A Florida couple is accused of forcing a 13-year-old boy to kneel down for nine hours a day for 10 days in a row as a punishment for being bad at school, police said. Albert Cusson, 57, and his wife Nancy, 47, from Lakeland, Fla., were jailed on child abuse charges Thursday after allegedly forcing the teen to kneel on a hard bathroom floor with his hands behind his back from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. every day and beating him with a stick if he moved, the... 

A father who was upset after a Tennessee couple deleted his adult daughter as a friend on Facebook has been charged in the shooting deaths of the couple, authorities said Wednesday. The victims had complained to police that Marvin Potter‘s daughter was harassing them after they deleted her as a friend on the social networking site, Johnson County Sheriff Mike Reece said Wednesday. Potter, 60, has been charged with two counts of first-degree... 

The death penalty is being sought against a couple accused of killing their ten-year-old cousin by locking her in a storage bin as punishment for taking a Popsicle without permission. John and Samantha Allen, from Arizona, both 23, have pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit child abuse and multiple counts of felony child abuse stemming from the July 12 death by suffocation of ten-year-old Ame Deal at her Phoenix home. The... 

So much for pillow talk. Dropping off to sleep straight after sex is a sign that you and your partner are truly in love, a new study has shown. Research by evolutionary psychologists at the University of Michigan and Albright College in Pennsylvania, found the tendency to fall asleep first after sex is associated with greater partner desire for bonding and affection. Daniel Kruger, a research fellow at the University of Michigan, and lead author... 

For fast food lovers, White Castle is a kind of high church. So it’s only fitting that a wedding would one day be held at the burger chain. In 2009, it actually was, when Clinton Smith and Rosemary Coones tied the knot at a downtown Louisville, Kentucky White Castle – the world’s largest location of the restaurant. The pair won their nuptials in a contest sponsored by the fast-food chain and local radio station DJX 99.7. The wedding,... 

They took the phrase ‘get a room’ to a whole new level. This lusty couple obviously couldn’t wait to get home before making love and decided to go ahead with it in the moving subway car. When the train guard was alerted to what was happening, he told them to get off the train, thinking he had pulled the brakes on their sexual liaisons. But, unperturbed, they got off and continued the deed on the station platform, with the man’s... 

A former Manhattan chiropractor and his alleged wife have been living the high life in a million-dollar Seattle mansion while cashing welfare checks for the last eight years, federal authorities claim. David Silverstein and Lyudmila Shimonova are the subjects of a new federal lawsuit claiming they collected approximately $135,000 in housing welfare while posing as a dutiful landlord and destitute mother of two. Investigators said contrary to their... 

A Reno, Nevada, mother’s live-in boyfriend is facing murder charges after 2-year-old Nalaya Jordan died after being severely abused, according to police. Authorities say little Nalaya lived her short life in a home where her caretakers blew marijuana smoke in her face to make her sleep and beat her and shook her when she ‘whined.’ She died last week after Trevor Reid Swanson, 27, pummeled her with a belt and shook her Nov. 21 when... 

That awkward when you steal a car to have sex with your significant other but you get caught because it’s really an undercover police car. A couple were arrested after stealing a police car so they could have a sex. Alexander Pratt, 59, and Clara Pearson, 53, jumped into the unmarked police car after they saw the keys in the ignition. But within minutes of allegedly stealing the car they were stopped by officers and arrested. Pratt told police... 

Alfred hospital infectious disease physician Andrew Fuller said that when the couple ate the fish, believed to be a black bream, they also ingested the gnathostomiasis larvae. “The worms are 1-3mm long and have got these sharp little teeth and they can go anywhere they like in the body,” Dr Fuller said. The worm works its way around the human body until it dies or is killed by the immune system. “They move under the skin and cause itchy lumps...