Missing 14-Year-Old Boy Found Dead in Florida, Police Investigating Cause of Death

Ryan Rogers.Photo: gofundme A Florida community is in mourning following the sudden death of a local teenager. Ryan was last seen leaving home just after 6:30 p.m. on Monday, police said. The teenager left on his bicycle, and when he did not return home he was reported missing, according toThe Palm Beach Post. The following morning, police discovered his body and a bicycle near the sidewalk on Central Boulevard and the 1-95 overpass, according to authorities....

March 16, 2025 · 2 min · 406 words · Keith Todd

Missing Youth Soccer Team Remains Trapped in Thailand Cave as Flooding Hampers Rescue Teams

On Tuesday, friends and family huddled around northern Thailand’s Tham Luang Nang cave as they anxiously awaited any word from rescue teams about the Wild Boars soccer team, whose members have been trapped in the flooded cave since Saturday, reports say. “The kids have been in the cave before, but they didn’t think that going in at this time would be that dangerous,” Chote Narin, with the Mai Sai district police station, told theAssociated Press....

March 16, 2025 · 3 min · 437 words · Richard Brown

Missouri Teen Football Player Crushed to Death in Student Housing Elevator Accident

Photo: GoFundMe A Missouri family is mourning the loss of their 18-year-old son, who died on Wednesday in a tragic elevator crash. JauMarcus McFarland, of Maryland Heights, was attending Champion Prep Academy in Atlanta, Georgia — a second opportunity program post-graduate academic-athletic program for students with aspirations of playing college football. He and his teammates were staying at 444 Suites Student Housing in Northeast Atlanta and had gotten into the building’s elevator en route to practice just after 3 p....

March 16, 2025 · 4 min · 730 words · Troy Edwards

Missouri Woman Fired After Viral Video Shows Her Blocking Her Black Neighbor from Their Condo

Photo: D’Arreion Nuriyah Toles/Facebook A Missouri woman was fired from her job on Sunday, two days after a video showed her attempting to block a black man from entering an apartment building where he also lives. On Friday, D’Arreion Toles was returning home to St. Louis’ Elder Shirt Lofts after a late night at his office when Hilary Brooke Mueller, who lives on the third floor, stood in the doorway of the condominium complex and demanded to see proof that he lives in their building....

March 16, 2025 · 2 min · 413 words · Carrie Vaughn

MLB, Police Investigating Altercation Between L.A. Angels' Anthony Rendon and Oakland A's Fan

Photo: Ronald Martinez/Getty The Oakland, Calif. Police Department and Major League Baseball are investigating an altercation between the Los Angeles Angels' Anthony Renden and an Oakland Athletics fan that occurred on MLB’s opening day Thursday, according to several news sites. A 12-second video of the incident surfaced on social media showing Renden pulling the fan’s shirt through the guardrails from below. It reportedly happened just after the Angels' 2-1 loss to the Athletics, as the players were heading off the field....

March 16, 2025 · 3 min · 451 words · Rhonda Avery

Mod Sun Breaks Down the End of His Engagement to Avril Lavigne in Lyrics of New Song 'Strangers'

YouTube Mod Sun is processing the end of his relationship withAvril Lavignethrough music. The punk-rocker dropped a new breakup song called “Strangers” featuring revealing lyrics about their romance on Friday alongside a music video filmed in Paris — wherehe proposed to Lavignelast year. “Strangers” finds Mod Sun, 36, reflecting on their relationship arc, as he sings about seeing the 38-year-old “Complicated” performer on television before they met, getting to know each other and quickly growing close....

March 16, 2025 · 2 min · 367 words · Jason Copeland

Model Stripped of Miss World Title for Being a Divorced Mom Takes Legal Action Against Pageant

The former Miss Ukraine 2018 is taking legal action against the Miss World pageant after she wasstripped of her titlelast year for being a divorced mother. Veronika Didusenko, 24, announced on Instagram that she’s “launched a legal challenge” against the competition with the goal of fighting for “justice” and hopefully amending Miss World’s entry restrictions. “The reason I was not allowed to compete in Miss World after winning the title #MissUkraine is because I had been married and have a child,” she wrote....

March 16, 2025 · 2 min · 380 words · Bobby Hughes

Mom Allegedly Jumps from 11th Story With 1-Year-Old Son, While Other Boy, 2, Is Found Dead in Tub

A boy believed to be the woman’s 2-year-old son was found dead in a bathtub, say police. The release states police responded to a call of “a person down” outside a high-rise building in the city’s South Shore neighborhood. Officers arrived to find “a female in her 30s and an infant on the ground,” according to the release. Building security directed police to an 11th floor apartment, and when officers entered the apartment, they discovered the grandfather “with lacerations to his face and body along with a male infant unresponsive in a bath tub....

March 16, 2025 · 2 min · 304 words · Emily Hoffman

Mom Breaks World Record for Fastest 10K with Daughters in Double Stroller: 'Look What We Did!'

Photo: Courtesy Rachel Bowling Rachel Bowling, of Ridgeland, South Carolina, had loved running with her kids since giving birth to her oldest daughter, Addy, three years ago. So, the mom of two got a bright idea when she stumbled across a running magazine last year. “[I saw] a special about another mom breaking a stroller record. So I was like, ‘Huh, that sounds interesting. I’m going to check that out....

March 16, 2025 · 2 min · 417 words · Mark Bennett

Mom Fatally Stabbed 11-Year-Old Boy, Who ID'd Her as Killer in Hospital Shortly Before Death

Bruce Johnson Jr. (left) and Mary Johnson.Photo:Lea County Sheriff’s Office; Lea County Detention Center Lea County Sheriff’s Office; Lea County Detention Center A mother convicted in the stabbing death of her 11-year-old son was sentenced this week to 20 years in a New Mexico state prison, according to multiple news reports. At 1 a.m. on July 10, 2022, deputies with the Lea County Sheriff’s Office responded to the family’s home in Hobbs, N....

March 16, 2025 · 2 min · 329 words · Tracy Branch

Mom Gets Life Sentence, Plus Extra 52 to 104 Years, for Murdering Teen Daughter With Boyfriend

Photo: District Court PD On Friday, a Bucks County, Pennsylvania, judge sentenced Sara Packer, the adoptive mother of 14-year-old Grace Packer, to life in prison — plus an extra 52 to 104 years,according to The Morning Call. Packer pleaded guilty to first-degree murder for her role in the 2016 rape, torture, murder, and dismemberment of her teenage daughter, which she planned and executed with her boyfriend, Jacob Sullivan. Packer was sentenced to life as part of a plea deal with prosecutors,according to WFMX....

March 16, 2025 · 2 min · 317 words · Jesse Herrera

Mom Goes Viral for Exasperated Rant After Remembering to Pack Everyone's Clothes But Her Own

Photo: Herky Jerk RanchA Wisconsin mom found herself stuck in just a towel after a very relatable packing accident.Amanda Ayala, mom to two daughters ages 9 and 12, was on a camping trip with her daughter and husband Efrain when they drove over to the camping showers. Everyone was in the car waiting on Amanda, who emerged from the bathhouse in just a towel, looking defeated as she walked to the car....

March 16, 2025 · 4 min · 748 words · Michael Lowery

Mom Returning From Starbucks on Thanksgiving Morning Is Killed by Suspected DUI Driver

Photo: FacebookIt was supposed to be a day filled with family and food — but it quickly turned tragic after a driver allegedly ran a red light, killing a 32-year-old mom of three driving home from Starbucks, according tomultiple reports.Shortly after 8:30 a.m. on Thanksgiving Day, Monique Prado of Victorville, Calif., was driving her 2013 Nissan Sentra back to her mother’s Las Vegas home. (Prado and her family were in town visiting for the holiday....

March 16, 2025 · 7 min · 1306 words · Traci Torres