Mischa Barton: Fashion Forward or Faux Pas?

Oh, Mischa. What has happened to the former fashionista? Her funky fashion choices have gotten more and more out-there since returning to the states from a summer abroad. Here are our votes for her most off-beat moments of the past month.1. Her infamousdiaper shorts/torn tank top combo, worn while grocery shopping with pal Nicole Richie on Sept. 2.2. Her oddly frumpy palm-panted romper (left), worn while running errands Los Angeles, Sept....

March 16, 2025 · 2 min · 288 words · Sandra Gordon

Missing Mom Ana Walshe's Kids Are in State Custody. Her Friends Want Them to Stay with People They Know

Ana Walshe.Photo: Instagram Friends of missing momAna Walsheare pleading with the state to keep her young children together and place them with people they already know. Bardhi says shortly after, Massachusetts authorities stepped in and took the children, ages 2, 4, and 6, from Brian’s mother and placed them in state custody. “Today was supposed to be the day that they get placed in foster care and potentially separated,” Bardhi told PEOPLE on Thursday....

March 16, 2025 · 2 min · 323 words · Jordan Garcia

Missing Moms: 'Nightmare' Unfolds After Calif. Mother Misses Daughter's Birthday Trip, Never Returns Home

May “Maya” Millete.Photo: FacebookNine months after a California mother of three disappeared days before her daughter’s 11th birthday, the search for her continues.“It’s a nightmare,” Maricris Drouaillet tells PEOPLE of the disappearance of her younger sister May “Maya” Millete.Millete, 40, vanished from her Chula Vista home on Jan. 7., one day before she and her husband, Larry, were planning on taking their three children, ages 4, 9 and 11, to Big Bear to celebrate their daughter’s birthday with Millete’s family....

March 16, 2025 · 4 min · 730 words · Darrell Davis

Missing North Carolina Girl, 16, Rescued After Using Distress Hand Signals Learned from TikTok

Photo: Laurel County Sheriff’s Office A missing 16-year-old girl from North Carolina girl was rescued thanks to S.O.S. hand gestures she learned onTikTok, authorities say. On Thursday, 61-year-old James Brick was arrested after someone driving behind him called 911 after observing a girl inside his vehicle “making hand gestures that are known on the social media platform TikTok to represent violence at home — ‘I need help’ — domestic violence,” the Laurel County Sheriff’s Office said in apress release....

March 16, 2025 · 2 min · 294 words · Tyrone West

Missing University of Iowa Student Mollie Tibbetts Found Dead: A Timeline of Events

On Tuesday, Iowa authorities found remains in a Poweshiek County field they suspect are those ofmissing college student Mollie Tibbetts, a police source told PEOPLE. Confirmation is still pending, but Tibbetts’ father Rob toldFox Newsthat the remains belong to the 20-year-old,who disappeared in the middle of Julyafter going for a jog around town. It’s still not clear what happened to the teen or how she died. Mitch Mortvedt, a spokesman for state authorities, told theAssociated Pressthat “there is nobody charged at this time....

March 16, 2025 · 7 min · 1333 words · Paul Tran

Mission to Place Wreaths on Military Headstones Across the U.S. Keeps Growing: 'We Could Use the Volunteers'

An informal brigade of holiday wreath-layers hopes its ranks keep pace this year with a growing mission to adorn military headstones at cemeteries. “There’s a lot to cover, and we could use the volunteers,” says Wayne Hanson, chairman of the board for Wreaths Across America, a group that lays seasonal wreaths at military and veterans’ cemeteries. “Every year there are more headstones to honor, and we keep adding cemeteries to include....

March 16, 2025 · 3 min · 568 words · Aaron Ward

Mitchell Tenpenny Reflects on the Grief of 2020 — and the Blessings He Sees Ahead of Him in 2021

Mitchell Tenpennyhas long known that life is far too short. But never did that somewhat overused cliché ring as true for him as it did in the pandemic-stained year of 2020. “Life changed, for all of us,” explains Tenpenny, 31, during a recent interview with PEOPLE. “Things were taken away that we never expected toeverbe taken away.” Not only did the road warrior find himself stuck at home in 2020 due to the ongoing pandemic, but the country music hitmaker also lost one of the most special people in his life over the summer when his uncle died after a battle with COVID-19....

March 16, 2025 · 4 min · 764 words · Elizabeth Herrera

Mo. Man Accused of Holding Woman Captive for Month and Sexually Assaulting Her Could Face Life in Prison

Timothy Haslett Jr.Photo: Clay County Sheriff’s Office Content warning: The following article contains disturbing descriptions of sexual assault. In October 2022, a woman began banging on people’s doors in a neighborhood in Excelsior Springs, Mo., screaming for help. When someone finally answered, she said she’d escaped from a man’s basement after he kidnapped her, raped her and held her against her will for several weeks. Now, the man she says committed the crimes faces multiple charges and a possible life sentence in prison if he’s convicted....

March 16, 2025 · 3 min · 489 words · Zachary Sullivan

Mollie Tibbetts' Accused Killer Describes Finding Her Body in His Trunk After Her Jog: Authorities

Photo: Poweshiek County Sheriff’s Office On Monday, almost exactly a month after20-year-old college sophomore Mollie Tibbettsvanished from her rural town of Brooklyn, Iowa, authorities interviewed the man they would soonaccuse of murdering her. According to the affidavit, Rivera, 24, is the one who led investigators to Tibbetts’ dead body, where he had allegedly concealed it with plants. (Confirmation was pending but police are confident the remains belong to Tibbetts, a source previously told PEOPLE....

March 16, 2025 · 4 min · 715 words · Kimberly Lucero

Mom Cautions Other Parents After Son Nearly Dies from Rare COVID Complication: 'We Almost Lost Him'

Photo: GoFundMeA mother whose 4-year-old son nearly died from a rareCOVID-19complication is speaking out to spread awareness.Monica Morton and her son, Mason, tested positive for COVID-19 this winter after spending time with Morton’s aunt, who herself had been exposed to the respiratory virus, she toldCNN.While Morton recovered, her son started developing neck pain and a rash on his hands, prompting concern from the mom.“First, he kept telling me, ‘Mom, my neck hurts....

March 16, 2025 · 9 min · 1805 words · Mr. Phillip Cruz

Mom Creates Nonprofit to Honor the Memory of Teen Daughter Who Died from Toxic Shock Syndrome

Photo: Dawn Massabni Madalyn (Maddy) Massabni was home from college to celebrate her birthday in March 2017 when she started experiencing strange symptoms. What seemed like a stomach bug or the flu ended up being toxic shock syndrome, a rare and life-threatening complication of certain types of bacterial infections. “I let her sleep in a little bit and I went to wake her up and I had trouble,” her mom Dawn of Rumson, New Jersey, tells PEOPLE....

March 16, 2025 · 3 min · 538 words · John Johnson

Mom Donates 500 Oz. of Breast Milk After Son Dies from Rare Condition: 'It Was a Sense of Healing'

Photo: Courtesy Sierra Strangfeld When Sierra Strangfeld was pregnant with her second child, she looked forward to the hours they would soonspend together breastfeeding. Her 18-month-old daughter had a tongue tie that kept her from nursing, and Strangfeld was excited to try again. But, tragically, it wouldn’t be possible — she learned at 20 weeks that her son, whom she would name Samuel, would not survive due to an extremely rare condition calledTrisomy 18, or Edwards’ Syndrome....

March 16, 2025 · 2 min · 415 words · Lisa Clark

Mom Explains Why She Lets Her Children Take Personal Days Off from School: 'It's a Breather'

Photo: Getty Adults sometimes take personal days off, soClaire Gillespiewants to know one thing: Why not kids, too? The U.K.-based writer and mother of two opened up in an essay forParentsabout why she lets her children take “mental health” days off from school — and how she isn’t worried about it becoming a habit, given that both of her kids “love school.” “Before you call child services, this is not a regular occurrence,” Gillespie writes....

March 16, 2025 · 3 min · 488 words · Charles King