Home · World · Sep 10 archive
UPS Worker Killed Just Days Before Retirement
Confirmed
In Short: A longtime UPS employee was fatally struck by a vehicle at a facility in Missouri, just 13 days before he was set to retire after 44 years.
Paul Roberts, a 63-year-old UPS worker in Earth City, Missouri, was killed by a vehicle at the UPS Customer Care Center on Friday night, just 13 days before his planned retirement after 44 years of service, according to reports from The Independent and Newscord.
Roberts's sister, Donna Schraer, expressed her grief, stating, 'He loved his job. 13 days from retiring and now he won’t get to do it. It’s sad he’s not gonna get to celebrate.
The tragic event took place just a few days after Roberts had married his wife, with whom he had been together for 37 years, highlighting the unexpected nature of his death.
What's confirmed
- Paul Roberts, a 63-year-old UPS worker in Earth City, Missouri, was killed by a vehicle at the UPS Customer Care Center on Friday night, just 13 days before his planned retirement after 44 years of service, according to reports from The Independent and Newscord.
- Roberts's sister, Donna Schraer, expressed her grief, stating, 'He loved his job. 13 days from retiring and now he won’t get to do it. It’s sad he’s not gonna get to celebrate.
- The tragic event took place just a few days after Roberts had married his wife, with whom he had been together for 37 years, highlighting the unexpected nature of his death.
What's still developing
- Paul Roberts had worked for UPS since he was 18 years old, his sister said Paul Roberts had worked for UPS since he was 18 years old, his sister said A longtime UPS worker was fatally struck by a vehicle at a UPS facility in Missouri last week — less than two weeks before he planned to retire from the job after 44 years.
- Israel strikes after alleged Hezbollah drone launch, with different emphasis on warnings. 5 of 8 outlets skipped it: israel’s first evacuation notice in weeks was issued for a Hezbollah facility building.
- Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon on Sunday killed four people, the country’s health ministry said, after Israel said the attacks were a response to an alleged Hezbollah drone launch targeting troops in the Israeli-occupied “security zone” in the south.
- “ Israeli air strikes on southern Lebanon Sunday killed four people, two of them women ” The health ministry reported two people killed in Nabatieh al-Fawqa and two women killed in nearby Arab Salim, and said 20 other people, including several women and three children, were wounded in those locations as well as in the city of Nabatieh and the town of Kfar Rumman, adding that the toll was provisional.
- Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency (NNA) said that after an Israeli evacuation warning for a building it identified as a Hezbollah “facility” in Arab Salim, “enemy warplanes launched a strike on another house, destroying it” and killing the two women.
- Lebanon’s authorities and the Israeli military described the same sequence differently, with Israel issuing its first “evacuation” notice in Lebanon in several weeks for residents near a building it identified as a Hezbollah “facility” in Arab Salim, while it did not issue warnings for other areas where strikes were reported.
- In parallel, the Daily Pioneer said the strikes killed at least four people and wounded 20 others in southern Lebanon “despite an ongoing truce,” and it attributed the targeting to Israel’s claim that Hezbollah launched two drones towards Israeli forces.
- The Daily Pioneer also reported that two women were killed and six people injured in Arab Salim after Israeli forces issued a displacement order for a building in the town, and it said Lebanon’s Health Ministry reported two deaths in a separate strike on Nabatieh al-Fawqa.