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The Routt County Coroner's Office identified the victims as Aaron Stokes, 47, his son Jakson Stokes, 21, and nephew Colin Stokes, 21, and Austin Huskey, 37, all from Middle Tennessee.

TheFederal Aviation Administration(FAA) reported the plane crashed during the early morning hours of Feb. 13 near Steamboat Springs, a ski town in the state's northern region about 155 miles northwest of Denver.

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Cleanup continued at the industrial site near the Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport where a UPS plane crashed into in November on Jan. 13, 2026, in Louisville, Ky. In a February 2011 letter to airlines, Boeing noted failures with parts of the pylon, a structural component that connects the engine, during four incidents on three MD-11 airplanes, which is the same model of the UPS plane that crashed Nov. 4. After takeoff, the pylon and left engine UPS Flight 2976 detached from the wing, resulting in a catastrophic crash that killed 15 people, including the three crew members aboard the plane.

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Cleanup continues at site of deadly UPS Flight 2976 crash in Louisville

Cleanup continued at the industrial site near the Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airportwhere a UPS plane crashed into in Novemberon Jan. 13, 2026, in Louisville, Ky. In a February 2011 letter to airlines,Boeingnoted failures with parts of the pylon, a structural component that connects the engine, during four incidents on three MD-11 airplanes, which is the same model of the UPS plane that crashed Nov. 4. After takeoff,the pylon and left engine UPS Flight 2976 detached from the wing, resulting in acatastrophic crash that killed 15 people, including the three crew members aboard the plane.

According to a preliminary FAA report, the single-engine Epic Aircraft E1000 crashed under unknown circumstances near Emerald Mountain. Online flight tracking shows the plane took off from the Kansas City Downtown Airport just after 10 p.m., for Bob Adams Airport before it crashed southeast of the city-owned airport.

The plane, manufactured in 2024, was registered to ALS Aviation LCC in Franklin, Tenn.

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Aaron Stokeslived in Franklin according to information from his obituary,The Tennessean, part of the USA TODAY Network, reported.

Franklin is city in Williamson County, about 20 miles south of downtown Nashville.

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According to hisLinkedIn page, he founded Shop Fix Academy, owned and operated five auto repair shops and hosted a radio show "Fixin' Cars with Aaron Stokes" on 99.7 WTN.

In a post on Facebook, Annie Stokes called her brother "a great leader and coach and businessman."

"The loss has deeply impacted his family, the Shop Fix Academy team, and the broader automotive community," the company released in a statement onFacebook. "Stokes helped thousands of auto repair shop owners, and countless other business leaders, achieve meaningful growth in their businesses and leadership... His legacy extends far beyond financial performance."

USA TODAY has reached out to the victims' families.

Husky, his company, confirmed was the CEO of Husky Building Supply, also located in Franklin.

In a separate post onInstagram, Huskey Building Supply released this statement: "With heavy hearts, we grieve the unexpected passing of our CEO, Austin Huskey. Austin was a fearless leader, a gracious man, a devoted father and husband, and a faithful follower of Christ."

The National Transportation Safety Boardposted on Xit was investigating the cause of the crash.

Natalie Neysa Alund is a senior reporter for USA TODAY. Reach her at nalund@usatoday.com and follow her on X @nataliealund.

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A federal judge Monday ruled that the Trump administration wrongly removed slavery memorial panels that were placed at a historical Philadelphia site in 2002. The decision came after the Black activists who pushed the city to place the panels again organized in support of their presence last month.

The National Park Service removed several panels from the President's House in Philadelphia, citinga March 2025 executive orderby President Donald Trump to prohibit exhibitions or programs at federal sites based on race. President's House features exhibits about George Washington and among the 34 historical panels, 13 were created after a group of activists lobbied the city and the park service to include information about the nine men, women and children who were enslaved by Washington there.

U.S. District Judge Cynthia M. Rufe granted a preliminary injunction on Monday requiring the return of the panels, pending further litigation.

"We battled for eight solid years the grand opening of the first slavery memorial of its kind on federal property in the history of the United States of America," attorney and activist Michael Coard told NBC News before the judge's ruling. "What started me to do this was anger and rage and outrage."

The movement began in 2002 when the park service and the city of Philadelphia announced the Liberty Bell would move from a pavilionfacing Independence Hallto 6th Street and Market Street, the same location of George Washington's executive residence where he enslaved at leastnine people, including children.

Coard hosted a radio show on WHAT, during which he told listeners that the site was planned without a clear acknowledgment about the enslavement that took place there. It spurred the Avenging The Ancestors Coalition, which protested and raised funds — along with the city government — to pay for panels at the site.

The memorial opened Dec. 15, 2010.

Coard said his organization anticipated what was in store after the executive orders Trump signed upon returning to office last year. The panels were unceremoniously taken down a few weeks ago on Jan. 22.

"The common denominator of the 13 was that they highlighted the horror of slavery," Coard said of the panels. "Not just what we all know — a loss of freedom — but the beatings, the whippings, the rapes, the sodomy."

A spokesperson for the Interior Department, which oversees the park service, said "all federal agencies are to review interpretive materials to ensure accuracy, honesty, and alignment with shared national values." White House spokesman Davis Ingle said Trump "is ensuring that we are honoring the fullness of the American story instead of distorting it in the name of left-wing ideology."

Last week, more than 200 activists, residents and supporters protested the panels' recent removal.

The rally attracted people across political ideologies and ethnicities, said Gerry James, 36, who traveled to the event from Frankfort, Kentucky. James is the deputy director of the Sierra Club's Outdoors for All campaign, which is working with Avenging The Ancestors Coalition.

He said his parents often took him and his siblings to libraries and cultural tours to learn more about Black history, aside from the limited information that was present in his textbooks.

"It's just a lot of support for this issue of preserving Black history and preserving Black history as American history," James said.

Supporters pushed back against the administration's moves toward downplaying "our complex national history," specifically when it comes to Black American history.

Mijuel Johnson, a steering committee member of the coalition who also spoke at the rally, said the panels "are not just panels" but serve as a national memorial: "The very fact that this is a memorial to the enslaved people of the United States," and one of the first of its kind on federal property in the United States, he said, "is significant."

Coard's group — headed by University of Pennsylvania law professor Cara McClellan and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund — joined the city'slawsuitagainst the park service's acting director and the Interior Department.

"One, we're demanding restoration — put the 34 interpretive panels back where they were," Coard said before the ruling. "Two, we're demanding enhancement, which means to expand this President's House slave memorial site. And number three, we're seeking replication. We know that Black people have contributed mightily in every state in the country and maybe even every city in the country, so we want something like this on any federal property throughout the United States where Black folks were enslaved."

He and other activists are optimistic about the future of the site.

"We are passionate about this," Coard said, "and we're going to win this fight."

Judge Tana Lin of the Western District of Washington wrote that the man, Greggy Sorio, saw his health decline while in the facility, eventually suffering two partial foot amputation surgeries, ulcerative colitis, blood loss, a kidney injury, a deficiency in vitamin D and "dramatic unintended weight loss."

Lin wrote the "unreasonable treatment" of Sorio violated the Constitution and that Sorio be released.

Sorio entered the U.S. as a "lawful permanent resident" in 2007, according to the judge's order, and was detained by ICE in March after he was released from prison. He was being held at the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma.

In July, Sorio complained of blood in his stool, severe abdominal pain and yellowing of his skin and was denied requests to be sent to the hospital.

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By October, Sorio said he was "in extreme pain and could barely walk" and was sent to the hospital after several hours of waiting, the judge's order recounted. Although Sorio was prescribed an antibiotic at the hospital, the ICE facility staff did not fill the prescription and seemed to believe he had been diagnosed with "inflammatory bowel syndromes," an apparent reference to irritable bowel syndrome, the order noted.

A few days later, Sorio reported pain and swelling in his foot and said he was initially denied a hospital visit. When he went to the hospital on Oct. 22, he was determined to have a bone infection and went through two amputation surgeries.

Soriotold NBC's Seattle affiliateafter he was released on Friday, "If they had sent me to the hospital in July when I was begging them, I wouldn't lose my foot. It's preventable. They could have prevented this."

Sorio's criminal record, according to the affiliate station, includes "convictions for domestic violence, assault, theft, forgery and burglary."

Sorio told the outlet, "I did my time on it and I'm a better person now. Everybody has a past."

The Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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• Team USA's two duos in pairs figure skating were unable to medal at the 2026 Winter Olympics

• Emily Chan and Spencer Akira Howe finished above their teammates Ellie Kam and Danny O'Shea, but neither pair made the podium

• Kam and O'Shea will still go home with a medal, after winning gold in the team event on Feb. 8

Team USA is out of medal contention in pairs figure skating, after both American duos struggled with falls during their free skating program.

The two sets of pairs —Ellie Kam and Danny O'Shea, and Emily Chan and Spencer Akira Howe — made several mistakes during their routines, ending up with deductions that pushed them down in the overall standings on Monday, Feb. 16 at the2026 Winter Olympicsin Milan.

O'Shea, 34, and Kam, 21, came in Monday hoping to improve on their seventh-place position after the short program the day before. They scored 122.71 in the free skate, bringing their total to 194.58. Chan and Howe, meanwhile, were in ninth to start the night, but improved, with a 130.25 in the free skate and a total of 200.31, finishing ahead of Kam and O'Shea.

The duos ended up swapping places in the standings in the final part of the event, with Chan and Howe finishing seventh overall, and Kam and O'Shea two behind them in ninth.

"I'm a little disappointed, I wish that I could've held out a little bit longer for another clean skate," Kam told reporters, including PEOPLE, after the event. "I feel like we built so much great momentum here at this competition and every single time we've stepped out on the ice it's felt more comfortable."

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"Skating on Olympic ice is literally dreams coming true," O'Shea added, before joking, "This whole 17 weeks that we've been here has been an amazing experience. It's definitely one where we're feeling a little tired by the end of it, but we're very proud of the whole body of work that we put out across the time that we've been here and some programs were really, really good."

Howe told reporters, including PEOPLE, after the skate that they were "grateful" to be at the Olympics.

"There was so much pressure trying to get to the Games, and for here, now that we made it, it's that pressure of being able to skate great performances in front of such a large crowd," he said. "We work so hard to get to this stage, and then once you make it, it's kind of like your brain doesn't know how to process that. It's hard to explain. We felt really grateful to be here and then also to be able to skate as well as we did, it's a huge blessing for us."

While neither pair will be bringing home a pairs figure skating medal, Kam and O'Shea won't go home empty handed, afterthey won gold in the team eventon Feb. 8 alongsideIlia Malinin,Amber Glenn,Alysa Liu,Madison Chock and Evan Bates.

Ahead of their performance, Kam and O'Shea, who have been skating together since 2022,told PEOPLE their seasonhas been full of "a lot of ups and downs" for the both of them, namely injuries.

"We had a lot of injuries in the offseason and coming into this year, you know what it would mean to perform well and make it to an Olympic team and have the chance to represent the country," said Kam. "You want that so bad… and at times it felt like we were so far away from that end goal, and it felt like we were getting farther instead of closer."

In March 2025, O'Shea broke his foot doing off-ice jumps, and it happened just 48 hours before the duo was set to depart for the World Championships. They still competed, and finished in seventh place, helping Team USA earn a spot in the 2026 Winter Olympics.

O'Shea underwent surgery for the injury, which required two plates and 11 screws, according to U.S. Figure Skating.

Months later, Kam suffered a concussion, one of the worst of her career, during a practice. The head injury kept her off the ice for one month, forcing the pair to pull out of an August opportunity and a competition that September. The pair returned to competition at the top level just four months before taking the ice in Milan.

"[Talk about] resilience. Not just pure hard work, but overcoming another roadblock, another roadblock, another roadblock. We got disheartened for sure," O'Shea said while speaking to PEOPLE. "But [we were] not allowing that to stop us from continuing forward."

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And many of the millions watching at home will wonder,How does she do that?Very quickly followed by,Hey, why isn't she just throwing up on the ice right now from dizziness?

The answer to both questions — the ability to spin, and the ability to stave off dizziness — is the same: practice. Lots and lots of practice.

Let's start with a basic but neurologically complex question: What exactly is dizziness? You know it when you feel it, but what exactly is it?

"There are many causes of dizziness, but neurologically speaking, which I think is most relevant here, dizziness is caused by dysfunction of the vestibular system," Dr. Lindsay J. Agostinelli, an assistant professor of neurology at the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine, told Yahoo Sports in an email. "The vestibular system is an apparatus in our inner ears that detects head motion and rotation, sending signals to our brain to then turn our eyes in order to maintain balance and prevent dizziness as we move through space."

Skaters, like dancers, begin to prepare for spinning by focusing on a single spot in the distance as they spin, then turning their head quickly and relocating that point, Dr. Agostinelli notes. That allows them to quickly stabilize themselves and stave off dizziness.

But that method won't exactly work on ice, when skaters are whipping around five or six times a second. The only way to solve that problem, Dr. Agostinelli suggests, is by repetition, breaking down your traditional dizzy reaction to spinning.

"Research studies have shown that figure skaters actually have a less reactive vestibular system, and when exposed to a 'nauseogenic simulation' that rotated/ spun them, they felt less motion sick compared to non-skaters," Dr. Agostinelli says. "This is likely a result of their training which habituates their vestibular systems."

Fighting off dizziness is a mental battle that becomes a physical one. "I think initial training requires mental toughness to fight through the requisite dizziness," Dr. Agostinelli says, "but the ability to perform at high speeds without dizziness is clearly a result of the physical training and desensitization process."

So there you go. If you want to stay as level-headed as a skater, start spinning now.Carefully.

Hill, who turns 32 on March 1, is recovering from aseason-ending injurysuffered in a game against the New York Jets on Sept. 29 that required surgery to repair significant damage to his left knee, including a torn anterior cruciate ligament.

It is one of several major roster cuts the Dolphins made on Monday morning, the person said, speaking to the AP on condition of anonymity because the team had not made any announcements. Miami also will release two-time Pro Bowl pass rusher Bradley Chubb and cut offensive lineman James Daniels and receiver Nick Westbrook-Ikhine, the person said.

The Dolphins acquired Hill in a trade with Kansas City ahead of the 2022 season and gave him a $120 million, four-year contract extension that made him the highest-paid player at his position at the time.

His contract, which runs through 2026, would have represented around $51 million against Miami's cap.

Hill had consecutive 1,700-yard receiving seasons in his first two years with Miami, including a league-leading 1,799 yards and 13 touchdowns in 2023. The five-time All-Pro entered the 2025 season aiming to regain that elite form after a relatively down year in 2024, when he had 81 catches for 959 yards — his lowest totals in both categories since 2019.

He had 21 receptions for 265 yards before he was hurt while making a catch in Miami's Week 4 win against the Jets. Hill was running toward the sideline and planted his left foot, and his knee twisted as he was getting pulled down. He was carted off the field and placed on season-ending injured reserve on Oct. 1.

In an October podcast interview, Hill, who has played 10 NFL seasons, said he was undecided on whether he plans to retire.

"At the end of the day, I feel like that decision is based upon how I feel and where my mindset is at the moment," he said on the podcast of Terron Armstead, Hill's former Dolphins teammate. "I'm happy with the career that I've had. I love playing football. I love it, but it takes a lot. It takes a lot on you mentally, it takes a lot on you physically.

"I'm at the point now where I need to have a conversation with mom, family, everybody. Wherever my mind is at the time, the decision will be made, but I know right now, I haven't had time to live in the moment."

Hill's Dolphins tenure was characterized by tremendous production on the field coupled with numerous rocky moments off the field,including an altercationwith police outside of Hard Rock Stadium ahead of the 2024 season opener, and pulling himself from that season's finale andlater indicatinghe wanted to play elsewhere.

Bradley Chubb is another star Dolphins player on the move

Chubb spent the past three seasons with the Dolphins after being traded to Miami from Denver in 2022.

He suffered a gruesome knee injury late in the 2023 season that required surgery to fix a torn anterior cruciate ligament, meniscus and patellar tendon in his right knee and sidelined him all of 2024. Chubb had 11 sacks — the most he had in a season since getting 12 as a rookie in 2018 — in 2023 before the injury.

Last season, Chubb's 8 1/2 sacks led the team. He represented a $31 million cap hit for 2026.

New general manager Jon Eric Sullivan, who was hired by the Dolphins last month along with head coach Jeff Hafley, was expected to begin making moves to overhaul Miami's roster.

"We will move with responsible aggression here," Sullivan said when the Dolphins introduced him on Jan 22. "We will utilize every avenue of player acquisition to bolster this roster."

Dolphins still appear undecided on QB Tua Tagovailoa

Sullivan still faces the question on whether to move on from 2020 first-round pick Tua Tagovailoa, who was benched by former Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel toward the end of last season because of poor play.

Tagovailoa signed a four-year, $212.4 million extension in July 2024, but has since shown a decline in accuracy and mobility. Tagovailoa finished 2025 with 15 interceptions, second most in the NFL and a career high.

He is guaranteed $54 million for 2026, and the Dolphins would incur significant hits to the salary cap by releasing him. Cutting him would result in a $99 million dead cap charge. If the move is designated as a post-June 1 release, those charges are split over two years, with $67.4 million allocated to the 2026 cap and $31.8 million in 2027.

Sullivan said last week at a fan event that he doesn't know "what the future holds right now."

"And I told Tua that," Sullivansaid. "We're working through some things. What I can tell you is that we're going to infuse competition into that room — whether Tua is part of the room, whether he's not part of the room."

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The revelation comes after Minnesota Gov.Tim Walzand other officialsexpressed hope that federal authorities would cooperatewith the state in an investigation into the killing of Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse whose death triggered nationwide protests andbipartisan calls for an independent investigation.

The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, which specializes in investigating police shootings and has often worked with federal authorities, vowed to move ahead with its own probe but acknowledged the challenges posed by the FBI's decision to withhold evidence.

"While this lack of cooperation is concerning and unprecedented, the BCA is committed to thorough, independent and transparent investigations of these incidents, even if hampered by a lack of access to key information and evidence," the agency said.

The FBI, which is leading its own probe into the Pretti shooting, declined to comment.

The move is the latest development in a series of battles between state and federal authorities over investigations into shootings by federal officers during amonthslong immigration enforcement surgein Minnesota.

The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension says it has also been stonewalled from evidence and case materials related to the fatal shooting ofRenee Nicole Good, a mother of three, and a shooting thatleft a Venezuelan maninjured.

Minnesota state and local authorities promised to independently investigate each of the shootings, but it remains unclear whether state prosecutors will be able to bring charges against the federal agents,who are largely protected from prosecution.

Independent investigations have been among the top demands from Minnesota state and local officials, as well as federal lawmakers from both parties, as outrage mounted over the shootings. Pretti's death prompted particularly intense pushback as footage of the incidentundermined assertions made by top Trump administration officialswho said Pretti had "brandished" a firearm and acted as an "assassin."

Videos show Pretti filming federal agents with his phone before he was taken to the ground, disarmed and shot in the back. The Department of Homeland Security said two agents opened fire, both of whom have beenplaced on leave.

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Within hours of Pretti's death, the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension and a local prosecutor's office went to court to gain access to the scene and even obtained a search warrant, a move officials in court records said was incredibly unusual.

"In my 20-plus years at the BCA, prior to 2026, I had never encountered a situation in which federal authorities blocked BCA access to an incident where there is concurrent federal and state jurisdiction," Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension Superintendent Drew Evans said.

U.S. District Judge Eric C. Tostrud issued a restraining order barring federal authorities from destroying or altering evidence related to Pretti's death. In early February, Tostrud dissolved his initial order.

TheU.S. Justice Department openeda civil rights investigation into the Pretti shooting, which could potentially lead to criminal charges against the officers involved, though there is a high legal bar to bring such a case. Customs and Border Protection has opened an internal investigation into the shooting.

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The Justice Department declined to investigate the Good shooting, saying there's"no basis" for such an inquiry. That decision, and a push from top DOJ officials to instead investigate Good's wife, led to a wave of resignations at the U.S. attorney's office in Minnesota, according to multiple news outlets, includingThe New York TimesandNBC News.

ICE said it opened an internal investigation and is reviewing the conduct ofJonathan Ross, the agent who shot Good.

Separately, the Justice Department and ICE are investigating whether the two officers involved in a shooting that injured Venezuelan immigrantJulio Cesar Sosa-Celison Jan. 14 in Minneapolis lied under oath. Federal authorities launched the probe after video evidence appeared to contradict the officers' initial statements about the shooting.

Contributing: Reuters

Christopher Cann is a national breaking news reporter for USA TODAY. Contact him via email at ccann@usatoday.com.

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