Posts

Echo Lloyd.Photo: Facebook More like best friends than mother and daughter, Echo Lloyd and Kelsey Smith texted and called each other all the time. So when Smith, 29, was unable to reach Lloyd, then 47, on Mother’s Day in 2020, she grew worried. On that day, May 10, 2020, Smith drove to her mother’s house in Edwards, Mo., to give her a card and a pot of flowers. “Her door was locked so I left the flowers on the back porch,” Smith tells PEOPLE in this week’s issue....

Nisaa Walcott.Photo: Facebook A New York woman who went missing last week was found dead in a plastic storage bin left out on a sidewalk – and now her cousin is charged in her murder, according to police. Inside a plastic storage container was an unresponsive woman, later identified as Nisaa Walcott, 35, of East Harlem, the New York City Police Department confirmed to PEOPLE. EMS pronounced the Walcott, a mother to a 14-year-old boy, dead at the scene....

A mother in Mississippi is speaking out after a hacker allegedly accessed a Ring camera that was in her 8-year-old daughter’s room. Ashley LeMay tells PEOPLE that she bought a Ring camera for her daughter during a Black Friday sale last month. Less than a week later, on Dec. 4, her daughter heard a strange male voice talking to her through the camera. “At first she was trying to figure out where the noise is coming from,” LeMay explains....

Left: Shandrea and Hannalee Holloway. Right: Shandrea, Patrick and Hannalee Holloway hours before the Thanksgiving crash.Photo: Courtesy of Craig Hendrick Craig Hendrick’s life changed when he received a devastating phone call at 1:15 a.m. last month. A car swerved into their lane and crashed head-on while driving home to Republic, Missouri, from a family gathering in St. Louis. The driver and passenger in the other caralso died, according to a police report....

A nurse at Cox Medical Center with a panic button.Photo: Courtesy Cox Medical Center Branson The increase in assaults is likely related to patients getting irritated with the longer wait times at the hospital and restrictions on who can visit due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Blevins said. “They come in here and they have to sit in here because everywhere’s full, we have no placements to put anybody and that’s frustrating on the patient that’s frustrating on us and I think that’s increasing a lot of violence towards everyone,” said Blevins....

Sen. Mitch McConnell.Photo: TOM BRENNER/POOL/AFP via Getty Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is urging residents of his native Kentucky to get vaccinated against COVID-19, drawing on his own childhood polio diagnosis ina new radio adairing in the state. In the ad, McConnell, 79, references his personal experience, saying as a child he “faced a different disease.” Noting that it took almost 70 years to find a Polio vaccination, McConnell calls the COVID-19 shot a “modern medical miracle....

Photo: Pouya Dianat/Atlanta Braves/Getty The spokesperson added, “The deadline is the deadline. After February 28, games will be canceled. Missed games are missed games and salary will not be paid for those games.” John McCoy/Getty According toESPN, the Wednesday statement from the MLB marks the first time the league has publicly said it will shorten the season in the event of ongoing negotiations past the Monday deadline. MLB and the MLBPA have been unable to reach an agreement on league salaries....

Patricia Derges.Photo: Larry French/Getty A Missouri state representative was indicted after she allegedly falsely claimed a treatment she was marketing contained stem cells that could treat COVID-19 and other diseases. Patricia Derges, a Republican from Nixa, Missouri, was charged with eight counts of wire fraud, 10 counts of distributing Oxycodone and Adderall over the internet and two counts of making false statements to federal agents. The 20-count indictment, unsealed Monday, alleged that 63-year-old Derges administered amniotic fluid to patients at three clinics in southern Missouri....

Photo: Getty On Tuesday, Moderna announced that its new modifiedCOVID-19booster shot provided strong protection against multiple variants of the virus — including omicron. The new single shot is designed to target two strains of the coronavirus using a combination of a beta variant-specific vaccine and the company’s original formula,NBC Newsreported. The company said the modified booster candidate, called a bivalent vaccine, appeared to induce higher antibody responses than the company’s existing booster....

Photo: Sage Ross/Wikimedia The Seattle Timesreports that all 14 operating rooms at the hospital were closed indefinitely this year — four on May 18, and the remaining 10 on May 24. In a statement to PEOPLE, the hospital’s Public Relations Manager, Alyse Bernal, explained that three of the patients developed infections in 2018, while the remaining three developed the infections this year. The patient who died developed the infection in 2018....

The brother of slain Iowa college student Mollie Tibbetts returned to the high school football field on Friday for his team’s season opener, three days afterhis sister’s lifeless body was found in a rural cornfield. Under the shadow of personal tragedy, Scott Tibbetts — a senior and quarterback at Brooklyn-Guernsey-Malcom High School in Iowa — helped lead the Bears to victory over challenging team Lisbon, throwing two touchdowns and running another to solidify a 35-24 score, KCRG-9 Reported....

Molly Sims and her family.Photo:Molly sims/ instagram Molly sims/ instagram Molly Simshonored her loved ones thisThanksgiving! TheYse Beautyentrepreneur, 50, expressed her gratitude for her family of five — which includes kidsGrey Douglas, 6,Scarlett May, 8, and Brooks Alan, 11, whom she shares with husband Scott Stuber, 54 — through a post shared on Instagram Thursday. Sharing a selection offamily photographsthat included brother Todd Sims and his wife Alexis Sims, she began the caption of her post, writing, “My whole entire world right here❤️ This year has been nothing short of a rollercoaster, with both hardship and happiness....

Photo: Courtesy Katie Page A Colorado mother got the surprise of a lifetime when she learned that her two adopted children are biologically brother and sister. Katie Page (center) with Grayson (left) and Hannah Page.Ashley Creative Co. Page believed the babies came from different mothers, as the biological mother had listed different last names when placing the babies for adoption. No one at the adoption agency suspected the babies were siblings either....