Model Found Encased in Concrete Was Injected With Pool Cleaner, as Suspect Pleads Not Guilty

Photo: GoFundMe The Las Vegas man accused of killing a 24-year-old Instagram model whose remains were found encased in concrete has pleaded not guilty to many charges he faces. PEOPLE confirms that Christopher Prestipino, 45, appeared in court Tuesday after being indicted last week on murder, kidnapping and conspiracy charges — all stemming from his alleged role in the death of Esmeralda Gonzalez. Gonzalez vanished in late May, according to police, and her body was found in the desert outside Glendale, Nevada, on Oct....

March 16, 2025 · 2 min · 307 words · David Smith

Mom Allegedly Drowns Twin 10-Month-Old Boys in Motel Where She'd Been Given a Free Stay

Photo: GoFundMeA California mother is accused of drowning her 10-month-old twin boys in the bathtub of a motel where she had been staying after leaving a women’s shelter, PEOPLE confirms.Police in Tulare say Heather Langdon, 37, faces murder charges for the deaths of her sons, Mason and Maddox Murguia.According to investigators, Langdon allegedly drowned her babies in the motel bathtub on Thursday. She was staying at the motel for free after being escorted from a women’s shelter....

March 16, 2025 · 4 min · 787 words · Colleen Williams

Mom of Slain Illinois Scholar Says 'Tears Keep Streaming Down My Face' When She Thinks of Daughter

In their anguished search for answers, the parents of a missing university scholar from China traveled to the U.S. for the murder trial of their daughter’s accused killer still not knowing what he’d done with her body. “Zhang Yingying, where on earth are you?,” wailed the 26-year-old’s mother, Lifeng Ye, outside of her daughter’s apartment in Champaign, Illinois last spring, as recorded for an episode about the case on ABC’s20/20airing Friday....

March 16, 2025 · 3 min · 503 words · Mallory King

Mom Speaks Out About Drive-By Gunman Who Wounded Her 7-Year-Old Daughter: ‘It Was Just Crazy'

A young girl is recovering after being shot twice in an apparent road rage incident in southeast Houston, and her mother is speaking out about the suspected gunman. “She don’t deserve to go through this,” Rosemary Sabio, the mother of Luna Padilla, toldABC 13.“She’s just 7 years old.” On Sunday evening, Sabio was driving a red Nissan with Luna sitting in the backseat when the car stopped at a red light in the 7500 block of Bellfort at Telephone Road....

March 16, 2025 · 2 min · 334 words · David Henderson

Mom Warns About Pacifier Suction After Toddler Suffers 'Burns' to the Side of His Face

Photo: Kristen MilhoneA mom from Michigan is cautioning parents after a pacifier was suctioned onto to the face of her infant son, causing a severe quarter-sized blister on his cheek.When Kristen Milhone went to hold her 7-month-old son, Jack, as he cried during the early morning hours of June 20, she immediately noticed something was wrong with him.“I picked him up, and there was a really big bump on the side of his head,” Milhone, from Lowell, Michigan, tells PEOPLE....

March 16, 2025 · 9 min · 1788 words · Cindy Clayton

Mom Whose Son Was Starved 3 Years Ago Is Arrested Again After Her Baby Chokes on Seat Buckle

Photo: Garland County Jail An Arkansas mother whose infant son was removed from her care after being starved in 2016 is once again behind bars after her 9-month-old daughter reportedly choked on a child car seat buckle and died. On Jan. 24, 2018, Kazzee wasconvicted of first-degree endangering the welfare of a minorfor the 2016 starvation of her newborn son. She was sentenced to three years in prison but was later paroled, theRecordreports....

March 16, 2025 · 2 min · 380 words · Misty Davis

Mom's Sudden Death Leads to a Life-Saving Kidney Transplant for Her Daughter's Boyfriend

Photo: Josie Brown Karey Gengler’s sudden and tragic death from a brain aneurysm at age 46 left her family grieving. But in the days after she passed, she went on to save the lives of four other people, including her daughter’s boyfriend whowas desperately in need of a kidney. For over a year, Mike Rodgers, her daughter Josie Brown’s longtime boyfriend, was spending four hours a day, for three days a week, going back and forth to a dialysis center to keep himself alive while he sat on thelengthy donor waiting list....

March 16, 2025 · 4 min · 683 words · James Bailey

More Than 1 Million Ukrainians Have Fled Russia's Invasion, U.N. Says, with Hundreds of Civilian Deaths

Photo: WOJTEK RADWANSKI/AFP via Getty More than a million refugees have fled Ukraine since Russia began itsattackseven days ago,according to the United Nations. “In just seven days we have witnessed the exodus of one million refugees from Ukraine to neighbouring countries,” the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Filippo Grandi,said in a tweeton Wednesday. “For many millions more, inside Ukraine, it’s time for guns to fall silent, so that life-saving humanitarian assistance can be provided....

March 16, 2025 · 2 min · 380 words · William Grant

Morgan Fairchild Announces Death of Fiancé Mark Seiler: 'Hold Your Loved Ones Close'

Morgan Fairchild and her fiancé Mark Seiler.Photo:BEI/Shutterstock BEI/Shutterstock Morgan Fairchild’s fiancé and partner of 36 years, Mark Seiler, has died. TheGeneral Hospitalstar, 73, detailed in a set of social media posts this week that Seiler died earlier this month. “#SadNews I’m so sorry to let you know that my life partner (36 years together) & fiancé, Mark Seiler, passed away last Friday night," Fairchildwroteon Twitter, alongside a throwback photograph of the pair....

March 16, 2025 · 2 min · 376 words · George Savage

Morgan Freeman Says Terms 'African-American' and 'Black History Month' Are 'An Insult'

Photo: Amy Sussman/Getty Morgan Freemanis setting the record straight about his feelings on race in America. In a rare interview withThe Times, the iconic actor, 85, said that he does not like being called an “African-American” or the use of the phrase “Black History Month.” “Black History Month is an insult,” he told the newspaper in an article published Saturday. “You’re going to relegate my history to a month?”...

March 16, 2025 · 2 min · 400 words · Daniel Rodriguez

Morgan Wallen on Overcoming 'Difficulties' Co-Parenting Son with His Ex: She's 'Someone I Care About'

AsMorgan Wallen’s popularity has exploded in the past year, he’s attracted a lot of labels — “outlaw,” “sex symbol,” “superstar,” — that havesometimes complicated his life. But there’s one label, he says, that “I have the easiest time accepting.” That’s “dad.” Morgan and Indie Wallen.Morgan Wallen/instagram Looking back, the 27-year-old Tennessean admits to PEOPLE that being a single dad “is not how I imagined parenthood. I wanted to have a family like my parents....

March 16, 2025 · 3 min · 524 words · Tina Todd

Mother Who Survived Orange Mass Shooting but Lost 2 Children Leaves Hospital

Blanca Tamayo leaves the hospital.Photo: Genaro Molina/shutterstockA California mother who survived the mass shooting in Orange in March, but lost two children, has been released from the hospital.Blanca Tamayo was wheeled out of the UCI Medical Center on Wednesday, wearing a shirt featuring the face of her sonMatthew Farias, 9, who died in her arms in the shooting.“This hospital has been great,” Tamayo, who suffered a gunshot wound to the head, told reporters outside of the hospital,theLos Angeles Timesreported....

March 16, 2025 · 6 min · 1125 words · Terri Greer

Moving Photos from the First Year of the Ukraine War, as Russia Continues Its Attacks

01of 19Dmytro Smoliyenko/Ukrinform/NurPhoto via GettyA man shows a heart sign to passengers on an evacuation train in southeastern Ukraine on March 7. 01of 19 Dmytro Smoliyenko/Ukrinform/NurPhoto via Getty A man shows a heart sign to passengers on an evacuation train in southeastern Ukraine on March 7. 02of 19Visar Kryeziu/AP/ShutterstockPeople gather as Italian pianist Davide Mortarelli performs for Ukrainian refugees at the border in Medyka, Poland. 02of 19 Visar Kryeziu/AP/Shutterstock...

March 16, 2025 · 4 min · 779 words · Heather Campbell