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By Edith Mwangi and Zoe Ligairi May 1, 2026 Youthcast Media Group® Heather Devers was 10 when a trip to school on a rural Fauquier County road turned into a scene of shattered glass and screaming. Heather Devers at 10 years old, the year she was in a bus crash (courtesy of Devers). She was sitting with her best friend in the last seat on the left side of the bus when a car smashed into it. She looked outside to see the driver, bloodied and shouting for help. Soon she and her

By Sarah Gandluri April 16, 2025 Youthcast Media Group® When Meghan Schanie felt a lump in her breast at age 31, she was juggling a full-time job and two young toddlers. Cancer was the furthest thing from her mind. Her primary care doctors initially told her it was likely nothing - a blocked milk duct or an infection, which are common among young women who have recently been breastfeeding. Because of her age and a lack of family history, cancer was not the first assumption.

By Caleb Lenn and Michael Pewett April 16, 2026 Youthcast Media Group® Miah Henderson, a sophomore at Annandale High School in Annandale, Va., suffered a fractured back and ankle at a gymnastics meet. The cost was staggering. Miah Henderson (courtesy of Henderson). “Luckily, insurance covered it,” Henderson said. Others are not so lucky. Sophomore Annandale basketball player Samuel Greene worries about getting reinjured. “Injuries can be very expensive, and I’ve already inj

Pleas from schools, parents and frustrated residents to implement proven, low-cost infrastructure improvements have gone unanswered By Rossy Soto, Jasmin Dinh and Jeff Plungis April 16, 2026 Youthcast Media Group® In 2022, Justice High School junior Lesly Diaz-Bonilla was struck and killed as she was leaving Barcroft View Apartments, on her way to school . Just four years prior in the same Fairfax County location, a mother and daughter were injured by a hit-and-run driver .