Tag: Sisters

Grasso Tech senior joins sisters in bright future in engineering

Jun. 2—Editor’s note: The Day publishes an annual series of stories spotlighting outstanding seniors graduating from the region’s 16 public and private high schools. Groton ― When Ella T. Grasso Technical High School senior Benyris Acevedo was younger, she remembers being inspired seeing her two older sisters working on drafting. Acevedo, who enjoys math, liked […]

Taye Diggs opens up about his sister’s schizophrenia diagnosis. Here’s what he’s learned — and why he’s speaking up about mental health.

He’s an accomplished TV star and Broadway performer, but Taye Diggs says he was at a loss for words when his younger sister Christian was diagnosed with schizophrenia, a mental health condition that affects how someone thinks, behaves and feels. It’s an experience that Diggs, 53, has only recently opened up about publicly, in support […]

Twin sisters in fatal Amish buggy crash file motions to dismiss

May 17—PRESTON, Minn. — The twin sisters who face multiple felony charges related to a crash that claimed the lives of two Amish children last year, have filed motions to have their cases dismissed. Samantha Petersen, 36, of Spring Valley faces 21 charges including eight felony counts of criminal vehicular homicide, eight counts of felony […]