HOLLY SPRINGS, Miss.—Two people were taken into custody as part of an investigation into the abandonment of a newborn girl who was found last week behind dumpsters in Mississippi, authorities said. The two people were arrested Friday, the Marshall County Sheriff’s Office said on social media, without providing further details. The newborn was found bundled […]
PITTSBURGH—A woman accused of intentionally abandoning her dog at a Pennsylvania airport before she boarded a flight to a resort in Mexico earlier this month has been charged with animal cruelty and related charges, authorities announced Thursday. Allegheny County Police say Allison Lyn Gaiser, 44, tried to bring her brown-and-white male French bulldog with her […]
The Girl Scouts are in the spotlight. Some say the organization has abandoned its faith-based traditions, and is catering to an extremely progressive agenda. NTD’s Daniel Monaghan spoke with Patti Garibay, founder and executive director of American Heritage Girls.
Two abandoned unaccompanied minors from Guatemala were discovered by Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) officials near the Texas border on July 3. The two minors, aged 8 and 11, told troopers they were abandoned by a female adult along the edge of the Rio Grande River at Shelby Park in Eagle Pass, DPS spokesman Lt. Chris Olivarez […]
MULBERRY, Fla.—Florida authorities found a newborn girl wrapped in a blanket and still attached to a placenta on a hill outside a trailer park early Saturday morning. Polk County deputies responding to a call about a baby crying outside near Mulberry, east of Tampa, found the girl about an hour after she was born, the […]
A dog abandoned at the San Francisco airport has found a forever home with a United Airlines captain, according to the San Francisco SPCA. A pup named Polaris had arrived to San Francisco with a traveler from an international destination. But the dog was abandoned at the airport when “the customer chose to continue traveling […]
Two fast-talking insurance salesmen meet Mary, who is running away from her wealthy mother, and they agree to help her run a hotel that she owns. When they find out that the hotel is run down and nearly abandoned, they launch a phony PR campaign that presents the hotel as a resort favored by the […]
With the trunk of her car filled to the brim with pet carriers, Yulia drives across the conflict-torn Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine to pick up cats and dogs abandoned by owners who fled in the hope of finding them new homes in Russia. The self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, a Russian-backed separatist region, announced the […]
The mother of the three siblings who were found abandoned in a home along with the body of their brother told CNN affiliate KHOU she checked on her children “every two weeks.” Gloria Y. Williams, 35, told KHOU in an exclusive interview from jail she did not know her 8-year-old son was dead. Authorities discovered […]
One suspect is in custody after a 2-year-old boy was dropped off at a Southaven, Mississippi, Goodwill store with nothing but a bag of clothes and a note, authorities said. A bystander called the police on Monday morning to report that a man wearing black jogging pants and a black cowboy hat had dropped off […]
A Siberian husky that was surrendered to a New Jersey shelter because of “weird” eyes has been adopted after photos posted on Facebook went viral. Jubilee, a 4-year-old female pup, has an eyelid deformity that makes it appear as if she’s always surprised. A breeder gave her to Husky House in 2018, telling the nonprofit […]
NEWARK, Delaware—Approaching the door of First State Gymnastics Inc., there are pictures of Morgan Hurd is covering the hall. A life-size poster of her winning the 2017 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships greets everyone coming into the gym. Morgan is the first elite gymnast from Delaware and First State Gymnastics. “There is not really a secret,” Morgan […]
A man who was left at an airport as a baby has found his parents over three decades later. Steven Hydes was dubbed the “Gatwick Baby” and “Gary Gatwick” after being found in the airport in 1986. The story was widely reported in British media. He revealed he was the baby years ago on a […]
A 3-year-old boy was all by himself in the middle of a cornfield on the Texas border when Border Patrol agents found him Tuesday, April 23, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials said. The boy was crying, and had his name and phone numbers written on his shoes. The agency tweeted out an image indicating […]
LOS ANGELES—A mother who abandoned her 6-year-old son at a bustling train station in downtown Los Angeles has been sentenced to 1 ½ year in county jail. Dava Webster of Walnut Creek was sentenced after pleading no contest Thursday to child endangerment. She’ll receive credit for jail time she’s already served. She also must attend […]
