News & Politics

The younger sister of bombing victim, Martin Richard, 8, who perished on April 15 when two men set off explosives near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, has just undergone a monumental surgery to close up a wound, left open after she lost her leg in the terror attack nearly a month ago. Jane ... read more »

Authorities are investigating the reason why eight children were dropped off at a Dallas, Texas, fire station without any explanation early Sunday morning. The children ranged in ages of 3 to 12 and were dropped off by two women who claimed to be acquaintances of the children’s mother.  The women told investigators that they attended church with ... read more »

The cover of TIME magazine’s May 2013 digital edition, covering the Boston Marathon bombing, has drawn criticism and analysis from other media sources such as the Christian Science Monitor and the Huffington Post on Thursday. The cover shows a toddler boy, frightened, crying and bloody with the headline, “Tragedy in Boston.” The cover photo is for TIME’s May ... read more »

U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R) penned an editorial on Friday in The Columbus Dispatch which reveals his change of heart on gay marriage, which he now supports. Portman admits that his position on gay marriage changed upon finding out that his young adult son was gay after he came out to he and his wife, Jane ... read more »

On July 6, 2012, police found 19 children left alone in a home close to Bowling Green. On Tuesday, Jackie Farah was arrested and charged with fourteen counts of criminal abuse and five counts of wanton endangerment by the Warren County Sherriff’s office. According to the police, Farah left 19 children alone in a home ... read more »

A New York father, listed as the number one deadbeat parent in America, spent over a decade on the run from his child support obligations. Robert Sand, 50, pleaded guilty to evading child support payments to his two former wives for his three children.  Sand moved from New York to Florida, then left the country ... read more »

A 16-year-old girl in Harris County, TX, has filed a lawsuit against her parents, alleging that they are trying to force her to have an abortion she does not want. The teen, who is approximately 8 weeks pregnant, claims that her parents are using verbal and physical threats to try to force her to have ... read more »

Desiree McKinney, a 5th grade student at Fremont Elementary in Modesto, Calif., found her name on a classmate’s “kill list” on Wednesday.  The list was handwritten in a notebook and had several other students’ names listed. Desiree’s mother, Bernita McKinney, learned about the list from her daughter and says that she didn’t receive notification from ... read more »

Linda McNeely of Bothell, Washington began having seizures during the summer of 2010. She soon learned that she had a fast growing tumor in her brain. By fall of 2011, doctors only gave her 6 months to live.  Linda McNeely’s children wrote letters to the court detailing the pain she was suffering. These letters explained ... read more »

A 5-year-0ld Midland City, Ala. boy is going on his third day of being held captive inside a small bunker, 8-feet under ground by a man he doesn’t know. The Kindergartener is being held by Jimmy Lee Dykes, 65. Dykes kidnapped the boy by gunpoint after he entered the boy’s school bus while the bus ... read more »

The Catholic Church preaches that life begins at conception, but according to a Catholic health care company in Colorado, fetuses are not people. Jeremy Stodghill’s wife, Lori, died on New Year’s Day in 2006, while pregnant with twin boys.  She was 28 weeks pregnant when she began vomiting and having shortness of breath.  Jeremy and ... read more »

Three students were reportedly shot in their legs and taken to area hospitals after they were struck by bullets on the campus of the Lone Star College, just north of Houston on Tuesday. The college’s website warned students that a gunman had fired shots at the college earlier today, asking students to take cover and ... read more »

An ex-Boy Scout is bringing a civil case against the Boys Scouts of America after claiming that he was 13-years-old when a leader molested him 2007.  As a result, about 120,000 pages of internal Boy Scouts files could be made public if the documents are used as evidence. The Boy Scouts of America tried to ... read more »

Parents who were in the process of adopting Russian children before Russian President Vladamir Putin signed a draconian adoption ban in December, can breathe a sigh of relief as Russian officials are likely to allow their adoptions to move forward. Although the ban is still restricting all future adoptions, Russian officials say that verbiage in the new ... read more »

Modesto, Calif. teen Marty Kent, 17, was shot and killed Thursday on his front porch while trying to protect his mother Robin Kent. Robin told CBS13 that she heard yelling outside and she stepped outside to tell the group to move elsewhere.  A man in the group, holding a shotgun, fired at her and Marty ... read more »