Mom Accused of Killing Son, 2, and Claiming She Talked to His Ghost Pleads Guilty to Abuse

Jayce Martin.Photo: Source: Family AttorneyA Florida woman accused in 2018 of killing her toddler son with a single punch has agreed to a plea deal with prosecutors, according to online records.Victoria Toth, 26, appeared in court last week, where she pleaded guilty to a single count of aggravated child neglect.She was originally charged with aggravated manslaughter in connection with the beating death of her son, Jayce Martin.Jayce was 2 when he died in September 2018, days after his mother hit him, police said....

March 16, 2025 · 5 min · 994 words · William Miller

Mom of 4 Who Died of Brain Aneurysm at Son’s Football Game Donates 4 Organs: 'She Saved Lives'

Lucinda Daniels.Photo:Gofundme Gofundme A California mother is being remembered as a hero for saving lives after her death. On August 25, Lucinda Daniels, a mother of four, rushed onto the field after her son Dillon suffered a broken leg and dislocated foot during his high school football game. While waiting for an ambulance, Lucinda collapsed and was reportedly down for about three minutes before she was rushed to the hospital....

March 16, 2025 · 2 min · 397 words · Mark Gonzalez

Mom Pleads Guilty to Involuntary Manslaughter For Giving Benadryl to Son, 3, Leaving Him to Drown in Bath

Jayden Krebs.Photo:The Arlington Memorial Gardens The Arlington Memorial Gardens The county coroner eventually ruled the death as a homicide and attributed it to a “drowning like” incident at their Cincinnati, Ohio home. Molly, who was 27 at the time of Jayden’s death, has said prior to the incident she had a long day of work cleaning houses, and had returned home to host a dinner with guests. After the guests left, she allegedly gave the child Benadryl because he had an allergic reaction to Nutella, and his face broke out in rashes, the court document states....

March 16, 2025 · 2 min · 309 words · Arthur Lewis

More than 30 Years Later: Inside the Unsolved Yogurt Shop Murders of 4 Teens

Billboards depicting Eliza Thomas, Sarah Harbison, Amy Ayers and Jennifer Harbison were placed all over Austin in the months after the girls’s murders.Photo:David Kennedy/Austin American-Statesman-USA TODAY NETWORK David Kennedy/Austin American-Statesman-USA TODAY NETWORK Firefighters thought they were responding to a fire at a frozen yogurt shop that December night in 1991. But then they saw the bodies: Four young girls, charred beyond recognition in a fire meant to cover up evidence in a quadruple homicide that has haunted Austin, Texas, ever since....

March 16, 2025 · 3 min · 503 words · Madeline Whitaker

More Than 400 Found Dead from Kenya Doomsday Cult

Pastor Paul Mackenzie, who allegedly ordered his followers of the Good News International Church to fast to death in order to meet Jesus, is currently in police custody along with 36 other suspects, per the outlet. In March, Mackenzie denied ordering his followers to starve during an interview with Kenyan outlet Nation, multiple outlets reported. None of the suspects currently in custody have been charged, though relatives of those who have died have been speaking out....

March 16, 2025 · 3 min · 564 words · Jesse Brown

Morgan Wade Says Singing About Sobriety Helps Her Connect with Fans: 'They Don't Feel So Alone'

Morgan Wadeunderstands just how powerful music can be. For the country singer, writing songs about her sobriety journey has proven helpful not only to her, but to fans going through the same thing, she explains in a video shared exclusively with PEOPLE. “I wrote ‘The Nights’ about my struggle with sobriety — I’ll be five years sober,” she says. “Fans come up and they tell me, ‘Your song has helped me so much, I didn’t think there was anybody else that felt that way....

March 16, 2025 · 2 min · 384 words · Jessica Gillespie

Mountain Lion Reported in Penn. Town Turns Out to Be a Large Feral House Cat, Officials Find

A mountain lion sighting in Pennsylvania turned out to be a large feral cat.Photo:Getty (2) Getty (2) Residents in Lower Macungie, Pennsylvania, are breathing a sigh of relief after reports of a mountain lion roaming the area turned out to be a false alarm. On Sunday, state troopers reported that a very large cat had been spotted in some fields behind a residential street, according to apublic information release. The neighbor who contacted the police snapped a photo of the animal....

March 16, 2025 · 2 min · 374 words · Nicole Reynolds

Mystery Solved: Family-of-Four Not Seen for Months Is 'Perfectly Fine' — How Police Found Them

Photo: Naugatuck Police Department The disappearance of the Bravo family, reported last week in Naugatuck, Connecticut,seemed to have all the makings of a newsworthy mystery. First to notice their absence were school officials, who became concerned when 14-year-old Christopher Bravo and his little sister, 11-year-old Samantha Bravo, failed to show up for the start of classes on Aug. 27 having left for summer break at the end of the previous term, in June....

March 16, 2025 · 4 min · 737 words · Stacy Washington

N.C. Man Walks Into Sheriff's Office, Allegedly Says He Slit 15-Year-Old Daughter's Throat

Photo: Facebook A 32-year-old North Carolina man showed up at the local sheriff’s office Sunday morning and admitted that he’d just killed his 15-year-old daughter, say authorities. The dispatcher asked for his name so she could search for any possible arrest warrants, but before she could go any further, he told her his name wasn’t in the system because “he had just killed someone,” the release says. After telling the dispatcher he had allegedly killed his daughter, Zaria Burgess, he told them her body was still at his house....

March 16, 2025 · 2 min · 338 words · Carrie Santos

N.D. Lawmaker Resigns After Revelation He Exchanged Texts with Jailed Child Pornography Suspect

Photo: Will Kincaid/AP/Shutterstock North Dakota’s longest-serving state senator says he will leave office after more than 40 years in office in the wake of reporting that last year he exchanged 72 text messages with a jailed landscaper accused of possessing child pornography. “Recent news stories have become a distraction for the important work of the legislative assembly during its interim meetings,” state Sen. Ray Holmberg said in a statement earlier this week,according to North Dakota newspaperThe Forum....

March 16, 2025 · 3 min · 523 words · Nicole Davis

N.J. Hiker, 21, Hospitalized After Venomous Snake Bite: 'I Got a Great Story Out of It'

Kevin Murray was hiking after dark in Hopewell Township last Thursday when the scary incident unfolded, according to ABC affiliateWPVI. While walking in the area Murray, 21, told the outlet he suddenly felt pain in his ankle and fell down. It was then that the Pennington resident spotted the slithering reptile just a few feet away, WPVI reported. “I just felt a sharp sting right on my ankle,” Murray recalled to the local outlet....

March 16, 2025 · 3 min · 438 words · Kevin Mayo

N.Y.C. Man Claims Trader Joe's Fired Him After He Requested Stricter COVID Safety Measures

Trader Joe’s.Photo: Rich Graessle/Icon Sportswire via Getty A New York City man claims he was fired fromTrader Joe’safter writing a letter to the company calling for stricter COVID safety guidelines. On Friday, Ben Bonnematweetedthat he had been terminated from his job at the grocery store chain’s Upper West Side location in Manhattan, sharing the letter he claims he sent to the chain’s CEO Dan Bane. In the letter, Bonnema included sources about the dangers of COVID-19 transmission indoors via aerosol particles, asking that corporate make adjustments to filtration systems to better protect customers and staff....

March 16, 2025 · 2 min · 426 words · Taylor Taylor

Nadia Ferreira Married Marc Anthony in 2 Show-Stopping Wedding Gowns: See New Photos and Details

Global music starMarc Anthonyand former Miss ParaguayNadia Ferreiratied the knot in style.The bride, whomarried Anthony on Jan. 28 in Miami, turned to Israeli fashion designer Galia Lahav for not one, but two, gorgeous wedding gowns.In a press release shared withPEOPLE, Sharon Sever, the Head Designer at Galia Lahav, shared some details about creating the looks for the couple’s big day, along with gorgeous photos and sketches of her gown.“It was an absolute pleasure to create these two custom gowns with Nadia....

March 16, 2025 · 5 min · 858 words · Danielle Hart