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Freak Accident Sends 12-Year-Old NJ Baseball Player To ICU
A prayer vigil on Thursday, May 28 drew dozens of family members, teammates, coaches, and supporters for a 12-year-old South Jersey baseball player who remains in critical condition after a freak accident earlier this week.
Xavier Taylor, who plays for Maple Shade Youth Baseball, was accidentally struck by a ball during warmups on Tuesday, May 26, and was airlifted to Cooper University Hospital, according to 6abc. He remains in intensive care.
Meanwhile, support for Xavier and his family continues to pour in from across South Jersey's tight-knit youth baseball community. More…
Bruce Springsteen Announces Star-Studded 'Power To The People' Protest Festival
Bruce Springsteen is turning up the volume on a fight he has already taken to the stage.
Springsteen's representatives announced on Thursday, May 28, that he will return to the DC area on Saturday, Oct. 3, as a special guest at the first-ever "Power to the People" festival. The post described the event as "another night of music and resistance."
The one-day, two-stage event will be held at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland, according to the festival announcement.
Tom Morello, the Rage Against the Machine guitarist and activist, is curating the festival, which organizers…
Tragedy In The Poconos: LI Boy, 12, Killed In Rafting Accident On School Trip
A 12-year-old Long Island boy was killed in a rafting accident on a school trip to the Poconos in Pennsylvania on Wednesday, May 27.
Cesar Albarracin Guncay, a sixth-grader in Sag Harbor Union Free School District, was one of five people on a raft in the Lehigh River when it turned over, Newsday reported. The other four were rescued safely, authorities said.
Albarracin Guncay was pulled from the water and taken to a nearby park, Marvin Gardens, where he was pronounced dead, officials told Newsday. His autopsy was scheduled for Thursday, May 28.
The youngster was described as “a kind, hands…
