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Missouri infant dies after mother 'accidentally' places baby in oven instead of crib: police
A Kansas City, Missouri mother has been arrested after allegedly placing her 1-month-old daughter down for a nap inside the oven instead of her crib, killing the baby, authorities claim.
Mariah Thomas, 26, has been charged with first-degree endangering the welfare of a child resulting in death, and could face between 10 years to life if found guilty.
According to the charging documents, officers with the Kansas City Police Department were dispatched to a house on Forest Avenue at about 1:30 p.m. on Friday, for reports of an infant that was not breathing.
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Mariah Thomas was arrested after allegedly placing her infant daughter in the oven instead of her crib while putting the child down for a nap. (Jackson County Detention Center)
When officers arrived, they spoke with the caller who was holding the 1-month-old child, who appeared to have burn wounds on the body. The Kansas City Fire Department also responded to the scene and pronounced the baby dead.
A preliminary investigation discovered Thomas went to put the child down for a nap and “accidentally” placed her in the oven instead of the crib, charging documents show.
Police said the infant sustained thermal injuries on various parts of her body, as she was clothed in a bodysuit and a diaper.
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The clothing, police added, appeared to have melted onto the diaper. Also located in the living room was a baby blanket with significant burn marks, as well as a pack and play containing baby blankets.
“We acknowledge the gruesome nature of this tragedy, and our hearts are weighted by the loss of this precious life,” Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker said. “We trust the criminal justice system to respond appropriately to these awful circumstances.”
The investigation into the matter is ongoing.
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DETROIT (WXYZ) — Two men are dead after being shot in the early morning hours of Sunday, in what police say were separate incidents.
Both shootings took place in between 3 a.m. and 3:30 a.m. We’re told that one shooting happened in the 19000 block of Kelly Road on Detroit’s east side, and the other happened in the 8700 block of Quincy Street on Detroit’s west side.
Authorities say that the circumstances that led up to each of these shootings are unknown. No suspects have been arrested in relation to these cases.
New Berlin West, Pius XI Catholic speak after relay title victories
Pius XI Catholic and New Berlin West each won WIAA Division 2 state relay track titles. Hear from both squads after their victories.
LA CROSSE – The 2026 WIAA state girls track and field season concluded Saturday, June 6 with the state meet at Veterans Memorial Complex on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.
The event schedule was altered due to lightning and rain toward the end of competition Friday that resulted in some Division 2 and 3 events, along with the wheelchair shot-put competitions, pushing to Saturday.
Here’s a recap of Day 2 action, including 15 state champions crowned from the Milwaukee area. Arrowhead also won its third straight Division 1 state team title in dominating fashion, becoming the first team since Milwaukee Bradley Tech from 2009-11 to three-peat in the state’s biggest division.
Arrowhead’s trio of Bott, Eicher and Schroeder bring home four titles and relay win
Before the Myrhum Invitational in May, Arrowhead boys track and field coach Chris Herriot said this version of the girls team might be the best unit in program history.
Four individual titles and a relay title later, and Herriot may have been correct in his analysis of the back-to-back-to-back D1 state team champion.
Arrowhead’s charge to 70 points was sparked by its talented trident of Avery Bott, Payton Eicher and Elise Schroeder. Bott captured the 400 meters after finishing second as a junior. Eicher won the long and triple jump double, while Schroeder shattered the D1 pole vault state meet record of 12 feet 9 inches by going 13-6 for her third straight title. Eicher and Schroeder added a relay title and 10 more team points with fellow seniors Josie Bularz and Giselle Huggett in the 400 relay(46.52 seconds).
“It’s really exciting,” Eicher said. “We’ve been running relays together since freshman year, so, like, getting to this point where we’re still, we’re able to be so confident in our abilities that we can just have fun with it and feel relaxed and do our best.”
It was a bittersweet day for the Warhawks in a final adieu to the program for its core group of seniors.
“It’s been a year of gratitude,” Huggett said. “Standing on the line, it felt like we were all sad. I was crying at the starting line. We’ve just been through it all together as a team. We were second in the 4×1 last year and winning it after last year for us was really special.”
Brookfield Central’s Rinkam does the sprint double despite scary tumble
One of the weekend’s biggest gasps from the crowd at Roger Harring Stadium came at the end of the D1 100 final that saw Brookfield Central junior Kyenret Rinkam repeat as champion. Rinkam became the first back-to-back champion in the event since Dezerea Bryant from Milwaukee Bradley Tech in 2010 and 2011.
But Rinkam took a hard stumble across the finish line that made many worry for a moment. Despite some cuts to her left shoulder and skin coming off her chin, Rinkam rolled over without missing a beat into her arms raised to signal the repeat had been completed. She got bandaged up, won the 200 final and also helped the Lancers make the podium in the 1,600 relay final with a fifth-place finish.
“It was really cool,” Rinkam said with a giant smile on the win despite the fall.
“But I don’t think I realize … I didn’t notice my shoulder was all banged up, so someone just told me, ‘Kenny, your shoulder!’ I was like, ‘Oh my gosh!’ It was a lot worse than I thought it was. It’s definitely a little sore. The top layer of my skin isn’t there, so it’s not the greatest situation, but overall, the muscles are perfectly fine.”
Dominican’s Knautz ends career with three medals
Dominican senior sprinter Sydney Knautz’s mentality heading into her final day with the Knights program was simple: run to win.
The UW-Parkside commit broke the D3 100 meet record in the preliminary heats and then broke her own record to win the final in 11.94 in a dead heat with Madison Country’s Batteh Doumbya.
“Run to win,” Knautz said. “I wanted to come out here and win. I’ve dreamed of being here and winning a state title for so long. This was amazing.”
Knautz came within 0.04 of a second of Mishicot’s Juliana Doerner in another epic battle to the line in the 200. But three medals, including a sixth-place medal in the 400 relay with Laylah Bly, Alaya Scott and Flynn Martin-Burd Aronin, capped a strong showing.
“I wouldn’t be here without my coaches,” Knautz said. “They’ve always had the belief in me to do great things and I wouldn’t be here without them. They push me to be great.”
New Berlin West three-peats as D2 800 relay champ
Death, taxes and New Berlin West winning relay titles.
For the third straight year, the Vikings won the D2 800 relay, breaking their meet record with a time of 1:40.25. They became the first school since Catholic Memorial from 2016-18 to three-peat in the 800 in any division.
“We’ve ran together for the past four years, we’ve broken this record together three times,” Caroline Gerovac said. “I’m grateful for every second, every moment. I’m really gonna miss this group.”
Gerovac, along with Aubrey Lane and Ashley Babcock, have been the foundation of the team during their three-year dominance. The faces have changed three times with the graduating Natalie Leupi, sophomore Raquel Gerovac and freshman Harmony Billups joining the quartet this season, but the beat goes on.
The Vikings added one more relay title for good measure, storming through the staggered start in Lane 1 to bring home another gold medal in the 1,600 with Caroline’s sister Raquel joining the team with Babcock and Lane.
“Being with three seniors, I just put my heart into it and get behind them and do whatever they can do,” Billups said. “I just try my best to keep up with them.”
Pius XI Catholic rolls to 400 relay title with senior-less lineup
No seniors, no problem for Pius XI Catholic’s 400 relay unit.
Pius’ group of TyJah Horton, Samara Crowley, Nyomi Seals-Presti and Alanna Loyd couldn’t dethrone New Berlin West in the 800 final, but a crown resides on their heads after setting a meet record in the D2 400 relay final in 47.76.
“Really practicing hard and keeping our stamina up to do these relays back-to-back like this,” Horton said on what’s been the secret to their success.
“We check up on each other and make sure we’re all good. We’re really going for it all,” Seals-Presti added.
The group has two juniors in Seals-Presti and Loyd, but with sophomore Horton and a freshman in Crowley, the sky’s the limit fmoving into next season.
“The flow of the relay, the communication with everybody, that plays such a crucial role,” Loyd said. “If there’s bad communication, it’s not gonna go how you want it to go. But if the communication’s good with us, it’s going to be smooth every single time.”
Whitefish Bay’s McCabe overcomes stress fracture to win 3,200 title
Missing six weeks with a stress fracture in your foot isn’t the most ideal way to start your high school athletic career, but for Whitefish Bay freshman Karstin McCabe, she’s not just any other freshman.
It took some recovery time, patience and belief she could return from the foot injury to a high level, and that setback set up for a true comeback. Not only did McCabe return from the injury to finish third in the D1 state cross-country meet this past fall, she’s now a state track champion after cruising to a 3,200 title in her first appearance in La Crosse.
“A really big tool that I used was an anti-gravity treadmill,” McCabe said about the recovery process. “I feel like I learned a lot of things from that and I learned a lot of things about myself and what my body can and cannot do. It was a really big learning experience for me.”
McCabe had been one of the top 3,200 runners in the state all season and proved it in the final, racing to a time of 10:24.22, almost 13 seconds ahead of second place.
“I felt super happy,” McCabe said when she stepped to the top step on the podium. “I was thinking back at all those times I was in the boot during cross-country season and just dreaming about times like this. I was really, really happy about it.”
Other Milwaukee-area champions
Slinger freshman Lucy Rate had a wonderful debut at state, capturing titles in the 100 and 400 wheelchair events. Rate was a one-woman show, capturing the wheelchair division’s runner-up trophy with 31 points across four events.
Mukwonago’s 800 relay of Rileigh Black, Libby Gnewuch, Emma Craig and Laela Presendofer won the D1 title in 1:39.39, leading a 1-2-3 finish for the area with Arrowhead in second (1:40.52) and Germantown third (1:41.504). Presendofer took home three medals to conclude her career with a third in the 100 and a fourth in the 200.
West Bend West senior Rylee Faehling had been the top 300 hurdler in the state all season and she capped her career with a state title. Faehling went 42 seconds flat in the D1 event, her third medal of the day after finishing third in the 100 hurdles and running the anchor leg on the Spartans’ fifth-place 800 relay team.
Other area athletes with podium finishes
- Grafton’s team of Callie Faust, Abby Barthelemy, Emily Sewell and Cali Tagliapietra finished third in the D2 3,200 relay in 9:20.01. University School’s quartet of Ksenija Marich, Anastasia Marich, Cate Kohli and Ainsley Polston finished fourth in 9:34.27. Sewell, Barthelemy, Tagliapietra and Melanie Morgan also finished second in the 1,600 relay in 3:57.41.
- Slinger’s 3,200 relay team of Stella Gruendemann, Piper Schuster, Ava Dziedzic and Olivia Helmle finished as runner-up in D1 in 9:06.30, just over two seconds behind Menomonie (9:04.13).
- Sussex Hamilton’s Macy Price completed the podium in the D1 100 hurdles in sixth in 14.71 (14.708) seconds. Price added a second hurdles medal with a time of 44.27 in the 300 to take third.
- Pius XI Catholic’s TyJah Horton finished fifth in the D2 100 in 12.434 seconds. Horton, Samara Crowley, Alanna Loyd and Nyomi Seals-Presti also finished second in the 800 relay in 1:41.48. Loyd finished sixth in the 200 final in 25.28. Pius senior Mya Gencuski finished third in the pole vault at 12 feet even.
- Five of the top six finishers in the D1 100 came from the area. Mukwonago’s Laela Presendofer took third (11.83), Arrowhead’s Payton her took fourth (11.827), Kettle Moraine’s Caitlin Blawat was fifth (11.97) and Arrowhead’s Avery Bott was sixth (11.98). Bott also finished third in the 200 in 24.10. Presendofer finished fourth in 24.29, while Blawat was fifth in 24.40.
- New Berlin West sophomore Raquel Gerovac finished fifth in the D2 800 in 2:16.75. She also ran the third leg on West’s title-winning 1,600 relay. Gerovac’s relay teammates Ashley Babcock went third-fastest in the 200 final in 24.52, while Aubrey Lane was fifth with in 24.93.
- Brookfield Central junior Ava Mohns finished fifth in the D1 discus with a best throw of 133-5.
- Catholic Memorial’s quartet of Evelyn Melzer, Kayla Campione, Julia Nicholas and Samantha Sarner took fifth in the D2 1,600 relay in 3:59.73.
- Five of the six podium places belonged to Milwaukee-area teams in the D1 1,600 relay won by Stevens Point as Waukesha West (3:52.39) took second, Germantown came back to take third (3:52.77), Pewaukee finished fourth (3:52.91), Brookfield Central took fifth (3:55.00) and Brookfield East grabbed the final podium spot in sixth (3:55.64).
Top 10 team finishers across each division
Division 1: 1. Arrowhead 70, 2. Neenah 42, 3. Appleton North 38, 4. Menomonie 30, 5. Oshkosh West 29, 6. Mukwonago 28, 7. Slinger 27, 8. Holmen 26, 9. West Bend West 25, T-10. Brookfield Central 21, Germantown 21.
Division 2: 1. Bloomer 56, 2. Kettle Moraine Lutheran 37, 3. Xavier 36, T-4. Osecola 35, New Berlin West 35, T-6. Pius XI Catholic 34, Hayward, 8. Mount Horeb, 33.5, 9. Berlin 27, 10. Edgewood 21.
Division 3: 1. Ladysmith 34.5, 2. Assumption 34, T-3. Cameron 33, Cochrane-Fountain City 33, 5. Deerfield 27, 6. Kickapoo/La Farge 24, 7. Randolph-Cambria-Friesland 23, 8. St. Mary Catholic 22, 9. Dominican 21, 10. Mishicot 20.5.
Wheelchair: 1. Sun Prairie East 52, 2. Slinger 31, T-3. Viroqua 24, Greenwood 34, T-5. Chippewa Falls 6, Brookfield East 6, 7. Wauwatosa East 5, 8. Kenosha St. Joseph 3.
MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) – A weekend air quality alert has been issued for much of Minnesota, with health officials warning that ozone pollution could pose risks for residents.
Air quality alert covers majority of MN
What we know:
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency issued an alert for western and southern Minnesota, including the Twin Cities, Brainerd, Alexandria, Albert Lea, Marshall, Worthington, Rochester, Hinckley, St. Cloud, Winona, Ortonville, Mankato, East Grand Forks, Moorhead, and the Tribal Nations of Upper Sioux, Mille Lacs, Prairie Island, Leech Lake, and White Earth.
The alert runs from noon Saturday, June 6, through 11 p.m. Sunday, June 7. Ozone levels are expected to reach the orange AQI category, which is considered unhealthy for sensitive groups.
High ozone levels are expected during Saturday and Sunday afternoons, with conditions improving after sunset and again Sunday morning before rising in the afternoon.
Health officials recommend moving outdoor activities outside the afternoon hours to reduce exposure.
Why you should care:
Unhealthy ozone levels can aggravate lung diseases like asthma, emphysema, and COPD. Symptoms may include difficulty breathing, shortness of breath, throat soreness, wheezing, coughing, or unusual fatigue.
People at higher risk include those with asthma or other breathing conditions, children, teenagers, people doing heavy outdoor activity, and some healthy individuals who are more sensitive to ozone.
Precautions and pollution reduction tips
What you can do:
Everyone should take precautions when air quality is unhealthy. Limit or postpone physical activity, avoid busy roads and wood fires, and keep relief inhalers handy if you have breathing conditions.
To help reduce ozone pollution, officials suggest reducing vehicle trips, filling up gas tanks at dawn or dusk, using public transportation or carpooling, postponing use of gas-powered lawn equipment, and avoiding backyard fires.
Ozone is produced on hot, sunny days when volatile organic compounds and nitrogen oxides react with sunlight. The current weather forecast of mostly sunny skies, warm temperatures, and low humidity is creating ideal conditions for higher ozone levels across the region.
The Source: Information from the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency.
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