A Philadelphia mother is furious after she was ticketed for allowing her two-year-old son to pee against a lamp post in what she calls “a potty training accident.” Caroline Robboy was given a $50 for public urination and a lecture on parenting from the officer. The incident occurred when Robboy was out with her in-laws and ... read more »

20-year-old Beatrice Weston is suing the city of Philadelphia, claiming that city officials failed to act appropriately and properly train workers which could have prevented the nightmare she endured. In October 2011, Turgut Gozleveli, a Philadelphia apartment building’s landlord, found two dog bowls in the apartment block.  Pets were not allowed, and Gozleveli questioned the ... read more »

Marc Summers is recovering from serious facial injuries after being involved in a car accident last week.  Summers, 60, was riding in the back seat of a taxi during a torrential downpour when the vehicle hydroplaned and Summers smashed into the plastic partition between the front and back seat of the cab. Summers became a ... read more »

A Tacony, Philadelphia woman has been charged with two counts of murder after she killed her 18-month-old twins, Adam and Eve, in an angry rage over her husband’s alleged affair with one of her family members. Authorities believe that on Thursday afternoon, Stacey Smalls, 41, killed one of the twins by smothering it and the ... read more »

A New Jersey mother is claiming that her 3-year-old daughter is being denied a needed kidney transplant because she is “mentally retarded.” Amelia “Mia” Rivera suffers from Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome, which can cause abnormalities in the kidneys and brain, as well as seizures, deafness, and malformations of the eye. About a third of people with Wolf-Hirschhorn ... read more »

Philadelphia police made a gruesome discovery, and they think it might solve the case of a baby that went missing in Baltimore two years ago. Several weeks ago, Baltimore police received a tip alleging that an 18-month-old child had been killed in the city and taken elsewhere, police said. A follow-up investigation led police to ... read more »

We have a fourth-grader of our own, and as we sit here trying to maintain our sanity while he’s home for a snow day, we can perhaps understand how dealing with a room full of them day after day can make you snap. So maybe it’s not such a surprise that Susan Romanyszyn, a fourth-grade ... read more »

A jar of baby food bought in a Target store in Philadelphia was supposedly found with maggots, claims a family who bought the Gerber food. That is so disgusting! I certainly hope there wasn’t any jars sold that went unnoticed. Blech! A Pittsburg family’s complaint that they found worms in jarred baby food has prompted ... read more »

Dillon Cossey, who was arrested earlier this month for plotting a shoot-up at a local school, yesterday admitted that he indeed have those intentions: “First off, I would like to apologize for the trouble I caused,” the boy wrote. “I realize now that I was not thinking correctly. I want everyone to know that what ... read more »

When the Columbine shootings happened, I remember a lot of people asking, “How could their parents not have known?” And many pundits were asking the same thing of the 14-year-old boy in Cleveland who went on a shooting rampage earlier this week. And now another 14-year-old in Philadelphia has been arrested for plotting a shooting ... read more »