Woman admits letting three-year-old son freeze to death outside house while she slept off drug binge

A mother has admitted to letting her three-year-old son freeze to death outside her house while she slept off a drug binge.

Jamie Basinger pleaded guilty to the involuntary manslaughter of Landyn Melton and he 24-year-old will be expected to serve 36 months of supervised probation and between 19 and 32 months of prison time, after cutting a plea deal with Prosecutors in her home town of Morganton, North Carolina.

Basinger's mother, Brenda Basinger, said it was something her daughter was "going to have to live with this the rest of her life."

“She’s going to have a battle, we all are, she told the Morganton News Herald, adding that she still had unanswered questions about the three-year-old's death.

Landyn was found dead on 15 March after a neighbour called the police when they spotted him laying on the porch.

Assistant District Attorney Michelle Lippert said when he arrived at the scene he knocked so hard on the door "he was surprised he did not break the storm door glass".

He said Basinger's boyfriend, Joshua Steffey, answered the door and went to find Jamie. Both later admitted they smoking meth two days before Landyn's death and marijuana the night before.

Basinger's attorney, Frank Webster, said she had cooperated with the authorities because she wanted answers herself and was grief-stricken at her son's death.

He told the court: “She didn’t understand this. It didn’t make sense to her."

Man charged with raping stepdaughter, keeping her captive for 19 years

 A federal grand jury has indicted a 63-year-old man accused of kidnapping his stepdaughter and holding her captive for 19 years. Henri Michelle Piette is accused of kidnapping Rosalynn Michelle McGinnis in 1995 or 1996 and traveling with the intent to have sex with her, according to an indictment a grand jury in Muskogee, Oklahoma, handed up Wednesday. The Associated Press generally doesn’t identify people who say they have been sexually abused, but McGinnis has discussed her case publicly. McGinnis’ phone number is not publicly listed and she could not be reached for comment. Piette also faces state charges

93-year-old woman handcuffed and jailed after refusing to leave her care home

A 93-year-old woman was handcuffed and jailed after refusing to leave a care home she claimed was no longer accepting her rent.

Juanita Fitzgerald, was arrested on Tuesday after she said the National Church Residences’ Franklin House housing community Lake County, Florida had decided to “put her out” after blaming her for mould in her apartment.

Police said she was given notice of her eviction on Monday, but refused to leave the building the next day, reports Florida TV station WKMG.

According to a police report seen by the station, Ms Fitzgerald told officers: “Unless you carry me out of here, I’m not going anywhere.”

Kevin Hart Admits He's 'Guilty' of Cheating on Wife Eniko Parrish While She Was Pregnant

Kevin Hart is opening up about his past mistakes.

The Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle star was a guest on Power 105.1 FM's The Breakfast Show on Thursday, where he discussed cheating on his wife, Eniko Parrish, while she was pregnant with their first child together.

"I'm guilty," he confessed. "Regardless of how it happened and what was involved, the s**t that I can't talk about, I'm guilty. I'm wrong."

"It's beyond irresponsible," he continued. "There’s no way around it. The best way to do is just address it, right on. That's Kevin Hart in his dumbest moment. That's not the finest hour of my life. With that being said, you make your bed, you lay in it. You can't say, 'What were you thinking?' Because you weren't thinking."

Realizing what he had done, Hart said he took responsibility and had a conversation with his wife about what had happened.

"You don't plan to f**k up. You f**k up and then you go, 'Oh s**t, I f**ked up,'" he explained. "I'm gonna go home, I'm gonna address it, I'm gonna make my wife fully aware of what's going on in the situation that I have now put us in and I'm hoping that she has a heart to where she can forgive me and understand that this is not going to be a reoccurring thing and allow me to recover from my f**king massive mistake. That's what I'm trying to do not only as a man, but within teaching a lesson to my son."

"You do something wrong, stand in front of your own s**t," he added. "This was Dad's wrong s**t."

Pennsylvania cousins plead not guilty in alleged murders of 4 men

Cosmo DiNardo and Sean Kratz, two cousins charged in the brutal murder of four men entered not guilty pleas during their arraignment on Thursday. The 20-year-old men face charges of criminal homicide, abuse of corpse, robbery and conspiracy after the shooting deaths of 19-year-old Dean Finocchiaro, 22-year-old Mark Sturgis, 21-year-old Tom Meo and 19-year-old Jimi Patrick, whose bodies were found buried on a Solebury, Pennsylvania, farm after a five-day search in July.

According to a press release from the Bucks County District Attorney’s Office, DiNardo faces four counts of criminal homicide in the deaths of Patrick, Finocchiaro, Meo and Sturgis, while Kratz has only been charged in the deaths of Finocchiaro, Meo and Sturgis.

Both men remain imprisoned without bail. DiNardo is being held at the Bucks County Correctional Facility, while Kratz is at the Northampton County Prison.