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    DELRAN, New Jersey (KYW) — Emergency crews have recovered the body of a woman who went missing in the Delaware River after trying to rescue a girl who was struggling in the water.

Delran police responded to a report of two potential drowning victims shortly before 4 p.m. Monday at Amico Island Park at 81 Norman Ave., a Burlington County spokesperson said in a news release.

The missing woman went into the Delaware River to try to rescue a girl struggling in the water, the spokesperson said. The woman pushed the girl toward shore, where bystanders pulled her to safety.

According to the spokesperson, the woman went underwater during the rescue.

On Tuesday, officials confirmed the woman was located around 8:15 a.m. about 20 feet from a beach at the park.

She has been identified as 33-year-old Priscila Alvares Pereira Dos Santos of Delran.

The search area focused around the mouth of the Rancocas Creek, where it meets the Delaware River.

“At the time when the reports came in that she was submerged, the tide was moving out,” Kevin Peak, deputy chief of the Delran Fire Department, said. “We’ve heard all the stories about the ocean swimmers who get pulled by the undertow. River current is almost the exact same thing. It will pull you right under. If you’re not a strong swimmer or a good swimmer, it’s not going to fare very well for anyone involved.”

The search for the missing woman included the Delran police and fire departments, the Delran Emergency Squad, New Jersey State Police, Camden County dive team and the Philadelphia Police Department.

Amico Island Park is closed Tuesday due to the investigation.

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By Leondra Head

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    ATLANTA (WUPA) — A metro Atlanta couple is celebrating 50 years of marriage beneath the Golden Arches.

Mike and Susan Burks married in 1976. During the early years of their marriage, they frequently ate at the McDonald’s on Northside Parkway.

“When we first got married, we lived around the corner in Vinings, and Susan didn’t cook much. She sort of does now,” Mike Burks joked. “But out of necessity, we came down here twice a day.”

“Probably five times a week and sometimes twice a day,” Susan Burks said. “We love McDonald’s.”

Now, decades later, the couple is marking their golden anniversary at the restaurant with their favorite meal.

“The usual is a Big Mac, fries and a Coke,” Mike Burks said.

“There wasn’t a lot of choice back then,” he added. “All the stuff that’s around here right now, you didn’t have all of that back then.”

Mike said he knew almost immediately that he wanted to spend the rest of his life with Susan.

“We met at a bar up on Roswell Road at 2:30 in the morning in 1975,” he said. “I said, ‘I just met the girl I’m going to marry.'”

The Burks say the secret to a lasting marriage is simple.

“Don’t give up, and lots of laughs through the tears,” they said.

They do not eat at McDonald’s as often as they once did, but the Burks chose to celebrate their milestone at the place that helped shape their earliest years together.

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By Karina Vargas

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    SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — A San Diego woman lost her arms and legs following complications from emergency surgery, and her husband is now asking for skilled volunteers to help modify their home before she is discharged from the hospital.

Leslie Caoili was a healthy, competitive strength athlete who competed throughout San Diego before May 1st changed everything. She underwent an eight-and-a-half-hour emergency surgery to repair a tear in her aorta — the main artery from the heart.

Her husband, Lee Caoili, said the couple had gone in for a routine heart checkup when doctors found the tear.

“Most people who suffer an aortic dissection usually happens pretty quickly, and they don’t survive. So the surgery was necessary in order to save her life. She probably had maybe hours left to live, and we wouldn’t even, we didn’t even know it,” Lee said.

The surgery saved Leslie’s life, but complications that followed altered it permanently. She lost blood flow to her hands and feet in the weeks after the procedure.

“We didn’t really know how her body was gonna respond to the initial surgery, but she ended up losing blood flow to her hands and her feet, and by the end of the first month there, her hands and her feet were blackened and shriveled,” Lee said.

Because of the loss of blood flow to her limbs, Leslie’s hands were amputated at the mid-forearm, and she lost her legs as well.

“Every day has been a battle for her. Every day has been a fight,” Lee said.

Lee has remained by his wife’s side throughout her months-long hospital stay. Now, with her discharge approaching, the family says their home is not ready and needs major repairs and modifications to accommodate Leslie’s needs.

The family is asking for skilled volunteers, including carpenters, electricians, HVAC technicians, roofers, flooring installers, and painters.

For Lee, the work means far more than fixing a house.

“She just wants to come home to her family and her kids and her dog and me and wants to get back to living life as normal as we can make it for her,” Lee said.

Lee said he is getting through the ordeal with the support of their family and community, and he hopes Leslie will have a safe and accessible home waiting for her when she is discharged.

Leslie and Lee are parents to two daughters.

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By Israel La Rue

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    DRAIN, Oregon (KEZI) — On Friday, a Central Oregon & Pacific Railroad (CORP) train carrying lumber and sand derailed in Drain.

One resident said a train car ended up in his front yard.

“This train goes by twice every day, you get used to the noise,” Everett Baker, Drain resident, said. “And Friday afternoon at three o’clock I heard an unusual noise from it. Opened my front door in time to see the train come apart.”

Baker recounts the moments leading up to the derailment.

“The effects of seeing a moving train come off the tracks coming at you,” Baker said. “I think it put me in shock. I noticed I couldn’t move. I was just kind of frozen looking at it. I mean, it was unbelievable.”

Luckily, the train didn’t damage Baker’s property. But one of his trucks did sustain some damage to the front of the car, although Baker said the damage came from a train car hitting a post that then hit the car.

“It was a sigh of relief,” Baker said. “I thought it hit everything until I got out there and saw. And it was a relief after I saw it.”

Tom Ciuba, CORP a spokesperson, said 12 cars derailed and they “were either empty or carrying lumber or sand. There were no injuries and no hazardous material was released.”

Crews have been on site working on cleanup all weekend and have made massive progress already.

“They’ve been working pretty diligently from day break until dark, and they’re making headway,” Baker said. “They’re done down by my house … looks like they’ll be here for a few more days.”

CORP said they plan to have the scene restored by Wednesday.

The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office initially responded to the incident Friday afternoon, eventually handing over the scene to local fire crews to make sure there wasn’t risk of a wildfire starting.

An investigation is now underway into the cause of the derailment.

“At this time, a definitive cause is unknown as the investigation continues,” Ciuba said. “We thank responders working on scene with railroad management, and we ask everyone to stay away from the site so that we can work as safely and efficiently as possible to complete cleanup.”

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    JUNCTION CITY, Oregon (KEZI) — Oregon cattle ranchers say the Trump administration’s plan to import foreign beef could hurt local farmers even as it aims to lower record-high prices at the grocery store.

President Trump announced a plan Friday to allow tariff-free imports of up to 300,000 tons of beef for 90 days. Trump says the imported beef will be sold at 25% below market price.

“This deal will reduce prices for Americans while giving space for our Great American Beef Herd to grow again,” President Trump said in an Aug. 21 post to Truth Social.

In response, the Oregon Farm Bureau said it was “deeply disappointed” by the decision, saying imported beef would undercut local ranchers.

“We understand that families are frustrated by high grocery prices, but cheap imports are a short-term fix with a deferred cost,” said Oregon Farm Bureau president Angela Bailey. “The long-term path to affordable beef is growing a healthy domestic cattle industry and pursuing policies that lower the cost of producing food here at home.”

John Deck and his wife Christine opened Deck Family Farm in Junction City in 2004, selling beef among other products through delivery services and local farmers markets. The farm has grown from a family operation to a 20-employee operation.

But Deck says the tariff plan creates uncertainty for local farmers at a time when ranchers are already feeling significant pressure.

“My initial reaction to the tariffs is that this isn’t needed because we produce a lot of beef in this country. And so we need to be focusing on our own game here, we don’t need to be importing foreign beef,” Deck said.

The move comes as beef prices sit at an all-time high, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. According to the bureau, ground beef now costs nearly $7 per pound.

“Right now, it’s expensive, but that’s cyclical supply and demand,” Deck said. “We should see prices lowering, we need to be looking at the long game, in terms of food security in this country, and how do we develop a stable economy for producing our own foods here in this country.”

Deck worries the imports could lower grocery prices short-term but disrupt the local food system long-term.

“I think the ultimate fear is that you’re going to find less local farmers and we’re going to end up outsourcing more of our food to other countries, which is going to create more of a fragile food system,” Deck said.

The Oregon Farm Bureau also raised concerns about the quality of imported beef, after President Trump declined to say where the beef would be sourced.

“We have a lot of organizations and departments, which helps us produce clean beef to help us protect the environment and to make sure that we have all these safeguards in our country,” Deck said. “By outsourcing beef from another country, we’re basically saying, we’re going to throw all that out the window, and it doesn’t matter, and we’re just going to import whatever’s the cheapest.”

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    NASHVILLE (WTVF) — Always game to take on something new; that’s been the life story of Jenny Pankratz.

“Jenny, who’s your dad?” I asked her.

“Red Foley!” she answered.

First coming to Nashville to record in 1945, country and gospel artist Foley is an important part of what Nashville came to be. He shared country music with the world, touring with artists like Hank Williams. He recorded duets with artists including Ernest Tubb.

“One they might know because Elvis recorded it is Ole Shep!” Pankratz said, mentioning one of Foley’s songs.

There’s no collaborator Foley could have loved more than Pankratz and her sisters.

“The Foley Sisters!” Pankratz said. “He loved his girls. We didn’t have a career. We just had a daddy who liked to hear us sing!”

In fact, Pankratz and her sisters were sometimes invited up by their dad to sing at the Ryman Auditorium in the years it played host to the Grand Ole Opry.

“It would have been 1948-ish,” she remembered. “I was scared! Kinda like I’m starting to feel today!”

I never did say where I was talking to Pankratz.

“Jenny, what are you about to do?” I asked her.

“Jump out of an airplane,” she said, standing in the office of Go Skydive Nashville.

“Do you mind if I ask how old you are?” I asked.

“I’m 86.”

Pankratz and a granddaughter were minutes from their jump at Go Skydive Nashville.

After all, Pankratz spent her life taking part in things that’ll make great stories.

“It’s always nice when somebody recognizes daddy,” she nodded.

“What would he think of you doing this today?” I asked.

“I don’t know! Probably that I’m nuts.”

One time, Foley told Pankratz something about being on stage.

“He said even after all those years he sang, he still felt nervous!” Pankratz remembered. “I must get it from him!”

Even with the nerves, Foley still entered those stages just like Pankratz was about to exit a plane.

“Y’know. I just have for a long time thought about it, said it, then dismissed it, because I thought I’d never do it,” Pankratz remembered. “I decided I’m going to do it!”

From the Grand Ole Opry stage in 1948 to a leap in 2026, life sometimes presents adventures. Pankratz is always game to take on something new.

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    MILWAUKEE (WDJT) — Earlier this month, Brookfield police conducted a high-risk stop on I-94 after the car was triggered by a Flock camera alert. The vehicle had no connection to a homicide the Milwaukee Police Department was investigating, and the people pulled over were let go.

Now, new body camera video of the incident is shedding light on the incident.

On Aug. 6, several Brookfield officers stopped a car on the side of I-94, weapons drawn. A Flock Safety alert warned officers the car was connected to a Milwaukee homicide investigation involving an armed suspect.

There was just one issue — Milwaukee police had cleared the vehicle from their investigation, and not from the Flock system and the people pulled over were not the suspects police were searching for.

“They never took it out of the system,” one Brookfield officer can be heard telling the man who was removed from the car.

“So, why’d they release the car?” the man is heard asking officers.

“I don’t know. Milwaukee, man,” the officer says.

“We just got my truck out of evidence. I have the papers and the thing. We literally just got out of evidence,” the woman removed from the stopped vehicle tells officers.

“Okay, it’s still entered in the system as being used in a homicide. We’ll get this, we’ll get this…,” the officer replies.

Milwaukee police acknowledged the mistake writing, “MPD staff inadvertently did not remove a vehicle alert from the system”

In the body cam video, officers can be heard calling the situation “unbelievable,” as they worked to sort out the traffic stop.

“They (expletive) released the car to them without taking it out of the system. He literally said we just got back from Milwaukee taking it out. Unbelievable,” one officer says.

Brookfield police say officers acted on the information available to them and “did in fact stop the vehicle that was the subject of the flock alert.”

“Constant issue,” one officer says. “This is a constant issue.”

“This is the worst one,” another officer is heard saying.

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    OMAHA, Nebraska (Omaha World-Herald) — Omaha resident Lauren Williams arrives at her front door tall, striking and as colorful as her bright purple house.

Her fruit earrings, unicorn shirt and two-toned bellbottoms preview what you’ll find inside — rainbows, carousel horses, disco balls and swirly items of every description. Even her two white cats have tinges of pink and blue.

“I’m a 12-year-old girl in a 45-year-old body,” she says as she shows off the northwest Omaha home she shares with her two teenage sons. Her parents, Brian and Laura Bross, once lived across the street.

Williams started work on the inside of what she calls the Kaleidoscope Home about five years ago after a divorce. Her goal, she says, is to come home to a happy house. No tan colors are allowed. Instead, her aesthetic is rainbows — many, many rainbows.

She discovered they fill her with joy as she also dealt with the loss of her mother and then her job, so her preferred pastel version can be spotted everywhere.

“Every room is done in a theme,” she said. “They all have a rainbow touch to them.”

There’s her iridescent kitchen, with the cabinets and counter she redid herself; her carousel horse entryway and the rainbow jungle bathroom. Disco balls of every size dangle in the living space where she hangs out each week with her friends, who call themselves the Chaos Cats.

Rainbow fur walls lead to the basement, nicknamed Candyland. It smells divine, too.

Last year, she painted the outside of her house purple with butterfly shutters. Her collections spill across the front lawn, and the sidewalk to the front door is, you guessed it, painted in a rainbow theme.

She’s had no complaints from neighbors, and sons Easton and Barrett have grown to like the bright interior.

“Originally, they hated it. They said, ‘Mom, this is so girly.’ Then they started having their friends over,” Williams said. “Their friends think it’s the coolest house ever. I’m the hub. The kids want to be over here.”

The expansive backyard has not been forgotten. She’s redoing it with an “Alice in Wonderland” theme and has turned an old basketball court into a chessboard.

She’s creating all the chess pieces herself using her 3D printer. Each has three parts that take about eight hours to produce.

“There’s going to be a bunch of little rainbow pathways, a water feature and a fire pit. I have a lot of ideas,” Williams said. “I want to put a small pool back there eventually. I have a third of an acre. I’m trying to use up less grass. My yard is a lot of work.”

She’s already added 50 trees, including apple, cherry, weeping willow and Little Giant Arborvitae for privacy.

Williams, whose mom was an artist and dad worked in construction, works full time and has many side jobs, including event planner. She’d love the chance to decorate for others who enjoy her whimsical vibe.

It’s all-consuming. Work on the house takes up most nights and weekends.

She isn’t afraid to tackle big jobs. She’s knocked down a few walls to build the bathroom and closet off the main bedroom and to expand the kitchen.

Her original accent pieces are found at department stores, Facebook Marketplace, online and at Goodwill and are adapted to her style. A large pegasus outside, named Starlite, took hours to accent with rainbow colors.

The stairway walls to the second floor have been done in a wallpaper collage. Butterflies she made from paint samples flit on the ceiling. A Dr. Seuss desk in her office area was constructed from 155 pieces of wood.

She’ll never be done with the house or the yard, she says. She’s got too many ideas. She’s already redoing some rooms and has plans for every surface of the house. All involve color.

“Why do we have to get boring when we reach a certain age?”

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