Growing the Voices of Our Future

Dr. Davidson is an entrepreneur, author, preacher, pastor, and teacher who has been blessed to share his God-given talents with many people across the country through workshops, seminars, and revivals at the local, state, and national levels. […]

Tiger Woods’ ex-girlfriend Erica Herman has asked a judge to overturn a non-disclosure agreement she signed when the couple started dating in 2017, citing a recent law that limits the ability to enforce such agreements in sexual harassment and assault cases. […]

Growing the Voices of Our Future  The Westside Gazette Newspaper is honored to feature these editorial contributions made by local students. By Layla Davidson       Richard “Alex” Murdaugh was given a life sentence on Friday […]

February is National Heart Month. A time when the nation focuses on heart disease, the leading cause of death in the United States. President Lyndon B. Johnson issued the first proclamation in 1964, among the millions of people in the country who had suffered heart attacks. Since then, U.S. presidents have designated February as American Heart Month. During the COVID-19 pandemic, many people delayed or avoided going to hospitals for heart attacks and strokes. […]

Cancer deaths in the United States have decreased by 33% since 1991, with an estimated 3.8 million lives saved. Cancer claimed the lives of 10 million people worldwide in 2020. Cancer, not Covid-19, was the leading cause of death in the world during the previous three years. Cancer symptoms can be difficult to distinguish from those of many other illnesses. Unusual weight loss or gain, swelling or lumps in the groin, neck, stomach, or underarms, and fever and night sweats are all symptoms. […]

 A 29-year-old New Jersey woman is charged with forging government documents in order to pose as a high school student. After allegedly submitting a fake birth certificate to the New Brunswick Board of Education, Hyejeong Shin was charged with one count of providing a false government document. […]

On Saturday, a 76-year-old woman was arrested after fatally shooting her terminally ill husband in the head in what police believe was an intended murder-suicide at a hospital in Daytona Beach, Florida. The terminally ill man, 77, was admitted to Advent Health Hospital three weeks ago with the intention of “ending it” if his health deteriorated further. […]

  In separate incidents in Burkina Faso, armed men kidnapped a group of women and girls foraging for wild fruits. In the incidents on January 12 and 13, approximately 50 women and girls were taken. Some of the women and girls were abducted about 15 kilometers from Arbinda, while others were abducted from another location in the Soum province. “While out foraging for wild fruits, these wives, mothers, and daughters were unjustly attacked by armed men,” according to the statement. Burkina Faso, one of the poorest countries in the world, has been the epicenter of the violence that began in neighboring Mali but has since spread across the Sahel region south of the Sahara Desert. […]

Days after the on-field cardiac arrest, Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin expressed gratitude on Instagram, asking for continued prayers for a “long road” ahead. “When you put genuine love out into the world, it returns threefold,” he wrote in his first Instagram post since his collapse on Monday. […]

According to the Chihuahua state attorney general’s office, ten security guards and four prisoners were killed, and 13 others were injured. The incident began when gunmen in armored vehicles arrived at the prison and opened fire on security personnel. Inmates took advantage of the situation, and 24 inmates escaped. It was not immediately clear who was behind the attack. […]