A 7-year-old Nevada girl died after being struck by a falling boulder at a ski resort on Saturday, officials said.
Adelyn Grimes, from Reno, Nev., was identified by the Washoe County Regional Medical Examiner’s Office after the incident at Diamond Peak Ski Resort in Incline Village, just miles from the shores of Lake Tahoe.
“The unexpected death of a child is an unimaginable loss that no one could prepare for,” Grime’s aunt, Sabina Grimes, wrote in a GoFundMe. “Our beloved brother and sister have suffered a significant loss with the recent passing of their precious daughter Addie.”
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Adelyn Grimes, 7, died from a freak accident at Nevada ski resort on Saturday. (Facebook/Ivy Grimes)
Medical services were alerted to a “non-skiing accident involving a child” at the ski resort around 3:38 p.m. on Saturday, March 29, the resort said in a statement.
“The Diamond Peak Ski Patrol responded immediately and provided first aid while emergency services were en route,” the statement said. “Despite the emergency medical team’s best efforts, the child succumbed to their injuries.”
Fox News Digital confirmed that her cause of death has been ruled “accidental” by the Washoe County Regional Medical Examiner’s Office.
The medical examiner’s office said that the young girl died from blunt force injuries to her neck and chest.
The mountains and trees along Highway 50 are covered in snow as viewed on Jan. 28, 2017, near South Lake Tahoe, California. (George Rose/Getty Images)
The Washoe County Sheriff’s Office, which is investigating the death, described the incident as a “non-skiing accident,” calling it “tragic.”
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They noted that they believe that there is no foul play involved.
People ski at Diamond Peak above Incline Village on April 21, 2024.
The child was a member of the Sugar Bowl race team, which was competing in an under-12 skiing championship at the resort, the Reno Gazette Journal reported.
“The entire Diamond Peak Ski Resort family has been deeply affected by a tragedy that occurred Saturday, March 29, 2025, at the resort,” the resort said.
Counseling and support services have been made available to staff impacted by the incident.
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California’s billionaires are not the only ones fighting back against the state’s largest health workers union this election season. Now the clinics are too.
The California Primary Care Assn., which represents more than 2,300 community health clinics, and Open Door Community Health Centers filed a lawsuit Thursday to stop Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West from placing an initiative on the November ballot that would dictate how clinics spend money.
The clinic measure is less prominent than the billionaire-backed fight against a wealth tax, but recently came closer to appearing before voters.
The clinic’s lawsuit, which was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, argues that the union’s ballot measure would interfere with federal laws and regulations that place strict spending requirements on nonprofit health clinics that serve low-income patients.
Joey Cachuela, general counsel for the clinic association, said in a statement the initiative threatens patient care. “We are filing this preelection challenge and need the courts to act to prevent this drastic measure from ever going to the ballot. Patient lives are at risk,” Cachuela said.
Renée Saldaña, a spokesperson for the healthcare workers union, said the proposed initiative was “legally sound” and called the lawsuit a “desperate attempt by the clinic industry to avoid accountability.”
Dr. Elizabeth Sophy, right, who is a part of Father Joe’s Villages Street Health Team, examines Devlin Chambers at an encampment in downtown San Diego on March 22, 2024. Chambers, 60, said he has a pinched nerve in his back.
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Last month, union members turned in more than 1 million signatures to qualify the “Clinic Funding Accountability and Transparency Act” for the ballot. The union collected nearly double the number of signatures required to place the proposal before voters.
Under California’s election rules, proposals that gather enough signatures qualify for the ballot after the secretary of state’s office verifies their validity.
The union proposal would require federally qualified health centers to spend 90% of revenue on services that fulfill the stated mission to “provide primary and preventive care to low-income and underserved populations.” It would also punish clinics that do not adhere to this spending formula and place the money in a state-operated account that could later be used for worker training and staffing programs.
“It is the intent of this initiative to create a reasonable minimum standard of mission-directed spending … to ensure clinic patient service delivery and workforce stability is prioritized over management and overhead spending,” the initiative states.
Union leaders and members argue that clinics spend too much money on executive pay and administrative overhead and too little on patients. They also contend that some clinics spend only half of their revenue on direct patient care, an allegation that clinics call misleading.
“We have one message for our clinics: Put patients first. It’s time for an end to wasteful spending. It’s time to make sure clinics are putting their money in patient care and not CEO pay,” said Brisa Barrera, a medical assistant from Santa Rosa Community Health during an April rally to celebrate delivering the signatures.
The clinic association, however, argues that the initiative would illegally force hundreds of community health centers to close by stripping nearly $2 billion from health systems.
Tory Starr, chief executive of Open Door Community Health Centers, which operates clinics in Humboldt and Del Norte counties, said the measure would be “devastating” to the organization’s rural patients and would result in layoffs, reduced services and closures.
A nearly identical version of the ballot initiative failed to pass in the state Legislature earlier this year.
The initiative is one of three measures the union has submitted to the ballot. Another aims to limit healthcare executive pay at $450,000, and SEIU-UHW is also backing the “billionaire’s tax” that has drawn ire from both Democrats and Republicans.
Hwang writes for CalMatters.
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