A Georgia mother who was arrested for allowing her 10-year-old to get a tattoo said she had no idea it was illegal for him to get one, even with her consent. When Chuntera Napier’s son Gaquan Napier asked her if he could get a memorial tattoo for his 12-year-old brother Malik who died after being […]
A winning $1 million scratch-off lottery ticket picked out of a gas station trash can has become the subject of a three-way legal battle in Arkansas. Sharon Jones was at a Super One Stop in July 2011 in Bebee, Ark., when she went to a trash can to pick up a handful of discarded lottery […]
When Sarah Watts’s 16-year-old daughter Alicia asked if her boyfriend of three months could stay the night, she wasn’t outraged or upset. Instead, she responded in a way that would horrify many parents — she went out and bought Alicia a double bed so she could sleep with boyfriend Matt in comfort. Now 17-years-old, Alicia […]
A distressing video was shot of an 11-year-old autistic boy being punched repeatedly in the head by a fellow pupil as he waited for the school bus. Kaleb Kula has been bullied for years at Elkton Middle School in Elkton, Maryland, according to his parents. Students can be seen and heard cheering, while another student […]
A teenager in Corpus Christi, Texas, is suing her family, claiming they are trying to force her to have an abortion. The 14-year-old girl is 10 weeks pregnant and wants to carry her child to term, says her attorney. According to sources, the teenager sought legal help, from an attorney she saw advertising on television, […]
Republican Presidential Candidate Newt Gingrich angrily criticized the media for focusing on his personal life at the outset of Thursday’s Republican presidential debate in South Carolina, disputing allegations made by his ex-wife in an interview that he had pressed her for an “open marriage.” Marianne Gingrich’s interview with ABC News was the subject of the […]
This news story sounds like the beginning of a country music song. He called the cops on his cheatin’ wife. Unfortunately, it is not a song. Glendale, Ariz. police are investigating Dave Banks’ claims that his wife of 17 years, Traci Banks, has cheated on him at least seven or eight times in the past […]
TV Chef Paula Deen, known as ‘the Queen of Southern cuisine’, came forward after rumours began circulating that she had the disease but was attempting to hide it from fans. She said in a statement: ‘I was determined to share my positive approach and not let diabetes stand in the way of enjoying my life.’ […]
The Utah Court of Appeals has refused to dismiss charges against a couple accused of killing their baby by sleeping with him — their second child to die in bed with them. The appeals judges sided with a lower court in a pair of opinions released Friday concerning the death of 3-month-old Kayson Merrill. The […]
A South Carolina couple is fighting to get their adopted daughter back in their custody after she was placed with her biological father, who lives 1,100 miles away in Oklahoma. Matt and Melanie Capobianco said goodbye to their 2-year-old daughter Veronica last Saturday. “We’re kind of reeling from it, and reliving having to hand her […]
Some parents are pushing to bring breastfeeding back to public television. Specifically, on “Sesame Street.” In the 1970s and 1980s, the landmark show routinely talked about nursing as a normal and natural part of childhood. In the following clip from 1977, guest star Buffy St. Marie breastfeeds her baby while Big Bird watches. “See? He’s […]
Some Georgia parents are outraged after they say an elementary school used examples of slavery and beatings to teach their children about math. The problems in question appeared on a third grader’s math assignment. One problem said, ‘Each tree had 56 oranges. If 8 slaves pick them equally, then how much would each slave work?’ […]
