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The husband of a Ohio nurse who died in a car wreck after a 12-hour shift in March is suing the hospital for allegedly “working her to death.” Beth Jasper fell asleep behind the wheel of her SUV and died in a crash after a 12-hour shift. Jim Jasper believes the hospital, which he argues suffered from a nursing shortage, had warning signs that they were working his wife too hard and that they’re culpable in her death.

A tragic scene that unfolded in the small town of Louisiana, Missouri last Thursday, which resulted in the death of 3-year-old Riley Jeffrey Miller, has residents and now people across the country asking some very difficult questions. When the boy’s stepfather attempted to reenter the blazing home to try and save his son, he was tasered, handcuffed and placed in the back of a police car. Find out why the local authorities argue that their actions were necessary, what the family thinks about how the situation was handled including a video and what a legal expert told CNN in regards to whether police were in the right.

A Texas mother and her newborn baby girl have been reunited for the first time since a brutal knife attack at her home. Rachel Poole was stabbed numerous times and beaten by an assailant last week while 9 months pregnant and the entire horrifying attack unfolded while she was on the popular video application FaceTime with her husband who was away on deployment in southwest Asia. Find out how Justin and Rachel’s actions helped save her and their daughter, how Isabella is doing now and what is believed to be the motive behind the actions of the assailant.

37-year-old Austin Dawkins is facing a criminal charge of reckless conduct after surveillance footage showed him placing a lighter between his truck’s gas tank and his wife on October 16th in Clarkesville, Georgia. The vapors ignited and the accident resulted in 30-year-old Jessica Dawkins suffering second- and third-degree burns to her legs, arms, back and head.

Tonight on MTV, viewers will be introduced to the lovable losers of the Lincoln Park Railsplitters high school football team on the docuseries Wait ‘Til Next Year. The show advertises itself as a cross between The Bad News Bears and Friday Night Lights as viewers follow a season of the school and team that hasn’t won a football game since 2006. We go all SPOILER and let you know if the Railsplitters have won themselves a game yet.

An unidentified single mother from Raleigh, North Carolina shared a heartwarming story with her local news affiliate about how wonderful and impactful the kindness of strangers can be. Find out about how her weekly family dinner night out at Pizza Hut that turned into an evening she’ll never forget as a stranger surprised with her some incredible words of encouragement and more.

A teenage girl from Virginia has been found after she went missing following the arrest of her mother who had fired a single warning shot during an alleged physical confrontation involving the 15-year-old. Find out what the mother, Lakisha Gaither, had to say about her decision to fire a warning shot and her post via Facebook after having found her missing child.

17-year-old Tiona Rodriguez of Brooklyn, New York is currently at Bellevue Hospital after she and a friend were stopped for shoplifting at the Herald Square Victoria’s Secret yesterday and it was later discovered that in addition to stolen undergarments, Tiona was carrying a dead fetus in her bag. She later reportedly revealed to officers she had suffered a miscarriage the day before and she and her friend were shoplifting while trying to figure out what to do with the body. Keep reading for the shocking and tragic details, including SFW video news reports and the preliminary autopsy results.

On Sunday, when Washington State Troopers approached the wreckage of a deadly car accident they discovered a simultaneously tragic and moving scene, the elderly couple inside the vehicle were holding hands as the man lay dead and his wife was dying. Read the trooper’s unforgettable quote about what he saw and get my own personal reaction to their story that moved me deeply as I remember my own grandparents.

What would you do if you found out you have 15 half-siblings you’ve never met? If you’re 17-year-old Breeanna Speicher you set out to try to meet them all — oh, and you bring the MTV cameras along to document the entire thing for a brand new reality series called Generation Cryo. Keep reading for tons of info on Bree and the show and watch the two-minute preview trailer just released today!

Walmart locations in Mansfield and Springhill, Louisiana had to call in for police assistance over the weekend when a systematic error in the Electronic Benefit Transfer System, and a bad decision from Walmart’s corporate office, caused a run on food supplies at the stores. See video footage of the free-for-all, why a local Police Chief said it was worse than any Black Friday he had ever seen and why many carts stuffed full of food were eventually left abandoned.

The Philadelphia Police Department released surveillance footage of a 33-year-old blind man being beaten and robbed in hopes of catching the criminal who perpetrated this crime. See the clip and the sad lack of a reaction from those on the scene and get the police chief’s comments about how folks are more apt to pull out their phones and video record a crime as opposed to actually trying to do anything about it.

Find out about the recent law passed in Calfornia that outlaws revenge porn, why there are those for and against the bill and how lawmakers in New York are looking to take the next step in criminalizing the online practice.

Newtown, Connecticut voters have accepted a $50 million grant from the state to build a new Sandy Hook Elementary School.