Nov 16 - By Associated Press
Police said a Long Island man upset about a speeding ticket tried to get even with a state trooper by making a prank phone call to his mother. Authorities said Lawrence Demaio, of Carle Place, called the woman about a month after the ticket was issued and told her her son had been badly hurt in a car accident.

Nov 16 - By Russ Bynum, Associated Press Writer
An Army cook and single mom may face criminal charges after she skipped her deployment flight to Afghanistan because, she said, no one was available to care for her infant son while she was overseas.
Nov 13 - By Associated Press
A 27-year-old Anchorage man has been convicted of robbing his mother at gunpoint because she didn't give him money to help pay a $430 parking ticket. The Anchorage district attorney said Friday that Cheng Saelee was also convicted of illegally contacting his mother from jail and trying to get her to drop the charges.

Nov 11 - By The Associated Press, HO
Somewhere between childhood and adulthood, I lost my way. I lost my dreams, my hopes, my goals, my happiness, my sense of self. It even felt as though I lost my family and my friends. I didn’t want to go out, didn’t want to see any of the people I loved — because I was afraid they would be able to see how bad I felt about myself. I didn’t like myself, and I didn’t have the courage to admit that to myself, much less admit it to my friends. I was living a life of complacency. Checked out. Shut down.

Nov 3 - By Associated Press
The mother of New York Yankees pitcher Joba Chamberlain faces up to 20 years in prison when she's sentenced next month on a felony drug charge.

Oct 22 - By Colleen Slevin, Associated Press Writer
Friends say the mother of the little boy at the center of the Colorado balloon case is devoted — even subservient — to her inventor husband and her kids, so why would she allegedly tell sheriff's deputies that the whole thing was a hoax?
Oct 21 - By Associated Press
A woman was arrested and accused of taking her 23-year-old son along with her on trips to buy and sell heroin. Nancy Fulford pleaded not guilty Tuesday in Gloucester District Court to charges of possession of heroin and distributing heroin. Her son, Timothy Fulford, was charged with knowing where heroin was kept.
Oct 20 - By Associated Press
An Ohio mother who says her son got a raw deal from his middle school's football program has put her feelings on a marquee-style sign in her yard. Amy Ortner's bright yellow sign in Berlin Heights in northern Ohio has letters about six inches tall and the message, "Berlin football — Shame shame — We don't play those kind of games!"
Oct 15 - By Associated Press
A man who says he told his two daughters their mother was dead after a policeman incorrectly identified her as the victim in a Massachusetts house fire has lost his lawsuit against the city where it happened.

Oct 14 - By Helen A.S. Popkin, msnbc.com - Only on msnbc.com
Well, it’s happened. They’ve finally arrested someone for egregious poking on Facebook.

Oct 7 - By Mark Scolforo, Associated Press Writer
A soccer mom who was thrust into the national gun-rights debate after taking a loaded pistol to youth sports events was killed by her husband in a shooting witnessed online by her video chat partner, authorities said Friday.
Sep 22 - By Beth J. Harpaz, AP Travel Editor
Teens and texting is a subject that's often discussed in pathological terms. They're texting in class! They're sexting! They're running up $5,000 bills! They need thumb therapy!
Sep 4 - By Associated Press
A Montana woman charged with driving around her 16-year-old son and six others while they broke into cars in April has changed her plea.
Aug 27 - By Associated Press
A 19-year-old Las Vegas-area woman has been arrested on allegations that she hid her pregnancy and then killed her newborn son because she was afraid her mother would be mad at her for giving birth out of wedlock.

Jul 30 - By Louise Crawford, For The Associated Press
Alma Schneider's 8-year-old daughter loves fashion. Her neighbor owns a wedding couture business. It was a match made in DIY heaven and an answer to a problem faced by other cash-strapped families trying to make it through summer without pricey kid classes and camps.
Jul 15 - By Daniel Woolls, Associated Press Writer
Spanish social services have no plans to take custody of the 2-year-old twins of the oldest woman to give birth, who died last week at 69, an official said Thursday.
Jul 10 - By Associated Press
The mother of a British soldier killed in Iraq four years ago while traveling in a light Land Rover won the right on Friday to have a legal review of the use of the controversial vehicle.
Jul 1 - By Associated Press
The mother of New York Yankees pitcher Joba Chamberlain has pleaded not guilty in a Nebraska court to a felony drug charge.
Jun 25 - By Associated Press
A high school secretary illegally changed grades in a school computer system to improve her daughter's class standing, according to criminal charges filed Thursday.
Jun 25 - By Associated Press
Pennsylvania prosecutors say a secretary at Huntingdon Area High School illegally changed grades in a school computer system to improve her daughter's class standing. Attorney General Tom Corbett said Thursday that Caroline Maria McNeal used co-workers' passwords without their knowledge to access the computer system.
Jun 17 - By Associated Press
An Ohio man accused of strangling his wife and stuffing her body into a car trunk nearly 18 years ago has been convicted of murder.

Jun 17 - By Associated Press
Prosecutors in northern California said in court Monday they are considering whether to charge a 14-year-old girl as an adult in the stabbing death of her mother.

Jun 17 - By Associated Press
A man accused of dressing up as his dead mother to collect her Social Security and rent subsidies is blaming the crime on an impersonator.

Jun 17 - By Laura Wides-Munoz, AP Hispanic Affairs Writer
Ronald Soza celebrated his 10th birthday Wednesday with cake and a serenade by more than 100 other children and their parents.
Jun 10 - By Associated Press
The case against an Ohio man accused of strangling his wife and stuffing her body into a car trunk nearly 18 years ago is going to the jury.