Judy McGuire

A West Virginia grandmother and her ex-boyfriend confessed to sexually abusing an infant relative and filming the act, state police said.

A Connecticut mother was sentenced Tuesday to 11 years in prison for starving her autistic son until he died weighing only 84 pounds.  A judge said Katiria Tirado, 34, "failed to provide her son with the basics necessary for life." She was also sentenced to five years of probation. When Tirado's son Matthew died in February, at 17, he was 5' 9" and weighed 84 pounds.  His emaciated body was covered with bruises, cuts and bedsores. A medical examiner declared the cause of death, “fatal child abus

The small town of Butler, Penn. is mourning a 17-year-old high school student who died in a freak bathtub accident while getting ready for school.Brianne Marie Rapp, a junior at Butler Area Senior High School, was taking a shower when she apparently fell to her death in the bathtub during Friday's early morning hours, her family and police told reporters.

A California man let an old friend stay with him for what was supposed to be a couple weeks. Now, that houseguest is under arrest, a suspect in the triple slaying of the man, his mom and stepdad, cops say.

Two teens in England who pleaded guilty to attacking a gay man after shouting slurs were let go with a fine and an order to attend youth offender meetings for a year. But they won't be getting jail time.

Well, she definitely didn't ghost him. A 31-year-old Arizona woman was arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of stalking and harassing a man she went out with once, allegedly sending him a whopping 65,000 text messages.

A 2-month-old baby in San Diego who was mauled by a pit bull this week has had her first surgery and is expected to fully recovery, her family said.Jemma-Linda Gonzalez was with her mother in the family's backyard Monday when a family friend's pit bull suddenly lunged at the baby and grabbed her head, her eldest sister Raquel Eugene told Oxygen.com.

A white man in South Carolina allegedly tried hiring someone to perform a modern-day lynching of his black neighbor, officials said.Brandon Cory Lecroy, of Hodges, was indicted Tuesday on charges of solicitation to commit a crime of violence and use

A neo-Nazi who will face trial for allegedly killing a white woman in an interracial relationship plans to use his great-grandfather as part of his defense.

While most of the country was experiencing shock, sadness and disbelief over Elliot Rodger's horrific murder spree, as his motives became clear, some of us experienced an additional emotion: a sickening gut-punch of recognition. Written by Judy

We all know that musicians tend to overindulge—a topic that’s meticulously documented in my new book. Less well known are those all-too-rare rockers who, for one reason or another, leave the substances alone. Below are a collection of the abstainers

When 53-year-old Tony Fitzpatrick’s latest play, Stations Lost, finished its three-week run in Brooklyn (after opening at the Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago) this October, he also had an art show happening at Williamsburg’s Pierogi Gallery at the

You might think that if heroin was your drug of choice and you’re now clean, a joint every now and again wouldn’t kill you. Or, if you’re a recovering basehead, you might not consider the occasional Scotch a one-way ticket to crackville. While

Henry is 40 years old and has spent much of his adult life addicted to heroin and alcohol. In 2001, after his last of several court-mandated stints in rehab, he stayed sober for two years and then started drinking again—first in moderation and then

Since the ‘90s, a flurry of studies has been released from a respected network of academics, testifying to the health benefits drinking. A couple of glasses of Chardonnay apparently lowers the risk of cardiovascular disease. A nightly martini

One of the most frustrating aspects of Intervention is that the once the addict has been trundled off to rehab or refuses to go, the only real follow-up is a couple of stark white sentences on a black background. “Annie left rehab after 12 days—her