A 14-year-old Brazilian boy, Davi Nunes Moreira, tragically died after injecting himself with a solution made from a crushed butterfly. The incident, believed to be part of an online challenge, led to a painful seven-day battle in the hospital before his passing. Mysterious Symptoms and Admission Initially, Davi told his father he was injured while … Read more
Faith Waterman Batistich wanted to make her little girl laugh. She also wanted her guests to laugh. So, at her daughter’s second birthday party in September 2022, the 20-year-old mum joined in with a familiar bit of fun. She inhaled helium to turn her voice squeaky and silly. Then the moment shifted. Someone suggested using … Read more
Emily Willis built a public life under bright lights. Now her family faces a private crisis that no spotlight can soften. In a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, her relatives say a rehab stay in Malibu ended in tragedy. They allege negligence and other wrongdoing by Summit Malibu and its parent company, Malibu … Read more
Stefan Mandel never trusted luck. He trusted numbers. Back when most people bought one ticket and hoped, he asked a sharper question. What if the math could shrink the odds? So he studied lottery rules for years. Then he built a plan that relied on volume, not wishes. First, he formed a syndicate. People pooled … Read more
Rebecca Sharrock carries a rare kind of recall. In 2013, doctors diagnosed her with Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory, also called hyperthymesia. It lets her remember most days of her life with striking detail. At first, she thought everyone lived this way. She assumed the past stayed bright and reachable for all of us. Then she … Read more
Kevin Bacon has learned that he and his wife, Kyra Sedgwick, share a distant family connection after taking part in a DNA review on the PBS series Finding Your Roots. What began as a routine look into their ancestry quickly turned into an unexpected discovery for the longtime Hollywood couple. Bacon and Sedgwick, who married … Read more
Justin Hurd trusted her best friend. She let Makallie Durham babysit her two children while she worked in Mississippi. At the time, the arrangement felt safe. The kids even had a nickname for the sitter. They went willingly. Then everything collapsed. On September 13, 2022, officers and paramedics rushed to a home after a call … Read more
On a cold January morning in Appleton, Wisconsin, 22-year-old Cole Schmidtknecht did something routine. He went to Walgreens to pick up the inhaler that had helped him breathe since childhood. At the counter, everything changed. The pharmacist told him the price had jumped from about $67 to more than $540. His insurance would no longer … Read more
In midlife, experience teaches a useful truth. Extremes rarely deliver what they promise. A recent online conversation made that point with striking honesty. Thousands of women shared intimate memories of partners at both ends of the size spectrum. Many expected physical gifts to guarantee pleasure. Instead, they often found discomfort, disappointment, or both. Several women … Read more
A simple parking-lot habit has ignited an outsized debate online. A Los Angeles psychologist and mother of two says she never returns her shopping cart. Her reason has divided viewers. Leslie Dobson shared her stance in a video that quickly went viral. She explained that once she loads groceries and secures her children, she chooses … Read more