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5 days ago
- General
- Yahoo
Troopers search for driver in deadly Osceola County hit-and-run crash involving pedestrian
The Brief Troopers with the Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) are continuing to ask the public for help in locating the driver of a deadly Osceola County hit-and-run crash that took place more than a month ago. Officials believe the driver may have been in a white Mercedes SUV. One person was killed in the crash — a 55-year-old man from Orlando. OSCEOLA COUNTY, Fla. - Troopers with the Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) are continuing to ask the public for help in locating the driver of a deadly Osceola County hit-and-run crash that took place more than a month ago. What we know An official crash report from the FHP shows that the crash took place around 12:38 a.m. on April 29 at Osceola Parkway (C.R. 522) and Plumwood Circle. Officials say both a 2023 Toyota Camry and an unknown sport utility vehicle were traveling eastbound on Osceola Parkway, east of Plumwood Circle. Meanwhile, a person was walking south and entered the eastbound lanes of Osceola Parkway. Troopers say the person was not walking in a marked crosswalk and was in the direct path of the Toyota Camry. The person was hit by the Toyota Camry and was thrown partially into the path of the unknown sport car, causing this car to also hit them. Troopers say the driver of the Toyota Camry was not injured and remained at the scene of the crash. However, the driver of the sport car fled the scene. The person that was hit was transported to the hospital but later died on May 9. What you can do Investigators believe the unknown sport car may be a white Mercedes SUV. Authorities are asking anyone with information on the crash to contact the FHP at (*347) or Crimeline at 1-800-423-TIPS. What's next The crash currently remains under investigation. STAY CONNECTED WITH FOX 35 ORLANDO: Download the FOX Local app for breaking news alerts, the latest news headlines Download the FOX 35 Storm Team Weather app for weather alerts & radar Sign up for FOX 35's daily newsletter for the latest morning headlines FOX Local:Stream FOX 35 newscasts, FOX 35 News+, Central Florida Eats on your smart TV The Source This story was written based on information shared by the Florida Highway Patrol in a news release on May 31, 2025.
Telegraph
19-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
The pros and cons of having a high-powered wife
I'm fit and healthy, mentally well-adjusted, with a decent standard of living, a fulfilling career, and an active social life. Yet conversely, due to circumstance, I am at a higher risk of substance misuse, depression, anxiety and erectile dysfunction. The reason for this seeming anomaly? My wife, Stephanie. Not because of anything she does. She's a wonderful, caring, loving, giving human and I am lucky to have been married to her for nine years. The issue is her job. Specifically her earnings, which exceed mine. And this, according to several studies, should be causing me all kinds of problems. I tried to explain this to her a few weeks ago, while we were enjoying some winter sun on holiday in the Canaries, which she booked and paid for. 'Our lives are very different, and I struggle to keep up with you,' I moaned from the jacuzzi on the balcony of the suite. 'It can be hard for me.' She looked up from her laptop. 'It must be awful for you,' she nodded. You see, there are pros and cons to being married to a high-flying chief executive with her own successful consultancy company. I met Stephanie when I interviewed her for a feature that I was writing about happiness – she's a former stand-up comedian and her company Laughology runs workplace transformation programmes based around psychology, happiness and humour. I'll admit that I'm lucky enough to enjoy luxuries well above my pay grade. For my birthday last September, for example, I was taken to New York for a long weekend. We flew business class and dined out at Robert de Niro's restaurant. I get to be the plus-one on many of my wife's business trips. Last year I managed to inveigle myself to Madrid, Amsterdam and Lucerne. While she went off to speak at conferences, I spent the mornings working and then went for lunch and afternoon sightseeing. I get to eat in very nice restaurants, so even though financially my life is often hand-to-mouth, that hand is usually holding a fork full of posh food. The flip side is that to enjoy all this, Stephanie works harder than anyone I know and her Deborah Meaden-like determined work ethic sometimes bleeds into the personal space. I have performance reviews and she sets me KPI (key performance indicators), so my abject failure to achieve one goal of getting the building regulations approved on our loft extension nearly got me the sack. And if I ever require her for anything I'm doing, I must go through her PA to book a slot in her diary. She works most weekends and into the evening, hence often I feel the need to show that I'm not shirking. As a consequence, I end up behind my desk at the weekends too, secretly doing Wordle but pretending to work. The gap between our respective profiles is often stark. I drive a Fiat 500 runaround, but often get to drive her new Mercedes SUV, if I ask. When I use the train for work (we live in Surrey), I go off-peak and split the ticket, she goes first class. She has the latest tech and sits at her desk behind a bank of screens. I keep my old laptop going by buying cheap parts from China. Moreover, she has several investment portfolios and a couple of properties. I have the house we share and a pension pot that presently will pay me around £3,000 a year, so I can never retire and will work until I die. To her credit, Stephanie never makes me feel inadequate and will often say that my support has allowed her to be as successful as she is. And in our early years together I did more of the financial heavy lifting. The household runs as an equal partnership. We halve all the bills, shopping and mortgage, and I contribute as much as I can when we go away and when we eat out. Nevertheless, I can't help feeling a strange dichotomy. On the one hand knowing I am lucky; on the other feeling emasculated at times. This is not unusual for men in my position. In January, researchers at Durham University published a study which found that when there is parity of earnings in marriages, both parties reported greater mental wellbeing. However, at the point where a wife's earnings leapfrogged her husband's, the man had a higher incidence of mental-health problems often typified by increased substance misuse. Other studies have revealed similar relationship problems, linking increased female earning power with increased divorce rates, lower marital satisfaction and sexual dysfunction. Dr Demid Getik, assistant professor of economics at Durham University, who conducted the study, believes that although the data was from Sweden, there will be similar findings elsewhere. 'I looked at a study from Denmark where researchers looked at earnings and compared them with data about prescription medication,' he explains. 'They found a similar effect whereby there was an increase in erectile dysfunction and anxiety medication when there was wage disparity.' Interestingly, the Durham study also found some women also struggled when they started to out-earn their husbands and had a slightly increased incidence of neurotic and stress-related disorders. The reason for these outcomes, according to therapist Simon Coombs, is primal. He explains that despite thousands of years of evolution and a culture where wage parity – if not always achieved, is desired – men can't help feeling they need to be the provider. 'These instincts and principles in males pre-date modern history and cultures,' he says. 'The less developed part of the male brain can still be impacted by the almost primordial subconscious need or desire to be the hunter gatherer, the one that goes out into the world to bring home the main requirements for a positive life experience. 'In that brain, those actions are taken exclusively by the male,' he adds. 'This runs in our very earliest DNA. So when that role is perceived to be done by the woman, there can almost be a psychological malfunction, overt or far more subtle, that can lead to feelings of failure, anger or even despair.' If earning disparity does start to affect mental health, Coombs advises couples to seek professional help. Other strategies to help cope with problems that can arise from earning disparity include being open, honest and transparent about finances, making joint decisions about money, creating a sustainable budget for both parties and appreciating non-financial input in a relationship. Stephanie has never made me feel inadequate. Her generosity is unconditional and so, thankfully, I've largely learnt to dampen the inherent primal instinct that tells me in some way I am failing as a man. But it is often still there, quietly whispering in the background, and if it ever does get too loud, I suggest to my wife that we enjoy a nice meal out somewhere, or a weekend away. I find that helps.
