FORDYCE, AR – This weekend the people of Fordyce showed us all what it truly means to be a community. Within hours, hundreds gathered candles and showed up to the Mad Butcher Grocery Store for a candlelight vigil, paying tribute to the victims of Friday’s mass shooting. “This community is hurting right now,” the organizer […]
BAIRD, Texas (KTAB/KRBC) – Hundreds gathered Tuesday evening at a Baird intersection to mourn the loss of 18-year-olds Layni Potter and Madi Buchanan, and 16-year-old Ryan Bilby. That intersection was the very site that the three teens lost their lives just two days earlier when a drunk driver collided with their vehicle. “We’re here to […]
A resident of the Liberty Township subdivision where Dakota Levi Stevens lived before his death is organizing a candlelight vigil in his memory. The vigil will begin at 8 p.m. Monday at the park at the front of Eagle Ridge subdivision with speakers who knew Dakota, a pizza snack in honor of his favorite food, […]
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Friends and family of Cristina Ase, a Vancouver woman who has been missing since last month, gathered at a candlelight vigil at Glenwood Park on Friday night to remember her on her birthday. “We love her, we miss her. And wherever she is, we are going to continue fighting to bring […]
STILLWATER, Okla. (KFOR) – A Stillwater woman, who purchased tickets for the Candlelight Concert series in Oklahoma City, said she was turned away from the show. Nicole Tracy said she saw ads for the concert online and bought two tickets for a “girl’s night out” with a friend. She said she had been looking forward […]
On Wednesday night, the family of 6-year-old Tobias Perkins Junior held a candlelight vigil in his honor. Channel 2′s Candace McCowan was live on WSB Tonight at 11 p.m. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks] The little boy was beaten and killed at the hands of a man who the family […]
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Families could see what was unseen and hear what was unheard, the impact of the victims too well loved to be forgotten. The names of 90 mothers, fathers and children killed on Southern Nevada roadways were honored Friday night at the Nevada Highway Patrol Southern Command during a candlelight vigil. “Know […]
Feb. 26 (UPI) — Fans and former employees of the last Hooters to close its doors in West Virginia gathered outside the former restaurant for a candlelight vigil ahead of the building’s demolition. The Hooters eatery in Kanawha City, Charleston, closed during the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020 and never reopened, with developers eventually announcing […]
WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW)- Just a couple hours ago, hundreds of Wichitans gathered at the Keeper of the Plains downtown for a candlelight vigil to honor the life of Nex Benedict. Benedict, who was 16 years old and identified as nonbinary, died on February 8th a day after a fight inside a girls bathroom at Owasso […]
Hundreds of people filled the 39th Street District on Saturday to pay tribute to an Owasso teenager whose death has sparked widespread interest, heartbreak and outrage across Oklahoma and around the country. Hundreds of people hold up candles during a candlelight service for Nex Benedict on Saturday at Point A Gallery, 2124 NW 39 Street […]
Just over a week has passed since police say a man fatally shot two of his neighbors in a townhome community in Apex.. Nancy Taylor, 69, and Gabrielle Raymond, 37, were shot Jan. 15 in front of Raymond’s home on Chipping Drive in the South Walk Townhomes neighborhood. Both women were active in their community, […]
SAN DIEGO — Candles, roses and pictures of loved ones gone too soon filled the San Diego City college room where Mothers Against Drunk Driving hosted a candlelight vigil Saturday. It was to show support, awareness, and honor for those affected by an impaired driving crash, like Linda Pratt, who lost her husband 4 years […]