Free Republic

Amari Crite, 14, died while participating in a basketball game this week.. MOMENCE, Ill. () - A girls high school basketball player reportedly collapsed and died this week in Illinois. According to multiple reports, 14-year-old Amari Crite died on Thursday after collapsing on the court while playing a home game at Momence High School. The Daily Journal reports that Momence School District Superintendent Shannon Anderson issued the following statement that read in part: “We are deeply saddened to confirm the heartbreaking news of the passing of one of our 9th-grade students on January 25, 2024. Our thoughts and condolences go...

Amanda Hanson, an anchor with Action 5 News in Memphis, Tennessee, died on Thursday at just 38 years old. Hanson had a “medical emergency” earlier in the week that led to fatal complications, but details about what happened have not been publicly released. “We are devastated to announce the loss of our colleague Amanda Hanson,” the station announced in a post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. “Amanda, a beloved journalist, Memphian, colleague and friend, joined the Action News 5 team in 2021 and was the driving force behind the Action News 5 Digital Desk. She was 38...

The sports journalism community is mourning the sudden passing of Mike Dickson, a prominent figure in tennis reporting. Dickson, who was set to celebrate his 60th birthday on January 27, died suddenly while in Melbourne for the Australian Open. The news of his death was confirmed through a social media post by his wife and children. "We are devastated to announce that our wonderful husband and Dad, Mike, has collapsed and died while in Melbourne for the Aus Open," read the message shared via Dickson's X account. "For 38 years, he lived his dream covering sport all over the world....

Canadian world champion pole vaulter Shawn Barber died suddenly and unexpectedly at the age of 29. Barber’s agent confirmed in a statement that the athlete had died at his home in Kingwood, Texas, on Wednesday. The cause of death has not yet been revealed. “More than just an incredible athlete, Shawn was such a good-hearted person that always put others ahead of himself,” Doyle said Thursday. “It’s tragic to lose such a good person at such a young age.” World Atheletics account on X posted their condolences: “Keep flying, Shawn. World Athletics is deeply saddened by the passing of Shawn...

COVID-19 vaccine-induced myocarditis is killing millions of people now.. I woke up this morning and read the news that Warriors assistant coach Dejan Milojevic had a sudden heart attack and died on Tuesday during a team dinner. He was 46... That same day, British sports journalist Mike Dickson died suddenly at the age of 59. The cause of death was conspicuous by its absence in the obituaries — but the man collapsed and died without warning at the Australian Open. ... The day before yesterday, former NFL linebacker Ronald Powell died at the age of 32. No cause of death...

Golden State Warriors assistant coach Dejan Milojević died Wednesday after suffering a heart attack at a private team dinner in Salt Lake City on Tuesday night, the team announced. “We are absolutely devastated by Dejan’s sudden passing,” head coach Steve Kerr said in a statement. “This is a shocking and tragic blow for everyone associated with the Warriors and an incredibly difficult time for his family, friends and all of us who had the incredible pleasure to work with him.” The seriousness of the situation led the NBA to postpone Wednesday’s game between the Warriors and the Utah Jazz. The...

Golden State Warriors assistant coach Dejan Milojevic died on Wednesday after suffering a heart attack the day prior, the team announced. “We are absolutely devastated by Dejan Milojević’s sudden passing,” the Warriors said in a statement. “This is a shocking and tragic blow for everyone associated with the Warriors and an incredibly difficult time for his family, friends, and all of us who had the incredible pleasure to work with him. “… We grieve with and for his wife, Natasa, and their children, Nikola and Masa.” The 46-year-old Serbian coach was hospitalized in Salt Lake City, Utah, Tuesday night after...

Michael Strahan’s daughter Isabella, 19, has shared her brain cancer diagnosis. (GMA / ABC) Michael Strahan’s 19-year-old daughter Isabella is undergoing treatment for medulloblastoma, a malignant brain tumor that starts in the lower part of the brain, the teen and her dad said in an interview that aired Thursday on “Good Morning America.” The “GMA” co-anchor and his daughter opened up about her diagnosis, speaking with Strahan’s fellow host, cancer survivor Robin Roberts, who called it a “very emotional morning” at the ABC morning news show. Isabella Strahan, who began her freshman year at the University of Southern California in...

The Army is mourning the unexpected loss of a young soldier-athlete who had her sights set on an Olympic gold medal in freestyle wrestling this summer.Spc. Estrella “Star” Dorado Marin, 21, died Jan. 3 in Thornton, Colo., of complications from emergency surgery, the Army said in a statement Wednesday.She had experienced numbness in her upper extremities from blood clots, her family told the Army.Dorado Marin, whose nickname came from the English translation of her first name, enlisted in the Army in 2020 as a fuel supply specialist and later joined the service’s World Class Athlete Program as a freestyle wrestler.

Meilin Keen was studying for the bar exam and preparing to move to New York City last June when she started throwing up blood. Keen, 27 years old, learned days later that she has gastric cancer. She postponed the bar exam. Brain fog from chemotherapy made it hard to do her legal work. Surgeons removed her stomach in December. Keen is coming to terms with all that means for her diet, her health, even her dating life. “That’s a fun icebreaker: I don’t have a stomach anymore,” she said. Cancer is hitting more young people in the U.S. and around...

Was it the jabs? We won't be told unless they definitively prove otherwise. Like so many stories over the past three years, this will be dropped in the memory hole forever... It's almost 2024. Thousands of young and otherwise healthy athletes have died suddenly from either "unknown" causes or "mysterious" heart-related ailments. Numerous tracking groups and researchers have noted the unambiguous correlation between the rise in unexplained deaths and the introduction of the Covid jabs. Some have even implied direct causation. Despite many if not most right-leaning Americans being at least suspicious of the vaccines, not to mention a growing...

Bobbie Jean Carter, the sister of Backstreet Boys singers Aaron and Nick Carter, has been found dead at the age of 41. Carter died on Saturday, December 23, 2023, in Florida, TMZ reports. The cause of Carter’s unexpected passing has not been revealed. However, her family described the tragedy as a “sudden death” and revealed they are “in shock.” Carter’s passing has been confirmed by multiple sources, including multiple members of Carter’s family. Jane Carter, Bobbie Jean Carter’s mother, provided a statement to TMZ on the passing of her daughter. “I am in shock from learning of the sudden death...

A Chicago suburb is mourning the loss of a high school freshman who died Sunday after suffering a stroke during swim practice ... James Oliver, a 14-year-old student at Geneva High School, collapsed at West Chicago High School on Dec. 8, and suffered an AVM stroke and brain hemorrhage, school officials told parents ... He died on Sunday night after weeks in the hospital. The teen’s sudden death has left the community stunned. “He just brought me so much joy, as he did many other people,” swim coach Jennifer Heyer-Olson

Ian Vandaelle, a Canadian reporter who called for unvaccinated police to be fired and pushed for concentration camps for those who refused to get the Covid jab has died. He was 33.

Stand-up comedian Neel Nanda died unexpectedly this week at the age of 32 as tributes flooded in for the young rising comic. “He made our audiences smile and so happy,” Jokers Theatre & Comedy Club owner Dave Curran said Sunday. The cause of his death is not yet known. Deadline reports: “Neel Nanda, a stand-up comedian perhaps best known for his appearances on Jimmy Kimmel Live! and Comedy Central’s Adam Devine’s House Party, has died, his manager Greg Weiss confirmed to Deadline. The cause of death is not immediately known. He was 32.” “I [am] deeply shocked and saddened by...

“I’d describe it as catastrophic.” So said Food and Drug Administration commissioner Robert Califf in a recent series of tweets about a troubling but ignored problem: the major decline in life expectancy among young, working age people. In fact, the number of “unexpected or, ‘excess,’ deaths, which claimed 158,000 more Americans in the first nine months of 2023 than in the same period in 2019 … exceeds America’s combined losses from every war since Vietnam,” wrote The Hill last week. Some people want this problem to remain ignored, too. Just consider that “America’s chief health manager, the Centers for Disease...

JUST IN -- Honor guard collapses on live TV (CNN) in front of the casket of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.

A father-of-six died suddenly while rocking his baby daughter to sleep in suburban Kansas. Michael Snyder, a 42-year-old Air Force veteran, suffered the unexpected heart attack on December 2 at his home in Gardner. With Christmas just weeks away, his family has been left reeling, after losing whom they called 'a pillar of strength, a loving spouse, and a devoted father who touched all the lives of those around him.' His wife, Alicia, and eldest daughter, Merie, are among those struggling, and spoke in an emotional interview where they said it’s impossible to imagine both life and the holiday without...

A controversial Canadian corporate media journalist has died at just 33 years old, according to reports. Ian Vandaelle has died after being hospitalized and “declared neurologically dead,” his family revealed. Vandaelle was a business journalist who worked as a reporter and editor at the Financial Post. He was also previously a producer at BNN Bloomberg for over a decade. However, he was known to many on social media for his pro-Covid vaccine posts on Twitter/X. Vandaelle advocated for vaccine passports and mandates and called for the firing of anyone who refused the injections. He also suggested that unvaccinated people should...

33-year-old Canadian MSM journalist who heavily promoted the Covid-19 vaccine, advocated for vaccine passports, and the firing of those who refused the jab has died after being hospitalized and “declared neurologically dead. (Snip) ”Vandaelle had taken to social media multiple times, advocating for incentives to encourage Covid-19 vaccination, the implementation of vaccine passports, and the termination of those who refused the jab.In one social media post, Vandaelle stated, “I, for one, advocate we bring the carrot and the stick. Incentivize getting the vaccine however we like – ice cream, lotteries, literally whatever, I don’t care – and require vaccination to...