Boy on school field trip dies after tree falls on him at a Michigan nature center

HOWELL, Mich. (AP) — Authorities say a 12-year-old boy died after he was struck by a tree that fell at a southeastern Michigan nature center where he and classmates were on a field trip. The Livingston County Sheriff’s Office says Declan Carter was at the Howell Nature Center on Thursday when the tree fell and struck him in the head. He died at a hospital. The boy was a student at Our Lady of Victory Catholic School in Northville. A sheriff says the youth was taking part in an overnight field trip at the nature center when the tree struck him as students were learning how to make a fire.