Photo: Rick Cinclair/Worcester Telegram & Gazette via AP A 35-year-old mother who was arrested in 2014 after a search of her squalid Massachusetts home turned up the decaying remains of three newborns was acquitted of second-degree murder on Thursday. PEOPLE learns from a prosecution spokesman that Superior Court Judge Janet Kenton-Walker also acquitted Erika Murray of child endangerment charges, but found her guilty on two counts of assault and battery on a child....

Jacqueline Adanknows she made the right decision to have skin removal surgery after losing 350 lbs., but she didn’t expect the months of pain that would come with it. After four years of hard work, Adan was thrilled tolose well over half her weight— at her highest in 2012, she weighed over 500 lbs. — but she wasdealing with body dysmorphia because of her excess skin. “When I got down to my lowest weight and had all that loose skin I was still being made fun of, and when I looked in the mirror it was hard to see anything but all this extra skin,” the Montessori preschool teacher, 31, tells PEOPLE....

Photo: Joe Lamberti/Courier Post-USA Today Network The New Jersey woman who, with her boyfriend and a homeless man, allegedly scammed $400,000 from GoFundMe donors pleaded guilty Monday, according to multiple reports. Prosecutors allege that McClure, 29, and her then boyfriend Mark D’Amicoconcocted a plan,along with homeless veteran Johnny Bobbitt, to spin a tale that Bobbitt had spent his last $20 to pay for gas for McClure after her car broke down on Interstate 95 in Philadelphia....

The Happiest Place on Earth is in the business of making dreams come true — even if those dreams come 30 years later!Tamia Richardson was 14 years old when she visited California’sDisneylandfor the first time in 1985. Her inaugural trip couldn’t have come at a better time, as the beloved park was celebrating its 30th anniversary.During her visit, Richardson, who lives in Sherwood Park, Canada, won a special free entry pass allowing her to return to the park whenever she wanted for a cost-free day of fun....

Photo: facebookFour juvenile suspects have been arrested in connection with a fatalcarjackingthat took place in New Orleans on Monday, the New Orleans Police Department wrote in anews releaseon Tuesday.The teenagers are accused of carjacking Linda Frickey around 1:30 p.m. in the Mid-City area on Monday, dragging the 73-year-old, who was leaving her job at Security Plan Insurance, for more than a block while she remained tangled in the driver’s side seatbelt, per local news stationWDSU....

Alligator.Photo: Getty A retirement community in South Carolina is being sued after a woman was killed in an alligator attack that her family claims was preventable. The Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office previously said the 88-year-old woman was founddead near the alligator, which was reportedly guarding her body, around 11:15 a.m. local time. Del Webb Communities, Inc., Sun City Hilton Head Community Association, and an employee, Tammy Hayes, are accused in the family’s complaint of failing to properly protect residents of the community from alligators that live in the area....

Meghan Marklehas no shortage of support from female British lawmakers in her and Prince Harry‘s fight against the “often distasteful and misleading” press. “Women MPs from all political parties have put aside our differences to stand in solidarity with the Duchess of Sussex today and are sending her this open letter,” Lynch wrote on Twitter, sharing images of the letter and all who signed it. “On occasions, stories and headlines have represented an invasion of your privacy and have sought to cast aspersions about your character, without any good reason,” the letter states....

Woody Harrelsonwasthisclose to havingRenée Zellwegerat hello.In an interview withEsquire, the 58-year-old actor shared that there was one role he regrettedturning down.“I was offered what’s the ‘Show me the money’ movie? Jerry Maguire? I was offeredJerry Maguire,” he said.As for why he passed on the part, which eventually went toTom Cruise, Harrelson said that he thought audiences wouldn’t be interested, as the storyline revolves around a sports agent.“I said to Jim [James L....

Three years to the month after her passing in April 2016, former wrestling superstarJoan “Chyna” Laurerwill be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame as a member of one of the most influential groups in the company’s history — and her mother says the moment is well deserved. “I honestly didn’t think it was gonna happen this year. It was just so totally awesome because she is so deserving of this,” Janet LaQue, 72, of Hendersonville, North Carolina, tells PEOPLE of her daughter....

Ten days afterXXXTentacionwasshot and killedin a suspected robbery, his music continues to live on. The official music video for the rapper’s song “SAD!” was released Thursday morning. The single climbed to the top spot on theBillboardHot 100 following his death, jumping from the No. 52 slot, making him the first artist to top the chart posthumously in a lead role since The Notorious B.I.G.’s “Mo Money Mo Problems” in 1997, according toBillboard....

Photo:Rick Ulreich / Getty Rick Ulreich / Getty New York Yankeesrelief pitcher Jimmy Cordero was suspended for the remainder of the season on Wednesday for violating Major League Baseball’sdomestic violence policy. The 31-year-old player accepted the 76-game suspension without pay, which will extend into the postseason. MLB Commissioner Robert D. Manfred, Jr. announced the suspension on Wednesday, noting that Cordero violated the league’s Joint Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault and Child Abuse Policy and that he would be placed on the restricted list, effective immediately....

All entrances to Yellowstone National Park have been closed to inbound traffic after record rainfall has created hazardous conditions. Cam Sholly, the park’s superintendent, said in a statement that the closures were due to “record flooding events and more precipitation in the forecast.” “Our first priority has been to evacuate the northern section of the park where we have multiple road and bridge failures, mudslides and other issues,” Sholly said....

Photo: MEGA A giant papier-mâché float of PresidentDonald Trumphas been making waves at one of Italy’s famous Carnival events this month. The sculpture, which shows the president decked out as an emperor, complete with cape and sword, is appearing at the Carnevale Di Viareggio festival held in Viareggio each year during Carnival, an annual festival season before Lent. This year’s festivities — which includes a weekly parade of large, elaborate paper-mâché floats that often have a political message — mark the 146th year of the event....