Appellant and Rhea Stewart had one child, RayVon; the child was born September 8, 2011. Tr. 259. Although Appellant and Steward were not together, Appellant spent time with the child. Tr. 266, 271. On Saturday, December 8, 2012 Stewart took the 15 month old toddler to stay with Appellant for a couple days; the toddler was scheduled to stay at Appellant’s house on 3031 Oregon Street, Youngstown

¶1 Plaintiffs filed an action in the District Court alleging defendants' negligence relating to the prenatal care and birth of plaintiffs' child. That court granted summary judgment to defendant Mercy Health Center and plaintiffs appealed. Plaintiffs argue the trial court did not apply a correct standard for causation and failed to recognize the testimony from their expert witnesses. Mercy argues

Albuquerque, NM - Navajo Man Sentenced for Federal Child Abuse Conviction

Julian King, 31, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Vanderwagon, N.M., was sentenced in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to 24 months in prison for his conviction on a federal child abuse charge. King will be on supervised release for a year after completing his prison sentence.

King

Plaintiffs filed an action in the District Court alleging defendants' negligence relating to the prenatal care and birth of plaintiffs' child. That court granted summary judgment to defendant Mercy Health Center and plaintiffs appealed. Plaintiffs argue the trial court did not apply a correct standard for causation and failed to recognize the testimony from their expert witnesses. Mercy argues the

Tulsa, OK - Man Sentenced to Life Plus 20 Years for Killing Infant

The State of Oklahoma charged Joseph Lee Bunnell, age 22, with:

Count # 1. Count as Filed: HM11, CHILD ABUSE MURDER, in violation of 21 O.S. 701.7
Date of Offense: 03/14/2016

Count # 2. Count as Filed: CHN, CHILD NEGLECT, in violation of 21 O.S. 843.5 (C)
Date of Offense: 03/14/2016

The

In October 2005, Prince’s then four-year-old daughter L.P. (“Victim”) was admitted to
Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City. She was unresponsive from an unknown cause and was
unable to breath effectively on her own. Victim was placed in the intensive care unit and underwent
2

surgery, after which she was temporarily placed on a respirator. Measurements of her weight a

On February 1, 2015, Brandy, her husband, Alex, and their 6-month-old infant visited Widmer's apartment to watch the Super Bowl. During this gathering, Alex received a call and stated that he had to go to work. Widmer agreed to drive Alex and the two men left the apartment.

At trial, the accounts of what happened next varied significantly. According to Widmer's wife, Tiffany, while the

On March 11, 2009, Gary Holmes was shot and killed inside
BJ’s, a convenience store near 42d Street and Ames Avenue in
Omaha, Nebraska. The shooter was wearing a black, hooded
sweatshirt and a ski mask. The shooter did not enter BJ’s, but
instead opened the front door to the store and fired 15 shots.
Nine or ten of them hit Holmes, and several hit and severely
injured anoth

The State presented the following evidence at trial.
Defendant, having spent the day with his daughter, waited for
Janet,1 the child's mother, to return home from work. As the child
and defendant sat in his car, Janet, her infant son, her partner,
and his sister pulled up and parked facing defendant's car, parked
in front of her apartment. The partner approached defenda

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Long-Time Employee of Child Care Center Working with Infants

A childcare worker was sentenced to 78 months in prison and 15 years of supervised release for possession of child pornography. KYLE J. TATE, 34, of Seattle was arrested in May 2016 and pleaded guilty in November 2016.

In these accelerated appeals,2 appellant, T.H.L., challenges the trial court’s orders, entered after a bench trial, awarding the Department of Family and Protective Services (“DFPS”) permanent managing conservatorship of her four minor children, R.C.,3 R.L., C.J., and C.C.J. (collectively, “the children”).4 In her sole issue, T.H.L. contends that the trial court erred in appointing DFPS as the chi

On February 17, 2015, at about 2:45 a.m., an officer with the Waterloo
Police Department was dispatched to a local gas station after receiving a report
from the gas station clerk of a suspicious occupied vehicle that had been parked
in front of the store at the gas pump for approximately thirty minutes. An officer
arrived at the scene, pulled in directly behind the vehicle, an

This case presents a novel issue under Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 (1966).

A common factual issue in Miranda cases is whether a suspect is in custody when police interrogation begins. If a suspect is in custody, the police “are required to advise the suspect of his or her Miranda rights” before commencing interrogation. Caldwell v. State, 41 So. 3d 188, 197 (Fla. 2010). It is w

On the evening of 1 November 2005, Jose Lopez drove Ricardo Sanchez to a car
wash in Sanford, North Carolina where Sanchez planned to complete a drug
transaction with Defendant. When they arrived and parked Lopez’s Ford Explorer,
Lopez remained in the driver’s seat while Sanchez sat in the rear passenger side seat
with the window rolled down.
After Sanchez called Defendan

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Evan Matthew Lawbaugh, age 33, of Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty before United States District Judge Sylvia H. Rambo to production of child pornography.

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In 2013, Scroggs and her husband Matthew Scroggs ("Matthew")2 were living in
Pleasant Hill, Missouri with their three children. During the summer, Matthew's mother,
Melinda Brown ("Brown") was caring for the children at her home a couple hours away
from Pleasant Hill. In early June of 2013, Brown took the three children to visit Pleasant
Hill. Brown noticed that Scroggs appe

Defendant, whose date of birth is October 29, 1977, had sexual intercourse between the dates of July 1, 2013, and July 5, 2013, with B.H, whose date of birth is January 10, 2002.1 The victim became pregnant and delivered a baby boy on March 20, 2014. At trial, B.H. testified that her uncle, Defendant, had sexual intercourse with her when she was eleven years of age. DNA samples were taken from Def

The complainant is K.J., a girl who was five months old at the time of her
death. K.J.’s mother, Laquisha Jackson, had begun dating appellant after she
became pregnant with K.J. Before Jackson gave birth to K.J., she and appellant
moved into a two-bedroom apartment with appellant’s father and appellant’s
father’s girlfriend. After K.J.’s birth, Jackson continued to live with ap

¶1 The United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit, certified the following question under the authority of Tenth Circuit Rule 27.1 and the Revised Uniform Certification of Questions of Law Act, 20 O.S. 2001, § 1601-1611.

As of September 1-2, 2003, did the Oklahoma Wrongful Death Statute, Okla. Stat. tit. 12, § 1053, afford a cause of action for the wrongful death of a nonviable stillbo

This is an accelerated appeal from a decree terminating parental rights. In her
only viable appellate issue, the mother asserts that the evidence was legally and
factually insufficient to show that termination was in the best interest of her child.
See TEX. FAM. CODE § 161.001(b). We find sufficient evidence to support the trial
court’s decree, and we affirm.


2

Appellants D.A. and M.A. bring this interlocutory appeal challenging the trial court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of Appellees Texas Health
2
Presbyterian Hospital of Denton (THP), Marc Wilson, M.D., and Alliance OB/GYN Specialists, PLLC d/b/a OB/GYN Specialists, PLLC. We granted permission to appeal on a single issue—whether civil practice and remedies code section 74.153 applies