Photo: petaCharlie and Diamond are ready to start the next chapter of their lives together.According toa news release from PETA, fieldworkers from the animal welfare organization found Charlie the Chihuahua mix and Diamond the pit bull mix caged together on a porch in North Carolina.The canines' former owner left the dogs stuck in the cramped and locked wire cage outside with a wind chill of 21 degrees. Concerned about the animals' welfare, the PETA fieldworkers asked the dogs' owner to take the animals insidebefore the cold weather caused severe damage....

Photo: RivCO animalSERVICES/Twitter A 4-month-old chihuahua is expected to pull through after being pierced in the neck with an arrow in California. Police received a call from a woman who found an injured chihuahua in Desert Hot Springs. She told police that she was awakened to the tan chihuahua “screaming.” A Riverside County Sheriff’s Department dispatcher then alerted an officer with the Riverside County Department of Animal Services, the organization said on itswebsiteMonday....

Steve Johnson.Photo: Stephen J. Cohen/Getty Images Achild abuse chargeagainst former Alabama Shakes drummer Steve Johnson has been dismissed, eight months after Johnson’s arrest, according to his lawyer. “Steve Johnson maintained his innocence throughout the course of this entire ordeal. Just like anyone charged with a crime, Mr. Johnson had to wait for his day in court,” Lough and Helstowski said in a statement. “People are quick to make judgments and assumptions based on catchy headlines when cases like this first surface....

Photo: Denton County Jail Police in Lewisville, Texas, allege 25-year-old Lauren Kavanaugh — whose mom and stepdad are serving prison time for crimes committed against her — sexually assaulted a 14-year-old girl she met via a Facebook page titled “The Lauren Kavanaugh Story,” through which Kavanaugh offered support to victims of abuse, police Capt. Jesse Hunter tells PEOPLE. Both the teen and Kavanaugh admitted to a “sexual relationship,” which the teen told officers had been ongoing for two months, according to police....

Photo: Elite Academy of Dance- Greenocks Royal Academy Classical Ballet School/Facebook Child ballet star and actor Jack Burns has died at age 14. According toMetro UK, Burns was found dead at his home in Greenock, Inverclyde in Scotland on Dec. 1. While the cause of death has not yet been revealed, police told the outlet that they are not treating his death as suspicious. According toIMDb, Burns starred in the British drama seriesIn Plain Sightin 2016....

At least 29 people were killed and over a dozen more were injured when a passenger bus crashed into a gulch in southern Mexico on Wednesday.The bus was traveling from Mexico City through the southern state of Oaxaca when it crashed, according to theAssociated Press,ReutersandSky News.Jesus Romero, the state’s interior minister, initially said 27 people died in the crash, including a 1-1/2-year-old child, according to the AP. The death toll was later updated to 29 after two additional victims died at a hospital....

Beachgoers swim at Lincoln Beach on Lake Pontchartrain with the city of New Orleans in the distance on Sunday, July 31, 2022.Photo:Michael DeMocker Michael DeMocker The child was attacked Wednesday while visiting the beach with family along Lake Pontchartrain, a New Orleans Emergency Medical Services spokesperson toldThe Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate. The youngster’s age and the extent of their injuries weren’t clear. CNNreported that the child had been taken to the Children’s Hospital of New Orleans and qualified as a trauma patient....

Photo: LOIC VENANCE/AFP/Getty The auction for the South Sudan teen began on October 25, according to theThomson Reuters Foundation. Five different men were involved with the bidding, but only one wealthy businessman finally won the girl’s father over, offering 500 cows, three luxury cars, and $10,000, the charity reveals. Photos of her in a white wedding dress began to circulate on social media sites, with some reports calling her a “virgin bride” or “the most expensive woman in South Sudan,” the foundation said....

A sick child.Photo: getty Pediatric cases of COVID-19are soaring ahead of the holidays with infections up 32% in the last two weeks, according to datafrom the American Academy of Pediatrics. During the week ending on Nov. 18, nearly 142,000 kids tested positive for COVID-19, marking the 15th week in a row that pediatric cases — meaninginfections in Americans 18 or younger— were above 100,000. And child COVID-19 cases are disproportionately high — though children make up just 22% of the U....

Photo: nbc6A child is dead and another has been hospitalized after a woman allegedly threw them off a bridge and into a lake, according to Louisiana authorities.On Thursday around 10:53 a.m. local time, officers from the Shreveport Police Department received a report about what the 911 caller described as a child floating in Cross Lake, Sgt. Angie Willhite tells PEOPLE.The department’s marine patrol officers responded to scene and found one small child dead in the water, according to Willhite....

Photo: GOFundMeA sixth person has died from wounds sustained when an SUVplowed through a Christmas paradein Waukesha, Wis., over the weekend.On Tuesday, 8-year-old Jackson Sparks succumbed to his injuries, his family announced in aGoFundMe. According to the fundraiser, Jackson underwent brain surgery Sunday evening and would need “a miracle” to survive.Jackson and his 12-year-old brother, Tucker, were both hospitalized after a man identified as Darrell Brooks allegedly drove his vehicle along the parade route Sunday....

Coronavirus COVID-19.Photo: getty A Wisconsin child under the age of 10 is the first person in the state to die from of a rare condition associated withCOVID-19. In a Fridaynews release, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (WDHS) announced the child died from Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C). Further information on the child was not disclosed to protect the family’s privacy. “We are saddened to report that a child has passed away from MIS-C,” said State Health Officer Paula Tran per the news release....

Photo: Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via GettyA stowaway’s body was found in the landing gear of an Air France flight on Tuesday, according to the airline.“Air France confirms that the lifeless body of a stowaway was found in the landing gear compartment of the aircraft operating flight AF703 from Abidjan (ABJ) to Paris-Charles de Gaulle on 7 January 2020,” the airline said in a statement to PEOPLE. “Air France expresses its deepest sympathy and compassion for this human tragedy....