Texas elementary school teacher allegedly leaves her 1-year-old in the faculty parking lot in 84-degree weather.
You know the horrific headline: Parent leaves kid unattended in a too-hot car, and as a result, the child dies tragically. I have to shake my head and ask why such senseless exists, yet when temperatures increase, it’s a story that surfaces way too often.
And it happened yet again on Friday in Texas.
Vibha Marks allegedly left her 1-year-old baby, Victoria, in her car right outside Frank Guzick Elementary School where she’s a teacher, reports The Stir. Temperatures reached 84 degrees at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport right around the same time the baby was discovered.
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More than 20 years after the alleged fact, famed choreographer Wade Robson is claiming that Michael Jackson sexually abused him. Robson formerly denied Jackson’s involvement in any wrongdoing, but he filed a creditor's claim against the deceased pop star’s estate in a Los Angeles probate court this month.
It probably wasn't the reception Barbie was hoping for at the start of her European tour.
BERLIN (AP) — Feminist protesters burned a doll on a cross, and left-wing demonstrators shouted "pink stinks" at the Berlin opening of a life-sized Barbie house Thursday.
Photo: The pink kitchen is pictured with cupcakes in the Barbie Dreamhouse Experience near Alexanderplatz square in Berlin, Germany, on May 16, 2013. (AP Photo/dpa, Jens Kalaene)
They far outnumbered Barbie fans who came to see the Mattel toy's fictional Malibu home.
Security guards swiftly ejected the protesters from the site, which is tucked away behind high rises, railroad tracks and a shopping center near the city's gritty Alexanderplatz.
Save the Children has come out with its State of the World's Mothers Index, and the results are startling.
By: Emma Waverman (follow her on Twitter)
Finland and other Nordic countries are ranked the best places to be a mother, according to a report from Save the Children, an organization that promotes children's rights.
Sub-Saharan Africa is the most dangerous place to give birth, the report finds, and if you are pregnant in the Democratic Republic of Congo, you have a one in 30 chance of not living through the birth.
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One Oklahoma school district has decided to remove plaques of the Ten Commandments from classrooms in response to a student complaint.
After one student blew the whistle, an Oklahoma school district decided to permanently take down the Ten Commandments in all its classrooms.
The student, Gage Pulliam, reached out to the Freedom from Religion Foundation for support in getting the plaques removed from the school.
“I just want people to know I’m not attacking Christianity,” Pulliam told 4029tv.com. “I’m just trying to make everything equal for everyone.”
New book reveals how rich families hire handicapped “black-market Disney guides” to skip long lines.
If what social anthropologist Dr. Wednesday Martin claims is true, the world of the rich and privileged has officially lost its moral compass.
In her new book, "Primates of Park Avenue," Martin claims to expose a troubling trend: "Upper crust" moms using a "black market" connection to hire handicapped tour guides to walk them through Disney World so they can take advantage of the line-skipping auxiliary entrances for disabled patrons, reports Gawker.
Coming-of-age novel is removed from an Illinois junior high for frank descriptions of sex.
One Chicago-area school banned the book “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” after two parents complained about sexual content and inappropriate language, reports WGNtv.com.
The book was part of a classroom collection at Hadley Junior High, which is part of Glen Ellyn School District 41. It was not required reading.
