The morning of my 37-week appointment, I took my 2-year-old daughter, Frankie, to preschool; went to work and then headed to my OB/GYN in the afternoon, fully expecting to be home before dinner. When ...

Cherie and Dustin Walker, the mother and stepfather of an 11-year-old girl from Muskogee County, Oklahoma, are facing felony child neglect charges after prosecutors say the child was forced to give ...

An Etowah County woman who claimed she was forced to give birth without any medical help in a jail shower settled a federal civil rights lawsuit against the county, jail officials and doctors this ...

A Lancaster County man found unconscious in the street had left his 2-year-old child home alone while his wife was at the hospital giving birth to a second child, according to police.

"This child is traumatized. She's been through a horrific ordeal," Muskogee County Assistant District Attorney Janet Hutson said of the incident Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer-Reporter at ...

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A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit against a doctor accused of neglecting a woman who gave birth alone in her Tarrant County Jail cell. Chasity Congious has intellectual disabilities and multiple ...