The mother of a 6-year-old who shot his first-grade teacher in a Virginia classroom was sentenced on Friday to two years in prison after pleading guilty in August to a charge of felony child neglect. The sentencing of the mother, Deja Taylor, is the latest development in a case that drew national attention amid charged…
A Nebraska woman who acquired abortion pills that her teenage daughter used to end her pregnancy last year was sentenced on Friday to two years in prison. The woman, Jessica Burgess, 42, was charged after the police found her private Facebook messages, which revealed plans she had with her daughter to end the pregnancy and…
Danelo Cavalcante, the Pennsylvania prison escapee, has now been roaming wooded areas and small suburban towns for nearly two weeks, presumably with no shelter and little to eat or drink, as he flees the hundreds of police officers desperately searching for him. Back home in rural Brazil, his mother, Iracema Cavalcante, sees a son whose…
President Biden will establish a national monument on Tuesday honoring Emmett Till, the Black teenager who was brutally killed in 1955, and paying tribute to his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, according to White House officials. Emmett’s murder and the subsequent activism of his mother helped propel the civil rights movement, and Mr. Biden will memorialize both…
Fort Benning is now officially Fort Moore, the only U.S. base named for a married couple. Photographs and Text by Arin Yoon Arin Yoon, a photographer and military spouse, has documented the military community for more than 10 years. She reported from Fort Moore, Ga. Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore commanded troops in the first…
A grand jury in Newport News, Va., has indicted the mother of a 6-year-old who shot and injured his first-grade teacher at an elementary school in January, the authorities said on Monday. The mother, Deja Taylor, faces one felony charge of child neglect and a misdemeanor charge for child endangerment that involves a loaded weapon,…
Two gunmen invaded a home in Tulare County in Central California early Monday, where they killed six people, including a 17-year-old mother and her 6-month-old baby, in what the authorities said was presumed to be a gang-related attack. Officers arrived at the home in Goshen about 4 a.m. local time, after someone called the police…
DENTON, Tex. — Last year Tamara Nelson was a pregnant mother of three, denied an abortion under Texas’s restrictive laws. More recently, she told fund-raising gala attendees how Blue Haven Ranch, a faith-based, anti-abortion nonprofit, supported her when no one else would. “It really does take a community to help you with your kids and…
A Bronx woman was in custody on Sunday after her two sons, aged 3 years and 11 months, were found fatally stabbed in the neck and torso in a bathtub in a family shelter on Saturday night, the police said. The woman, who was found naked, ranting and setting fires in the apartment, was expected…