Mar. 16, 2025
Photo: Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office
A Phoenix father has been sentenced to prison for fatally punching a man who tried to enter his teenage daughter’s locked bathroom stall at a convenience store.
On Monday, 41-year-old Melvin Harris III was sentenced to 8 years in prison after pleading guilty to manslaughter for fatally hitting Leon Armstrong outside a convenience store in August 2018,KPNX,Arizona RepublicandFox10report.
Harris was waiting in the parking lot of a QuikTrip to pick up his daughter and her friends when Armstrong approached him and asked for money.
Mar. 16, 2025
Photo: Courtesy Matt and Lauren Backe
These parents found a very special way to honor their 4-year-old daughter.
Everly “Evie” Backe, who was born with “a critical, complex congenital heart defect,” was just 3 days old when she had her first open-heart surgery in August 2017, her mother Lauren Backe tells PEOPLE. By age 1, she had undergone two more, all at Advocate Children’s Hospital in Park Ridge, Illinois.
Among the biggest scars on her body is on her chest.
Mar. 16, 2025
Photo: SWNS
After a young boy underwent a lifesaving heart operation in May, his proud father got a tattoo of the inches-long surgery scar on his own chest, according toSWNS.
Just 14 weeks after he was born, 6-year-old Joey Watts was diagnosed with supravalvular aortic stenosis, a heart defect that develops while a child is still in the womb and causes a narrowing of a section of the aorta, according to theGenetic and Rare Diseases Information Center.
Mar. 16, 2025
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Welcome to the World, Ben! Andy Cohenwelcomed his son Benjamin Allenvia surrogate on Feb. 4, 2019
02of 13Teach ‘Em Younganderson cooper/ instagram"I’m a proud dad: my son gave Zaddy side eye, unprovoked," Cohencaptioned a photoof Ben looking at his Uncle Anderson in April 2019.
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Teach ‘Em Young anderson cooper/ instagram
“I’m a proud dad: my son gave Zaddy side eye, unprovoked,” Cohencaptioned a photoof Ben looking at his Uncle Anderson in April 2019.
Mar. 16, 2025
Dad reacts to son having worms.Photo:@drumbeatlane/Tiktok
@drumbeatlane/Tiktok
One dad on TikTok shared a parenting moment he was never expecting to experience.
Walking briskly through a store parking lot, Justin —@drumbeatlane on TikTok— revealed, “My son has worms in his anus,” through gritted teeth.
“No one tells you about this stuff when you are thinking about becoming a parent,” he lamented. “But apparently, it’s like,super normal for a childjust to have worms in his booty hole.