Tennessee businessmen among 4 killed in Colorado Springs plane crash

Authorities have released the names of four people, including two Tennessee businessmen, who died in plane crash bound for northern Colorado late last week.

The Routt County Coroner's Office identified the victims as Aaron Stokes, 47, his son Jakson Stokes, 21, and nephew Colin Stokes, 21, and Austin Huskey, 37, all from Middle Tennessee.

TheFederal Aviation Administration(FAA) reported the plane crashed during the early morning hours of Feb. 13 near Steamboat Springs, a ski town in the state's northern region about 155 miles northwest of Denver.

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Cleanup continued at the industrial site near the Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport where a UPS plane crashed into in November on Jan. 13, 2026, in Louisville, Ky. In a February 2011 letter to airlines, Boeing noted failures with parts of the pylon, a structural component that connects the engine, during four incidents on three MD-11 airplanes, which is the same model of the UPS plane that crashed Nov. 4. After takeoff, the pylon and left engine UPS Flight 2976 detached from the wing, resulting in a catastrophic crash that killed 15 people, including the three crew members aboard the plane.

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Cleanup continues at site of deadly UPS Flight 2976 crash in Louisville

Cleanup continued at the industrial site near the Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airportwhere a UPS plane crashed into in Novemberon Jan. 13, 2026, in Louisville, Ky. In a February 2011 letter to airlines,Boeingnoted failures with parts of the pylon, a structural component that connects the engine, during four incidents on three MD-11 airplanes, which is the same model of the UPS plane that crashed Nov. 4. After takeoff,the pylon and left engine UPS Flight 2976 detached from the wing, resulting in acatastrophic crash that killed 15 people, including the three crew members aboard the plane.

According to a preliminary FAA report, the single-engine Epic Aircraft E1000 crashed under unknown circumstances near Emerald Mountain. Online flight tracking shows the plane took off from the Kansas City Downtown Airport just after 10 p.m., for Bob Adams Airport before it crashed southeast of the city-owned airport.

The plane, manufactured in 2024, was registered to ALS Aviation LCC in Franklin, Tenn.

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Aaron Stokeslived in Franklin according to information from his obituary,The Tennessean, part of the USA TODAY Network, reported.

Franklin is city in Williamson County, about 20 miles south of downtown Nashville.

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According to hisLinkedIn page, he founded Shop Fix Academy, owned and operated five auto repair shops and hosted a radio show "Fixin' Cars with Aaron Stokes" on 99.7 WTN.

In a post on Facebook, Annie Stokes called her brother "a great leader and coach and businessman."

"The loss has deeply impacted his family, the Shop Fix Academy team, and the broader automotive community," the company released in a statement onFacebook. "Stokes helped thousands of auto repair shop owners, and countless other business leaders, achieve meaningful growth in their businesses and leadership... His legacy extends far beyond financial performance."

USA TODAY has reached out to the victims' families.

Husky, his company, confirmed was the CEO of Husky Building Supply, also located in Franklin.

In a separate post onInstagram, Huskey Building Supply released this statement: "With heavy hearts, we grieve the unexpected passing of our CEO, Austin Huskey. Austin was a fearless leader, a gracious man, a devoted father and husband, and a faithful follower of Christ."

The National Transportation Safety Boardposted on Xit was investigating the cause of the crash.

Natalie Neysa Alund is a senior reporter for USA TODAY. Reach her at nalund@usatoday.com and follow her on X @nataliealund.

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Prosecutors plan to charge an Israeli settler with killing a Palestinian activist in the West Bank

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Israeli prosecutors said Monday that they plan to charge a settler in the killing of a Palestinian activist during a confrontation that was caught on video, opening a rare prosecution ofviolence by Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank.

Attacks from settlers and home demolitions by authorities have spiked dramatically over the past two years, but the death in July of Awdah Hathaleen has drawn particular attention due to his involvement in the 2025 Oscar-winning film "No Other Land," which chronicled Palestinian villagers' fight to stay on their land. The case also stands out because the confrontation between Palestinians and Yinon Levi, an internationally sanctioned settler, was captured on video from multiple vantage points.

In a video that family members say wastaken by Hathaleen himself, Levi could be seen firing toward the person holding the camera. Anothershowed Levi firing two shotswithout showing where the bullets struck.

An Israeli judge released Levi from custody six months ago,citing a lack of evidencethat he fired the shots that killed Hathaleen.

Israel's State Attorney General's office confirmed in a statement Monday that it had initiated proceedings to indict Levi. It did not specify the charges.

Eitan Peleg, an attorney for Hathaleen's family, said the office had informed them it planned to indict Levi for reckless homicide, triggering a process that allows Levi to contest charges before they're formally filed.

"Enforcement of the law in cases like this involving Palestinians in the West Bank is very rare, so this is unique," Peleg told The Associated Press on Monday.

Israel's military referred questions on the indictment to police, who have not yet responded. Both bodies enforce laws in the area.

More than 3.4 million Palestinians and 700,000 Israelis live in the occupied West Bank and east Jerusalem, territories captured by Israel in 1967 and sought by Palestinians for a future state. The international community overwhelmingly considers Israeli settlement construction in these areas to be illegal and an obstacle to peace.

Palestinians and rights groups say authorities routinely fail to prosecute settlers or hold them accountable for violence. Under National Security MinisterItamar Ben-Gvir,investigations into settler attacks have plummeted, according to the Israeli rights group Yesh Din.

Khalil Hathaleen, Awdah's brother, said the family was glad some measure of justice was being pursued but felt the charge of "reckless homicide" was insufficient.

"It was an intentional killing in broad daylight, with prior intent and premeditation," he said.

Levi's attorney, Avichai Hajbi, declined Monday to comment on the coming indictment, which he said he hadn't received. After the shooting, he told The Associated Press that Levi acted in self-defense, without elaborating. Levi did not answer phone calls Monday.

Parts of the confrontation were filmed

Video released last year by B'Tselem, an Israeli human rights group showed Levi firing a gun toward the person filming. At the moment that B'Tselem says Hathaleen collapsed, the visuals are jostled but moans of pain can be heard. The group said it obtained the video from the family of Hathaleen, who said he filmed it.

Additional footage obtained by the AP last year showed Levi waving a pistol during the standoff in Umm al-Khair that was with a group of Palestinians over an excavator that had rolled down from a nearby settlement and damaged Palestinian property earlier in the day.

Alaa Hathaleen, a cousin who filmed the encounter, told AP at the time that he had approached Levi to tell him the group was unarmed and to stop the bulldozing.

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In the video, one Palestinian insults Levi and another challenges him to shoot. Levi shoves someone just out of the frame, demands to know who threw stones, and later fires a shot, seemingly away from the crowd. He then fires again and yells toward the crowd to get away from the excavator.

The footage did not show where bullets struck, though other relatives said they saw Awdah Hathaleen fall immediately after shots were fired.

Levi was detained before being released to house arrest. That condition was eventually lifted, too.

Levi was among the Israeli settlerssanctioned by the United States and other Western countriesover allegations of violence toward Palestinians in 2024. U.S. President Donald Trump lifted the U.S. sanctions after taking office the following year.

Attacks spike as spotlight grows

Activists and crew members on the film "No Other Land" have said settler attacks have intensified on the village portrayed since the movie won the Oscar.

Hamdan Ballal, one of the film's directors, said his family home in Umm al-Khair was subject to another attack on Sunday. Four relatives were arrested during the confrontation, he said.

Ballal said a soldier, who came to their home accompanied by another soldier and a settler-herder, grabbed his brother by the neck and tried to choke him. Neither the army nor the police responded to requests for comment on the incident.

"The year after I won the Oscar, the assaults increased significantly. On a daily basis, settlers come and destroy the fields, destroy the trees, destroy the crops around the house," he said.

Israeli proof-of-ownership rules spark anger

As prosecutors move to indict Levi and violence persists across the West Bank, Israel is moving ahead with measures to deepen its control over land in the occupied territory.

On Sunday, it announcedit would resume a land registration processacross the West Bank to require anyone with a claim to land to submit documents proving ownership. Rights groups say the process could strip Palestinians of land they've lived on and farmed for generations and transfer vast swaths of land to Israeli state control.

Israel's Foreign Ministry said the steps countered Palestinian Authority land registration efforts in areas where Israel maintains civil and military control.

The measures follow years of accusations by Palestinians that actions by settlers and the military — campaigns of violence, harassment and demolitions — have pushed them from their land.

The decisions have drawn widespread condemnation as violations of international law, including from countries involved in the ceasefire process in the Gaza Strip and Trump's Board of Peace.

Saudi Arabia's Foreign Ministry in a statement on Monday said the measures were part of Israel's effort to impose a "new legal and administrative reality" that undermines prospects for peace and stability. Egypt's Foreign Ministry called the move a "flagrant violation" of international law, warning it would escalate tensions in the Palestinian territories and across the region.

U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres condemned Israel's decision, calling it not only destabilizing but unlawful according to the International Court of Justice, the U.N.'s highest tribunal, his spokesman Stéphane Dujarric said.

___ Associated Press writer Melanie Lidman contributed reporting from Tel Aviv.

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Black activists fought for slavery exhibits 24 years ago. The fight returned under Trump.

A federal judge Monday ruled that the Trump administration wrongly removed slavery memorial panels that were placed at a historical Philadelphia site in 2002. The decision came after the Black activists who pushed the city to place the panels again organized in support of their presence last month.

The National Park Service removed several panels from the President's House in Philadelphia, citinga March 2025 executive orderby President Donald Trump to prohibit exhibitions or programs at federal sites based on race. President's House features exhibits about George Washington and among the 34 historical panels, 13 were created after a group of activists lobbied the city and the park service to include information about the nine men, women and children who were enslaved by Washington there.

U.S. District Judge Cynthia M. Rufe granted a preliminary injunction on Monday requiring the return of the panels, pending further litigation.

"We battled for eight solid years the grand opening of the first slavery memorial of its kind on federal property in the history of the United States of America," attorney and activist Michael Coard told NBC News before the judge's ruling. "What started me to do this was anger and rage and outrage."

The movement began in 2002 when the park service and the city of Philadelphia announced the Liberty Bell would move from a pavilionfacing Independence Hallto 6th Street and Market Street, the same location of George Washington's executive residence where he enslaved at leastnine people, including children.

Coard hosted a radio show on WHAT, during which he told listeners that the site was planned without a clear acknowledgment about the enslavement that took place there. It spurred the Avenging The Ancestors Coalition, which protested and raised funds — along with the city government — to pay for panels at the site.

The memorial opened Dec. 15, 2010.

Coard said his organization anticipated what was in store after the executive orders Trump signed upon returning to office last year. The panels were unceremoniously taken down a few weeks ago on Jan. 22.

"The common denominator of the 13 was that they highlighted the horror of slavery," Coard said of the panels. "Not just what we all know — a loss of freedom — but the beatings, the whippings, the rapes, the sodomy."

A spokesperson for the Interior Department, which oversees the park service, said "all federal agencies are to review interpretive materials to ensure accuracy, honesty, and alignment with shared national values." White House spokesman Davis Ingle said Trump "is ensuring that we are honoring the fullness of the American story instead of distorting it in the name of left-wing ideology."

Last week, more than 200 activists, residents and supporters protested the panels' recent removal.

The rally attracted people across political ideologies and ethnicities, said Gerry James, 36, who traveled to the event from Frankfort, Kentucky. James is the deputy director of the Sierra Club's Outdoors for All campaign, which is working with Avenging The Ancestors Coalition.

He said his parents often took him and his siblings to libraries and cultural tours to learn more about Black history, aside from the limited information that was present in his textbooks.

"It's just a lot of support for this issue of preserving Black history and preserving Black history as American history," James said.

Supporters pushed back against the administration's moves toward downplaying "our complex national history," specifically when it comes to Black American history.

Mijuel Johnson, a steering committee member of the coalition who also spoke at the rally, said the panels "are not just panels" but serve as a national memorial: "The very fact that this is a memorial to the enslaved people of the United States," and one of the first of its kind on federal property in the United States, he said, "is significant."

Coard's group — headed by University of Pennsylvania law professor Cara McClellan and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund — joined the city'slawsuitagainst the park service's acting director and the Interior Department.

"One, we're demanding restoration — put the 34 interpretive panels back where they were," Coard said before the ruling. "Two, we're demanding enhancement, which means to expand this President's House slave memorial site. And number three, we're seeking replication. We know that Black people have contributed mightily in every state in the country and maybe even every city in the country, so we want something like this on any federal property throughout the United States where Black folks were enslaved."

He and other activists are optimistic about the future of the site.

"We are passionate about this," Coard said, "and we're going to win this fight."

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Jamaica seeks sliding success to replace ‘Cool Runnings’ past

CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy -- Chris Stokes, a founding member of Jamaica's original "Cool Runnings" bobsleigh crew, recalls being mobbed by fans at the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics the moment he put on the team jacket and left the athletes' village to go into town.

"That's a rookie mistake which I made," he recalls 38 years later, the buzz still echoing as the current quartet compete at the Milan Cortina Games.

"Even now, yesterday, when I came back from the track with the team in the van and they just opened the door to let me out, people saw Jamaica bobsleigh and we were absolutely mobbed," Stokes told Reuters.

"I myself go down the street in a plain black jacket. You want to be respectful of your fans and people who support the program, but you wouldn't get anywhere. You wouldn't get to the corner store to buy a coffee."

MAKING A MOTIVATIONAL MESSAGE

The 2026 team was soon surrounded when it ventured recently into the chic Dolomites resort of Cortina d'Ampezzo.

Stokes, now 62 and president of the Jamaica Bobsleigh Federation, saw in it a motivational message.

"My 1994 team finished 14th at the Olympic Games. And until a team finishes higher than that at the Olympic Games, that team is the best Jamaican bobsled team ever. I've said this to the guys," he continued.

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"I've also said to them, 'Don't confuse yourselves. When you step out of the car and somebody's asking you for an autograph, it's because of something I and my teammates did. That's nothing that you have done.'

"My challenge to them is, by the end of these games, by the time you step on the track in 2030 in La Plagne (France) and in Salt Lake City in 2034, let people, fans, be crowding you because of something you did. That's my challenge to them."

IMMORTALIZED BY 'COOL RUNNINGS'

The 1988 Jamaican bob, with Stokes joining his brother Dudley along with Devon Harris and Michael White, was immortalized in the 1993 movie "Cool Runnings," also the name of the sled.

Jamaica was classified last in 1988. By 1994 they had moved up to top half of the 30 entrants, beating the United States and Italy among others.

"Led by my brother, it took Jamaica Bobsleigh a long time to learn. Six, seven, eight years to learn that ... it's not just athleticism, it's discipline and focus, being present, playing your role. These guys (the current team) understand this from Day 1," said Stokes.

"We also have the benefit now of (coach) Todd Hays, who is himself a silver medalist and who has coached multiple medal winners for both the U.S. and Canada, who at one time coached Russia and who brings to the table a crystal-clear understanding of what it takes to win.

"Todd says to me all the time, 'We know what we need to do to win. We know that already, so it's just a matter of putting the pieces in place.'"

--Reuters, special to Field Level Media

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Olympic mystery solved: Why don't figure skaters get dizzy?

MILAN — When Amber Glenn takes the ice this week for her short program, she's expected to skate a graceful routine that will end with a series of spins. If she performs as expected, the spins — more than two dozen in all — will be a dramatic crescendo, the culmination of a meticulously prepared routine.

And many of the millions watching at home will wonder,How does she do that?Very quickly followed by,Hey, why isn't she just throwing up on the ice right now from dizziness?

The answer to both questions — the ability to spin, and the ability to stave off dizziness — is the same: practice. Lots and lots of practice.

Let's start with a basic but neurologically complex question: What exactly is dizziness? You know it when you feel it, but what exactly is it?

"There are many causes of dizziness, but neurologically speaking, which I think is most relevant here, dizziness is caused by dysfunction of the vestibular system," Dr. Lindsay J. Agostinelli, an assistant professor of neurology at the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine, told Yahoo Sports in an email. "The vestibular system is an apparatus in our inner ears that detects head motion and rotation, sending signals to our brain to then turn our eyes in order to maintain balance and prevent dizziness as we move through space."

Skaters, like dancers, begin to prepare for spinning by focusing on a single spot in the distance as they spin, then turning their head quickly and relocating that point, Dr. Agostinelli notes. That allows them to quickly stabilize themselves and stave off dizziness.

But that method won't exactly work on ice, when skaters are whipping around five or six times a second. The only way to solve that problem, Dr. Agostinelli suggests, is by repetition, breaking down your traditional dizzy reaction to spinning.

"Research studies have shown that figure skaters actually have a less reactive vestibular system, and when exposed to a 'nauseogenic simulation' that rotated/ spun them, they felt less motion sick compared to non-skaters," Dr. Agostinelli says. "This is likely a result of their training which habituates their vestibular systems."

Fighting off dizziness is a mental battle that becomes a physical one. "I think initial training requires mental toughness to fight through the requisite dizziness," Dr. Agostinelli says, "but the ability to perform at high speeds without dizziness is clearly a result of the physical training and desensitization process."

So there you go. If you want to stay as level-headed as a skater, start spinning now.Carefully.

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Dolphins releasing star receiver Tyreek Hill in major roster cuts, AP source says

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — The Dolphins are releasing star receiver Tyreek Hill, ending the All-Pro's four-year tenure in Miami, a person familiar with the move told The Associated Press on Monday.

Hill, who turns 32 on March 1, is recovering from aseason-ending injurysuffered in a game against the New York Jets on Sept. 29 that required surgery to repair significant damage to his left knee, including a torn anterior cruciate ligament.

It is one of several major roster cuts the Dolphins made on Monday morning, the person said, speaking to the AP on condition of anonymity because the team had not made any announcements. Miami also will release two-time Pro Bowl pass rusher Bradley Chubb and cut offensive lineman James Daniels and receiver Nick Westbrook-Ikhine, the person said.

The Dolphins acquired Hill in a trade with Kansas City ahead of the 2022 season and gave him a $120 million, four-year contract extension that made him the highest-paid player at his position at the time.

His contract, which runs through 2026, would have represented around $51 million against Miami's cap.

Hill had consecutive 1,700-yard receiving seasons in his first two years with Miami, including a league-leading 1,799 yards and 13 touchdowns in 2023. The five-time All-Pro entered the 2025 season aiming to regain that elite form after a relatively down year in 2024, when he had 81 catches for 959 yards — his lowest totals in both categories since 2019.

He had 21 receptions for 265 yards before he was hurt while making a catch in Miami's Week 4 win against the Jets. Hill was running toward the sideline and planted his left foot, and his knee twisted as he was getting pulled down. He was carted off the field and placed on season-ending injured reserve on Oct. 1.

In an October podcast interview, Hill, who has played 10 NFL seasons, said he was undecided on whether he plans to retire.

"At the end of the day, I feel like that decision is based upon how I feel and where my mindset is at the moment," he said on the podcast of Terron Armstead, Hill's former Dolphins teammate. "I'm happy with the career that I've had. I love playing football. I love it, but it takes a lot. It takes a lot on you mentally, it takes a lot on you physically.

"I'm at the point now where I need to have a conversation with mom, family, everybody. Wherever my mind is at the time, the decision will be made, but I know right now, I haven't had time to live in the moment."

Hill's Dolphins tenure was characterized by tremendous production on the field coupled with numerous rocky moments off the field,including an altercationwith police outside of Hard Rock Stadium ahead of the 2024 season opener, and pulling himself from that season's finale andlater indicatinghe wanted to play elsewhere.

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Bradley Chubb is another star Dolphins player on the move

Chubb spent the past three seasons with the Dolphins after being traded to Miami from Denver in 2022.

He suffered a gruesome knee injury late in the 2023 season that required surgery to fix a torn anterior cruciate ligament, meniscus and patellar tendon in his right knee and sidelined him all of 2024. Chubb had 11 sacks — the most he had in a season since getting 12 as a rookie in 2018 — in 2023 before the injury.

Last season, Chubb's 8 1/2 sacks led the team. He represented a $31 million cap hit for 2026.

New general manager Jon Eric Sullivan, who was hired by the Dolphins last month along with head coach Jeff Hafley, was expected to begin making moves to overhaul Miami's roster.

"We will move with responsible aggression here," Sullivan said when the Dolphins introduced him on Jan 22. "We will utilize every avenue of player acquisition to bolster this roster."

Dolphins still appear undecided on QB Tua Tagovailoa

Sullivan still faces the question on whether to move on from 2020 first-round pick Tua Tagovailoa, who was benched by former Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel toward the end of last season because of poor play.

Tagovailoa signed a four-year, $212.4 million extension in July 2024, but has since shown a decline in accuracy and mobility. Tagovailoa finished 2025 with 15 interceptions, second most in the NFL and a career high.

He is guaranteed $54 million for 2026, and the Dolphins would incur significant hits to the salary cap by releasing him. Cutting him would result in a $99 million dead cap charge. If the move is designated as a post-June 1 release, those charges are split over two years, with $67.4 million allocated to the 2026 cap and $31.8 million in 2027.

Sullivan said last week at a fan event that he doesn't know "what the future holds right now."

"And I told Tua that," Sullivansaid. "We're working through some things. What I can tell you is that we're going to infuse competition into that room — whether Tua is part of the room, whether he's not part of the room."

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Carol Burnett reveals Hollywood legend who couldn't stop burping: 'Really, really loud'

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Be careful about meeting your heroes, kids — they might just burp in your face.

Such was the case when Hollywood legend Betty Grable guested onCarol Burnett's famous variety sketch show,The Carol Burnett Show.

"I feel I did have a fairy godmother — Betty Grable was one of my first guests on my show," Burnett toldAmy Poehlerrecently on theGoodHangpodcast. The comedy icon said Grable was every bit as "adorable" and "very funny" as she might have hoped, but she did have one nasty habit.

"Betty was on the show as a guest. And so was Martha Raye, who was one of the funniest women ever, and she was very [physical] and loud, and she and Betty had worked together and they were good friends," Burnett recalled. "So it was for me, my God, I'd grown up watching Betty Grable, watching Martha Raye. I was all [thrilled]. So now we're rehearsing. Now, Betty had a thing about Coca-Cola. She had to drink Coca-Cola all the time. So what would happen was, she would be [burping] constantly."

OnGood Hang, Burnett gave several perfect imitations of the belches, which she described as "really, really loud." Grable "just loved Coca-Cola," she continued. "So, we're in the wings ready and we're doing the show, and Betty and Martha and I are ready for our queue to go out, and Betty took [another sip] and [burped] again and Martha Raye said, 'Oh, for God's sakes, Betty, why don't you just fart and save your teeth?'"

At this, Poehler howled with laughter, much to the delight of Burnett, who said she shared that sentiment at the time. "I thought I was going to die," she said, cracking herself up. "And then we had to go out and do the finale. I was just hysterical."

The gassy tendency aside, Burnett also shared a more sentimental memory she had of Grable.

"I remember we would go to the Grauman's Chinese [Theatre] where they have the courtyard with everybody's handprints and footprints and so forth, and I remember putting my handprints into Betty Grable's handprints," she said. "And just a few months ago, I got my handprints after all these years. And I remember putting my hand in, and I'm wondering will somebody someday put their handprints on mine, you know? Wouldn't that be kind of wild?"

The Carol Burnett Showoriginally ran on CBS from 1967 to 1978, for a whopping 279 episodes. It returned with an additional nine episodes in the fall of 1991. Over its massively successful run, the series won 25 Primetime Emmy Awards.

Elsewhere onGoodHang, Burnett revealed herfavorite letter to climb on the Hollywood sign, and discussed doing sketch comedy with Ray Charles, playing Miss Hannigan inAnnie, and much more.

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