Home Run! Baby Boy on the Way for Philadelphia Phillies' Bryce Harper and Wife Kayla

Bryce Harperjust hit a life-achievement home run — he’s going to be a dad! Kayla, 26, shared the same couple photograph and ultrasound image,plus a close-up ofthe denim jacket she and her husband are holding in the first shot. Lindsey Boluyt Photography, @lindseyboluyt RELATED GALLERY:Welcome to the World! All the Celebrity Babies Who’ve Made Their Debuts in 2019 Harper and Kayla, who have been together since high school, tied the knot on a rainy day in December 2016....

March 16, 2025 · 2 min · 278 words · Erin Simmons

Homeowner Finds Toes Sticking Out of Ground in Backyard, Leading to Discovery of Missing Man's Body

Sabeion Dowell.Photo:Jacksonville Sheriff’s Department/Facebook Jacksonville Sheriff’s Department/Facebook The body of a man who had been missing for three weeks was found buried in the backyard of a Florida home, authorities said. The victim has been identified as Sabeion Dowell, 23, a spokesperson with the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office tells PEOPLE. Dowell had been missing since February,Action News Jaxreports. The grim discovery came to light on Wednesday evening when Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to a report of human remains being found in the backyard of a home on Sunny Acres Drive East, the JSO said in a statement....

March 16, 2025 · 2 min · 364 words · Evan Morgan

Hours Before School Shooting, Suspect and Parents Met with School Officials About 'Concerning' Behavior

Photo: JEFF KOWALSKY/AFP via Getty Images The suspect inTuesday’s mass shooting at a Michigan high schoolmet with his parents and school officials to discuss his “concerning” behavior hours before the massacre, Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard said at a news conference Wednesday. Four students were killedand seven people were injured in the shooting at Oxford High School in suburban Detroit. Ethan Crumbley, 15, is charged as an adult with multiple crimes, including terrorism causing death and four counts of first-degree murder....

March 16, 2025 · 3 min · 519 words · Brian Glass

House Passes Legislation to Protect Abortion Rights amid Legal Challenges to Texas Ban

Nancy Pelosi.Photo: SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images The House passed legislation on Friday that would protect abortion rights. In a vote 218 to 211, all but one Democrat voted in favor of H.R. 3755,the Women’s Health Protection Act, that effectively codifies the landmarkRoe v. Wadedecision in 1973 that granted women’s right to abortion. Texas Rep. Henry Cuellar voted against to the legislation along with all Republicans. The Women’s Health Protection Act specifies that the legislation would grant access to abortion to “every person capable of becoming pregnant....

March 16, 2025 · 3 min · 486 words · David Cummings

How 'Real Housewives of Dallas' Star LeeAnne Locken Knew Fiancé Rich Emberlin Was 'The One'

ForLeeAnne Locken, there is such a thing as love at first sight. Locken’s romance started nearly 10 years ago, when her fiancé, Rich Emberlin, saw her from afar one night in Dallas and just had to know who she was. He found out who she was through mutual friends and then messaged her on Facebook, saying he wanted to take her to dinner. “I was like, ‘Yeah, I don’t date people online,’” she says....

March 16, 2025 · 2 min · 415 words · Scott Rose

How a Mom Who Lost Daughter to Domestic Violence Honors Her Memory by Working to Save Lives

Sarah and Susan Browder.Photo: Susan Browder Sarah Browder and her husband had a whirlwind courtship when they were dating. “She met him and he just swept her off her feet,” her mother, Susan Browder, 74, of Florida, tells PEOPLE. Soon after Sarah and her husband, Camp Lejeune Marine Pfc. Kirk Harris, wed in 2011, their relationship took a dangerous turn. “The dynamics changed rapidly,” her mother says. Harris became “less loving and generous” and “more controlling and unkind,” says Browder, who adds, “He told her what he wanted her to wear....

March 16, 2025 · 4 min · 774 words · Michael Brown

How Casey Anthony Was Acquitted: The Jurors Explain Their Controversial Verdict

On July 5, 2011, a12-member juryfiled into an Orlando courtroom to render their verdict againstCasey Anthony, who was on trial for first-degree murder in the death of her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee. As the seven women and five men prepared to hand the verdict to the bailiff, Anthony, then 25, was breathing heavily and blinking back tears. By most accounts, the woman dubbed “the most hated woman in America” was facing a lengthy prison sentence, and the death penalty was still on the table....

March 16, 2025 · 4 min · 850 words · Lisa Gentry

How Children Are Coping in the Aftermath of Russia's Brutal Occupation of One Ukrainian City

Photo: Rodrigo Abd/AP Photo Stories oftorture,rapeandexecutionaccount for some of the evidence that’s emerged from Bucha, a suburb of Ukraine’s capital Kyiv, since Russian forces retreated in early April, ending their month-long occupation and one of the most horrific chapters inUkraine’s ongoing war. Hundreds of civilians were killed in Bucha, where some of thebodies were left for weekson the city streets. Among the dead are 16 children,according to the Associated Press....

March 16, 2025 · 4 min · 681 words · James Morgan

How Do the Young Actors of 'Yellowjackets' Compare to Their Adult Counterparts as Young Stars?

01of 06Sophie Nélisse & Melanie Lynskey at 22 and 17Brendan Meadows/SHOWTIME, Miramax/Courtesy Everett CollectionSophie Nélisse (left, now) plays the teenage counterpart to Melanie Lynskey’s Shauna —Yellowjackets' main character.Nélisse — who typically has blonde hair and blue eyes — went brunetteto more closely resemble Lynskey(at right in 1994’sHeavenly Creatures),Indiewireexplained. Despite the physical change, Nélisse told the outlet that she still felt uneasy about her ability to embody a convincingly younger version of Shauna....

March 16, 2025 · 5 min · 1065 words · Ann Pennington

How Emmett Till's Mother Turned Her Personal Tragedy into a National Movement: 'She Had a Job to Do'

Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley.Photo: Bettmann/Getty (2) Emmett Till, a black teen from Chicago, was visiting family members in Mississippi in the summer of 1955. The woman accused Till of whistling at her and attempting to grab her hand and waist. A large metal fan was tied to his neck with barbed wire and he was tossed in the Tallahatchie River. After her son’s death, Till’s mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, fought to have her only child’s body brought home to Chicago....

March 16, 2025 · 3 min · 576 words · Mr. Kyle Ayers

How Gina de Givenchy's Breast Cancer Led to 'Retail Therapy for Women When They Need It the Most'

Photo: Lee Clower She has one of the most storied names in fashion, and when it came time for her own style challenge, Gina de Givenchy came up with an entirely new twist. Givenchy is the founder ofGeeg, a stylish site which sells headwear and scarves for women who have lost their hair during chemotherapy. It all started in 2013, when Givenchy, a former fashion executive who is married to James Taffin de Givenchy, a jewelry designer and the nephew of the legendary French designer Hubert de Givenchy, was diagnosed with breast cancer and lost her hair during chemotherapy....

March 16, 2025 · 3 min · 549 words · Sandra Jones

How James Gandolfini's Son Paid Tribute to His Late Dad While Filming 'Sopranos' Movie Prequel

Michael Gandolfini and James Gandolfini.Photo: Amy Sussman/Getty; Evan Agostini/Getty The significance of taking on the role of Tony Soprano isn’t lost onMichael Gandolfini. Michael, 22, steps into late dadJames Gandolfini’s famous role as a young version of Tony in the upcomingSopranosprequel movie,The Many Saints of Newark,which will premiere in theaters and on HBO Max Oct. 1. In a recent interview withEmpire,Michael and director Alan Taylor opened up about James' legacy and how his son honored him in the course of filming....

March 16, 2025 · 2 min · 331 words · Amanda Velez

How Jayme Closs Crawled Out of Captivity After Months of Alleged Abuse and Threats

The complaint against the 21-year-old defendant alleges he held Jayme captive in a cabin in Gordon and that on Jan. 10, he told her the 13-year-old he’d be leaving for five or six hours. She told police that once she was certain he’d left, she freed herself from beneath his bed — where she routinely had to stay when he went out or had company over — threw on a pair of his shoes and fled the house....

March 16, 2025 · 3 min · 598 words · Sabrina Jones