This article originally appeared on Huffington Post by Nina Golgowski. The parents behind a popular YouTube channel that showed them subjecting their five children to a series of questionable “pranks” have reportedly lost custody of two of their kids amid a child abuse investigation. Maryland’s Frederick County Sheriff’s Office and Office of Child Protective Services are investigating Mike […]

This article originally appeared on The New York Times by Christopher Mele on March 23rd, 2017. When couples get divorced, children are not the only ones who can get caught in custody disputes. Fights over other members of the family — beloved pets — can be equally acrimonious. Courts have traditionally treated pets as personal property in such cases,

This article originally appeared on The Guardian by Owen Bowcott on March 24th, 2017. A woman says she has been left trapped in a “loveless and desperately unhappy” marriage after senior judges refused to allow her to divorce her husband of 40 years on the grounds of unreasonable behaviour. The highly unusual ruling by the court of appeal triggered

This article was originally published on Huffington Post by Nina Golgowski. Two Louisiana elementary school teachers face criminal charges for bullying an 11-year-old student for months, going so far as to tell the child, “Go and kill yourself,” authorities said. Tracy Gallow, 50, and Ann Marie Shelvin, 44, teachers at Washington Elementary School, threatened to fail kids who

This article was originally published on Huffington Post by David Lohr. For the second time in roughly a week, a brutal killing has been uploaded to Facebook. According to police, a 20-year-old man on Monday used Facebook Live to stream the hanging of his 11-month-old daughter. The video, which was filmed at an abandoned hotel in Phuket, Thailand,

This article was originally published on Huffington Post by David Moye. Police in Michigan will no longer be allowed to have sexual relations with sex workers during prostitution investigations, if a new bill is signed into law. The bill — SB 275 — passed unanimously in the Michigan State Senate on Wednesday. It takes away immunity that previously made it

This article was originally published on Huffington Post by Nina Golgowski. A 4-year-old girl is recovering after she fell out of a bus’ back door and tumbled onto a road in a horrifying incident that was captured on video by an emergency medical technician who came to her aide. Ryan Ciampoli, a licensed EMT and volunteer firefighter, was

This article was originally published on Huffington Post by David Lohr on April 19, 2017. The mother of an 11-year-old Michigan boy who killed himself after a cruel social media prank wants a 13-year-old girl to face a harsher penalty for her alleged involvement. “I wish that there were higher charges,” Katrina Goss, of Marquette, told The Huffington Post.

This article was originally published on Fox News by the Associated Press on April 11, 2017. ELYRIA, Ohio –  An Ohio woman who helped move her elder sister’s body after their mother killed her has received probation. Twenty-one-year-old Hannah Tyburski pleaded guilty Monday to a misdemeanor charge of gross abuse of a corpse for helping Janet Tyburski move

This article was originally published by Reuters on April 2, 2017. Chicago police have arrested a 14-year-old boy and expect to charge a second youth in connection with the sexual assault of a teenage girl by multiple young men that was seen on Facebook Live in March, officials said on Sunday. An arrest warrant has been issued for