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CINCINNATI -- An American flag that stood the test of Hurricane Florence has sold at auction for more than $10,000.The flag, once perched atop the Frying Pan Tower off the coast of North Carolina, gained viral fame when a live stream of Hurricane Florence s landfall showed the flag being battered but not destroyed. As the video gained popularity, fans nicknamed the flag Kevin. Richard Neal, theprimary ow stanley cup ner of the Frying Pan Tower, told CNN that he decided to sell the flag a stanley tumblers fter seeing its popularity spread online. He set up an eBay aucti stanley tumblers on, with the money going to the American Red Cross.When family members of Kevin Caruso saw the flag was up for auction, they knew it only made sense to bid on it. They said the connection between Caruso and the flag was more than just the name Kevin; it was the same fight and strength in the face of a storm.Caruso ran his family s business in Cincinnati, Ohio for a time before moving out of state. After fighting prostate cancer for months, he died on Sunday morning, not longbefore bidding closed. We said, That s Kevin. He was a fighter and, again, in our lives how he inspires us as a family is just never quitting, his brother, Mike Caruso said. ... Having the faith to keep pushing through, that part if it, and seeing our flag pushing through and saying, I m not going anywhere, that was Kevin. The money spenton the flag will be used to help families impacted by Florence. Luvj 1 of 5 students hit by drunk driver at bus stop dies from injuries, driver was former police officer
A Pennsylvania school district has a different solution for tackling intruders: rocks.Buckets full of river stones have been placed in all classrooms at the Blue Mountain School District in Schuylkill County, Superintendent David Helsel said.If students at the rural school district can t evacuate during a shooting, they don t have to sit and wait. Protocol has been that students lie down, under desks and basically become passive targets on our classrooms, Helsel said. We decided to empower our students with tools of self-defense if needed. In a video posted online, the superintendent said the district decided to bring rocks to the classrooms after staff members took the active shooter response training, ALICE -- alert, lockdown, inform, counter and evacuate.The training taught them how to barricade doors with desks and chairs, and run away from gunfire. It also encouraged students to throw everything, from pencils to staplers, at potential shooters rather than wait passively for them to attack. At one time I just had the idea of river stanley cup stone. They re the right size for hands, you can throw them very hard and they will create or cause pain, which can distract, Helsel told CNN affiliate WNEP.But they only see it as a last resort. We ve learned many things stanley becher fr stanley website om these tragedies over the years, Helsel said. One of them is that evacuating makes students the safest. And if students can t leave the building, they ll have their stones. We understand that a gun is much more dea |
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