The first monthly payment of thenewly expanded child tax creditwill start hitting bank accounts on Thursday, officials said. Families who want to check if they’re enrolled — or who want to unenroll or update their account information — can do so at theChild Tax Credit Update Portal. Getty The plan upped the maximum child tax credit to $3,600 for kids under 6, and $3,000 per child for kids ages 6 to 17....
Photo: Paul Martinka/Splash News Daniel St. Hubert was convicted of murder and attempted murder in April. In court on Tuesday, a judge handed down a sentence that would ensure that the 31-year-old man would spend at least five decades in prison. The case began in 2014 when St. Hubert killed 6-year-old PJ Avitto and seriously injured then 7-year-old Mikayla Capers inside an elevator in their public housing apartment building. Neither child knew the attacker....
Haley Mae Coblentz.Photo: Oregon State Police (2)A child whose remains were found in a duffle bag in Oregon last year has been identified as a 9-year-old girl, and her mother and the mother’s girlfriend are now charged with aggravated murder.The girl was identified as Haley Mae Coblentz, according to news release from the Oregon State Police.Haley was born in Colorado and had been living with her mother and the mother’s girlfriend in multiple places in Oregon and the Pacific Northwest since 2015....
Photo: Getty A mother from Scotland is thanking her lucky stars that her 7-year-old son was not inside his toy car when it burst into flames on Dec. 26. Pauline Thomson of Dundee, Scotland, recounted the harrowing experience toThe Scottish Sun, telling the outlet that her son and six cousins were playing with a ride-onMercedes from Kids Cars Directjust moments before it caught fire in a wooded area of the family’s garden....
Glenda Terwilliger (top left), Constance Terwilliger (top right), Michael Watson (bottom left) and Kiara Terwilliger.Photo: FacebookA child called a relative for help after a Florida man fatally shot his 15-year-old daughter and three others in a Cocoa home on Wednesday, authorities said.The victims were identified as Kiara Terwilliger, 15, and her mother Constance Terwilliger, 35, along with Glenda Terwilliger, 63, and Michael Watson, 36, according to a news release from the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office....
Aaron Capener and Kayla Norton.Photo: Courtesy When Aaron Capener moved into his grandmother’s Kingsport, Tenn., home in 2010, the eighth grader quickly became pals with Kayla Norton, a soft-spoken classmate who lived down the street. “We were very close friends,” Aaron — who was designated female at birth but transitioned to male as an adult — tells PEOPLE for the Valentine’s Day special in this week’s issue. “She was really sweet,” adds Aaron, now 26....
Photo: Scott Levy/MSG PhotosNow 25, Jacob Trouba and Brady Skjei are sharing the ice at Madison Square Garden as members of the New York Rangers. But just 10 years ago, they were teen roommates training for a chance in the big league.“I was originally thrown under the bus the first day that I met him,” jokes Trouba to PEOPLE, explaining: “We were originally roommates in development camp for the American National Team, we were probably 15, and I overslept, and Brady left me sleeping when he went to the game....
Kaena Kekoa was working as a performing arts teacher and living with her parents in her native Hawaii last year when she heard from friends that a Disney casting call was coming to the area. Having grown up performing in school musicals and coming from a family full of musicians, the recent college graduate decided at the last minute to give it a shot. But Kekoa, 23, never expected it would lead to a starring role inAladdin— and nightly performances next to her childhood crush and longtime friend Jonah Hoʻokano....
Nearly four decades have passed since that afternoon Tracy Parks knelt on the rain-soaked, muddy airstrip in Guyana, cradling her mother’s lifeless body in her hands, shaking her in a desperate attempt to wake her up. But for Parks, it feels like it happened just yesterday. The explosion of gunfire had stopped, but all around her lay bullet-ridden bodies — some dead, others bleeding and moaning. “Get in the jungle,” her father Jerry screamed....
Florence Harvey and Fred Paul at their wedding in August.Photo: Moss Imaging The fascinating love story of Frederick Paul and Florence Harvey, of Caledon, Ontario, goes back more than 60 years. It was around Valentine’s Day in 2020 when Florence decided to call her high school boyfriend, Fred, after not speaking to him for decades. Florence had learned that Fred’s wife Helen had died in November 2019, following a series of health complications that ended in dementia, and she wanted to extend her condolences....
Photo: Getty The CDCstudy foundthat among kindergarten-aged children, 93% received state-required vaccinations last year againstmeasles, polio and other diseases; a drop from 94% in the previous school year and 95% in the 2019-2020 school year. The CDC noted that this decline means that around 250,000 kindergartners are left potentially unprotected against measles, which is the most contagious virus in the world. Outbreaks of diseases that were previously under control are beginning to pop up as vaccination rates slip: In addition tomeasles casesin central Ohio, a single polio case in New York led topositive samples of the virusbeing discovered in wastewater last year....
Childish Gambinois adding another trophy to his collection!The rapper, also known as Donald Glover, won the Grammy for best rap/sung performance during Sunday night’s 2019Grammy Awards.“This Is America” also picked up a Grammy for best music video on Sunday, and theAtlantastar garnered three other nominations including best record and best song for “This Is America” and best R&B song for his hit “Feels Like Summer.”Tibrina Hobson/GettyGlover was up against hits like “Like I Do,” (Christina Aguilera featuring Goldlink), “Pretty Little Fears,” (6lack featuring J....
Childish Gambino (otherwise known asDonald Glover) picked up a record of the year Grammy on Sunday for “This Is America” — making it the artist’sfourth award of the night. While Glover was not in attendance at the awards show, several of his collaborators took the stage to accept on his behalf. Songwriter Ludwig Göransson said working with Glover has been the “one of the greatest joys of my life.” “He should be here tonight,” said Göransson....
