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Three soldiers were killed and

three more injured Sunday when an

armored vehicle crashed during

training exercises at Fort Stewart in

Georgia.

The soldiers, with the Army’s 1st

Armored Brigade Combat Team,

were riding in a Bradley Fighting Ve-

hicle, but details of the incident were

not immediately released. Three sol-

diers were pronounced dead at the

scene, and the others were evacuated

to Winn Army Community Hospital

where they are being treated and

evaluated for their injuries, Fort

Stewart spokesman Lt. Col. Patrick

Husted said in a statement.

“Today is a heartbreaking day for

the 3rd Infantry Division, and the en-

tire Fort Stewart-Hunter Army Air-

field community, as we are all devas-

tated after a training accident this

morning on the Fort Stewart Training

Area,” said Maj. Gen. Tony Aguto,

commanding general of the division.

“We are extremely saddened by the

loss of three Dogface Soldiers, and

injuries to three more. Our hearts and

prayers go out to all the families af-

fected by this tragedy.”

Dogface is a term for soldiers serv-

ing in the infantry.

The investigation was continuing

and more information will be re-

leased as it becomes available, Hust-

ed said. The names of the soldiers

will be released Monday, Husted

said.

Earlier this month, nearly two

dozen paratroopers were injured at

Camp Shelby in Mississippi when

troops jumping from a C-130 in high

winds were blown from their intend-

ed drop zone into a group of pine

trees.

Fort Stewart-Hunter Army Airfield

is home to the 3rd Infantry Division

and more than 18,000 soldiers and

4,000 Army civilian workers.

3 US soldiers

die in accident

at Fort Stewart

John Bacon

USA TODAY

A new study suggested prenatal
stress in pregnant women might affect
the gender of the baby and be associat-
ed with some forms of birth complica-
tions.
Researchers at Columbia University
and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
found that stressed mothers are less
likely to give birth to a boy.
The findings, which were published
last week in the National Academy of
Sciences’ official peer-reviewed journal
PNAS, were based on data gathered
from 187 pregnant women divided into
three groups: healthy women (66.8% of
the study), psychologically stressed
women who were found to have depres-
sion and anxiety (17.1%) and physically
stressed women found to have higher
blood pressure and higher caloric intake
(16%).
Physically stressed mothers also
were more likely to have premature
births and decreased fetal heart rate
and movement, which researchers sug-
gest might affect central nervous sys-
tem development.
All of the women had healthy preg-
nancies.
“The womb is an influential first
home, as important as the one a child is

raised in, if not more so,” said lead au-

thor Catherine E. Monk, professor of

medical psychology at Columbia Uni-

versity, in a statement.

Pregnancy experts commonly ac-

cept that prenatal stress has an effect

on a mother’s pregnancy, but the “ex-

act mechanism” of how stress affects

pregnant women’s birth outcomes is

unclear – a limitation pointed out by

the study.

A 2006 study of 700,000 births in

New York City found that the likeli-

hood of a male birth decreased to its

lowest level in the months after 9/11.

Although pregnant women typical-

ly are more likely to have male babies

than female babies at a ratio of 100

girls to 105 boys, which is known as the

sex ratio, the study found that women

who are psychologically stressed had

two male births for every three female

births.

The results were more dramaticfor

pregnant women who showed signs of

physical stress: for every four male

births, womenhad nine female births.

It is unclear how stress is transmit-

ted to a fetus, though Monk said ani-

mal studies show that stress hor-

mones are elevated during times of

stress.

“Stress can also affect the mother’s

immune system, leading to changes

that affect neurological and behavioral

development in the fetus.” Monk said

in a statement.

Pregnancy stress

might affect gender

Study: Stressed women

less likely to have boys

Joshua Bote USA TODAY

An Oregon prosecutor has released
intense video of a high school football
coach who disarms and then hugs a stu-
dent wielding a shotgun at a Portland
school.
The incident took place May 17 at
Parkrose High School, but the Multno-
mah County District Attorney’s Office
did not release the video until Friday.
The release came days after court pro-
ceedings in the case were completed.
Keanon Lowe, who coaches football
and track at the school as well as work-
ing as a security guard, was lauded as a
hero after the incident. In the video,
Lowe is seen emerging from a class-
room, shotgun in hand, with the stu-
dent. They then hug as Lowe hands the
shotgun to someone who hustles it
away from the scene.
Lowe recalled standing in the class-
room when the student walked in with
the weapon. Lowe said he lunged for the
gun, seizing it as students fled out an-
other door.
“Then it was just me and that stu-
dent. It was a real emotional time,”
Lowe said in May. “I felt compassion for
him. A lot of times, especially when
you’re young, you don’t realize what
you’re doing until it’s over.”
Prosecutors say Angel Granados-
Diaz, now 19, brought the loaded shot-

gun to school during what authorities

have described as a mental health cri-

sis. He pleaded guilty Oct. 10 to one

count of unlawful possession of a fire-

arm in a public building and one count

of unlawful possession of a loaded

firearm in public.

He was sentenced to three years’

probation and is receiving treatment

for mental health issues and sub-

stance abuse. Prosecutor Parakram

Singh said the investigation revealed

that Granados-Diaz intended to harm

only himself during the incident.

Lowe said he was called to the

classroom to take a student to the of-

fice, but had no details. He was in the

classroom for less than a minute when

the student walked in with the gun.

“A pretty crazy situation,” he said.

“My instincts just took over. I lunged

for the gun, put two hands on the gun.

I’m just making sure the barrel of the

gun isn’t toward me, the students. I

was able to wrestle it away.”

The two walked out together, and

police arrived on the scene. Granados-

Diaz was handcuffed and taken away.

“This is a story that usually ends in

tragedy,” said Lowe, who played foot-

ball at the University of Oregon and

worked as an assistant coach in the

NFL. “From God’s will, this ended up

well. We were in the headlines, but it

wasn’t a tragedy. I am thankful for

that.”

A high school coach disarms and hugs shotgun-carrying student in Portland,
Ore. MULTNOMAH COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OFFICE

Coach takes gun from

student, then hugs him

John Bacon
USA TODAY

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