Author: Voxtrend News
The students at Detroit Country Day School thought they were filing into an ordinary assembly. Instead, they witnessed a moment decades in the making. Beverly Hannett-Price, a 90-year-old English teacher who has spent more than half a century in the classroom, was honored with a Guinness World Record for the longest career as a female language teacher. The recognition came as a complete surprise — to her and to nearly everyone else in the room. A lifetime spent in one classroom community Hannett-Price has taught at Detroit Country Day School for more than 67 consecutive years. Generations of students have…
Sue Barr didn’t set out to reinvent her life. She was just trying to stay afloat. In her 60s, living alone in New Jersey after years of raising her son as a single mother, Barr found herself weighed down by debt and a growing sense of restlessness. The house she’d lived in for nearly two decades had become both a financial burden and an emotional anchor. When her adult son moved to Orlando, something shifted. The life she’d built around parenting no longer defined her days, and she began to question what came next. A moment that forced clarity Barr…
On a clear February afternoon, the slopes of California’s Mammoth Mountain turned grim when a skier attempting one of the resort’s most challenging trails lost their life. The incident on February 5 marks the fourth death at the mountain this winter, highlighting both the allure and the risks of high-altitude skiing. The skier, whose identity has not been released, was navigating “Dropout 2,” an expert-level trail descending from the summit ridge at roughly 11,000 feet. Ski patrol arrived just minutes after the accident, providing emergency care before transporting the individual to Mammoth Hospital. Despite their efforts, the skier later died.…
When Nancy Guthrie didn’t turn up at home one January night in Arizona, the worry set in quickly — and it hasn’t eased since. Nancy, 84, is the mother of Today show co-host Savannah Guthrie, a familiar face to millions of morning viewers. But beyond the public connection, this is a deeply personal story about an elderly woman who vanished from her own home under troubling circumstances. Authorities now believe this is not a case of someone wandering off, but something far more serious. A disappearance that raised immediate alarm Nancy Guthrie was last seen around 9:30 p.m. on Jan.…
The final moments of the 2026 Winter Olympics opening ceremony didn’t come with fireworks or spectacle. Instead, they arrived with stillness — and a voice asking the world to pause and listen. As the lights settled inside San Siro Stadium on Friday night, Charlize Theron stepped onto the stage. The actress wasn’t there as a movie star, but as a United Nations peace ambassador, carrying words shaped by the legacy of Nelson Mandela. For a global audience already buzzing with anticipation for the Games, it was an unexpected and grounding close to the evening. A message beyond medals Theron addressed…
It was a brief post, quickly deleted — but its impact lingered. President Donald Trump is facing renewed criticism after a video shared on his Truth Social account depicted former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama using imagery long associated with racist caricatures. When asked whether he would apologize, Trump said plainly that he would not. The post and the response The video appeared on Trump’s account on Feb. 5. It showed the faces of Barack and Michelle Obama superimposed onto apes, set to background music, imagery widely recognized as racist. Speaking to reporters the following day…
It was supposed to be a routine ride home after a Halloween night out — the kind of trip millions of people take without a second thought. Instead, for a University of California, Davis student, that ride became a traumatic encounter that would later be examined in a courtroom, replayed in testimony, and weighed by a jury. On Feb. 6, prosecutors in Yolo County announced that a California Uber driver had been convicted of sexually assaulting his passenger, bringing a measure of legal closure to an incident that unfolded more than a year earlier. What the jury found Safiullah Miakhil,…
For years, Ella Diebolt Jackson’s name lingered in Richmond, Kentucky — attached to flyers, court filings, and unanswered questions. This week, the case moved forward in a way that brings legal closure, but not clarity, after her husband entered a plea that stops short of an admission of guilt. It’s a moment that feels final on paper, and unresolved everywhere else. A plea without a confession Glenn Jackson, a former lecturer at Eastern Kentucky University, entered an Alford plea to a manslaughter charge tied to his wife’s death. He also entered Alford pleas to abuse of a corpse and tampering…
For many performers, returning to the stage is about momentum.For Lola Young, it’s about trust — in herself, and in the audience waiting patiently for her. The 25-year-old British singer has announced a headline show at London’s Palladium on March 4, marking her first full concert in some time after a difficult pause in her career. A small show with big meaning Young described the performance as a one-off, intimate night rather than a full tour restart. Tickets will be limited, and she acknowledged that not every fan who missed out last year will be able to attend. The message,…
When Jaclyn Shaw moved from California to rural Indiana, she expected quiet roads and open land. What she didn’t expect was how often she would slow down for horse-drawn buggies — or how curious she’d feel every time one passed. The Amish community was close, visible, and completely unfamiliar. That curiosity would eventually shape how she raised her first child — and who helped care for her. A move that changed daily life Shaw relocated during the COVID-19 pandemic to the small Midwestern town where her husband grew up. He had known Amish families all his life. Shaw hadn’t. The…