Video shows dangerous rescue of driver after truck goes over bridge

A driver was rescued from a truck dangling off a bridge inWest Virginiaamid snowfallafter being trapped for nearly five hours.

Video footage from the incident at a bridge in Southside, about 40 miles north of Charleston, shows a harnessed rescue officer pulling the man out of the dangling truck through the window before crews on the bridge pull them up to safety.

Vickie Flora, who filmed the dramatic rescue, told Storyful that the driver was rescued around 10:30 am. No injuries were reported.

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Vehicle was dangling '80-100 feet above ground'

Hurricane Mayor Scott Edwards, in apost on social media, said the incident involving a tractor trailer that went over a bridge occurred at 6:25 a.m. in the morning of Dec. 2 on Route 35 in Mason County. Edwards said the Hurricane Fire Department arrived at the scene to find "the cab dangling 80-100 feet above the ground."

A technical rope rescue team and other resources were quickly organized for the "critical and dangerous rescue," Edwards said, adding the driver "was successfully removed after spending 5 hours in the cab."

The Hurricane Fire volunteer firefighter was identified as Westley Quinn. Edwards said more than 20 first responders "assembled to pull off this highly dangerous technical rescue."

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The truck was reportedly hauling bricks

Local media outletWOWK, citing rescue crews, reportedthe truck was hauling bricks during a winter storm when it lost control, struck a concrete barrier, and skidded over the side of the bridge. The weight of the bricks is assumed to have prevented the entire vehicle from plummeting onto the road below.

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Death of Texas college student following football tailgate ruled suicide: Police

Themysterious death of Texas A&M student Brianna Aguilerahas been ruled a suicide, police said, noting a suicide note found on her phone and reported previous comments about self-harm.

The investigation began at 12:46 a.m. Saturday when officers responded to an Austin apartment complex and found Aguilera on the ground with trauma from an apparent fall from a high floor, Austin Police Detective Robert Marshall said.

Cameras showed Aguilera arriving at the apartment complex just after 11 p.m. Friday and going to an apartment on the 17thfloor, Marshall said at a news conference on Thursday. The video showed "a large group of friends left that same apartment at 12:30 a.m. on Nov. 29, leaving just Brianna and three other girls in the apartment," he said.

- PHOTO: Brianna Aguilera is shown in this undated file photo.

Earlier on Friday, Aguilera was at a tailgate for the Texas A&M vs. University of Texas football game, and she "became intoxicated to a point where she was asked to leave," Marshall said.

Aguilera told her friends that she lost her phone, and when they arrived at the apartment Friday night, she borrowed a phone to call her boyfriend, he said.

Witnesses heard her argue on the phone with her boyfriend, Marshall said. That phone call took place from 12:43 a.m. to 12:44 am -- two minutes before a 911 call, he said.

College student Brianna Aguilera mysteriously dies after football tailgate in Texas, family says

When police later found Aguilera's lost phone, they recovered a "deleted digital suicide note dated Tuesday, Nov. 25 of this year, which was written to specific people in her life," Marshall said.

"Brianna had made suicidal comments previously to friends, back in October of this year," he said. "This continued through the evening of her death, with some self-harming actions early in the evening and a text message to another friend indicating the thought of suicide."

No evidence in the investigation ever pointed to a crime, Marshall stressed, adding, "Every friend and witness during this investigation has been nothing but forthcoming and open."

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Aguilera's familytold local media earlier this weekthe beloved college student was not suicidal and was planning to pursue a career in law.

After Thursday's police news conference, family attorney Tony Buzbee maintained that the "circumstances surrounding her death are very suspicious."

"The Austin Police Department's handling of this matter creates more questions than it provides answers," Buzbee said in a statement. "As far as we are concerned, this is an open investigation and will continue to be open until these parents are satisfied they know what happened to their daughter."

Austin Police Chief Lisa Davis said at the news conference, "I understand how grief and the need for answers can raise intense emotions and many questions. But sometimes the truth doesn't provide the answers we are hoping for, and that is this case."

Davis said her "heart aches" for Aguilera's parents.

"I have three daughters and a son, and I cannot begin to imagine the pain," Davis said.

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Czech populist billionaire Andrej Babiš to move business to a trust to become prime minister

PRAGUE (AP) — Populist billionaireAndrej Babišsaid on Thursday he would get rid of his major businesses by moving them to an independent trust in order to be able to become the prime minister again.

Babiš said he believed the move would help him avoid a conflict of interest that could arise from his private dealings and his political status.

"I've decided to take a step that I never thought I would take," Babiš said in a video message on Facebook.

"I've decided to irrevocably give up the Agrofert company, with which I will never have anything to do again, I will never own it, I will have no economic relations with it, and I will not be in any contact with it," he said.

President Petr Pavel said after the announcement late Thursday he would appoint Babiš as prime minister on Tuesday.

Babiš, a former prime minister, owns some 200 companies under the Agrofert conglomerate.

He said an independent trustee will be in charge of Agrofert in a trust fund while it will be under control of an independent protector until he dies and then his descendants will inherit it.

Pavel asked Babišlast month to form a new government after his ANO (YES) movementwon parliamentary electionand saidlast weekhe was ready to swear him in as prime minister within a week if the businessman clarifies how he plans to avoid a conflict of interest.

ANO and two other small political groups, the Freedom and Direct Democracy anti-migrant party and the right-wing Motorists for Themselves, agreed to form a majority coalition government.

The parties have agreed to create a 16-member Cabinet with ANO holding eight posts and the prime minister. The Motorists would have four and the Freedom party three.

The three parties forming the coalition are critical of the EU and reject several of its policies, particularly on environment and migration. They are also expected to steer the country away fromsupporting Ukrainein its war against Russia's invasion.

Czech populist billionaire Andrej Babiš to move business to a trust to become prime minister

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Shannon Finney/Getty Grant Troutt and Madi Prewett

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NEED TO KNOW

  • The Bachelor star Madi Prewett has said she loves being "a submissive wife"

  • "It was a challenge for me at first. Now, it's, like, my favorite thing. I love talking about submission," she said on her Stay True Podcast

  • Prewett tied the knot with husband Grant Troutt in October 2022. The couple share daughter Hosanna, 10 months, together

The BacheloralumMadi Prewettis loving being "a submissive wife."

While speaking on the Monday, Dec. 1 episode of herStay True Podcast, Prewett, 29 — who was runner-up on season 24 ofThe Bachelorin 2020 — spoke to her husband Grant Troutt and guest Bryce Crawford about marriage and the latter's engagement to Maddy Dodd.

Prewett said on the podcast that she'd "learned a lot" about being "a submissive wife," admitting, "It was a challenge for me at first."

"Now, it's, like, my favorite thing. I love talking about submission," the reality TV star went on.

This isn't the first time Prewett has mentioned submission. Duringa June 2024 episodeof her podcast, she told her listeners, "As a wife, I'm called to submit, I'm called to respect, I'm called to honor."

"I'm called to love, I'm called to be committed and to keep our marriage bed pure, and to make him, other than God, my greatest priority," she added at the time.

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Elsewhere in the latest podcast episode, Prewett, who sharesdaughter Hosanna, 10 months, with Troutt, admitted engagement was "hard" for the couple.

The pair said their "I dos" on Oct. 29, 2022, exchanging vows in front of 400 loved ones at Troutt's parents' home in Dallas, Texas, aspreviously reported by PEOPLE. The ceremony came three months after their whirlwind engagement, which occurred just eight months into their relationship.

"Marriage, it's the most beautiful, humble, refining, wild adventure [and] best friendship. It's just, like, the best," the podcast host continued.

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However, she admitted, "Engagement was hard for us in a lot of different ways. There was just a lot going on, even in our personal lives outside of engagement season," adding, "[Grant's] grandmother passed away [and] there was just a lot going on in a short time."

"We had a three-month engagement. The world thought we were crazy. Maybe we were a little bit, but also we were just so excited to get married," she went on, stating that they'd "learned a lot in those three years" since tying the knot.

madiprew/Instagram Madi Prewett and her husband Grant Troutt with their daughter Hosanna

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When it comes to advice Prewett has for engaged couples or those thinking about marriage, she told the podcast, "Fight to unite and not to be right. That was one of the hardest things for me when we first got married."

"I just wanted to be right all the time, and it was my way or the highway. I learned a lot through prayer and humbling myself before God. He was, like, 'Actually, you got a lot of junk [that you need] to sort through.' It was very sanctifying," she continued.

Prewett and Troutt regularly open up about family life on the podcast.

In July,the couple sparked backlashafter saying they'd both be open to using spanking as a form of discipline, claiming that their beliefs were supported by the Bible.

Troutt went on to say that it would be "hilarious" when they started using spanking as a way of punishing their daughter, Hosanna.

"The Lord's discipline is always on the heels of disobedience or sin," he said during thepodcast episodein question. "So think about it, when you have a child, you don't just discipline them for being good and obeying you, right?"

"Like, if Hosanna obeys us, we're not like, 'Come here, girl, come here. Alright, pull 'em down, get that, you know, Mama, get here,' " Troutt continued. "Which will be hilarious, by the way, when we start spanking Hosanna. Which we will, on the record, because the Bible clearly says, 'Folly is bound up in a child, but discipline drives it far away.'"

Prewett agreed with her husband and also cited the Bible.

"It also specifically says discipline with a rod... Well, some people could say, 'You discipline them with time-outs.' Hold on, it says with a rod," she insisted.

Reps for Troutt and Prewett didn't immediately respond to PEOPLE's request for comment at the time.

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  • Jenny McCarthy is making the red carpet a family affair

  • The actress was photographed attending a movie premiere alongside her son Evan

  • McCarthy shares Evan with ex-husband John Asher

Jenny McCarthyis making the red carpet a family affair!

The model and actress, 53, was photographed attending the red carpet premiere ofFive Nights at Freddy's 2at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, Calif., on Tuesday, Dec. 2. In some photos, McCarthy posed with her 23-year-old sonEvan, who stood taller than her in the rare photos.

McCarthy could be seen wearing a burgundy sweater and carrying a purse, posing with her arm around her son. Evan — whom McCarthy shares with ex-husband John Asher — opted for black jeans and a black T-shirt, adding a jacket and smiling for the picture.

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Back in March, McCarthy appeared on an episode of Maria Menounos'Heal Squadpodcast and detailed harrowing moments from a serious health scare involving her son Evan. Before learning of his autism diagnosis, McCarthy said that he would have "life-threatening" seizures, and recalled a time when he went into cardiac arrest.

"Waiting for the paramedics when he went into cardiac arrest for that seizure — there's nothing worse," she recalled to Menounos. "He's 2½ years old. He's turning blue and I'm on the phone with 911, like screaming at them to hurry up and they can't come fast enough."

"I had so many conversations with God in that moment of like bring back my boy," said McCarthy, sharing that the paramedics had to bring her son back to life twice, and she contemplated taking her own life if he didn't survive.

"And, then I got the autism diagnosis shortly after that, I hit such a low course being compounded with that — the seizures and the autism diagnosis — I just remember crying so hard in the shower, like one of those scenes you see in a movie where you're like in so much pain, ... and that felt so helpless," she added.

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In 2007, McCarthy revealed that Evan had been diagnosed with autism when he was around 3 years old. Since then, she's been vocal about her son's diagnosis and even wrote a book about her experience raising a son with autism titledLouder Than Words: A Mother's Journey in Healing Autism.

"I know why God gave me Evan. He is a wonderful teacher and an inspiration to the world," she said during a 2008 appearance onOprah."It made me who I am today."

Now, Evan is exploring a career in music. In February 2023, he debuted his first original song, "It Doesn't Matter." He has said he was inspired to write the song by his celebrity crush,Selena Gomez, and worked on it alone for some time before presenting the lyrics to stepdad Donnie Wahlberg.

"One of the many reasons why I admire and respect Selena Gomez is her ability to be brave no matter what life throws at her," Evanexplained to PEOPLE. "I, too, have struggled with my health and relationships, and because Selena has been so open about her struggles, it has helped me find the confidence and inner strength to get through the toughest of times. I wrote this song to let her know how much I appreciate her, and I wish her all the love and happiness in the world because she deserves it."

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Brendan Fraser Shares Heartbreaking Truth About His Career After Oscar Victory

Brendan Fraser, once a staple of 1990s Hollywood, has come forward with apainful truthabout his inner life that persisted even through the highest moment of his career.

The 57-year-old actor, who won theAcademy Award for Best Actor in 2022forThe Whale, revealed in an interview with the Associated Press that despite the recognition, he continues to grapple with deep-seated self-doubt and insecurity.

Fraser's admission comes after a decades-long journey marked by both global success andpersonal anguish.

The actor explained how not only did he feel like his personal life was falling apart at one point, but that everything he fought for professionally was being taken away from him.

Brendan Fraser shared an intimate fact about his inner life that remains with him more than two decades after his hit,The Mummy

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"I struggle withconfidence. I always have the feeling of not being good enough," he told AP on November 19.

His breakout as the shirtless, endearing jungle man in 1997'sGeorge of the Junglemade him a household name.

By 1999, his role as adventurer Rick O'Connell inThe Mummyturned him into an international superstar.

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The 2000s welcomed him with hits likeBedazzled,Journey to the Center of the Earth, andThe Quiet American, however, his career began to fade from public view as the decade closed.

Behind the scenes,Fraserwas silently enduring a string of personal and professional setbacks that halted his momentum.

Fraser's meteoric rise to fame was followed by an equally swift descent

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First, his body gave out.

Years of doing physically demanding stunts left him battered. Between 2003 and 2010,Fraserunderwent multiple surgeries: a partial knee replacement, a spine surgery, and vocal cord repairs, among others.

He described spending "seven years in and out of hospitals" as a result of the toll his action roles had taken.

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Second, his marriage collapsed.

Fraser and actress Afton Smith, whom he married in 1998, divorced in 2008. They share three sons.

The split became contentious, especially after the actor was ordered to pay $50,000 per month in alimony and an additional $25,000 per month in child support, totaling $900,000 per year.

Asthe actor's financial situation deteriorated, he found himself unable to deal with the burden. In 2013, he petitioned the court to reduce the payments because his income had fallen significantly.

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Third, he went public with an assault allegation.

In 2018, Fraser toldGQthat in 2003 he was groped by Philip Berk, then-president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, at a luncheon in Beverly Hills. Fraser said the incident left him "panicked" and "ill."

Berk denied the accusation but admitted in his memoir to pinchingFraser's backside "in jest."

Fraser said breaking his silence could've led to Hollywood closing doors for him.

The actor said that despite becoming a world-renowned star, he has always struggled with self-doubt

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His Oscar-winning comeback inThe Whalemarked atriumphant return.

In the role, Fraser played Charlie, a reclusive and obese English teacher attempting to reconnect with his estranged daughter before his death. The performance drew critical acclaim and reignited public affection for the once-absent star.

Yet the self-doubt never left.

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AfterThe Whale, Fraser's first major role was in the indie filmRental Family, directed by Hikari and shot in Tokyo. In Japan, Fraser found a needed respite. He stayed in Minato City, rode moving sidewalks, and even rented a hedgehog at a local café.

"It was personally what I needed. I wanted to remove myself from whatever this place is, just for a while," he said.

He also passed time decorating a rubber deer for Thanksgiving archery with his kids and playingZelda: Tears of the Kingdom, which he described as his "place to float around at the end of the day."

Image credits:Montclair Film/Flickr

Now, after years of speculation, Fraser officially confirmed that he will return to theThe Mummyfranchise.  He said this upcoming fourth film would be "the one [he] wanted to make," and that he had been waiting "20 years for this call."

According to film‑industry outlets, the new installment will be directed by the team Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, with original co‑star Rachel Weisz reportedly in talks to return.

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Democratic challenger defeats Pittsburgh mayor in a primary after a clash over the party's futureNew Foto - Democratic challenger defeats Pittsburgh mayor in a primary after a clash over the party's future

Allegheny County Controller Corey O'Connor defeated Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey in the city's hotly contested Democratic mayoral primary, The Associated Press projected Tuesday, after a race that garnered national attention as a notable proxy fight between progressives and center-left Democrats. With more than 96% of the vote in, O'Connor led Gainey 53%-47% in the nominating contest. "Thank you, Pittsburgh,"O'Connor said on X. "We built this campaign with and for the people of this city, neighborhood by neighborhood. I'm proud to be your Democratic nominee for Mayor. I'm ready to get to work, and I'm grateful to have you with me as we take the next steps forward, together." Tuesday's election wasone of the first major Democratic primariessince the 2024 election in which the party's progressive and center-left wings faced off. And the mayoral race followed an election cycle in which Democratic governance of cities took center stage in Republican campaign messaging. In a statement, Gainey said that while the defeat "isn't what we hoped for, our people-powered movement in Pittsburgh is stronger than it's ever been before thanks to every person who was part of this campaign to build a city for all." "And that means Corey O'Connor must be ready to carry forward the transformational progress the people of this city demand and that he promised in his campaign," Gainey added. "The progress my administration delivered on affordable housing, policing, and community investments set a new bar that Corey will be expected to build upon." "From the bottom of my heart — thank you, Pittsburgh," his statement continued. "Let's keep fighting for each other." Gainey and his allies painted O'Connor, the county controller and the son of a former mayor, as beholden to President Donald Trump and monied real estate interests, pointing to campaign donations from Trump backers and developers. The mayor, who was first elected in 2021, also pointed to drops in violent crime, local job growth and the city's improved credit ratings to counter O'Connor, who portrayed Gainey as an unproductive mayor who's failed at managing city finances, its police department, and on general quality-of-life fronts O'Connor launched his campaign late last year, emerging as a favorite early on and raising more money than Gainey, though polling showed the race tightening as Election Day neared. Last month, both campaigns touted internal polling showing them with an advantage in the tough-to-model local race: Gainey's campaign survey showed him up 7 points, while O'Connor's showed him up by 4, though that was considerably closer than other polls his campaign touted earlier in the cycle that showed the challenger up double-digits. Gainey, the city's first Black mayor, won a contested primary in 2021, knocking off incumbent Mayor Bill Peduto in a three-way primary with a plurality of the vote. His win was part of a county-wide progressive advance, preceding wins by Rep. Summer Lee, D-Pa., and Allegheny County Executive Sara Innamorato, among other candidates on the left who have won major offices in the area in recent years. The Pittsburgh mayoral race elevated housing policy to the forefront of the local discussion. Gainey has sought to enact inclusionary zoning policies throughout Pittsburgh that require new developments to set aside at least 10% of units for affordable housing. Those policies currently apply to only a few neighborhoods, and O'Connor came out against making inclusionary zoning citywide policy. Meanwhile, a key point of contention in the race focused on just how many affordable units have been or are being built in the city since the start of Gainey's term as mayor.

Democratic challenger defeats Pittsburgh mayor in a primary after a clash over the party's future

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