Mar. 15, 2025
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Below the post, a poll asks users to select their answer to the question, ‘Am I being unreasonable?’ 2958 people had voted as of Feb. 12, 96% answering “You are being unreasonable,” and 4% saying “You are NOT being unreasonable.
Mar. 15, 2025
Myra Santiago.Photo:Volusia County Division of Corrections
Volusia County Division of Corrections
A Florida mother whose 3-year-old son drowned in a retention pond after wandering away from their apartment has been sentenced to 12 years in prison.On Friday, Dec. 13, Myra Santiago, 24, of Ormond Beach, pleaded guilty to aggravated manslaughter of a child, a first-degree felony, online court records show.On Monday, Dec. 16, a Volusia County judge handed down the sentence, according to online court records.
Mar. 15, 2025
A mom was driving with her vape in the car when it exploded, turning her car into a “fireball” and leaving her with burns.Photo:Kennedy News/Tyler Martin/screenshot taken from Facebook video
Kennedy News/Tyler Martin/screenshot taken from Facebook video
A mom of two was left with significant burns after hervape explodedwhile driving, turning her car into a “fireball” and making her husband — who was on the phone with her at the time — thinking she’d died.
Mar. 15, 2025
Sara Long with her daughter, Riley Jean.Photo:Sara Long/Facebook
Sara Long/Facebook
“I think a lot of people spend a lot of time thinking about what it means to have a good life. And don’t get me wrong, I did that too,” Sara Long, 26, told PEOPLE over the phone just shy of a week before she died at the hospice facility into which she had just recently moved.
Her decision to begin end-of-life care was the result of an unrelenting fight against the kidney failure that claimed Long’s life since she was only 13 years old.
Mar. 15, 2025
Police tape hanging across a street (stock image).Photo:Larry W. Smith/Getty
Larry W. Smith/Getty
A mother has been arrested and charged in connection with the death of her six-year-old daughter.
“Pursuant to an ongoing investigation, the following individual was arrested and charged on February 8, 2025 at 1755 hours in the confines of the 75 Precinct,” police said.
Espinal’s charges include assault in the second degree for recklessly causing serious physical injury, acting in a manner injurious to a child and reckless endangerment in the second degree, NYPD confirmed to PEOPLE.