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A South Carolina mother is facing attempted murder charges after she allegedly stabbed her two children some 50 times during a manic, unhinged attack that left one of them facing possible amputation, according to authorities.

More than a year after a newborn baby was found abandoned next to a dumpster on a rainy day in Riverside, California, police say they have arrested the infant’s mother.

Mariah Thomas, 28, pleaded guilty to first-degree endangering the welfare of a child resulting in death after claiming she mistook the oven for a crib.

Investigators said the woman confessed to intentionally injuring her baby’s face to try to stop the child from crying.

A Louisiana mother was found guilty this week of killing her four-year-old son and abandoning her baby near I-10 in 2024.

A Florida mother has reportedly told deputies that she and her son have had sex “only about 100 times.” Both have been charged with incest, according to the Polk County Sheriff.

An Alabama woman was sentenced to life in prison after she pleaded guilty to killing her newborn in 2023 by placing him in a trash compactor.

The Maine Supreme Judicial Court ruled against a mother who has been fighting an order preventing her from taking her child to church.

In a case that echoes the Lindsay Clancy filicide case currently being deliberated by a Massachusetts jury, a New York judge has found a mother of two suffering from ‘postpartum psychosis’ not criminally responsible for killing her young children.

President Donald Trump’s administration is taking action in the case of a surrogate mother who refused an alleged request from the baby’s biological parents to abort him once he was diagnosed with a severe heart defect.

Passengers in the deadly boat accident on Saturday in New York Harbor were celebrating a woman’s birthday when the tragic incident happened.

The grieving mother of a U.S. Army soldier killed recently in the war with Iran spoke out about her beloved daughter during a press conference in Queens, New York.

The mother of one of the suspects in the alleged White House UFC terror plot told dispatchers in a 911 call she believed her son wanted to “fight the corrupt government.”

An Oregon woman — whose shocked ex-husband described her as a “great” mother — is charged with attempted murder for allegedly convincing her three pre-school children they were having a sleepover as she pumped exhaust fumes into her car in an alleged murder-suicide plan.

Democrat New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has become the last hope that the words “mother” and “father” will not be struck from certain state laws and replaced with the woke terms “gestating parent” and “non-gestating parent.”

A 20-year-old woman is facing murder charges after her newborn baby girl was found dead in a field.

A U.S. Army veteran got the surprise of her life when she made history on the beloved game show The Price is Right.

A food truck owner in Baltimore, Maryland, got a huge surprise when the mother of a man who took cash from his tip jar decided not to let the incident slide.

A Florida woman who was arrested in 2023 for trying to hire a hitman on a parody website to kill her toddler son will not face jail time.

A New Mexico woman is accused of giving birth in a portable toilet and disposing of her baby girl in the holding tank, resulting in the newborn’s death.

The mother of a newborn baby who was abandoned in Texas 24 years ago has been sentenced to 20 years behind bars.

The people claiming to have kidnapped NBC News’s Today show host Savannah Guthrie’s elderly mother are reportedly demanding a $6 million ransom.

An Illinois mother was shot and killed Monday morning by a suspect with a “criminal history spanning decades,” according to WGN-TV.

Authorities said the 84-year-old mother of an NBC host was reported missing outside Tucson, Arizona, around noon Sunday by her family after she was last seen on Saturday evening at her residence. They are now investigating her disappearance as a criminal case.

The Florida man who abandoned a five-year-old girl to be eaten alive by alligators in November of 1998 may again face a death sentence.

A single mother in East Idaho who has endured extreme health challenges got a huge Christmas surprise from a Secret Santa with a generous heart.

Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-IA) is pushing a bill requiring fathers to cover half of pregnancy costs — something that attempts to “make life easier for my fellow moms and families.”

A conservative board of education member in Marlboro Township, New Jersey, is in the midst of a case regarding disgusting text messages that threatened her life.

An ex-teacher in Kentucky was sentenced Thursday for sexually abusing a 17-year-old male student at a juvenile detention facility.

It is that special time of year again when a Secret Santa in eastern Idaho spreads Christmas cheer to people in need.

A judge sentenced a woman this week after medical staff discovered her baby girl dead in a Safe Haven Baby Box last year in Blackfoot, Idaho.

A mother of three children was mauled by a bear outside her Alaska home recently and dragged by the animal.

The mother of a congressional intern who became a victim of crime in Washington, DC, when he was fatally shot is pushing back against the D.C. Council, saying President Donald Trump’s administration is taking her loss more seriously than those officials.

A mother hid in a closet with her child after hearing an alleged intruder enter her Joliet, Illinois, home and then shot the suspect in the head when he approached the hiding place.

Officials are still searching for a missing teenager who, right before he disappeared in Florida, sent his mother a chilling text message.

A child’s recent encounter with an octopus at the San Antonio Aquarium in Texas has left his mother concerned for other children and the animal.