Author: Voxtrend News
Late Friday evening, the peace of a rural stretch just south of Alexander City was shattered when 57-year-old Jerry L. Partee stepped into the roadway of Alabama Highway 259 and was struck by a fleeing vehicle, leaving his family and the local community grappling with sudden loss and unanswered questions. According to the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency (ALEA), the tragic incident occurred at approximately 10:15 p.m. on October 17, near the 12-mile marker along AL-259 in Tallapoosa County — about one mile south of Alexander City. The accident remains under investigation. Partee was standing in the roadway when the unknown…
Investigators in Philadelphia have uncovered human remains in a wooded area behind the shuttered Ada H. H. Lewis Middle School in the East Germantown neighborhood — the very same locale where 23-year-old Kada Scott vanished on October 4 after leaving her job. Police say one of the breakthroughs came courtesy of an anonymous tip late Friday night. Officers followed the tip to the underbrush behind the abandoned school campus early Saturday morning and discovered a shallow grave containing the body of a woman. While authorities believe the remains are likely Scott’s, they stressed that formal identification by the city’s Medical Examiner is still pending.…
A senior member of our community, 44-year-old Jeremy C. Rogers of Haleyville, Alabama, tragically lost his life in a pre-dawn accident on Saturday, October 18. Local officials with the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency (ALEA) say Rogers was driving a 2016 Nissan Altima at roughly 3:35 a.m. when the vehicle left the roadway along U.S. Highway 278 about three miles east of Double Springs. Investigation details indicate that the car veered off U.S. 278 near the intersection with Winston County Road 89, in a heavily wooded, rural area of Winston County. The vehicle collided with a tree after leaving the road;…
A jaw-dropping security breach unfolded on Thursday, October 16, when 32-year-old inmate Louis Santos allegedly smuggled a .22-caliber handgun into a transport van—hidden inside his body—and fired a shot that wounded another prisoner while en-route to the Westchester County Jail. Authorities say five prisoners were being moved from the Bronx to Westchester when a shot rang out in a police van. Officers quickly pulled the vehicle over; one of the inmates was found bleeding from a leg wound. Meanwhile Santos is accused of producing the hidden weapon from an extremely unconventional hiding place—his buttocks—and using it while still in custody.…
In the still-dark hours of Friday, October 17, a quiet cul-de-sac in the Cedar Creek Cove subdivision of Mabank was shattered by gunfire. Just after 2:30 a.m., deputies from the Henderson County Sheriff’s Office arrived at a home on the 7000 block of Broken Bow Drive and found three people dead and two badly wounded. The victims have since been identified. They are 51-year-old Kimberly Simpson, and 72-year-old Connie Patrick — both shot multiple times — and 57-year-old Rodney Hammonds, who suffered a gunshot wound, blunt force trauma and multiple stab wounds. Alongside them, two others — 24-year-old Colton Reid…
It’s a Friday morning in Marietta and the familiar hum of life at the office of Family Dentistry at Seven Hills never arrived for one of its own. Dr. Melanie Nadler Litt, a well-known dentist in the community, simply didn’t show up for her shift. As worry mounted and the hours trickled away, the search that followed unearthed unsettling clues: her car found abandoned, her phone left behind—and no sign of her. Dr. Litt was reported missing on October 13, according to the Cobb County Police Department (CCPD). Coworkers at the Dallas practice say they didn’t know of the report until the following…
A heartbreaking crash just after 11:30 p.m. last Friday at the intersection of Veterans Outer Loop and North Jackson Highway in Glasgow, Kentucky claimed the lives of three young passengers and left several others seriously injured. The collision involved a 2016 Nissan Altima driven by 18-year-old Asa Howard of Edmonton and a 2017 Toyota Highlander driven by 56-year-old Timothy Houchens of Glasgow. According to investigators from the Glasgow Police Department, Howard was heading northbound on North Jackson Highway when his Nissan drove through the intersection and struck Houchens’ Highlander, which was traveling eastbound on the Outer Loop. After the impact,…
As economic uncertainty deepens the rush for gold continues, with the price of the precious metal this week topping $4,300 for the first time. The going price for New York spot closed at a record $4,326 per troy ounce on Thursday. Futures also traded as high at more than $4,344 per troy ounce Thursday, before falling below the $4,300 mark Friday morning. Still, gold is up 6.7% over the last week, marking one of its best weeks to date. Gold sales can rise sharply when anxious investors seek a “safe haven” for their money. For the U.S., the latest gains…
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson tackles everything from moon explosions to Superman’s time-traveling tricks in his new book, “Just Visiting This Planet, Revised and Updated for the Twenty-First Century: Further Scientific Adventures of Merlin from Omniscia,” introducing readers to Merlin, an alien character he created early in his career. “Back then, you could have a simple question, but you couldn’t get an easy answer,” Tyson said on “CBS Mornings” on Friday. “Now, you can type anything into Google, into ChatGPT. If you have ever seen those replies that come in from AI, it’s got no soul. It’s got no personality.” He…
America’s population of seniors is expected to surge by 40% over the next 25 years — a shift that could spark a crisis of aging, as most people remain unprepared for longer lives, according to new research from the MIT AgeLab and insurance company John Hancock. Americans are lagging in readiness to handle the demands of greater longevity, ranging from managing the cost of a longer retirement to maintaining their health in old age, according to the inaugural Longevity Preparedness Index, or LPI, from the MIT AgeLab, a research institute focusing on improving the quality of life for older people,…