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How Should We Feel About Nancy Lanza?

Slate columnist thinks it's unfair to demonize her

(Newser) - Grief and outrage are universal reactions to the murder of the Sandy Hook students and teachers, but Adam Lanza's first victim—his mother, Nancy—is a trickier case, writes Joan Walsh at Salon . Snippets emerging about her, that she collected guns and may have been a survivalist, for example,...

Girl Sought After Mom Sneaks Her Out of Hospital

If she isn't brought back, she could die in days: police

(Newser) - Authorities are looking for an 11-year-old girl with leukemia and a heart catheter who they say could die in a matter of days if she isn't brought back to the hospital from which her parents removed her last week. Authorities say the girl, Emily, had been receiving chemotherapy at...

Brooke Shields&#39; Mom Dead at 79
 Brooke Shields' 
 Mom Dead at 79 
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Nov 6, 2012 4:12 PM CST

Brooke Shields' Mom Dead at 79

Teri Shields managed her young daughter to stardom

(Newser) - Teri Shields raised eyebrows when she allowed her 11-year-old daughter, Brooke, to be cast as a prostitute in 1978's Pretty Baby. A few years later, she permitted a teenage Brooke to famously star in a series of commercials for Calvin Klein jeans, provocatively professing that nothing comes between "...

Store Robber Tells Court: My Mommy Made Me Do It

And court agrees, giving her 7 years

(Newser) - A young London-area man confessed to organizing a robbery at the computer store where he worked—but swore his mother made him do it, the Daily Mail reports. A court handed Anthony Bradley, 22, a 3-year sentence for hiring a pair of thugs to rob a PC World store of...

Mom Gets 99 Years for Gluing Tot's Hands

Elizabeth Escalona sentenced for beating her toddler

(Newser) - A Dallas woman who beat her 2-year-old daughter and glued the toddler's hands to a wall because she was struggling with potty training was sentenced today to 99 years in prison. Family members in the courtroom sobbed loudly as the judge announced Elizabeth Escalona's punishment. Escalona pleaded guilty...

Robin Roberts' Mom Dies Same Day Host Takes Medical Leave

'GMA' anchor is to undergo a bone-marrow transplant

(Newser) - Good Morning America host Robin Roberts started her medical leave a day earlier than scheduled yesterday, and ABC revealed the sad reason why today: She left to be with her mother in her last hours. Lucimarian Roberts, the first black person to head the Mississippi Board of Education, died at...

Mother Who Left Disabled Daughter Won't Face Charges

Girl is 19; she was ditched in another state

(Newser) - A mother who abandoned her mentally disabled daughter at a bar in a different state will not be charged with a crime. Because the daughter is 19, she is legally an adult, and her mother does not have legal guardianship over her, reports MSNBC . The mother, Eva Cameron, drove from...

Killer Florida Mom Shot Her 4 Kids 18 Times

Tonya Thomas, children had troubled past

(Newser) - Tonya Thomas shot her four children 18 times in Tuesday's massacre , and two of them were shot as the gun pressed against their chests, according to the medical examiner's report. She used jacketed, hollow-point bullets, which cause more damage than full-metal jacket rounds, and used a single Taurus...

Cops: Florida Mom Kills Her 4 Kids, Herself

Friend got a warning text from Tonya Thomas, didn't see it

(Newser) - A 33-year-old mother shot and killed her four kids, ages 12 to 17, before killing herself as police closed in on her home today, reports MSNBC . Police say they don't have a motive, but they say Tonya Thomas sent a text to a friend about 3am declaring that she...

Mom Pushing Stroller Killed by California Train

But Susan Dibene manages to push her daughter to safety

(Newser) - A Southern California mom struggling with a stroller over tracks was killed by a train, but first managed to push her 2-year-old daughter to safety. Susan Dibene, 33, was pushing the stroller along a sidewalk near the tracks when she attempted to cross as the guardrail of the Metrolink train...

Mother, Daughter Prepare for 1st Womb Transplant

Daughter could carry children in womb that carried her

(Newser) - Doctors in Sweden are preparing for what they hope will be the first successful womb transplant. The likely candidates: a mother, 56, and her 25-year-old daughter, who was born with no uterus. If the transplant from Eva Ottosson to daughter Sara is successful, Sara could end up carrying a child...

Suicide Mom to Kids: You're All Dying With Me

'I've made a mistake,' she says seconds before drowning

(Newser) - "If I'm going to die, you're all going to die with me," a distraught mom told her four children before plunging her minivan into the Hudson River. But seconds before Lashanda Armstrong drowned with her three youngest kids, she told 10-year-old son Lashaun: "I've made a mistake....

Boy, 10, Escaped Hudson Mom's Van by Window

Mother drove minivan into Hudson River, killing herself, 3 kids

(Newser) - Tough new details are emerging in the story of the 25-year-old mother who killed herself and three of her children by driving a minivan into the Hudson River . It turns out that the lone survivor, 10-year-old Lashaun Armstrong, escaped by opening a power window and climbing out after his mother...

Inheriting Alzheimer's From Mom Is Worse Than Dad

Study suggests faster brain deterioration

(Newser) - People whose mothers had Alzheimer's appear to have a greater risk of developing dementia themselves, reports the Los Angeles Times . University of Kansas researchers studied the brains of about 50 healthy senior citizens over two years and found that those whose mothers had the disease showed the most deterioration, especially...

Mom Tries to Flush Newborn Down Airplane Toilet

Baby critical, mother busted

(Newser) - An Indian woman gave birth to a baby in a tiny airplane bathroom, the tried to flush the newborn down the toilet, authorities said. The baby was discovered stuck when the plane landed, and the entire toilet was removed and rushed, with the newborn, to a local hospital. The baby...

Pregnant Women Also Watch TV for 2
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Mar 12, 2010 4:05 PM CST

Pregnant Women Also Watch TV for 2

Fetuses rejoice when mom watches happy movie, go quiet for sad ones

(Newser) - Unborn children are so in tune with their mothers that they get bad vibes when mom watches a sad movie, and are perked up by an uplifting flick. That’s the conclusion of Japanese researchers, who plopped one group of expectant mothers in front of The Sound of Music, and...

Mom Panicked Over Losing Baby Is Held in Her Murder

'She thought the world of her,' says neighbor

(Newser) - A young British mom terrified that she was about to lose her baby girl is being held in her daughter's murder. Police found Sonia Bellfield, 29, covered in blood and the corpse of her 2-year-old daughter, Jasmine, nearby. Neighbors believe the mom, who suffers from serious mental problems, "flipped"...

Older Women More Likely to Have Autistic Kids

Women over 40 face double the risk compared to moms under 25

(Newser) - Older mothers face an increased risk of giving birth to a child with autism, a new study says. Researchers analyzed all 4.9 million births in California in the 1990s and found that women who give birth over the age of 40 are 77% more likely to have an autistic...

Woman Kills Son, 8, in Posh NYC Hotel: Cops

Socialite's child apparently OD's in failed murder-suicide

(Newser) - An 8-year-old boy was found dead today in a luxury hotel in Manhattan after his socialite mother apparently botched a murder-suicide attempt, police say. Gigi Jordan, 49, was taken to Bellevue Hospital after being found "babbling incoherently" in her $600-a-night room at the Peninsula New York on Fifth Avenue....

Mom: I Killed Brain-Injured Son With Love

'I couldn't leave my child like that'

(Newser) - A British woman on trial for murdering her brain-damaged adult son by injecting him with a heroin overdose said she did it "with love." Frances Inglis, 57, said her 22-year-old son, Tom, was in a "living hell" of pain since suffering severe head injuries in a fall...

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