playing, just showing the love they had for him was really it tells you a lot about your sons and what they were all about,” Guy Gaudreau said.

To continue to keep Johnny and Matthew Gaudreau’s legacy alive, they will hold the second annual Gaudreau Family 5K in May at Washington Lake Park in Sewell.

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    CHICAGO (WBBM) — The mother of an 8-year-old boy who was allegedly put in a chokehold and dragged by the neck by a Chicago Public Schools employee hopes her lawsuit and choice to speak out will help protect children in the future.

Prosecutors have charged Tamika Odeh, 44, a former special education assistant at Parker Elementary in Englewood with aggravated battery. She no longer works for the school or for CPS.

But the boy’s mom said more needs to be done.

“She could have really killed my son,” Tangi Reynolds said. “He didn’t do anything to cause this. He’s just a child. An 8-year-old child. He’s a great kid and a great student.”

In an effort to protect the boy’s identity, CBS News Chicago is not reporting his name or showing his face. His mother said he suffered a ligament injury to his C2 cervical spine, which doctors told her is considered a very serious injury.

Reynolds said her son was an all-A honor roll student with no prior incidents with teachers. She shared photos of the neck brace she said he had to wear for two months after the incident, which happened during breakfast before school had started for the day in November 2025.

“She put him in a chokehold. She dragged him by the neck. And she slammed him to the floor, and his head hit a chair,” Reynolds said. “My son said he went unconscious and when he came to, staff members were above him asking his name and how many fingers he was holding up. And then they sent him back to class.”

She said his 7-year-old brother saw the whole thing and was also sent back to class.

“They did not notify the Chicago Police Department. They did not notify the Department of Children Services,” she said.

Reynolds said the school didn’t even tell her about the incident until the next day and, according to the lawsuit, “despite being placed in a chokehold, losing consciousness and striking the ground, no medical assistance was offered.”

And what incited this incident?

“This all happened over a bag of chips,” Reynolds said. “She confiscated his chips and he attempted to retrieve them back from her.”

The incident report from the school is minimal, but CBS News Chicago found it details exactly what Reynolds says happened, including noting that her son didn’t put his hands on the employee. She said those are the only details she’s received.

“Still to this day they never told me what happened to my son,” she said.

Odeh was arrested and charged with aggravated battery of a child. A CPS spokesperson said Odeh was “removed from duty” after the incident.

The 8-year-old had only been a student at Parker Elementary for less than a year when the incident happened, after moving to the city from the western suburbs. Now in a new CPS school and still getting medical treatment, Reynolds said his injuries were so severe that he still can’t run, jump, play or go to gym class. She said the injury caused him to lose range of motion in his neck, so now he undergoes physical therapy.

“He’s a great kid. He’s very respectful. He’s very active. Well he was active. He loves soccer. He loves Messi. He loves art. He’s a great artist,” Reynolds said.

“So he basically can’t do anything he could do before,” his mother said. “It’s heartbreaking, especially when the doctor told us last week it could stay like that for the rest of the year.”

Reynold said she wants to see change in Chicago Public Schools for children moving forward.

A spokesperson for CPS said they remain committed to student safety and can’t comment on pending litigation, writing in a statement, “Chicago Public Schools (CPS) remains committed to ensuring the safety and well-being of its students. In accordance with District policy, CPS does not comment on pending litigation.”

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    WEST DEPTFORD, New Jersey (KYW) — Two people are recovering after being pulled from their overturned truck Wednesday morning by good Samaritans who came to their rescue.

John Reilly and Dalton Applegate were working Wednesday morning as usual. Reilly drives a tow truck for Johnson Specialized Transportation, and Applegate follows in a flatbed. Around 7:30 a.m., they spotted an overturned utility truck on the side of Interstate 295 in West Deptford, New Jersey.

Reilly and Applegate said they pulled over and immediately ran over the guardrail and down the embankment where the truck was.

“As I ran down, I heard them beeping their horn to let us know someone was in there. I kept yelling, ‘Are you guys OK? How many people are in there?'” Reilly said.

Reilly said he saw two men inside and was able to get the door open and pull out the passenger, but he said the driver was in much worse shape because he was trapped by his seatbelt and half his face was submerged in water. Applegate ran and got a knife that Reilly said he used to cut the seatbelt so he could get the driver out.

“The second guy was so cold, he had no clue what was going on,” Applegate said.

The men said when the driver was finally out, he was limp and shaking.

Emergency officials said both of the men in the overturned truck were taken to the hospital and only ended up with minor injuries.

The wreckage caused a fuel leak and hazmat crews responded before the lanes reopened hours later.

As for Reilly and Applegate, they got right back to work after rescuing the men.

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    DETROIT (WWJ) — A truck became stuck in a sinkhole that formed on Wednesday near Orangelawn Street and Chatham Street in Detroit’s west side.

The cave-in appeared to be several inches deep, based on the impact of the front tires of the truck that sank into the street.

The Detroit Water and Sewerage Department said it learned of the sinkhole late Wednesday evening, after a motorist had tried to drive through the area and the front tires of their truck fell into the hole. Water had obscured the depth and impact of the sinkhole.

The truck was later towed out, and the intersection blocked off, city officials said.

Repair crews were sent to the area Thursday morning to make repairs.

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    NEW YORK (WCBS) — A Jewish congregation in Brooklyn is fighting to save their historic house of worship.

Congregants say they want to continue worshipping at the institution their community built a century ago.

The once-vibrant Kingsbrook Shul is now covered in tarps, with a large puddle on the floor and water stains on the ceiling.

The synagogue sits on the Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center campus, now owned and operated by One Brooklyn Health. The congregation was founded 100 years ago, along with the hospital, when members of the Jewish community felt mistreated at other hospitals in the city and wanted a place where they felt welcome.

Services were paused during the pandemic, but years after all restrictions were lifted, the congregation says hospital management refused to allow them back inside.

“This dragged on and on ’til finally in June 2024, they admitted, which we had begun to suspect, that they don’t want to open up the synagogue again,” Rabbi Zalman Goldstein told Brooklyn reporter Hannah Kliger.

The dispute stems from a plan to build affordable housing on part of the campus. In 2019, officials assured the congregation in writing that “access to the synagogue will be preserved throughout and after development is complete.”

“Once they saw that the synagogue was closed and we’re not in there, they said, ‘hey, wait a second, why don’t we also take the synagogue?'” Goldstein said.

Last year, the congregation filed a lawsuit against One Brooklyn Health.

A spokesperson for One Brooklyn Health said the matter is in active litigation and they cannot comment.

Goldstein has been unable to attend to his longtime synagogue, where he celebrated his son’s bris, in nearly six years.

“The lights are off right now. And God willing, very soon, the lights will be back on,” Goldstein said.

Mendy Rendler, a longtime congregant, described the scene as a sad reminder that the congregation is displaced and not allowed to make repairs.

“We don’t have like a big building like this that can house all the families that used to come together over here as a community center,” Rendler said.

On the recent 100th anniversary of the congregation’s founding, the community gathered outside in the cold to pray.

Earlier this year, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced she is spearheading efforts to save the synagogue, though her office did not specify the nature of her involvement.

“We’re very appreciative of the governor’s office and their support to open the synagogue,” Goldstein said. “Saving it is great. But a synagogue that’s not open is not in use.”

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    NEW YORK (WCBS) — Nurses at NewYork-Presbyterian are headed back to work Thursday as the longest nurses strike in New York City history comes to an end.

Over the weekend, they voted overwhelmingly to ratify a new three-year contract. The agreement highlights more safety protocols, higher pay, better health benefits and addresses staffing issues, according to the New York State Nurses Association.

“After 41 days, nurses not only improved care, they set an example for the rest of the labor movement,” said NYSNA President Nancy Hagan.

The nurses union and hospital system reached the agreement just after midnight Friday.

It was the second tentative agreement with NewYork-Presbyterian. Nurses overwhelmingly voted down a proposal the week before. The bargaining committee said it did not offer enough layoff protections.

Nurses at Mount Sinai and Montefiore hospitals ratified an agreement and went back to work on Feb. 14.

The strike began on Jan. 12 with 15,000 nurses walking off the job at Mount Sinai Hospital, Mount Sinai Morningside and West, Montefiore Medical Center and NewYork-Presbyterian.

Nurses walked the picket line for over four weeks after contract negotiations failed with the privately run hospitals.

The hospitals flew in temporary travel nurses to ensure there was no disruption to patient care, and reported that some nurses did cross the picket line and continued to work.

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    ATLANTA (WUPA) — Lance and April Ledbetter are husband and wife and the team behind the Dust-to-Digital record label.

“It all started not far from where we are now, over at Georgia State University,” Lance said. “I was working at the college radio station.”

In 1999, Lance took over a radio show that played music from the 1920s and 30s.

“I could not find gospel music, and so I had a lot of listeners calling in, and they were requesting it,” Lance continued.

Like a true eager college student, Lance tracked down music collectors and put those songs on the air.

“As I was listening to these tapes in my apartment, I started to think these people can only hear it if they are in this broadcast area,” Lance went on. “I started to think, ‘How do you put this music where it’s out in a record store?’ because back then you had to go to a record store. It wasn’t Spotify. It wasn’t Youtube.”

At the time, Lance was dating his now wife, April, and the duo learned it all, licensing, manufacturing, and distribution. After 4 and a half years, the couple released their first project, “Goodbye Babylon.”

“The final product was a six-CD box set with a 200-page book that told you everything, or at least everything we thought you needed to know, to get you started on this journey into gospel music,” Lance said.

“A music writer out in L.A. published a notice in Billboard saying there’s this label in Atlanta that needs distribution and here’s the phone number,” April said. “It was our home phone number that they printed in Billboard magazine!”

The music industry took notice. “Goodbye Babylon” was a hit. They sold out.

“To get the Grammy nomination was just validation that this is worthwhile,” April said.

“So many artists in the collection, both in the CDs and in the book, were never recognized in their lifetime,” Lance said. “So in a way, I felt like this is their moment as well.”

“Goodbye Babylon” didn’t take home the gold hardware, but the Ledbetters went on to win Grammys for future projects.

“I wanted to create an access point so people could see how magical and moving this music was and create a path for them to find it,” Lance replied.

The couple restores music of all styles and genres from all over the country. In 2012, they started a non-profit dedicated to that work.

“It’s a real-time process, so it’s pretty labor-intensive in that regard,” April said.

Their latest project is a partnership with the University of California, Santa Barbara. Dust-to-Digital is producing an online archive of thousands of rare recordings that will be freely accessible to the public, continuing their effort to literally stop music from becoming…dust.

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