Blaine Harden tells the story of Shin Dong-hyuk, who fled a North Korean forced-labor camp but not before turning in his mother and brother for executions.

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A man is jailed for life and must serve at least 30 years after being convicted of the “brutal and heartless murder” of his mother’s next-door neighbour.

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Pensioner’s killer given 30 years

After his mother turned him in.

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Courtroom Shooting Suspect Arrested

After his mother turned him in.

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Courtroom Shooting Suspect Arrested

The famous image of the 3-year-old next to his mother as the president’s casket passed cemented the journalist’s reputation.

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Stan Stearns, Who Caught JFK Jr.’s Salute on Film, Dies at 76

Refers to rumors about his mother’s health.

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John W. Hinckley Jr. should be granted more freedom from a psychiatric hospital so he can ultimately be released to live with his mother in Williamsburg, an attorney for the presidential assailant told a judge. “Although he is flawed, he is fundamentally decent,” Barry Wm. Levine said as his client sat quietly at the defense table. “This man is not dangerous. The evidence shows he is not dangerous.” Read full article > >

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Football. Friends. Hot dogs. Cupcakes. More football. It should have been a perfect fall Saturday for a bunch of 10- and 11-year-old boys in Germantown. But it wasn’t, and the stickers on their helmets said why: “William McQuain. We ♥ U.” Their buddy has now been missing for two weeks. As they all know, his mother was found killed inside the apartment the two shared. Read full article > >

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Germantown youngster’s friends wait and hope for his return

Eric knows what’s in his mother’s locket now, so he’s asking the kind of questions 4-year-olds ask. “Where are they?” “They died.” Read full article > >

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Woman who lost parents on 9/11 will always wonder: Why?

A Royal Marine shot dead in Afghanistan had lost his mother just weeks before he was deployed overseas.

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Dead marine recently lost mother

Adapted from a recent online discussion . What exactly is he hoping will “get even better”? Since his getting promoted/his mother’s arrival would be swell for your little family whether it was still in utero or graduating from diapers, and you’re fine without both developments, I don’t think either stands as an argument for waiting. Read full article > >

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Carolyn Hax: She’s ready for a baby, he’s not

The murder of PSNI officer Ronan Kerr was a “very personal attack”, his mother tells the BBC Spotlight programme.

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Thomas Haynesworth was free at his mother’s home in Richmond on Monday after 27 years in prison for crimes prosecutors now say he did not commit.

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Man freed after 27 years in prison for crimes he didn’t commit

A six-year-old boy is killed and his mother is seriously injured after they were hit by a bus outside a Wiltshire primary school.

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Cuban dissident Guillermo Farinas, winner of the EU’s Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, has been detained, his mother says.

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