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An athletic trainer performed CPR for 10 minutes after an Upstate middle school basketball player went into cardiac arrest during a game, according to the school. (Video above: Morning headlines from WYFF News 4) Denny Vauters, of Southside Christian School, said on Tuesday night, during the junior varsity basketball team at Brashier Middle College, that eighth grade student Kamari Williams (K Will) experienced a seizure and cardiac arrest.

LEXINGTON, Ky. — A Lexington eighth-grader has been charged with wanton endangerment after allegedly putting crumbled peanut butter cookies in the lunchbox of another student with a severe allergy to peanuts. The allergic student, also an eighth-grader, did not eat the cookies and did not suffer a reaction. Fayette County schools spokeswoman Lisa Deffendall says the incident occurred Thursday on the Morton Middle School running track, where students had gone to eat lunch and enjoy the warm weather. She says it was well known the other student suffered from severe peanut allergies. She says there was no known history of...