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Nick, her eldest son, was downstairs sleeping in the basement with friends. The first responders arrived and tried to resuscitate Jack, and then Savage noticed one of them going downstairs to the basement. "I had no idea at that point what they were doing in our basement. And then I remember one of them coming up and asking for a coroner. That's the last thing that I remember that day." A tragic consequence The boys were pronounced dead. Both had accidentally overdosed on hydrocodone and alcohol. Someone at one of the graduation parties had passed around the prescription pills. Savage says the boys had never been in trouble with drinking or drugs. They just happened to make "a bad choice that

A woman in Iowa who left her four young children home alone while she went on vacation in Europe has been sentenced to two years of probation. Erin Macke, 31, entered an Alford plea in February to four counts of child endangerment after leaving her children, then aged between six and 12, at their home in Johnston to go abroad to Germany in September 2017, reports Des Moines Register. An Alford plea is where a defendant does not admit guilt to an offence, but acknowledges that prosecutors have enough evidence to secure a conviction.

We live in a tiny little house. In this tiny little house we pack four children, two dogs, two cats, a bird and an assortment of creatures into the petting zoo that our oldest daughter calls her basement bedroom.The floors are slanted and creaky and the tile in the kitchen is missing most of its grout. The basement often floods in the spring and, in the winter, you can almost see your breath in the upstairs bedrooms because, for whatever reason, the heat from our trusty old furnace doesn’t seem to make it up there. We have mismatched appliances and secondhand furniture in every room. ...