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When a person does something crazy like committing a crime, normally they are held accountable for their irrational choices, no matter the reason or who they are.

However, this isn’t the case for Adric White. After being shot while robbing a local Family Dollar store, his family wasn’t upset after hearing about his criminal antics. Shockingly, they had a response you wouldn’t believe.

Adric White is an example of someone who doesn’t make the best life decision. This became very clear when the 18 year old chose attempted to rob the Family Dollar store on Stanton Road in Mobile, Alabama, while out on bond for robbing The Original Oyster House at gunpoint previously. Read the full story here ▶

When it comes to the birds and the bees, learning about the topic is meant to be educational and helpful.

However, it can be pretty embarrassing for most kids to have the big “talk”. For girls, there is the added worry of when one might begin her cycle for the first time.

For some tweens and teens, this rite of passage can be surrounded with worry, especially if the first time occurs with people around. Read the full story here ▶

Prosecutors said the 26-year-old father, Brantly, was sentenced to 25 years in prison after he killed his newborn baby son.

During an interview with investigators, the dad reportedly said that he got mad, grabbed the child by his arms, shook him and threw him on the bed because his wife ‘just left him with the baby and he just snapped.’ Judge found the defendant guilty of abuse or neglect of a child resulting in death.

On December 15, 2020, the father called 911 and told the dispatcher that his newborn baby was not breathing. First responders rushed the child to the hospital. Read the full story here ▶

While picking up some groceries for jail inmates at a local Alabama supermarket, Cpl. Sebastian Goldman noticed something amiss about a teen boy’s right shoe. Initially, he dismissed it as a fashion statement, but he realized what it really was when he got a closer look.

The 18-year-veteran of the Hueytown police stopped by his local Food Giant, when he was approached by a 19-year-old store employee, wanting to help the cop take his groceries out to his patrol car.

Goldman obliged his request, and as the two were walking through the parking lot, the cop couldn’t help but notice the boy’s unusual “fashion statement” around the toe of his right shoe. When Goldman asked the young man about it, he got a response he definitely wasn’t expecting, then he took immediate action. Read the full story here ▶

On December 20, 2018, Brooke O’Briant got a call about an elderly gentleman who was in need of help. As a marketer for an assisted living facility, she took the call and went to go visit him.

“It was a situation I knew I wanted to do everything in my power to get him out of.” This was a day that not only changed O’Briant’s life, but it also changed the man’s life as well.

Nathaniel Hudson, a WWII veteran, was living in a “tiny and run down” apartment. He wasn’t in contact with his family in over 20 years, but he was a loving man who needed a friend. Read the full story here ▶

Andrew “AJ” Freund was just 5 years old when he was reported missing from his Crystal Lake, Illinois home on the 18th of April.

An extensive search was launched to find him, and it ended in tragedy, with the poor boy being found in a shallow grave, body wrapped in plastic, several miles away from home.

That’s when the world found out about AJ’s horrific, traumatic life that led up to his gruesome murder. Read the full story here ▶

Texas elementary school janitor had a back issue for years. The only solution for him was to undergo a surgery in order to avoid ending up in a wheelchair. But like many Americans, he couldn’t afford to pay the medical bills.

Students, teachers and parents have made this school janitor a very happy man after they decided to come together to help him out during a trying time.

He has been with the school since the day it opened and he is known as a “hard worker” with a positive influence on the students. He always has a smile on his face and he is always happy to see students and staff. Read the full story here ▶

Like all new technologies, DNA testing has a good side, a bad side, and as author Margaret Atwood said, a stupid side you hadn’t considered eight years ago. 

72-year-old Washington native Alice Collins Plebeach made a decision that would change her life forever. She smells samples of her saliva for a just-for-fun DNA test.

Alice, a devout Irish-American Catholic, thought she had a good idea about what the DNA test results would say. However, when the results came back, Alice was shocked.  Read the full story here ▶

Fear of childbirth is universal. Because of the stories of bad experiences passed down for years, many women fear childbirth.

As a result, many women do not believe in the power of their own bodies and often hand over control of their bodies to health-care professionals, resulting in unhappy childbirth experiences because of unnecessary intervention during labor and birth. But, giving birth is truly a one-of-a-kind experience.

Your baby’s birth day is one of the most memorable days of your life. Birth is beautiful, mind-blowing and intense. It’s exciting and life-changing. Not only do our brains change after giving birth but science also says that we’re just fundamentally different people after going through such an amazing experience. Read the full story here ▶