(Retired football star, husband, and father of four Steve McNair was murdered on July 4th, 2009, by his 20-year old girlfriend who then shot herself.)
It was always easy to root for Steve McNair.
A Mississippi boy who played college ball for a historically black college many football fans had never heard of – Alcorn State. A calm-headed leader…
Everyone knows that cheating can have unintended consequences, but here’s another story worthy of a bad soap opera:
Mia Washington noticed that her infant twin sons had different facial features. DNA testing proved that Justin and Jordan had different fathers.
Mia admits to cheating on her partner James Harrison, who is father to one of the twins.
A massive new report by the Irish Commision To Inquire into Child Abuse has uncovered enough malfeasance and coverups in Catholic reform schools for a dozen Charles Dickens novels, a month of Oprah’s and a Dan Brown prequel.
Rape, humiliation, ritual abuse, it’s all there. The nine-year investigation, conducted only after a decade of lobbying by abuse survivors, uncovered…
I remember getting a little plastic bracelet when my first son was born, with his name on it. My wife and he also had similar bracelets. We were told that these bracelets were supposed to eliminate any confusion as to whose baby was whose. Seemed a little silly at the time, like some bad soap opera plot device, but it…
In the first four parts of this five-part series, I have discussed 1) The fight between DSHS and Poca’s foster family; 2) Some vital questions the media is mostly ignoring on this case; 3) Why DSHS and the Courts usually prefer reunification with biological parents; and 4) An attorney’s perspective on dealing with DSHS.
Today, in…
In the first three parts of this five-part series, I discussed 1) The fight between DSHS and Poca’s foster family; 2) Some vital questions the media is mostly ignoring on this case; and 3) Why DSHS and the Courts usually prefer reunification with biological parents.
Today, in part four, I offer an attorney’s perspective on dealing…
In the first two parts of this five-part series, I discussed 1) The fight between DSHS and Poca’s foster family; and 2) Some vital questions the media is mostly ignoring on this case.
Today, in part three, I explain why DSHS and the courts tend to prefer reunification with biological parents.
Nationwide statistics show that when children…
Sometimes it’s hard to let go of loved ones – especially when a loved one has a nice, fat military pension, and social security to boot.
In a story that Norman Bates would appreciate, Reuters reports that Penelope Sharon Jordan of Sebastian, Florida kept her mother”s mummified remains on a bed in a spare bedroom – for six years.…
Another DSHS (Department of Social and Health Services) scandal is bubbling over in Snohomish County, this involving foster parents Amy and Dick Langley and their foster daughter Poca. Poca was apparently born a very sick preemie to drug addicted parents, and has been living with the Langleys from the age of four months to almost four years old. Now DSHS…
Last month we wrote about a Judge in Saudi Arabia who refused (twice!) to annul a wedding between an 8-year old girl and a 47-year old man. Well times change quickly sometimes. First, the groom himself agreed to divorce his child bride. So the little girl may get a childhood after all. Yay!
More surprisingly, the Kingdom may be deciding…
