It was supposed to be just another Tuesday morning in the quiet stretch of Chatham County. But around 11 a.m., something went terribly wrong near Alston Road and New Hope Church Road, close to Apex, North Carolina — and the woman at the center of it all was an 85-year-old grandmother named Betty Alston, who … Read more
It was supposed to be just another big playoff night. The kind of night that gets the whole school buzzing, where coaches and kids are fired up and ready to make something happen on that field. But for Stuart W. Cramer High School assistant baseball coach Casey McMillen, Friday never got that far. Before a … Read more
Nobody on Hickory Street saw it coming. Not the neighbors who watched him run around outside. Not the folks who saw him play catch just days before. Leland Arnett was just a little boy living a little boy’s life in De Soto, Illinois — and then, on the night of May 13, everything changed forever. … Read more
She describes herself online as a devoted mother, grandmother, and longtime educator who sees teaching as her gift and passion. But this week, 63-year-old Karen Whitmire Savage, an art teacher at Barrington Middle School in Lithia, Florida, is at the center of a national firestorm after a student’s video captured her wrapping a charger cord … Read more
Joe Taylor didn’t make it home Tuesday. The 55-year-old Hopkinsville man had been riding his motorcycle northbound on South Virginia Street when everything changed in a matter of seconds. Around 11:55 in the morning, his bike slammed into a tree-trimming truck that was swinging onto South Virginia Street from Means Avenue. The hit was brutal. … Read more
