“My dad just killed my mom. … She’s laying in the grass in front of our apartment.” A 13-year-old boy from Grove City, Ohio told this to a 911 dispatcher around 9:00 AM on Sunday morning. According to The Columbus Dispatch in Columbus, Ohio, the boy and his 4-year-old sister had been on a weekend ... read more »

A Coney Island principal is coming under a lot of heat for removing a patriotic song from her school’s kindergarten graduation song list. PS 90 kindergarteners were to sing Lee Greenwood’s “Proud to be an American” at their June 20th ceremony. However, at a recent rehearsal, Principal Greta Hawkins decided to have the song removed ... read more »

Girl Scouts from all over the world country descended on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. yesterday to attend the ‘Rock the Mall’ event celebrating the Girl Scout’s 100th anniversary. The Associated Press reports that Girls Scouts from every state and various countries attended the event. The girls braved the heat to attend music performances ... read more »

Disney World is a place full of magic. Last weekend, April Spielman, 15, wanted to make her boyfriend’s first visit to Disney World magical. The pair dressed up as Peter Pan and Tinker Bell to hit the parks. Both had worked odd jobs in order to pay for their costumes and purchase a ticket for ... read more »

A new study to be published in the July issue of Clinical Pediatrics has found that food allergies are more common for city kids. The study was the first to map the occurrence of children’s food allergies by location within the United States. Amongst city kids, 9.8% were found to have food allergies while 7.2% ... read more »

Tragedy struck when a Texas family went to take a look at a house that was for sale in Jacinto City. Cherie Rangel was outside of her SUV when she decided that it should be pulled up so that the house’s landlord could park behind her on the driveway. She turned the vehicle on, started ... read more »

Around 1:15 AM on Wednesday, a Philadelphia teen was webcam chatting when his manhood was called into question. Then, he picked up his older brother’s gun, believing it to be unloaded, and held it to his head. Tragically, when he pulled the trigger, he shot himself in the head. East Detectives Captain John Gallagher told ... read more »

South Carolina mom Shannon Cooper was thrilled to see her daughter graduate from South Florence High School last Saturday evening. As her daughter, Iesha, walked to receive her diploma, Shannon cheered. Cooper was no doubt looking forward to celebrating Iesha’s achievement with her later that evening. Instead, she found herself in jail, arrested for disorderly ... read more »

Barbara Stringham, 39, was arrested on Monday after engaging in a dispute with a Boise man. Police were alerted to an altercation at about 1 AM on Monday morning. Witnesses reported to Boise police that Stringham attempted to stab an 11-year-old boy who was also present with a syringe full of bleach. According to the ... read more »

Tyler Sullivan of Rochester, Minnesota has a better excuse for skipping school than most–and he has proof to back it up. The 11-year-old missed school to attend President Obama’s speech at Honeywell in Golden Valley, Minnesota. Tyler’s father, Ryan Sullivan, introduced the President before he made his speech. Ryan is a Navy veteran who began ... read more »

A Seattle woman was on a jog with her baby in a jogging stroller when she stopped to talk to some other women. She turned the stroller sideways and approached the group. However, the stroller did not stay put. Instead, it started rolling towards an intersection with the baby inside. Fortunately, Jeff Blackburn was driving ... read more »

When it is hot out, many of us like to grab a nice, cold drink of Kool-Aid. However, Kool-Aid, instead of providing relief, generated some heat of its own in the Brightmoor neighborhood of Detroit on Tuesday night. WJBK in Detroit reports that a group of boys were hanging out near an old abandoned school ... read more »

Late Tuesday night, a San Antonio woman began decapitating stuffed animals before stabbing her husband. Lisa Alarcon, 45, was watching television with her husband when she allegedly confronted him about cheating on her.  KENS5 in San Antonio reports that the husband did not deny the cheating. Shortly after, Alarcon moved to the bedroom where she ... read more »

Shortly after the birth of her third child, Katy Hayes suffered the ravages of flesh-eating bacteria. To save her life, doctors had to amputate her arms above her elbows and her legs above the knees. She was also in a coma for a month. The Kingwood, Texas mother is set to have a double arm ... read more »

17-year-old Noah Grant was running with other members of Tampa’s Robinson High School track team on Sunday night when a white SUV drove by and someone threw an egg at Grant. After impact, Grant fell to his knees, clutching his face. The Tampa Bay Times reports that the egg fractured a bone and cut his ... read more »