Author: Lindsey Bever

Jacob Thompson spent nearly half of his short life battling cancer. The 9-year-old boy, who loved penguins, died Sunday, four years after he was diagnosed with Stage 4 neuroblastoma, a rare cancer that affects mostly young children. As his family had expected, Thompson didn’t live long enough for Christmas, a holiday he loves. But shortly before his death,…

A California in-home nurse is accused of child abuse after camera footage appeared to show him shoving, hitting and then kicking things at a 6-year-old boy with special needs. Oscar Felix, a vocational nurse with more than a decade of nursing experience, was arrested late Tuesday on suspicion of felony child abuse after the boy’s…

Erika Hurt had become the face of drug addiction. The young mother was captured in a photograph by police, passed out in the driver’s seat of her car outside a Dollar General store in Hope, Indiana – an empty syringe still resting between the 25-year-old addict’s fingers. The snapshot captured yet another horrifying moment in…

A nurse held Margaret Smith’s hand days before the 63-year-old cancer patient died, serenading her with her favorite song. As Smith, who had been battling liver cancer, lay dying last week at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, one of her nurses sang Dani and Lizzy’s “Dancing in the Sky,” pausing in the middle of…

What has six legs, two antennae, four furry appendages sprouting from its backside — and a big chunk of the Internet freaked out? The world’s most viral and terrifying moth. A man in Indonesia posted a picture and video of the insect on Facebook last week, drawing more than 40,000 comments, many from people expressing alarm and asking astute…

Abby Delaney can roll onto her stomach, hold up her head and turn pages in her favorite books. Her sister, Erin, can now sit up on her own, and she is starting to think about crawling — learning to hold herself up on her small hands and knees. More than four months after the formerly conjoined twins were separated in a rare…

Three-year-old Sadie Grace Andrews and her siblings wanted to run around. During a family outing Saturday afternoon, the preschooler was playing in a grassy area outside a Bruster’s ice cream shop in Auburn, Alabama, when she stepped on an unsecured lid to an underground grease pit, Lee County Coroner Bill Harris said. Harris said surveillance…