Author: Voxtrend News
On the evening of November 2 in southeast Atlanta, 23‑year-old model and mother Shamay Pitt agreed to meet her former boyfriend, 25‑year-old Joshua Woodruff — thinking it might bring closure. What followed was a nightmare she barely lived through. According to Shamay, once he got into her car, their calm conversation spiraled into violence. “He steps back, he steps forward, and he starts shooting me,” she recalled, her ears ringing as bullets tore through her body. She was shot ten times inside the car. But the horror didn’t end there. Instead of calling 911 or stopping, Woodruff allegedly drove her across…
RALEIGH, N.C. — The city of Raleigh is reeling after 26-year-old Darieen Marquise Hewett died following a violent workplace shooting Tuesday afternoon, authorities confirmed. What began as a standard shift at a traffic-control business turned into a tragedy that has shaken coworkers, neighbors and the broader community. It happened just after 5 p.m. on Tuesday, November 25, when officers with the Raleigh Police Department responded to a call at a building on the 6500-block of Mount Herman Road — home to Onward Safety Solutions, a firm that provides traffic-control services for construction zones. Inside the business, they found Hewett suffering…
An 80-year-old Massillon man, identified as Terry Gribble, died Tuesday evening after a multi-vehicle crash on southbound Interstate 77 in Richfield, Ohio, according to the Summit County Medical Examiner’s Office. The collision — which occurred around 5:30 p.m. — turned a routine commute into tragedy. Gribble was traveling south on I-77 when traffic congestion in the area turned deadly. Details remain sketchy, but authorities confirmed the crash involved multiple vehicles, and Gribble was pronounced dead at the scene. First responders — police officers, firefighters, and medical crews — raced to the scene after receiving the 911 call. According to reports,…
When 27-year-old Donquarious Ridley and 25-year-old Raven Barner climbed onto a school bus on the morning of October 31, they weren’t there for a parent-teacher meeting. Police say the Greenwood, Indiana parents — believing their son had been bullied by classmates — stormed a grade-school bus, confronted children, and unleashed a terrifying scene of violence. According to the probable-cause affidavit, the bus’s interior camera captured the whole incident. Ridley and Barner boarded without permission, witnesses told investigators. The bus driver had not allowed them on the bus — but the couple pushed past that boundary anyway. Barner, the boy’s stepmother,…
The Amarillo community is reeling after a tragic crash Tuesday evening claimed the life of 65-year-old Craig Steven Long. The fatal wreck occurred around 5:39 p.m. near I-27 and Moss Lane in the Wolflin area, according to the Amarillo Police Department. Craig was reportedly driving southbound on Canyon Drive in a Chevrolet Tahoe when — under circumstances that remain unclear — his vehicle veered off the road, descended a grassy embankment, and slammed into a parked semi-trailer inside a fenced commercial yard at 3852 Canyon Drive. The collision was severe. First responders arrived quickly, but Craig was pronounced dead at…
Residents on the 3400 block of Miller Street in Port Richmond say their once-quiet neighborhood has become a late-night nuisance zone, filled with screeching tires, blaring music and piles of trash they blame on a nearby delivery hub. Several neighbors told CBS News Philadelphia the problems began after DashMart — an online convenience store operated by DoorDash — opened a supply pickup location at Schiller and Gaul streets a couple of years ago. Although the site is not open to the public, delivery drivers operate there nightly, often until 3 a.m. “It’s been a quiet neighborhood,” Anthony Fox, who has…
Americans’ energy bills are piling up, forcing them deeper into debt and even triggering power shutoffs. As of June, nearly one in 20 households went into collections or fell in arrears on their utility bills, according to a new joint report from The Century Foundation, a progressive think tank, and advocacy group Protect Borrowers. The problem was even more pronounced in parts of the South and Appalachia, where one in 12 households was already in collections or on the verge of it. In the last three years, the average overdue balance on utility bills climbed from $597 to $789, a 32% jump,…
The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office said Tuesday it is preparing to retry Pedro Hernandez for the kidnapping and murder of Etan Patz. Patz was just 6 when he vanished on his way to school in SoHo in 1979 — the first time he ever walked there alone. He became one of the first missing children to be pictured on milk cartons. Defense objects to third trial, but vows to be ready In 2017, Hernandez was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison after two trials. In July, a federal appeals court overturned that conviction, ruling the trial judge had wrongly instructed the jury.…
A beloved dinosaur statue in Manayunk was replaced after someone snapped off its head in an apparent act of vandalism. The Manayunk Bridge Park said on Instagram that Holod’s True Value Hardware Store on Ridge Pike in Lafayette Hill helped replace it with a new Bridget the Dino statue Tuesday. “After the heartbreak of seeing Bridget damaged, this unexpected act of kindness means more than words can say,” the Manayunk Bridge Park wrote on social media. “The neighborhood love is real — and this Dino is already feeling it.” Now, the park is looking for ideas for a new name…
At West Chester University’s high-tech food lab Tuesday, students poured love into the meals they were preparing for strangers to enjoy this Thanksgiving. “Today, we are preparing 40 meals for Safe Harbor. Safe Harbor is a local shelter that houses 20 men and 20 women,” said Jeanie Subach, a nutrition professor at the university. The ingredients came from several sources. “Donations from Aramark, which generously donated some of our turkeys, local farmers — Lindenhof Farms at the Growers Market, and then also most importantly, the Ram Chefs, which is our program for young adults with disabilities, and our Food Systems…