Thanksgiving

When TikToker Brigette Pheloung received the “casual” dress code for her family’s Thanksgiving plans in November, she didn’t show up to the function in traditional fall attire. No, she arrived in an ensemble that was more fit for Paris Fashion Week than a cozy dinner at home — and one with a price tag equivalent to about eight pairs of Jimmy Choo shoes. Naturally, she documented the moment — and the reactions it received — online. On Nov. 28, Brigette, who goes by the moniker Acquired Style on the Internet,...

A second suspect has been arrested in connection with a shooting that killed two men in west Fort Worth on Thanksgiving night. Tai Sanders, 17, was booked into the Fort Worth City Jail on Thursday, Dec. 19. She faces a charge of capital murder, jail records state. Officers responded to reported gunshots at an apartment complex in the 2800 block of Broadmoor Drive the night of Nov. 28. They found three men with gunshot wounds, police said. Javon Xavier Gayton, 18, was pronounced dead at the scene. J Tavian Lee...

LEHI — Thanksgiving Point celebrated the grand opening of its newest educational attraction: a five-story tall interactive playground themed around the Jurassic period. A ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Mountain America Jurassic Jungle was held Monday in the Museum of Ancient Life. The jungle playground is the largest prehistoric playground in Utah and was built in the area that used to be an IMAX theater inside the museum. "You can spend the whole day there just exploring. It's going to really make a difference for the children, and we are proud...

Russell Allen explores the play area as Thanksgiving Point opens its new Jurassic Jungle play area in what was previously the IMAX theater space on Monday, Dec. 16, 2024. In Thanksgiving Point’s newest venue, the combination of learning and play is cleverly molded into five stories of Jurassic Jungle. As the largest indoor prehistoric playground in Utah, those who visit the Mountain America Jurassic Jungle will be immersed in a prehistoric-themed play, feeding T. rexes, jumping over hot lava and escaping danger down a five-story corkscrew slide. Thanksgiving Point Co-Founder...

Carolina Panthers rookie sensation Xavier Legette is going viral after revealing his hottest food take — that he likes raccoon and even ate one for Thanksgiving. On the "St. Brown Podcast" released Tuesday, Legette told fellow NFL wide receivers Amon-Ra and Equanimeous St. Brown that he eats raccoon, leaving the two speechless for a moment before asking Legette to clarify his statement. In his thick South Carolina accent, Legette spelled it out for the podcast hosts. "Like a raccoon you see in the trash can," he said. "I hunt it....

Miami-Dade police arrested a man who they say was behind the wheel during a deadly hit-and-run near Miami International Airport on Thanksgiving day. Gerson Jean, a 36-year-old ramp worker at MIA, was driving his 2021 gray Kia K5 sedan shortly before 4 a.m. on Nov. 28 when he hit a man who was walking eastbound on the Central Boulevard Expressway. Miami airport’s closed caption television cameras filmed the incident and photographed the car’s license plate, which police say is registered to Jean, of Lauderhill. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue paramedics transported the...

A California man crusaded through a homeless camp for his stolen merchandise after thieves robbed him over Thanksgiving, the New York Post reported. It was the day before the holiday, and owner Will Luna had just closed up his “Extraordinaire Arcade” in San Bernardino, California. Not long after, a woman hiding in the store’s attic dropped in and let 18 others into the store, where they would spend the next two nights. The thieves ransacked Luna’s shop, even stealing a whole arcade unit. “There was an X-Men 4-player that was...

The family of a teenage boy who was fatally shot by police in Ohio on Thanksgiving is speaking out after bodycam footage of the shooting has been released. “I’m just really devastated,” Ashley Greene, the mother of 15-year-old Jazmir Tucker — who died on Nov. 28 — said, per WOIO-TV and New 5 Cleveland . “Jazmir was a great kid, very humorous. I just don’t know what to say.” Another one of the teenager’s family members, identified as Miss Cotton, said that Tucker was “always laughing.” She added, “Everybody loved...

Bodycam footage released by the mayor and police chief of Akron, Ohio, where police killed a 15-year-old boy on Thanksgiving night, offers little clarity on the events leading up to the officer-involved shooting. Jazmir Tucker was fatally shot in Akron on Nov. 28 just before 11 p.m. According to a police press release, a pair of patrol officers were parked in the Sherbondy Hill neighborhood at the time, reviewing an unrelated case, when they heard gunshots ring out nearby. The officers exited their cruiser to investigate, and almost immediately encountered...