A retired Marine killed her young daughter and then herself Monday night in Florida in an apparent murder-suicide hours before the girl was scheduled to fly home to her father, police tell PEOPLE. Ericka Joseph, 46, was found dead with her 9-year-old daughter, Akili Joseph, in Joseph’s home in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on Tuesday morning, a police spokeswoman says. According to authorities, Joseph was divorced from Akili’s father, and though they shared custody of the child, Akili spent the majority of her time with her dad in Bogota, Colombia.
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Suzy ByrneA spoonful of nutrition helps your BMI go down! Mathilde Broberg, 21, from Aarhus, Denmark, once tipped the scale at 266 pounds and had a body mass index that pushed her into the morbidly obese category. The svelte Danish stunner now models and works as a physical trainer after she shed her extra weight by cutting out junk and measuring her portions with a teaspoon. “Before, I would buy all the things you dream of like chips, chocolate, cake, noodles and lots of junk food between meals,” Broberg told Caters, adding that she was an overeater until the age of 16. Broberg - who at one point consumed an alarming 3,500 calories per day - recalls being kicked off roller-coaster as a child because she
New York PostThe boy, now under the care of physicians, was allegedly so malnourished he weighed only 30 pounds and was incapable of standing on his own, Washington County Sheriff’s Lt. David Crouse tells PEOPLE. Likening his alleged living conditions to a “torture chamber,” Crouse believes the boy might have been in the bathroom of the Toquerville home for two years. On Monday, police charged the boy’s mother, Brandy Jaynes, 36, with felony child abuse.
PeopleKANSAS CITY, Mo. - The family of a Kansas lawmaker’s 10-year-old son killed last summer on what was billed as the world’s tallest water slide reached a settlement Wednesday with the park’s owner and the raft’s manufacturer. Terms of the deal filed in Kansas’ Johnson County District Court involving Caleb Schwab’s family were not released. Messages left by The Associated Press with one of the family’s attorneys, Michael Rader, and with Caleb’s father, Republican state Rep. Scott Schwab, were not immediately returned. Scott Schwab did not attend Wednesday’s legislative session. “The Schwab family remains determined to hold all those responsible for this tragedy accountable, while doing all they
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CosmopolitanOn Friday, Steve Harvey got into hot water after he made some race-related jokes, and in the days since, a backlash has brewed online. It all started when Steve opened his show poking fun at embarrassing dating guides like Dating for Under a Dollar and How to Date a White Woman: A Practical Guide for Asian Men. Steve joked about the datability of Asian men, imitating a woman simply stating that she’s not interested.
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