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3-Year-Old In State Family Service Custody Died Inside Hot Car Parked For Hours: Lawyer
A 3-year-old Alabama boy who died while in the care of the state's Department of Human Resources was found inside a hot parked car on Tuesday after he was picked up from his father's scheduled visit. Ke'Torrius Starks Jr. was living in temporary foster care at the time of his death and was picked up from day care by a third-party DHR contract provider for a planned visitation with his father, Ke'Torrius Starks Sr., the child's aunt Brittney Debruce told However, the 3-year-old never returned back to the day care once the visitation was over. Courtney French, who is representing the child's family, told ABC affiliate WBMA-LD the child's visitation with his biological father ended at around 11:30 a.m. that morning and was picked up by a third-party contract worker. However, Ke'Torrius Starks Sr. did not hear about his son's well-being until 6:40 p.m., French told the outlet. He said police informed Starks that the child was found unresponsive inside a vehicle that was parked for over five hours. 'Based upon a preliminary investigation, with the current extreme outside temperatures and the heat index of 108 degrees, the interior temperature of the car where KJ was trapped likely exceeded 150 degrees,' French said, calling the incident 'a heartbreaking and preventable tragedy.' French told the outlet the worker had stopped to pick up food for her family after picking up Ke'Torrius from the visitation, then shopped at a tobacco store before returning back to her home, leaving the boy outside, fastened in his car seat. Ke'Torrius was pronounced dead once Birmingham Fire & Rescue Service arrived, according to a press release shared with HuffPost. The contract worker was taken in for questioning and authorities claimed she had 'accidentally' left the boy inside the car. DHR told HuffPost in an email 'the provider has terminated their employee' and due to confidentiality, they cannot comment further regarding the exact circumstances surrounding Ke'Torrius' death. In a statement to WBMA-LD, Ke'Torrius' family called the boy's death 'a parent's worst nightmare,' adding, 'our baby should be alive.' Related... Nine Migrants Have Died In ICE Custody Since Trump Took Office, ICE Head Says Temperature In New York City Reaches 100 Degrees As East Coast Swelters Under Extreme Heat Wave Hundreds Of Temperature Records Could Be Broken During This Week's Dangerous Heat Wave
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NFL players, employees fined for selling Super Bowl tickets: reports
More than 100 NFL players and dozens of club employees are to be fined or suspended for selling their allocations of tickets for this year's Super Bowl on secondary markets, US media reported on Friday. ESPN reported that players who sold allotted tickets will be fined one-and-a-half times the face value of the tickets sold and be barred from receiving tickets to the next two editions of the Super Bowl. Players amongst those caught will be given the option of purchasing tickets if their team reaches the Super Bowl in 2026 or 2027. Players who decline to pay the fines face being suspended, ESPN cited league and union sources as saying. ESPN quoted an NFL memo sent to teams which said employees and players had sold tickets to "bundlers" working with a ticket resale site. Tickets to the Super Bowl are consistently one of the hottest -- and most expensive -- tickets in North American sport, fetching as much as $10,000 on resale sites. "Our initial investigation has determined that a number of NFL players and coaches, employed by several NFL Clubs, sold Super Bowl tickets for more than the ticket's face value in violation of the policy," NFL chief compliance officer Sabrina Perel wrote in the memo. Perel cited "long-standing league policy" which "prohibits League or club employees, including players, from selling NFL game tickets acquired from their employer for more than the ticket's face value or for an amount greater than the employee originally paid for the ticket, whichever is less." Perel added that the league will enhance mandatory training before Super Bowl LX for all league personnel to emphasize the rules and "the broader principle that no one should profit personally from their NFL affiliation at the expense of our fans." The league, meanwhile, also planned to improve training to avoid a repeat, with the possibility of stiffer sanctions for future offenses. "No one should profit personally from their NFL affiliation at the expense of our fans," Perel wrote in the memo. rcw/js
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More than 100 NFL players and coaches scalped tickets to Super Bowl LIX
The NFL's secondary ticket market is a very profitable business, but when folks are simply scalping tickets, well, the NFL and its teams don't love that. And they definitely don't love it when players and club employees do it for a Super Bowl. But that is apparently what happened at Super Bowl LIX, played on Feb. 9 at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans. And the league, which frowns on this, caught the scalpers. The NFL can track the tickets to its games and has the digital capability to confirm if the people who purchased a Super Bowl ticket actually used it. So the NFL is fining approximately 100 players – 100! – and two dozen club employees for violating league policy of selling Super Bowl LIX tickets above face value, a league source told OutKick on Friday. The story was first reported by the Associated Press. The NFL isn't done. There is an ongoing investigation into the matter. The actual amount of the fines will vary. Players who resold their tickets will have to pay 150 percent of the face value of the ticket they originally bought. Those players will also forfeit their privilege of buying tickets to future Super Bowls unless they're actually playing in the game. Club employees who were caught scalping will be fined 200 percent of the face value of the tickets they purchased. No names of the players or other employees already caught are known. What is known is that coaches were involved as well as players. The players and coaches apparently sold their tickets to so-called "bundlers" who were working on behalf of a ticket reseller, who then marked up the price of the tickets a second time. This isn't the first time this has happened, although the scale this year is quite something. Former Minnesota Vikings head coach Mike Tice admitted to scalping part of his allotment of Super Bowl tickets in 2005. Tice was eventually fined $100,000 by the NFL. Super Bowl LIX tickets were averaging around $4,708 on the secondary market the week of the game, according to various reports. The cheapest tickets started around $2,668 on TickPick, while the most expensive seats, particularly those close to the field and sidelines, exceeded $10,000. Some seating for the game between the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles climbed to prices as high as $50,000.
