Desperate Facebook Plea Saves Woman, Boy Held Captive for Days
Comstock/Thinkstock(SANDY, Utah) — A Utah woman and her 17-month-old son are safe after allegedly being held captive and abused for days by her ex-boyfriend.Troy Critchfield, 33, has been charged with kidnapping, sodomy, and child abuse after allegedl…
Locked Out No More: NBA Tips Off on Christmas Day
Al Bello/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — A shortened NBA season finally gets underway on Christmas Day when the New York Knicks and Boston Celtics tip off at Madison Square Garden.“I’m very excited basketball is back,” a fan at the game told ABC …
Dad Locked in Custody Battle Gets Christmas Miracle
Courtesy of Dr. Moises Garcia(MILWAUKEE) — It was a very Merry Christmas for one Wisconsin man, whose four year battle to regain custody of his daughter from his wife, who had taken her to Japan, ended when he returned to the United States with the 9-…
Michelle Obama Helps Kids Track Santa
Official White House Photo by Pete Souza(KAILUA, Hawaii) — First lady Michelle Obama continued her tradition of answering calls from children who are curious about Santa’s whereabouts on Christmas Eve, as part of the annual NORAD Tracks Santa Pr…
5 Year Old Sends Santa a Note Attached toTwo Balloons, Gets an Answer
Digital Vision/Thinkstock(Auburn, Wash.) — A little girl from Auburn, Wash., had her Christmas wishes granted in an unexpected way.Five-year-old Helen Berence Reyes Cardenas didn’t ask for much. Her family, struggling, could not afford a r…
Abandoned Mystery ‘Baby Noel’ Miraculously Survives
Hemera Technologies/Thinkstock(PHILADELPHIA) — In what appears to be a Christmas miracle, a five-hour old baby girl abandoned in a cardboard box on a Philadelphia sidewalk was discovered and rescued after almost being mistaken for trash.Now , the baby…
Student Loses $172K Violin on Bus
Nichola Evans/Stockbyte(BOSTON) — It might end up being the most costly trip Mu-Chen Hsieh ever takes. The violin student, who is studying at the New England Conservatory in Boston, left her most prized possession, an 1835 Italian-made violin worth $1…
Is Notorious ‘Geezer Bandit’ Really a Geezer?
FBI(SAN DIEGO) — The FBI calls him the “Geezer Bandit” because he looks like an old man. For two years federal agents have been on his trail. They thought they were trying to nab someone in his 60s or 70s, but now it appears he…
Anthony Weiner and Wife Welcome Birth of a Son
Dimitrios Kambouris/VF11/WireImage(NEW YORK) — Disgraced former New York Congressman Anthony Weiner and his wife Huma Abedin welcomed the birth of their first child, Jordan Zain Weiner, on Wednesday.The couple, who wed in 2010, has had a rough year. I…