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High School Football Player Dies On Field Moments after Scoring Touchdown – Video

“We have come to terms that Luke, our beautiful gift from God, is no longer with us,” Luke’s father, David Schemm, said. “Luke gave everything in life he had, in every moment. As a son, a brother and a friend.”

A high school football player collapsed and died moments after scoring a touchdown, NBC station KSN reported.

Luke Schemm’s on-field death was the 11th fatality related to high-school football since July, the affiliate reported, citing figures from the National Center for Catastrophic Sport Injury Research in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

The 17-year-old high-school senior was playing for Wallace County High School in Sharon Springs, Kansas, when he scored a touchdown in the middle of the third quarter on Tuesday, his father told reporters. The teen ran to the sidelines and collapsed moments later.

Schemm was transferred to a hospital near Denver, Colorado, where doctors declared him brain dead. The announcement that the teenager was taken off life support was made by the family’s pastor during a vigil Wednesday night, according to KSN.

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This Teenager Kills Himself After His Favorite Cartoon Character died

Leonid Hmelev, 14, jumped to his death from an apartment block after his favourite TV character died

A 14-year-old boy leapt more than 100ft to his death from the top of an apartment block in Chaikovsky, Russia, after seeing his favourite manga character killed in a cartoon.

Police say Leonid Hmelev died instantly.

The boy was reportedly devastated after seeing the death of the character Itachi Uchiha in the animated movie ‘Naruto – Hurricane Chronicle’.

He left home after posting a message on a social networking site saying he was also ‘planning an ending’.

His worried parents raised the alarm after he did not return home and a search was organised together with neighbours.

After being missing for two days his body was found yesterday and he was identified by his devastated father Ivan, 38.

He said: ‘I always told him he spent too much time watching the TV – he didn’t know what was reality and what was fiction anymore.’

Teenage suicide in Russia is endemic. It has the third-highest teenage suicide rate in the world, just behind its neighbours Belarus and Kazakhstan and more than three times that of the United States. 

On an average day, about five Russians younger than 20 kill themselves.

Popular Naruto character Itachi Uchiha. The teen was distraught when the character died. His father says his son struggled to separate reality from fiction

Psychiatrists and health experts in Russia blame alcohol abuse, domestic violence, rigid rules and high expectations from parents.

Itachi Uchiha is a character in the popular Naruto comics and animated TV series. He is treated as an antagonist for much of the series, but was much-loved by Japanese TV and comic enthusiasts.

Chaikovsky is a town in Perm Krai, Russia. It is named after the composer Tchaikovsky, who was born in nearby Votkinsk.

Read more: DailyMail

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‘Fresh Prince’ Dad James Avery Dead At 65

James Avery — the beloved dad on “Fresh Prince of Bel Air” — has died at age 65 .. TMZ has learned.

Sources close to the actor tell TMZ he died in an L.A. hospital last night. Avery had recently undergone surgery for an undisclosed illness and took a turn for the worse late yesterday.

And we’re told his wife, Barbara, had been at his bedside but left for a short period of time to get something to eat.  When she came back, she learned he had just died.

Story developing….

Read more: http://www.tmz.com/2014/01/01/james-avery-dies-fresh-prince-of-bel-air-actor-will-smith-alfonso-ribiero/#ixzz2pApOxtpM

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Senator Frank Lautenberg Dies at 89

Frank Lautenberg, a self-made multimillionaire businessman who became a leading liberal in the U.S. Senate and championed smoking bans, gun control, airline safety and rail transportation, died on Monday at 89, an aide said.

Lautenberg, who was the Senate’s last surviving World War II veteran, died from complications of viral pneumonia, the aide said. His office said in February 2010 that he had been diagnosed with cancer and would have chemotherapy and that June he said he had recovered completely.

A co-founder, former chairman and chief executive of the payroll services company Automatic Data Processing, he was elected as a Democrat by New Jersey voters to five six-year terms in the Senate.

He was first elected in 1982, running after incumbent Democrat Harrison Williams quit in a bribery scandal.

Lautenberg retired from the Senate in 2000, saying he was tired of chasing campaign contributions. But in 2002 he came out of political retirement at age 78, filling the seat of Robert Torricelli who dropped his re-election bid amid corruption charges involving improper gifts from a businessman.

Lautenberg was re-elected in 2008 at age 84.

“Almost as soon as I announced my retirement I had pangs of regret,” Lautenberg told The New York Times in 2002. “There’s an old Irish saying that describes my philosophy well: ‘To rest is to rot.'”

Lautenberg had numerous legislative accomplishments. A former smoker, he convinced Congress to bar smoking on domestic airline flights and in federal buildings. He was a strong supporter of gun control and author of a 1996 law prohibiting people convicted of domestic abuse from having guns.

For years a leader on transportation subcommittees, Lautenberg obtained funds for Amtrak, the national passenger railroad, and for New Jersey’s commuter railroad to enable it to expand its network. A key rail station on the Northeast Corridor rail line was named in his honor.

He wrote the law that required U.S. states to set 21 as the drinking age as a condition of getting federal highway aid, a move he said had saved tens of thousands of lives.

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Leave It To Beaver Star Dies At 71

Frank Bank, who played the clumsy bully Clarence “Lumpy” Rutherford on the beloved late ’50s TV series “Leave It to Beaver,” died on April 13 — one day after he celebrated his 71st birthday.

According to People magazine, no cause of death was reported.

Bank’s “Leave It to Beaver” co-star Jerry Mathers took to his Facebook page to share a few words about his pal on Saturday, writing, “I was so sad to hear today of the passing of my dear friend and business associate Frank Bank, who played Lumpy on Leave it to Beaver. He was a character and always kept us laughing. My deepest condolences to Frank’s family.”

Bank was born in a Los Angeles hospital corridor during an air raid drill in 1942, according to the NY Daily News. One of his first acting jobs was playing the young Will Rogers in a 1952 film biography titled “The Will Rogers Story.” And in addition to his gig on “Leave It to Beaver,” Bank guest-starred on numerous shows in the 1950s, including “Father Knows Best” and “Cimarron City.”

He reprised his role as “Lumpy” in the 1983 TV movie “Still the Beaver” and the 1980s series “The New Leave It to Beaver.” Bank also appeared on “Hollywood Squares” and “Family Feud” in the early ’80s.

h/t The Huffington Post

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Bonnie Franklin – Mom On ‘One Day At A Time’ – Dies At 69

Bonnie Franklin, star of TV’s “One Day at a Time,” died Friday at her home in Los Angeles, suffering complications from the pancreatic cancer she had revealed in September. The actress was 69.

Later Friday, her sitcom daughters shared their thoughts online.

Valerie Bertinelli, who played the younger of divorced mom Ann Romano’s kids on the long-running show, said simply on Twitter, “My heart is breaking.” She included a snapshot of herself with Franklin.

She continued on her website.

“Bonnie has always been one of the most important women in my life and was a second mother to me,” Bertinelli wrote. “The years on ‘One Day At A Time’ were some of the happiest of my life, and along with Pat [Harrington Jr.] and Mackenzie [Phillips] we were a family in every way. She taught me how to navigate this business and life itself with grace and humor, and to always be true to yourself. I will miss her terribly.”

“Remembering my friend. Rest in peace. Bonnie Franklin,” tweeted Mackenzie Phillips, who too posted a picture of herself with her onscreen mom.

When Franklin herself was a youngster, her parents enrolled her in acting classes.

“I was a bookworm, and my mom felt I should get out of myself,” she told The Times in a 1987 interview. “My four brothers and sisters also had lessons, but I’m the only one who took them seriously.”

It was a path that would lead Franklin to one Emmy nomination, one Tony nod and two Golden Globe nominations, from her career on Broadway as well as on the small screen, most notably on “One Day at a Time,” which ran from 1975 to 1984.

h/t LA Times

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