- Tribune Publishing
Victim ID'd in fatal pedestrian crash over the weekend in Madison Twp.
Mar. 8—A Middletown woman died Saturday night while crossing Ohio 122 near Trenton-Franklin Road in Madison Twp., according to a Butler County Sheriff's Office report. Linda Biser, 70, was killed in the incident, according to the Butler County Sheriff's Office. Her cause of death was ruled as traumatic injuries. The crash happened about 9:38 p.m. when Biser was walking across Ohio 122 near the ...
- Reuters
Around 1,000 women gather in Istanbul to protest against femicides
Around 1,000 women gathered near Istanbul's main Taksim Square on Monday, protesting what they see as a lack of action by authorities to prevent and punish violence against women, in a country where femicide rates have surged in recent years. The protesters, mostly women carrying purple flags with women and LGBTI+ signs and wearing purple masks reading "We will win our freedom," gathered on a main street after police closed off the entrances to Taksim Square on International Women's Day. The femicide rate roughly doubled between 2011 and 2019, according to a group that monitors murders of women, which also said that so far in 2021, 51 women have been murdered and another 26 have died under suspicious circumstances.
- USA TODAY
Exclusive: Virgin Voyages announces Resilient Lady, third cruise ship of four-vessel fleet
Virgin Voyages has announced the third ship in its four ship fleet: The Resilient Lady is scheduled to be complete on July 1, 2022.
