Author: Voxtrend News
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…
A suspect accused of ransacking Acting U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Alina Habba’s office on Wednesday is in custody, U.S. Attorney General Pamela Bondi said. “No one will get away with threatening or intimidating our great US Attorneys or the destruction of their offices,” Bondi said Saturday in a statement on social media, thanking law enforcement. Bondi did not identify the suspect. Sources told CBS News that the suspect was a man who had been denied entry to the building because he had a baseball bat. Later that day, he returned without a bat, requested and was denied a meeting with…
Check your tickets — one lucky Pennsylvania Lottery player is sitting on a winning ticket worth thousands of dollars, but the prize is about to expire. The Pennsylvania Lottery said a Pennsylvania Lottery New Year’s Millionaire Raffle ticket worth $100,000 was sold at a grocery store in Bucks County on Jan. 4, 2025 and must be claimed no later than Jan. 4, 2026, or the prize will be forfeited. The winning ticket, numbered 00399216, was purchased at the Weis Markets at 73 Old Dublin Pike in Doylestown Township. To claim the prize, the winner must file a claim with the…
A day after foods like coffee, beef and bananas were declared exempt from his country-by-country tariffs, one large tariff issued by President Trump looms for Italian pasta makers. The threat of a potential 107% pasta tariff started with the U.S. Commerce Department launching what it says was a routine antidumping review, based on allegations Italian pasta makers sold product into the US at below-market prices and undercut local competitors. Now the Commerce Department is considering levying an additional 92% in duties, which would come on top of the 15% tariff President Donald Trump’s administration imposed on European exports generally. The news sent…
In a quiet stretch southeast of Marbury, Alabama, neighbors were stunned early Friday evening when tragedy struck: 55‑year‑old Daniel F. Weather died after his car veered off Autauga County Road 131 and overturned into a ditch. Troopers from the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency confirmed the crash and said Weather was pronounced dead at the scene. According to ALEA’s Highway Patrol Division, first responders arrived shortly after a call reporting a vehicle off the road. There were no other vehicles involved, and no immediate witnesses to explain what caused Weather’s truck to leave the roadway. Investigators are now working to piece together…