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In a sad conclusion to a disturbing relationship, a woman who married her birth father and gave birth to their child was laid to rest this past weekend, along with her baby and her adoptive father, after investigators said the birth father killed them all in a murder-suicide. Steven Pladl, 42, was found dead in early April in his vehicle in Dover, N.Y., several miles from the New Milford, Conn., murder scene where Katie Pladl and her adoptive father, 56-year-old Anthony Fusco, were discovered. In 1995, Steven Pladl was 20 when he met a 15-year-old girl named Alyssa on the Internet. Alyssa Pladl said in an interview last week that they put the girl up for adoption when she was 8 months old.

Two years ago, former NASA climate scientist James Hansen and a number of colleagues laid out a dire scenario in which gigantic pulses of fresh water from melting glaciers could upend the circulation of the oceans, leading to a world of fast-rising seas and even superstorms. Hansen’s scenario was based on a computer simulation, not hard data from the real world, and met with skepticism from a number of other climate scientists. But now, a new oceanographic study appears to have confirmed one aspect of this picture - in its early stages, at least. The new research, based on ocean measurements off the coast of East Antarctica, shows that melting Antarctic glaciers are indeed freshening the ocean

For Bourdain, his focus began to shift from the culinary to the cultural in July 2006, when he and his crew found themselves trapped in Beirut during the Second Lebanon War, a 34-day military conflict between the Israel Defense Forces and Iran-funded Hezbollah terrorists. The second-season finale to No Reservations, the previous iteration of Parts Unknown, documented that chaotic, war-torn week in Beirut, and earned an Emmy nomination. It was the center of my life for thirty years and I’ll always look at the world through that prism, but it is not the only thing,” Bourdain tells me. Parts Unknown’s Season 11 premiere takes the tattooed ex-New York City chef deep into the heart of Trump country: West Virginia.

Houda Dannaoui says she was shocked when she went to pick up her 5-year-old son, Abdul Dannaoui, from preschool March 27 and was told that he was found during lunchtime with his mouth taped shut and his food thrown in the garbage.  "My heart dropped," she told the Free Press.  Dannaoui said she was told one of the teachers in the Crestwood School District's preschool program walked in and discovered what a substitute teacher's assistant had done on March 26.  Dannaoui said no one from the program, held at Cherry Hill Baptist Church in Dearborn Heights, called to tell her what happened. Instead, she found out about it when picking her son up the following day. Dannaoui said she's especially upset