2 U.S. Children Die from Group A Strep — Here's What Parents Should Know

A child at a doctor’s appointment.Photo: GettyTwo Colorado children have died due to severe strep infections as the country experiences a rise in pediatric cases.TheColorado Department of Public Health and Environment(CDPHE) confirmed the two cases last week, stating in a press release that both children, not yet school-aged, died from invasive group A strep infections. The last pediatric death from group A strep in the state was in 2018.Additionally, the CDPHE has reported 11 cases of invasive group A strep in children aged 10 months to 6 since Nov.

2 U.S. Veterans Detained by Russia After Fighting for Ukraine Have Been Released, Family Members Say

Photo: twitter “We are thrilled to announce that Alex and Andy are free,” a joint statement from their families viaFacebookread. “They are safely in the custody of the US embassy in Saudi Arabia and after medical checks and debriefing they will return to the States.” Alexander J. Drueke and Andy Huynh.Alexander J. Drueke/Facebook; Courtesy the Black Family “We deeply appreciate everyone’s prayers and especially the close communication and support of our elected officials, Ukrainian Ambassador Markarova, and our members of the US embassies in Ukraine and Saudi Arabia and the US Department of State,” the statement continued.

2 Winners Come Forward to Claim $1.3 Billion Mega Millions Jackpot Nearly 8 Weeks After Drawing

Photo: Getty ImagesThe$1.3 billion Mega Millions jackpothas finally been claimed.Nearly two months after the numbers were drawn, the winner of the third-largest jackpot in U.S. history has stepped forward, according to theIllinois Lottery.The sum will be split between two people who had agreed to do so and have “stayed true to that word,” Illinois Lottery said.The ticket was purchased at a Speedway gas station in Illinois earlier this summer.“They stopped into the Speedway in Des Plaines and grabbed a Mega Millions ticket while they were there,” Illinois Lottery Director Harold Mays said, according to a press release.

2 Women Are the Only Passengers on 175-Seat Southwest Plane, Receive Once-in-a Lifetime Experience

These TikTokers proved there is still such a thing as a luxury flight experience — but even they couldn’t predict it. Before reaching the gate for their Southwest Airlines flight back home to Phoenix from Salt Lake City, best friends Natalie Wolfley and Savannah Sargent learned that their flight would not be what they expected. Girls on empty flight.Natalie Wolfley/TikTok Natalie Wolfley/TikTok In the now-viral video Wolfley shared onTikTok, both women expressed pure joy and confusion on how all the right circumstances led to the aerial miracle.

2 Women Found Stabbed to Death in Apartment on Christmas Day in Attack that Wounded 2 Other People and Dog

Joanne Pearson; Teohna Grant.Photo:Thames Valley Police Thames Valley Police Two women were fatally stabbed in their U.K. apartment on Christmas Day and now a 49-year-old man is charged with double murder in connection with their deaths as well as the non-fatal stabbings of two other people. Just after 6:30 p.m. on Wed., Dec. 25, Thames Valley Police were called about a report of a stabbing at an apartment on Santa Cruz Avenue in Bletchley, Milton Keynes,the department said in a statement.