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Courtesy Goncalves Family (MOSCOW, Idaho) — Parents of the University of Idaho victims are speaking out on the two-year mark of the gruesome quadruple homicide as they await the trial for their children’s suspected killer. For victim Kaylee Goncalves’ parents, one of the devastating milestones this year is Kaylee’s younger sister, Autumn, turning 21 — the age […]
Image via Adobe Stock (NEW YORK) — A new study is highlighting a dramatic rise in caffeine-related emergency room visits among kids. The study, released Monday by Epic Research, found the number of caffeine-related ER visits for middle school-aged children nearly doubled from 2017 to 2023, rising from 3.1 per 100,000 visits in 2017 to […]
Gianna Lopera (ORLANDO, Fla.) — The parents of a newborn who died months after birth are suing a Florida hospital, alleging a worker broke the baby’s neck, ultimately killing her, according to the lawsuit. The infant, Jahxy Peets, was born prematurely at 24 weeks in June 2022 at the Orlando Health Winnie Palmer Hospital for […]
Ryan Garza/Detroit Free Press via USAToday Network (GROSSE POINT, Mich.) — The parents of a teenage passenger killed in a high-speed car crash in Michigan are pushing for authorities to charge the mother of the driver. In November 2023, Flynn MacKrell was riding in a car with his then-16-year-old friend who was driving over 100 […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Inflatable structures like bounce houses and moonwalks are staples at children’s birthday parties and summer carnivals. Despite the fun they bring, the wind can make them dangerous — it’s something multiple families found out the hard way this year. Shock and chaos ensued as families rushed for cover at an […]
ABCNews.com (NEW YORK) — On Sept. 10, 2022, Michael and Jill Katz received a devastating phone call that their 21-year-old daughter Sarah had collapsed while out to dinner with friends. They raced from their New Jersey home to Philadelphia, where Sarah was attending college. Sarah Katz had suffered cardiac arrest and was then transported to […]
Klaus Vedfelt/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — At the end of 2023, the federal government said it would update the Free Application for Federal Student Aid form, better known as FAFSA, ahead of the 2024-2025 school year. The change came three years after Congress mandated the update in 2020. But four months since the changes went […]
Bill Pugliano/Getty Images (PONTIAC, Mich.) — Jennifer and James Crumbley, the parents of Oxford High School mass shooter Ethan Crumbley, were sentenced to 10 to 15 years Tuesday after each was found guilty of four counts of involuntary manslaughter in separate trials earlier this year. “I can and will offer my deepest and most sincere […]
Bill Pugliano/Getty Images (PONTIAC, Mich.) — The parents of several teenagers killed in a 2021 Michigan school shooting spoke in court Tuesday, asking the judge for the maximum sentence for the parents of school shooter Ethan Crumbley. James and Jennifer Crumbley were found guilty of four counts of involuntary manslaughter in two separate trials, one […]
ABC News This week marks one year since The Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was arrested in Russia on espionage charges while on a reporting trip. A year into what the U.S. State Department has declared to be a wrongful detainment, Evan Gershkovich’s parents say they are optimistic. “We know that the U.S. government […]