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The Routt County Coroner's Office identified the victims as Aaron Stokes, 47, his son Jakson Stokes, 21, and nephew Colin Stokes, 21, and Austin Huskey, 37, all from Middle Tennessee.

TheFederal Aviation Administration(FAA) reported the plane crashed during the early morning hours of Feb. 13 near Steamboat Springs, a ski town in the state's northern region about 155 miles northwest of Denver.

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Cleanup continued at the industrial site near the Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport where a UPS plane crashed into in November on Jan. 13, 2026, in Louisville, Ky. In a February 2011 letter to airlines, Boeing noted failures with parts of the pylon, a structural component that connects the engine, during four incidents on three MD-11 airplanes, which is the same model of the UPS plane that crashed Nov. 4. After takeoff, the pylon and left engine UPS Flight 2976 detached from the wing, resulting in a catastrophic crash that killed 15 people, including the three crew members aboard the plane.

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Cleanup continues at site of deadly UPS Flight 2976 crash in Louisville

Cleanup continued at the industrial site near the Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airportwhere a UPS plane crashed into in Novemberon Jan. 13, 2026, in Louisville, Ky. In a February 2011 letter to airlines,Boeingnoted failures with parts of the pylon, a structural component that connects the engine, during four incidents on three MD-11 airplanes, which is the same model of the UPS plane that crashed Nov. 4. After takeoff,the pylon and left engine UPS Flight 2976 detached from the wing, resulting in acatastrophic crash that killed 15 people, including the three crew members aboard the plane.

According to a preliminary FAA report, the single-engine Epic Aircraft E1000 crashed under unknown circumstances near Emerald Mountain. Online flight tracking shows the plane took off from the Kansas City Downtown Airport just after 10 p.m., for Bob Adams Airport before it crashed southeast of the city-owned airport.

The plane, manufactured in 2024, was registered to ALS Aviation LCC in Franklin, Tenn.

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Aaron Stokeslived in Franklin according to information from his obituary,The Tennessean, part of the USA TODAY Network, reported.

Franklin is city in Williamson County, about 20 miles south of downtown Nashville.

According to hisLinkedIn page, he founded Shop Fix Academy, owned and operated five auto repair shops and hosted a radio show "Fixin' Cars with Aaron Stokes" on 99.7 WTN.

In a post on Facebook, Annie Stokes called her brother "a great leader and coach and businessman."

"The loss has deeply impacted his family, the Shop Fix Academy team, and the broader automotive community," the company released in a statement onFacebook. "Stokes helped thousands of auto repair shop owners, and countless other business leaders, achieve meaningful growth in their businesses and leadership... His legacy extends far beyond financial performance."

USA TODAY has reached out to the victims' families.

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Husky, his company, confirmed was the CEO of Husky Building Supply, also located in Franklin.

In a separate post onInstagram, Huskey Building Supply released this statement: "With heavy hearts, we grieve the unexpected passing of our CEO, Austin Huskey. Austin was a fearless leader, a gracious man, a devoted father and husband, and a faithful follower of Christ."

The National Transportation Safety Boardposted on Xit was investigating the cause of the crash.

Natalie Neysa Alund is a senior reporter for USA TODAY. Reach her at nalund@usatoday.com and follow her on X @nataliealund.

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The National Park Service removed several panels from the President's House in Philadelphia, citinga March 2025 executive orderby President Donald Trump to prohibit exhibitions or programs at federal sites based on race. President's House features exhibits about George Washington and among the 34 historical panels, 13 were created after a group of activists lobbied the city and the park service to include information about the nine men, women and children who were enslaved by Washington there.

U.S. District Judge Cynthia M. Rufe granted a preliminary injunction on Monday requiring the return of the panels, pending further litigation.

"We battled for eight solid years the grand opening of the first slavery memorial of its kind on federal property in the history of the United States of America," attorney and activist Michael Coard told NBC News before the judge's ruling. "What started me to do this was anger and rage and outrage."

The movement began in 2002 when the park service and the city of Philadelphia announced the Liberty Bell would move from a pavilionfacing Independence Hallto 6th Street and Market Street, the same location of George Washington's executive residence where he enslaved at leastnine people, including children.

Coard hosted a radio show on WHAT, during which he told listeners that the site was planned without a clear acknowledgment about the enslavement that took place there. It spurred the Avenging The Ancestors Coalition, which protested and raised funds — along with the city government — to pay for panels at the site.

The memorial opened Dec. 15, 2010.

Coard said his organization anticipated what was in store after the executive orders Trump signed upon returning to office last year. The panels were unceremoniously taken down a few weeks ago on Jan. 22.

"The common denominator of the 13 was that they highlighted the horror of slavery," Coard said of the panels. "Not just what we all know — a loss of freedom — but the beatings, the whippings, the rapes, the sodomy."

A spokesperson for the Interior Department, which oversees the park service, said "all federal agencies are to review interpretive materials to ensure accuracy, honesty, and alignment with shared national values." White House spokesman Davis Ingle said Trump "is ensuring that we are honoring the fullness of the American story instead of distorting it in the name of left-wing ideology."

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Last week, more than 200 activists, residents and supporters protested the panels' recent removal.

The rally attracted people across political ideologies and ethnicities, said Gerry James, 36, who traveled to the event from Frankfort, Kentucky. James is the deputy director of the Sierra Club's Outdoors for All campaign, which is working with Avenging The Ancestors Coalition.

He said his parents often took him and his siblings to libraries and cultural tours to learn more about Black history, aside from the limited information that was present in his textbooks.

"It's just a lot of support for this issue of preserving Black history and preserving Black history as American history," James said.

Supporters pushed back against the administration's moves toward downplaying "our complex national history," specifically when it comes to Black American history.

Mijuel Johnson, a steering committee member of the coalition who also spoke at the rally, said the panels "are not just panels" but serve as a national memorial: "The very fact that this is a memorial to the enslaved people of the United States," and one of the first of its kind on federal property in the United States, he said, "is significant."

Coard's group — headed by University of Pennsylvania law professor Cara McClellan and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund — joined the city'slawsuitagainst the park service's acting director and the Interior Department.

"One, we're demanding restoration — put the 34 interpretive panels back where they were," Coard said before the ruling. "Two, we're demanding enhancement, which means to expand this President's House slave memorial site. And number three, we're seeking replication. We know that Black people have contributed mightily in every state in the country and maybe even every city in the country, so we want something like this on any federal property throughout the United States where Black folks were enslaved."

He and other activists are optimistic about the future of the site.

"We are passionate about this," Coard said, "and we're going to win this fight."

A federal judge on Friday ordered the release of a Filipino man from an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Tacoma, Washington, noting a "pattern of failures" in his medical care that "more likely than not resulted in the extreme pain and permanent disability."

Judge Tana Lin of the Western District of Washington wrote that the man, Greggy Sorio, saw his health decline while in the facility, eventually suffering two partial foot amputation surgeries, ulcerative colitis, blood loss, a kidney injury, a deficiency in vitamin D and "dramatic unintended weight loss."

Lin wrote the "unreasonable treatment" of Sorio violated the Constitution and that Sorio be released.

Sorio entered the U.S. as a "lawful permanent resident" in 2007, according to the judge's order, and was detained by ICE in March after he was released from prison. He was being held at the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma.

In July, Sorio complained of blood in his stool, severe abdominal pain and yellowing of his skin and was denied requests to be sent to the hospital.

By October, Sorio said he was "in extreme pain and could barely walk" and was sent to the hospital after several hours of waiting, the judge's order recounted. Although Sorio was prescribed an antibiotic at the hospital, the ICE facility staff did not fill the prescription and seemed to believe he had been diagnosed with "inflammatory bowel syndromes," an apparent reference to irritable bowel syndrome, the order noted.

A few days later, Sorio reported pain and swelling in his foot and said he was initially denied a hospital visit. When he went to the hospital on Oct. 22, he was determined to have a bone infection and went through two amputation surgeries.

Soriotold NBC's Seattle affiliateafter he was released on Friday, "If they had sent me to the hospital in July when I was begging them, I wouldn't lose my foot. It's preventable. They could have prevented this."

Sorio's criminal record, according to the affiliate station, includes "convictions for domestic violence, assault, theft, forgery and burglary."

Sorio told the outlet, "I did my time on it and I'm a better person now. Everybody has a past."

The Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Rosie Perezis reflecting on a challenging point in her career.

The actress recently opened up about some of the problematic advice she's received over the years, as well as the shocking suggestion that led her to fire an agent, during a conversation with Eddie Muller at the TCM Classic Film Festival New York Pop-Up.

"They asked me to change my accent. They asked me to change the color of my hair. They wanted me to be a blonde. They asked me to change my nose," Perez said of the recommendations given to her to help land more roles.

The Oscar nominee revealed that one agent even asked her to "change my ethnicity," with the rationale being that Perez would "probably get more roles if you say you're African American."

"It was the whole gambit," Perez continued. "I remember the first agent who told me that. I just looked and went, 'You're fired.' I just got up and I left. I didn't need it. I was in college, actually. I was a biochem major, so I was like, I'll just go back to school. I don't need this."

Perez has previously spoken about receiving such advice from a former agent, whom she's declined to name, tellingVarietyin 2023 that "I don't want her to be canceled, but she told me that if I dyed my hair blond and got a nose job, 'I can get you more jobs. Because you're not Black.'"

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The Brooklyn-born actress' career spans over three decades, from her breakthrough in 1989'sDo the Right Thingand memorable roles inWhite Men Can't Jump,It Could Happen to You, andThe Taketo cohostingThe View. Perez landed an Oscar nomination for her role in 1993'sFearless. Along with her success, Perez has strongly advocated for improved Latino representation in Hollywood.

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"When you're of color and you don't want to pass and be whitewashed, you pay the price," Perez toldEntertainment Weeklyin 2020. "You're not privy to certain roles because of the racism, whether it's over or subtle, and the roles that are offered continuously… like, I get offers all the time, they're insulting and they further this negativity that I don't want to be a part of."

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Perez continued, "And so it takes a lot of strength within oneself to say no. To say no to projects that you know are going to be commercially viable and successful. To say no to a big payday. It takes a lot to have belief in yourself and belief in the long game and faith that it's going to come. If you just keep doing good work, they're still going to come for you, and they're still going to offer you the good stuff. Because, let's say when people write a love story, why does it predominantly always have to be a white person? And then if they say, 'Well, we would have to change it,' and I say, 'Why? Why do you have to change it? They didn't changeWhite Men Can't Jump. They didn't changeFearless. Why?' And they just can't think past that."

Perez added that she is "humbled and grateful" for the career she has had and roles she's been presented with for the past 30 years.

"Most women of color don't get the opportunities that I've gotten and there's only a handful of us, and most women of color over a certain age truly don't get the opportunities that I've gotten and the opportunities that are still coming," she said. "So that is what humbles me."

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Fans are concerned forRay J's healthafter he performed with apparent blood from his eye. The 45-year-old singer appeared at "An Intimate Valentine's Day Concert" in Shreveport, Louisiana, on Saturday, February 14. In a video doing the rounds on the internet, fans noticed a red liquid dripping down his cheeks, assuming it was blood. Notably, Ray was previously hospitalized for pneumonia and heart pain.

Ray J's recent performance sparks concerns

Ray Jsparks health concerns after fans noticed blood allegedly oozing from his eyes. Livebitez shared a video of Ray performing at a Valentine's Day concert. The caption read, "Ray J performed last night with his heart monitor, and fans assumed real blood was coming out of his eyes and chest."

In the video, the "One Wish" crooner is distributing red roses to front-row fans. When zoomed in on his face, one can see red liquid dripping down his cheeks. Fans assume it is blood, sparking concerns for his health.

Later, Ray unzipped the top of his jumpsuit to reveal his bare torso. Fans were quick to notice a mysterious medical dressing on the upper left side of his chest. The internet suspects this was where he had a heart monitor or another cardiac-related device.

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However, despite his apparent medical condition, the "Melody" singer performed with enthusiasm and enthralled fans with top-notch fan service as well. Previously, the singer was hospitalized for pneumonia and heart pains in January of this year. Ray confessed he was taking eight medications as he dealt with serious heart problems.

According toTMZ,doctors were unsure how long the singer would live because of his fragile health condition. Doctors instructed him to stay in bed and take his medications, prescribed for people at risk of heart failure. Doctors also revealed that Ray might need a pacemaker or defibrillator. The 45-year-old singer shared that doctors prohibited him from smoking or drinking, admitting it had been difficult. He said, "If I come out of this, I'll be stronger and a better person."

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