Author: Voxtrend News
A tight-knit Newberry County community is reeling after a devastating house fire early Friday morning claimed the lives of two long-time Silverstreet residents. Just after 6:30 a.m., emergency dispatchers received alarmed calls reporting a home on Windsong Hill Drive fully engulfed in flames. Multiple fire departments and law enforcement agencies raced to the scene, but the ferocity of the blaze made the initial rescue attempt nearly impossible. When firefighters arrived, they found the structure about 80% consumed by fire — advancing so rapidly that no one could safely enter. The crews worked tirelessly to get the inferno under control, but…
Jeffrey Rogers, 25, has been arrested and charged with murder after Birmingham police say he shot and killed 20-year-old Bria Danielle McNeal-Williams in his Pratt City home — a woman he was dating. Authorities initially responded to reports of a burglary, but the investigation quickly turned to a domestic crime. According to law enforcement, the shooting happened around 12:15 p.m. on Thursday, November 13, in the 2000 block of 10th Street in Pratt City, when Rogers called 911 claiming someone was breaking into his home. When officers arrived, they found McNeal-Williams lying near the back door, suffering from a gunshot…
Delaware State Police have confirmed that the man who died in a fatal crash Thursday evening in Delmar is 30-year-old Jeremy Mitchell of Georgetown. Troopers say the crash occurred on November 13, around 5:12 p.m., on Sussex Highway near West Snake Road, when a GMC Sierra went off the road, crossed the median, re-entered on the opposite side, and struck a tree. According to the Delaware State Police Troop 7 Collision Reconstruction Unit, the driver left the west side of the roadway for reasons still under investigation. After crossing into the southbound lanes, the truck exited again on the west…
Late Thursday afternoon in Providence, a 29-year-old woman from Vernon, Connecticut, identified as Morgan Lynn Boss, was found fatally shot inside a home on Broad Street. Providence police say she suffered a single gunshot wound to the head and was pronounced dead at the scene shortly after officers arrived. The suspect, Kelvin Mendez Cruz, 26, of Providence, was arrested and charged the next day. According to authorities, Cruz is facing domestic murder and using a firearm resulting in death charges — the latter classified as a crime of violence. Court documents describe Boss and Cruz as “intimate partners,” suggesting the…
The small town of Portageville, Missouri, has been shaken to its core this week after the body of 18-year-old Kaniah Jennings was found in rural Pemiscot County, nearly two weeks after she was first reported missing. The discovery has left friends, family and community members reeling—and investigators say the case is one of the most harrowing they’ve seen. Kaniah was last seen at her home in Portageville on the evening of Monday, November 3, 2025. Concern grew quickly when she wasn’t heard from, and the local Hayti Police Department called in support from the Missouri State Highway Patrol (MSHP) to…
Some parents and students are now scrambling after Valley Forge Military Academy officials announced Friday that part of the school is shutting down earlier than expected. VFMA planned on closing at the end of the school year, but that has since changed. Classes will end for all students, except for the senior class, at VFMA next week. “My teachers are really good,” seventh grader Bobby Hally said. “I’m going to miss them a lot.” Bobby and his family received word earlier Friday that the storied school with a rich history on Philadelphia’s Main Line will close by the end of…
President Trump exempted foods like beef, coffee and bananas from his sweeping country-by-country tariffs on Friday, as his administration grapples with cost-of-living frustrations and quickly rising prices for some types of food. The new exemption covers a range of tropical products that are often imported to the United States, including coffee, tea, bananas, mangoes, avocados, coconuts, pineapples, cocoa and spices such as nutmeg, according to an executive order. It also covers beef, oranges and tomatoes. The White House said Mr. Trump decided to exempt the products on Friday because he’s made “substantial progress” in negotiating trade deals with other countries. A…
Millions of people across the Philadelphia region are facing hunger. CBS News Philadelphia is teaming up with Wegmans Food Markets and the Food Bank of South Jersey during our “Season of Giving Check Out Hunger” campaign and, together, we hope to change that. From October 22 through November 29, you can stop by any Wegmans in our area to make a donation. Customers can donate $1, $2, $3, $5, or any amount at checkout. 100% of the proceeds go to each store’s local Feeding America food bank. If you are not able to stop by a Wegmans location, you can…
John Beam, a legendary football coach featured on Netflix’s “Last Chance U” and the Laney College athletic director, has died, one day after being shot on the Oakland, California campus, police announced. At a news conference on Friday, Oakland Police Chief Floyd Mitchell said that Beam died Friday morning. He was 66. “We are devastated that John Beam, our loving husband, father, grandfather, brother, uncle, coach, mentor and friend, has passed,” Beam’s family said in a statement that was read at the briefing. Piedmont police chief Frederick Shavies, who knew Beam since he was in 8th grade, said at the…
Welcome to the weekend everyone. It will certainly be a weekend of several different changes. On Saturday morning, we’ll likely start with a little sunshine before the clouds thicken up ahead of a weather maker that may impact your Saturday evening between 5 p.m. and 11 p.m. While there will be showers Saturday and the possibility of lightning/thunder, nothing is expected in the way of heavy rain or severe weather. We’ll start to see a stray sprinkle around 3 p.m. or 4 p.m. Then later on, if you’re heading out around 8 p.m. to 10 p.m., you’ll want to keep…