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In the small Elmore County community of Slapout, an argument outside a gas station early last Friday night ended with a local man charged with murder. Authorities say 23-year-old Aaron Mays shot and killed 42-year-old Joel Austin Whitus after a dispute over Whitus allegedly touching Mays’ car. The confrontation started at the Marathon station on … Read more

Hope Cartwright, a 23-year-old associate editor at Virginia Living Magazine, died Monday evening after a hit-and-run collision in downtown Richmond. Friends, colleagues, and family are struggling to make sense of a young life cut short at the start of what many believed would be a meaningful career. Cartwright was walking in the marked crosswalk at … Read more

A hit-and-run crash that killed 23-year-old Hope Cartwright in downtown Richmond on Monday evening has left the city grappling with both grief and frustration over traffic safety. Cartwright, an associate editor at Virginia Living Magazine, was struck while crossing a bustling downtown street in a crosswalk with the walk signal. The collision happened just before … Read more

Memphis — Leah Carnes, 32, was found lifeless after a violent confrontation Monday evening in the parking lot of Centennial Gardens Apartments in southeast Shelby County. What began as a heated argument between Carnes and another woman turned into gunfire shortly before 6:15 p.m. as shadows lengthened across the pavement. A man at the scene … Read more

Memphis — A tense argument at Centennial Gardens Apartments in southeast Memphis turned fatal Monday evening when a domestic dispute ended with gunfire and the death of 32-year-old Leah Carnes. Around 6:15 p.m., neighbors heard raised voices and then shots in the parking area of the complex on Capital Peak Lane East. Authorities quickly detained … Read more