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HADDONFIELD, N.J. - A South Jersey mom says she has a ‘Hail Mary’ of a request — and thousands of people are now sharing her plea for help on Facebook.Kim O’Callaghan says she saved more than a decade of her son’s t-shirts and jerseys, and had a quilt made for him, that he can bring to his first year of college at Franklin Marshall later this summer."It’s something they can actually wrap themselves up in if they’re homesick, things like that, in their first year of college especially," she says.In late-May, when dropping off what she thought was a bag of leftover shirts she didn’t use for the quilt at a Goodwill in Haddonfield, she accidentally dropped off the quilt instead.O’Callaghan says she had no idea until she went to wrap the quilt on Saturday, and found the leftover shirts in the tote instead."That moment when I realized what I had done was just horrible," O’Callaghan said.After searching at a number of local Goodwill locations, Kim decided to post about what happened on Facebook. It instantly took off—getting thousands of shares."I thought maybe if I just put this on there, maybe 10 to 15 of my family members will share it, who knows I might get lucky," O’Callaghan said.

UPPER MERION, Pa. - A South Jersey woman will spend at least a dozen years behind bars for her role in a crash that killed a firefighter in Lower Merion Township nearly two years ago. Jacquelyn Walker, 64, of Egg Harbor Township, pleaded guilty last fall to third-degree murder and other charges related to the July 2021 crash on the Schuylkill Expressway.Investigators say Walker drover her Jeep onto the shoulder of the expressway, crashing into a group of firefighters responding to a crash. Thomas Royd  Firefighter Thomas Royds was killed and three other first responders were injured. "He died for us, so we'll go serve for him, and that's where we stand to this day," a former colleague of Royds told FOX 29.Toxicology reports confirmed that alcohol was not a factor in the deadly crash.

A stillframe from bodycam video shows Sunrise Police Sgt. Christopher Pullease grabbing an officer by the throat when she tried to deescalate a situation involving a suspect.

Courtesy: Martin County Sheriff's Office PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. - A South Florida man who deputies say boasted about his lucrative dog breeding business online found himself fighting for his life when three men posing as dog buyers robbed him at gunpoint, carjacked him and held him captive for two days before he was able to summon help from an alert deputy. According to the Martin County Sheriff’s Office, Tsdekiel Sellers, 22, of Atlanta, Benyahveen Radcliffe, 25, of Buffalo, and Kashaveeyah Bragdon, 22, of Tallahassee, who claim to be a part of the Israelites, drove to the victim’s Port St.

DELRAY BEACH, Fla. - A South Florida woman who had been missing for weeks was rescued from a storm drain after a passerby heard her cries for help, fire rescue officials said."She was lucky," Delray Beach Fire Rescue spokeswoman Dani Moschella told the South Florida SunSentinel. "I don’t know how much longer she would have been OK down there."MORE NEWS: Kids found clinging to paddleboard over a mile off Florida coastThe woman was reported missing on March 3.

DELRAY BEACH, Fla. – A South Florida woman is recovering in the hospital after she was found naked and stuck in a storm drain, WPLG-TV reported.

POMPANO BEACH, Fla. – A South Florida woman who set fire last fall to 10 garbage trucks outside a solid waste business where she worked has been arrested, authorities said.

HIALEAH, Fla. – A South Florida anesthesiologist is facing a hate crime charge, as well as other charges, after she attacked a Hispanic man who asked her to maintain social distancing inside a Publix, authorities said.

A South Florida man has pleaded guilty to fraudulently obtaining $3.9 million in federal coronavirus loans and using some of the money to buy a Lamborghini Huracan.

MIAMI – A South Florida nurse fraudulently obtained about $420,000 in coronavirus relief funds, federal prosecutors said.Giraldo Caraballo, 55, of Miami, made his initial appearance Friday in Miami federal court. He's charged with engaging in transactions in unlawful proceeds and making false statements to a financial institution.Caraballo applied for and received a Paycheck Protection Program loan on behalf of his company, Professional Skills Inc., according to a criminal complaint.

TAMARAC, Fla. – A South Florida man fatally shot his wife and mother-in-law before killing himself while his three young children were in the house, according to authorities.The Broward County Sheriff's Office received a call about a shooting early Saturday. Once deputies arrived at the home in Tamarac, they were able to help the children, ages 4, 8 and 11, out of the house through a bedroom window, according to a sheriff's office news release.A SWAT team entering the house found Clody Sylverne and a woman dead.

(Courtesy: WSVN) MIAMI - A South Florida woman who has spent the last nine months in the hospital battling COVID-19 has finally gotten the chance to go home.WSVN reports that 41-year-old Rosa Felipe, a technician at Miami's Jackson Memorial Hospital, contracted the virus back in March.Felipe, who has underlying health issues, spent the last nine months in the hospital -- including two months in the ICU.RELATED: World War II veteran beats COVID-19 in time for his 104th birthdayShe has spent the last six months re-learning how to walk and get dressed.

MIAMI – A South Florida man and woman are accused of trying to obtain $1.1 million in federal coronavirus relief loans for businesses that didn't exist.Latoya Stanley, 38, and Johnny Philus, 33, who are neighbors in Miami, were charged in a complaint unsealed Wednesday with wire fraud and making false statements, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida said in a news release.The complaint alleges that Stanley claimed to employ 18 people for a beauty supply business and five for a farm at her Miami home.

MIAMI – A South Florida man has been accused of fraudulently obtaining $60,000 in federal coronavirus relief loans.Judlex Jean Louis, 32, of Lauderhill, was arrested and charged last week with bank fraud, making false statements to a financial institution and aggravated identity theft, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida said in a news release Monday.Louis received proceeds from three fraudulent Paycheck Protection Program loans in early June, according to a criminal complaint.

MIAMI – A South Florida man fraudulently obtained $3.9 million in federal coronavirus relief loans, using some of the money to buy a $318,000 Lamborghini Huracan, prosecutors said.David T. Hines, 29, of Miami, was arrested and charged last week with bank fraud, making false statements to a financial institution and engaging in transactions in unlawful proceeds.Defense attorney Chad Piotrowski said Hines is a legitimate business owner who is anxious to tell his side of the story.Hines applied to a bank for approximately $13.5 million in Paycheck Protection Program loans on behalf of different companies, according to a criminal complaint.

DAVIE, Fla. – A South Florida police chief has announced his retirement months after an investigation into alleged remarks he made about the coronavirus death of an openly gay Broward Sheriff's deputy.Davie police Chief Dale Engle told town officials last week that he plans to retire on Sept. 3, the South Florida SunSentinel reported.

FOX 29's Jennifer Joyce reports.