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ASHLAND COUNTY, Ohio (WOIO) - The Ashland County Coroner’s Office released the cause of death for student Breanna McKean, who collapsed during homecoming events in late September. The coroner says McKean, 17, died from myocarditis, a virus that causes inflammation to the heart. The coroner also released this list of causes for myocarditis: Viruses, Gastrointestinal infections, Bacteria, Parasites, Fungi, Medications or illegal drugs, Chemicals or radiation, Other inflammatory diseases Myocarditis usually goes away without permanent complications but severe cases can damage or weakens the heart muscles, according to the coroner. McKean collapsed due to a medical emergency before the Mapleton...

A 17-year-old high school senior died after she collapsed on the football field during the school’s homecoming game. Breanne McKean was announced as a candidate for homecoming queen at Ohio’s Mapleton High School. McKean “collapsed on the field shortly after she was announced as a contender for homecoming queen,” NBC News reports. According to Mapleton Local Schools, the “football game was suspended at halftime and the teams and student body were notified of this tragic event.” Mapleton Local Schools announced via Facebook: It is with a heavy heart that the Mapleton Local School District announces the passing of Bre McKean,...

The 17-year-old daughter of an Ohio high school athletic director collapsed on the football field and died during pregame festivities — where she was introduced as a Homecoming Queen candidate. Breanne McKean, a senior at Mapleton High School in Ashland, died Friday of an undisclosed “medical emergency,” Mapleton Local Schools announced Saturday. The school’s athletic director, Tim McKean, told News 5 Cleveland that his daughter died at Ashland Hospital after collapsing on the field, where the Mounties were set to play South Central. Breanne touched many lives and “was everything to us,” her grieving dad told the outlet, adding that...

Brittney Griner’s homecoming party at a church in Waco, Texas didn’t get quite the turnout many expected. According to a report from ESPN, around 20 people showed up to welcome the WNBA star home from her detainment in Russia. Per the report, the crowd was sparse at University Baptist Church, located within two miles of Baylor’s campus. The story indicated that part of the reason why the turnout wasn’t much bigger was because the school was on winter break.

A Minnesota high school has scrapped its traditional “gender-dependent” method of choosing homecoming “royalty.” White Bear Lake Area High School no longer crowns a “king” and “queen” as part of its annual homecoming celebration, which took place last week. The school’s homecoming committee, with the backing of school administrators, adopted the “language of a royalty court” where the winners are selected “regardless of gender identity.” In an email responding to a concerned parent, school principal Don Bosch said the change stems from the “traumatic misgendering of a student during last year’s Homecoming coronation preparations.” “This year’s Homecoming committee and staff...

I found out yesterday that FReeper PastorBillRandles passed away on 1/21. He posted many great articles here on FR and was a great warrior for Christ always preaching the Gospel as well as continuing to long for His Appearing. Please keep his family in your prayers.

Students at a New Jersey school took part in a sit-in during school hours on Monday to protest the administration’s decision to change up the homecoming king and queen winners. Two female students were declared the winners of the titles of king and queen at Passaic County Technical Institute in Wayne, N.J., reported NorthJersey.com .

Cpl. Daegan Page received the kind of welcome home no warrior’s family wants — the kind with black limousines and flag-draped caskets, slow salutes and tears. But on Friday afternoon, thousands of Nebraskans and Iowans made Page’s mournful homecoming an occasion to remember.

New York City’s “Homecoming” concert at Central Park was abruptly halted in the middle of Barry Manilow’s performance Saturday evening — as lightning storms tied to approaching Hurricane Henri descended on the Big Apple. Concertgoers were told at 7:37 p.m. to “proceed to your vehicles and protected areas outside of the event center” as Manilow was singing his 1978 hit “Can’t Smile Without You.”

A Florida girl who allegedly rigged the Homecoming Queen vote at her high school will face charges as an adult, officials confirmed Tuesday. ABC 13 reports that Emily Rose Grover, who was 17 when the alleged crime happened, turned 18 in April. The State Attorney’s Office in Escambia County said Tuesday morning press that Grover will face charges as an adult. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Grover and her mother, Laura Rose Carroll, 50, have been accused of illegally accessing school records to generate over 100 fraudulent votes for Grover, who was vying for a spot on Tate High School’s Homecoming...

FAYETTEVILLE, North Carolina -- Reid Ross Classical High School in Fayetteville has agreed to change a controversial spirit week theme after parents and advocates voiced concerns about the "Gender-Bender" day, encouraging students to "cross-dress" in traditional male or female attire. Valentina Graham was one of the first parents to sound off. "Very shocking to me, very shocking to me," said Graham. Like many high schools across the country, Reid Cross Classical is celebrating their homecoming with Spirit Week but Graham believes Gender-Bender day crosses the line. "I accept any child that chooses to cross=dress but for a public institution to...

....... And yet I feel a fierce defensiveness for this place. Particularly since the 2016 election, I hear the national media — or even my friends back in Portland — dismiss my rural colleagues, family and neighbors as out of touch, hateful, fearful of immigrants, and doomed to a life of boredom and poverty. But they don’t know my friend Sarah Calhoun, who started a women’s clothing company and a music festival near White Sulphur Springs, Mont. They’ve never been to the country church in Underwood, a few miles east of Fergus Falls, whose congregants are starting conversations about race,...

Americans' homecoming. VP President already arrived at AFB. Secretary Of State Pompeo should land shortly with freed Americans.

Homecoming at the University of Iowa is never declared "official" until the legendary Corn Monument stands tall on the Pentacrest. Keegan Parizek and Joe Moslemian were the student leads, with Rick Fosse, lecturer in civil and environmental engineering, and Allen Bradley, professor of civil and environmental engineering and researcher at IIHR--Hydroscience & Engineering, providing faculty oversight and guidance. Brandon Barquist, engineering specialist at IIHR, provided technical support. Overall, credit for this year's Corn Monument goes to American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) students as well as UI Campus Activity Board students, IIHR staff, and UI Facilities Management. Additional artwork was...

Settle down, it'll all be clear Don't pay no mind to the demons They fill you with fear The trouble it might drag you down If you get lost, you can always be foundHome, Phillip PhillipsToday my friends we are taking a little break from politics (or to Democrats “the politics of destruction”) in order to hold a virtual homecoming for Creeper, who landed at her new Oklahoma homestead yesterday.Just know you’re not alone 'Cause I’m going to make this place your homeAnd this, because it’s by Home Free, we’re grateful Creeper has arrived safely, and because it’s beautiful.Because of...

Wayne-Westland Community Schools has a policy that states that homeschooled students who want to attend a dance such as Homecoming would have to come from an “accredited” homeschool. That would effectively ban homeschoolers from attending dances held by the district since homeschoolers have no reason to be accredited and the state doesn’t require it. Karen Braun, a nationally recognized homeschooling activist in Michigan, said the school district is putting an unfair and unnecessary burden upon homeschoolers. Braun said parents contacted her and said their daughter, a homeschooling student, was invited to the upcoming Homecoming dance within the Wayne-Westland district. The...

<p>Witnesses say the car went through baricade and accelerated. It was going around 50 when hit crowd. Possibly intentional.</p>

TILLWATER, Oklahoma - We're told three people are dead and several others are hurt at the Oklahoma State University Homecoming Parade Saturday. A vehicle ran into the crowd causing the deaths and multiple injuries. The Stillwater mayor has confirmed the three fatalities. The mayor reports two people are in critical condition and 27 have been taken to the hospital. Eight helicopters in all responded to the scene. Witnesses tell News On 6 it was terrifying as a car crashed into parade watchers at high speed. The car was not part of the parade but was on Main before crashing into...

BANGOR, Wis. (HotTopics.tv) – A dad’s warning to his daughter’s homecoming date is going viral.

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