Teenager jumps from fleeing vehicle during police chase; 3 arrested

CNN Newsource on February 28, 2026

By CBS 58 Newsroom

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    WEST ALLIS, Wisconsin (WDJT) — Earlier Friday, Feb. 27, West Allis police saw a stolen vehicle at the intersection of S. 92nd St. and W. National Ave.

Officers tried to stop the vehicle, but it fled east bound on W. National starting a chase.

A 15-year-old girl from West Allis jumped from the vehicle while it was speeding in the area of S. 84th and W. National. She was taken into custody.

The vehicle continued to speed east bound and crashed into a parked car around 58th and W. National, ending the chase.

The driver, a 17-year-old man from Waukesha and a back seat passenger, 18-year-old man from Milwaukee, were both taken into custody.

A fourth occupant ran from the scene and has not been located.

The investigation is ongoing.

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‘Completely heartbroken’: BYU sends out 9 acceptance letters by mistake

CNN Newsource on February 27, 2026

By Daniel Woodruff

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    PROVO (KSL) — Brigham Young University is apologizing after nine prospective students mistakenly received notices that said they had been accepted.

The university told KSL a systems error led to those applicants being told they were admitted to BYU when, in fact, they were not.

“We are truly sorry that an unfortunate error in our admissions decision notification system resulted in nine prospective students mistakenly receiving congratulatory messages of acceptance,” said BYU admissions director Chad Johnson in a statement. “The Admissions Department reached out to those impacted to express our regret and our sincere apologies.”

Johnson added, “We know that admissions decisions are highly anticipated, and we recognize this mistake caused confusion and disappointment. Our BYU admissions team is working to ensure this mistake does not occur in the future.”

For one of those students and his family, it’s been a painful experience. Owen Johansen, 18, a high school senior who lives in Oakton, Virginia, received his acceptance to BYU two weeks ago.

“At first when I was accepted, I was really excited,” he said.

His mother, Talai Johansen, told KSL their family was “thrilled” and celebrated his admission to the place where both she and her husband went to school.

But last week, as they went through the process of accepting the admission and finding a roommate, they realized something was off. A rejection letter had replaced the “Welcome to BYU” notification in his online portal.

After trying to get BYU officials to talk with them, the Johansens said they eventually learned the acceptance was a mistake.

“I was really mad,” Owen Johansen said. “They could have done it way better.”

The whole experience, he added, left him “pretty sad.”

His mother said she’s disappointed that the university has only reached out to apologize to her and her husband, but not to her son directly. Talai Johansen wants BYU to honor his acceptance.

“I don’t want them to just do it for Owen. I want them to do it for these eight other students. I want all of these nine students to be admitted into BYU,” she said. “It is the right thing to do.”

BYU did not provide additional details about the nature of the error that led to the incorrect acceptance notices.

“I have been completely heartbroken by this entire process,” Talai Johansen said.

In 2024, BYU’s College of Nursing mistakenly sent out both acceptance and rejection letters to hundreds of prospective students. The university blamed that on an “error in a new system.”

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Rev. Jesse Jackson funeral services, celebration of life continues Friday at Rainbow PUSH headquarters

CNN Newsource on February 27, 2026

By Lauren Victory, Adam Harrington, Elyssa Kaufman

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    CHICAGO (WBBM) — The celebration of life for Reverend Jesse Jackson continues with another visitation on Friday morning.

Mourners lined up early Friday morning to pay their respects for a second day at Rainbow PUSH Headquarters. Supporters will have 12 hours to say their goodbyes.

A suburban woman brought her three grandchildren to experience this historic moment as they go through school.

“I thought it was very important that they come to experience this,” Lazane Tyker said. “When I’m long gone, they will always remember this, that they were here and participated.”

Jackson’s family shook thousands of hands inside Rainbow Push headquarters on Thursday as a line of supporters stretched down the block.

Reverend Jackson’s casket is heading back to his East Coast roots after today’s visitation for services in South Carolina and Washington D.C.

His remains will then return to Chicago for “The People’s Celebration” next Friday. A private service is scheduled for March 7th.

Resting in power at Rainbow PUSH

Founded in the early 1970s as Operation PUSH, the Rainbow PUSH Coalition grew from a local organizing effort into a national platform for civil rights, economic justice, and political mobilization. From the very building where Jackson will lie in repose, he led voter registration drives, advocated for corporate accountability, and pushed for greater access to education and employment opportunities.

It was also from Rainbow PUSH that Jackson helped expand the idea of a rainbow coalition — uniting people across race, class, and political lines around shared economic interests.

Jackson’s political campaigns in 1984 and 1988 were organized through the PUSH network, proving that a civil rights organization could also become a national political force.

For many in Chicago, weekly gatherings at Rainbow PUSH became a forum where local concerns met national attention.

“For generations, children and adults will hear the words, ‘Keep hope alive,’ hear the words, ‘I am somebody,'” said the Rev. Michael Pfleger of Chicago’s St. Sabina Church. “He took the phrase keep hope alive and made it tangible.”

For decades, Rainbow PUSH Headquarters amplified Rev. Jackson’svoice. It now becomes a place for reflection for a movement that stretched far beyond the walls of the physical building.

Honors for Rev. Jackson planned for South Carolina and Washington, D.C.

The Jackson family said they shared him with the world and in return, the world became a part of their extended family. This is evident too in what will unfold over the next week.

After a couple of days here in Chicago, there will be services held for Jackson in South Carolina and Washington, D.C. before his funeral will take place back in Chicago at the end of next week.

The Jackson family wanted to make sure their patriarch, a native of Greenville, South Carolina, returned to his roots on the East Coast.

Jackson played football at Sterling High School in Greenville, and famously protested library segregation with a group known as the Greenville Eight.

Jackson’s loved ones made a formal request to South Carolina lawmakers that he lie in repose at the state capitol in Columbia. That request was granted Monday, March 2, with a private, then public service — including a wreath-laying — planned at the statehouse rotunda.

A church service is scheduled for that evening in West Columbia, South Carolina.

Details have not yet been released on how Rev. Jackson will be honored in Washington, D.C.

Rev. Jesse Jackson funeral and celebration of life services schedule Thursday, Feb. 26 and Friday, Feb. 27: Lying in State at Rainbow PUSH Coalition, 930 E. 50th St., Chicago, 10 a.m. Sunday, March 1 – Thursday, March 5: Travel dates for formal services in South Carolina and Washington, D.C. Monday, March 2 – Jackson will lie in repose at the South Carolina Statehouse. Following a small private family ceremony inside the Statehouse, the visitation will be open to the public from 11:30 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. Friday, March 6: The People’s Celebration at House of Hope, 752 E. 114th St., Chicago Doors Open: 9 a.m., service: 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. Saturday, March 7: Private Homegoing Celebration at Rainbow PUSH Coalition. Limited capacity. A spokesperson for the Jackson family said they will share additional details and information for public registration to attend services soon. They will also share a livestream of the services for the public.

The family asks that all flowers and condolence cards be sent to:

Leak & Sons Funeral Home

7838 S. Cottage Grove Ave.

Chicago, IL 60619

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Parkville sisters who lived through segregation share their story of faith and legacy

CNN Newsource on February 27, 2026

By Rae Daniel

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    KANSAS CITY (KSHB) — Inside the Washington Chapel CME church, Dr. Cora Douglass Thompson sits down at the piano and begins to play, ‘Lift Every Voice and Sing.’

“My mother insisted that all three of us had piano lessons,” Dr. Thompson said. “All three of us.”

Dr. Cora, and her sisters Lucille H. Douglass and Alcorama Pearl Spencer sat down with me, sharing fond memories, like their mother’s gingerbread.

“You could be outside playing and you get a whiff of that and you knew, mama was making gingerbread,” Dr. Cora said. “She’d make two. One for the church and one for home.”

The sisters were born in the 1940s, during a time when segregation was a shared experience for the Black community.

“There are only three streets that connect to what was the segregated black community,” Ms. Lucille said.

“The white elite, leaders of Parkville told my dad, ‘stop telling these N’s how to vote,” Dr. Cora said. “That’s one of the big things I remember. Everybody came to my dad asking them how to vote, everybody.”

“The meetings that were being held in the Black community, were about getting indoor toilets in our school,” Ms. Alcorama said. “We had to walk over to the hillside, quite a ways.”

Their legacy, intertwined in Parkville’s history, including Banneker Elementary, the historic African American schoolhouse, where their mother taught.

“Cora and I were a part of the last class when they closed the Banneker school,” Ms. Lucille said. She said it closed after Brown V. Board of Education, when the Supreme Court ruled that separating children in public schools on the basis of race was unconstitutional.

Ms. Alcorama remembers when school was integrated. She was a freshman at Park Hill High School. She shared that she was frightened a little, but the superintendent had a conversation with her dad before she started. She was grateful for what was said to her father that day. She said while there weren’t any families protesting outside the school that she remembers, she does remember some incidents of bullying and sports teams still being segregated.

They also talked about the historic church they grew up in was Washington Chapel C.M.E., which was built in 1907 by former slaves and college students.

“We stand on their shoulders,” Ms. Lucille said.

Today, these sisters make sure that history is never forgotten, through events, education and conversation.

“We are benefiting from their hard work and the vision God gave them,” Ms. Alcorama said. “And this church on this hill will be, known and people will be worshiping here for another 100 years.”

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Mother of girl killed in Fremont plant explosion sues Horizon Biofuels over deadly blast

CNN Newsource on February 27, 2026

By KMTV Staff

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    FREMONT, Neb. (KMTV) — A mother whose daughter was killed in a plant explosion in Fremont has filed a lawsuit against Horizon Biofuels.

The explosion occurred in July 2025, killing sisters Hayven and Fayeah, ages 12 and 8, along with their father, Dylan Danielson, who had brought the girls to work with him.

Lauren Baker, Hayven’s mother, alleges in the lawsuit that dust caused the explosion — dust the company should have prevented from accumulating — and that Horizon Biofuels failed to ensure equipment worked properly despite prior complaints.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration confirmed to us last fall that it had previously issued citations at the facility.

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Anaheim police shot and killed man in mental health crisis, family says

CNN Newsource on February 27, 2026

By Leo Stallworth

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    ANAHEIM, Calif. (KABC) — The family of a man fatally shot by Anaheim police in September has filed a claim against the city, alleging officers used unnecessary deadly force while he was suffering a mental health episode.

Attorneys for the family of Rudy Martinez said the Anaheim resident was in clear distress when police encountered him.

“We believe in fact the shooting was murder and we are demanding justice,” Jamal Tooson, an attorney for Martinez’s family, said at a press conference Thursday.

Martinez was armed with a shovel and used it to hit the officer’s patrol vehicle, body-camera footage shows. Police said Martinez advanced toward the officer in an “aggressive and threatening manner” before the shooting.

Tooson said the situation warranted a response from mental health counselors or advocates instead of police.

“They sent the Anaheim Police Department who shot and killed him within seconds of arrival,” Tooson said.

The claim filed is a precursor to a lawsuit.

Attorneys say they’ve viewed body-camera footage of the shooting, and it raises serious questions about how police handled the situation.

Bodycam footage from the responding officer shows Martinez hitting the patrol car with a shovel.

“At this point, the officer didn’t put the patrol car in reverse,” Tooson said when describing what was seen in the video.

“The officer didn’t consider grabbing non-lethal force, but he grabbed his gun,” Tooson added. “When he got out of the car, Rudy walked toward him with the shovel. The officer shot and killed him and left him to die on the street.”

Anaheim officials said the response took place near a school that was in session.

“Our officer responded to a call next to an elementary school in session where, without provocation, he immediately faced a threat to life and safety,” city spokesperson Mike Lyster said. “We recognize the importance of mental health intervention. Sadly, there was no time to bring in resources and to do so without putting the lives of mental health workers at risk.”

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Man accused of poisoning Southern California couple by spraying bug spray on food

CNN Newsource on February 27, 2026

By Leanne Suter

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    SANTA CLARITA, Calif. (KABC) — A Santa Clarita, California, couple is speaking out after their roommate allegedly poisoned them, leading to a standoff with deputies on Tuesday. They say it comes after being tormented by the man for months.

According to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Office – Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station, deputies responded to a home on Tuesday after receiving reports of alleged poisoning.

A couple called sheriff’s deputies after reviewing surveillance video and discovering that a roommate was spraying their food with what appeared to be Raid bug spray. They made the discovery after numerous illnesses and emergency room visits with chest and stomach pain.

Billy Sonhopper and her husband, David, say 42-year-old Timothy Bradbury has been tormenting them for months, but it wasn’t until they saw the surveillance video that they realized their lives were in danger.

The video shows the suspect, later identified as Bradbury, wearing a gas mask and spraying what appears to be a blue can of Raid on groceries and produce in their shared kitchen, including inside the pantry.

David Sonhopper said at his latest ER visit, he was told he has liver damage, and medical professionals said, based on his blood work, they thought it could be poisoning.

That’s what led the couple to check the cameras the landlord has installed in the home.

“On the video we found that, besides all the other things that he’s done in the year that we’ve lived here, that he was spraying something — we weren’t sure if it was rat poison, wasp spray,” David Sonhopper said.

“He was spraying stuff all over our groceries — our fruit, our vegetables, our coffee pot that we use every morning, and our whole pantry full of our chips and cereal, all of our canned goods and spices. Everything. He sprayed it all over everything,” Billy Sonhopper said.

The couple said that, on top of the recent incident, Bradbury has also thrown away their food and cut up their clothes.

“He set our house on fire. He’s poisoned our stuff. He’s destroyed our property. I’ve had to get a new car because he destroyed my old one,” David Sonhopper said.

They noted that they had called law enforcement in the past, but never had much evidence until they discovered the new surveillance video.

When deputies responded to the home on Tuesday, they attempted to make contact with Bradbury, but he retreated inside and refused to come out, deputies said.

Deputies learned that Bradbury suffers from a mental health disability and called a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Mental Evaluation Team to the scene.

After two hours of negotiations, Bradbury exited the home voluntarily and was detained, the sheriff’s department said. He was placed under arrest for willful poisoning of food, drink, medicine or water with the intent to cause injury.

Video from the scene shows gloved deputies going in and out of the home. At one point, an investigator is seen removing a blue can of Raid that looks just like the one in the surveillance video.

The couple says the owner of the home has been trying to evict Bradbury. Given the shocking video, they say they’re terrified of what could happen next.

“It’s been hell living with him the past year. It’s been horrible,” David Sonhopper said after Bradbury’s arrest. “With her health issues, we were extremely concerned. And we’re just tired. We’ve been living with so much stress.”

“We don’t want to be in fear anymore. We’re tired of it. We just want to be safe.” Billy Sonhopper said.

The couple added that they hope the suspect gets the mental health support he needs.

The investigation into the incident is ongoing.

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FTC and 11 states reach $100 million settlement with Walmart over driver pay deception

CNN Newsource on February 27, 2026

By Adam Roberts

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    ARKANSAS (KHBS, KHOG) — Walmart has agreed to pay $100 million to settle allegations from the Federal Trade Commission and 11 states over what it told delivery drivers about their pay, according to a news release from the FTC.

The FTC’s complaint alleged that Walmart deceived both drivers and consumers about the amount of tips drivers would receive.

It also claimed Walmart deceived drivers about the amount of base pay and tips in batched orders, and misrepresented the incentive pay they could receive.

Walmart sent a statement to 40/29 News, which read:

“We value the hard work and dedication of the drivers who deliver great service and products to our customers. We have issued payments to impacted drivers and continue to make additional payments as appropriate. We are continuously improving procedures to ensure fairness and transparency for drivers.”

In addition to paying $100 million, Walmart is now required to create an earnings verification program for drivers.

The company is also banned from misrepresenting driver pay and other information. It also isn’t allowed to modify its payment offers in most circumstances.

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Kansas City man charged after allegedly stealing bus, leading police on a chase across I-29

CNN Newsource on February 27, 2026

By Chloe Godding

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    KANSAS CITY, Missouri (KMBC) — A Kansas City man has been charged after he allegedly stole a bus, causing thousands in damages before he was caught.

Preston R. Reiff was charged with stealing, first-degree tampering with a motor vehicle and first-degree property damage in connection with the bus theft, Jackson County Prosecutor Melesa Johnson announced Thursday.

Officers with the Kansas City Police Department responded to a Greyhound bus station on Tuesday on reports of a Greyhound/Jefferson bus being stolen moments before. Upon arrival, an employee and witness told police that the suspect took the bus from the station’s back lot around 10:20 p.m., according to court documents.

On his way out, the suspect immediately struck a wall, rammed an automatic gate and struck multiple signs. GPS tracking allowed officers to quickly locate the stolen bus, which was traveling north on Interstate 29 near Northwest 56th Street.

Officers attempted a traffic stop using lights and sirens, but the suspect did not stop, according to court documents. Platte County authorities continued the pursuit, deploying stop sticks near I-29 and Northwest Tiffany Springs Parkway.

The suspect pulled over after both front tires were hit. He was then taken into custody.

Field sobriety tests indicated that Reiff was not under the influence of drugs or alcohol. In an interview with police, he said he was not under the care of a doctor or taking any medications.

When asked about what happened, Reiff said he did not want to discuss it and asked for an attorney, according to court documents.

Damages to property included approximately $15,000 to the wall at the station, $40,000 to the gate and $500 for every damaged sign. The bus itself is originally valued at $600,000; damage to it is still being assessed.

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Omaha women’s basketball players help driver trapped in sinkhole

CNN Newsource on February 27, 2026

By Madison Perales & Jake Anderson

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    OMAHA, Nebraska (KETV) — Two Mavericks helped get one of the drivers out of a sinkhole after a road collapsed in Omaha.

Jordan Sarnoff, University of Nebraska Omaha’s assistant athletic director, said two women’s basketball players were bystanders to the sinkhole on 67th and Pacific streets.

Video captures moment when road ‘collapses’ leaving two vehicles stuck

In a post on social media, Sarnoff said he was proud of “Olivia Borsutzki and Esra Kurban for stepping up in a critical moment.”

Sarnoff said they “didn’t hesitate.”

Video shows people helping one of the drivers out of their vehicle.

Sarnoff confirmed to KETV that Borsutzki helped the driver of the red Jeep, Jonathan Inman, out of the sinkhole.

Inman told KETV that he’s grateful to the nearby drivers who came running to help.

“I couldn’t pull myself out because there was nothing to step on, just based on the height of it. So thankfully, those bystanders were there to help pull me out,” Inman said.

When officers arrived, the drivers were out of their vehicles, authorities said. No one was injured.

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