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Mar. 16, 2025

18-Year-Old High School Basketball Player Dies After Suffering Cardiac Arrest During Game

Photo: GoFundMe An 18-year-old high school basketball player died Monday after going into cardiac arrest during a basketball game. Cartier Woods, a senior at Northwestern High School in Detroit, was put on life support after collapsing during a game on Jan 31. According to Cartier’s high school basketball coaches, assistant coach Roland Eason and head coach Pierre Brooks, Cartier began to feel dizzy at the start the game. “Coach, I’m dizzy,” Cartier said, according to Eason’srecollection of the gametoThe Detroit-Free Press.

Mar. 16, 2025

18-Year-Old Murder Suspect Allegedly Lured Man With Sex to Robbery, Fatal Shooting

Photo: Dallas County Jail An 18-year-old Texas woman is charged with murder after allegedly using the promise of sex to lure a man out of his apartment so three men could rob him and his roommates at gunpoint, which eventually led to the victim’s shooting death, say police. She has not yet entered a plea and remains held in the Dallas County Jail on $500,000 bail, according to online jail records.

Mar. 16, 2025

18-Year-Old Said He Made Snapchat Video of Kevin Spacey Sexually Abusing Him at a Bar: Police

Photo: Daniel Zuchnik/WireImage The man who accusedKevin Spaceyof sexually assaulting him in a Massachusetts bar in July 2016, when he was 18 years old, told police that he filmed part of the incident, PEOPLE confirms. Spaceywas charged with felony sexual assaultin December, more than a year after the accuser’s mother,Heather Unruh, went publicwith the allegationthat Spacey had abused her son. The reports show that the then-teen told investigators he and Spacey both drank heavily that night, after the teen finished his shift as a bus boy, and that others at the bar independently reported seeing Spacey with his accuser.

Mar. 16, 2025

18-Year-Old Shares Emotional Cancer Journey: 'Life Should Never Be Taken for Granted'

Photo: Sophie Ruiz Two days before her 17th birthday, Sophie Ruiz was diagnosed with Stage IV high-risk neuroblastoma cancer. Then a junior in high school, the West Hempfield, Penn., teen went through five rounds of chemotherapy, four rounds of immunotherapy, a stem cell transplant and proton radiation therapy, spending the majority of the school year in the pediatric cancer unit at Hershey Hospital (now Penn State Children’s Hospital). At the start of her senior year, Sophie was battling pneumonia and still recovering from her stem cell transplant.

Mar. 16, 2025

18-Year-Old Suspect in Texas High School Shooting Arrested & Charged After Turning Himself in

Photo: Arlington Police Department Timothy George Simpkins, the 18-year-old suspect in the Arlington, Texas highschool shootingthat left four injured, has been arrested and charged. On Wednesday, just hours after the crime, Simpkins was taken into custody and charged with three counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, the Arlington Police Department said in astatementshared on Facebook. Contact information for Simpkins' attorney could not immediately be found. Brenda Van Sickle, the Arlington police public information officer (PIO), previously told PEOPLE that police were called to the scene of the crime at about 9:15 a.