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Photo: gofundmeTheWest Texas car crashthat resulted in nine deaths Tuesday came shortly after another tragedy for one family involved.The family of Henrich Siemens and his 13-year-old son, who was behind the wheel of the 2007 Dodge 2500 pickup truck involved in the accident, previously suffered the loss of their home and a family pet in a fire late last year, according to a GoFundMepage.“The whole house burned down, they lost everything in that home,” Mennonite Evangelical Church Seminole Pastor Jake Fehr toldNBC News....

Photo: Norah Needs You/FacebookCalifornia parents are fighting to find their 5-year-old daughter abone marrow transplantbefore it’s too late.Norah Gratz-Lazarus of Alameda was diagnosed with Fanconi anemia (FA), an extremely rare genetic disorder that affects 31 kids a year in the U.S. and ultimately leads to bone marrow failure.Without a bone marrow transplant, her family tells the news outlet, there is 90 percent chance that she will develop leukemia or bone marrow failure, her family tellsABC 13....

Murdaugh has been charged with stealing more than $2.7 million in insurance settlement funds after he allegedly encouraged Satterfield’s sons to sue him in connection with their mother’s 2018 death, which took place inside his home. In an interview with Dateline NBC, Satterfield’s family members say they feel like Murdaugh, who employed their mother for more than 20 years, used her death to enrich himself. “It’s like she was a nobody, as much as she’s done for him,” Satterfield’s brother, Eric Harriott, Jr....

Photo: Rising Tide Car WashJohn D’Eri didn’t just start the car wash Rising Tide with his son Thomas in South Florida because he thought it would be a great business. His main goal was to create something where his other son Andrew,who has autism, could work.Today, Andrew is one of the car wash’s hardest workers. The two locations have 82 other employeeswith autism,which makes up 90 percent of their workforce,according to Florida Trend....

Photo: West Midlands Police/Facebook A father and his partner have been sentenced following the murder of the man’s 6-year-old son, Arthur Labinjo-Hughes. On Thursday, dad Thomas Hughes and stepmother Emma Tustin were convicted after an eight-week trial in the U.K.’s Coventry crown court, according toThe Guardian. Hughes, 29, was given 21 years in prison for manslaughter while Tustin, 32, was sentenced to life with a minimum term of 29 years for the murder of Arthur, the outlet reported....

Photo: crowdfunding A 39-year-old father had one final message to share with the world following a long battle with cancer. Mark Anthony Quinn tweeted a photo of himself giving a thumbs up on Wednesday as he lay in bed at Ty Olwen Hospice in Wales. “So Twitter its 2 an end for me, In @TyOlwenHospice looking after me so kind, had a gr8 life @LFC fanatic, gr8 family friends, met some heros, tried my best 2 help others, army & McDonald’s careers many more, just want the🌎2 stop hatred discrimination etc we al just humans,” the dad of three wrote....

Photo: An EpiPen, used to treat anaphylactic shock. (Anda Chu/Bay Area News Group/TNS via Getty Images) Amid a major shortage, the Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday that people can keep certain EpiPens past their expiration dates as parents scramble to find the auto-injectors before school starts. Depending on the batch and amount of medicine in the EpiPen, some of the auto-injectors can now be used up to four months longer than their printed expiration dates in the case of a severe allergic reaction....

Felicity Huffmansays she was only thinking about her two daughters when she agreed to take part in a college admissions scheme. “Please, let me be very clear, I know there is no justification for what I have done. Yes, there is a bigger picture, but ultimately it doesn’t matter because I could have said “No” to cheating on the SAT scores,” Huffman wrote. “I unequivocally take complete responsibility for my actions and will respectfully accept whatever punishment the court deems appropriate....

The fiancé of missing Colorado mom Kelsey Berreth allegedly beat her to death with a baseball bat on Thanksgiving before cleaning up the crime scene with the woman he was having an affair with and then burning the body in a water trough, the woman allegedly told prosecutors. According to multiple news reports,Patrick Frazeeallegedly convinced the 29-year-old Berreth, who authorities presume was murdered, to wrap a sweater around her head so that she could guess the scent of various candles....

Photo: Aflo/REX/Shutterstock An American figure skater has been accused of purposely injuring a South Korean competitor during warm-ups for the World Figure Skating Championships, though officials say there isn’t evidence to back up the claim. Mariah Bell, 22, was training ahead of the women’s short program in Saitama, Japan, on Wednesday when she allegedly came up behind Lim Eun-soo, 16, and kicked her with her skate blade, causing a cut to her leg, an official with Eun-soo’s agency, All That Sports, told theYonhap News Agency....

Photo: Courtesy Noel Quintana Around 8 a.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 3, Noel Quintana boarded the L train at Jefferson Station in Brooklyn. The 61-year-old was headed to Harlem, where he works as an administrative assistant at a non-profit that works with mentally challenged people. As he stood in the crowded car, Quintana silently prayed the rosary. The man standing next to him then kicked the tote bag Quintana was holding, which held his keys, ID and paperwork....

Photo: Gofundme(2) Two men have been charged with the murders of a model and an architect whose bodies were dumped outside Los Angeles hospitals earlier this year. The Los Angeles Police Department previouslyannounced the arrestsof Pearce, 40, and Osborn, 42, in December 2021. Pearce was arrested on suspicion of manslaughter, while Osborn, and another individual, Michael Ansbach, were arrested on suspicion of being accessories in the deaths. The Los Angeles County district attorney’s office did not charge the three men with crimes at the time, however, leading to Osborn and Ansbach’s release....

Photo: getty (2) Trailblazing women are earning roles in male-dominated sports — deservedly so. Specifically for football, one of the biggest sports in the U.S., more females are on the field, on the sidelines and in executive positions in just the past few years since the NFL was founded over 100 years ago. In the 2021 season, there’s a total of 12 women coaching in the league, which is the highest number yet....