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Photo: Julia Cumes Photography What happens when a mother’s love is conditional? Adrienne Brodeur understands the burden and need for maternal affection more than most. She was 14 years old when her mother, Malabar, woke her up one humid July night in 1980, to declare that her husband’s best friend, Ben, had kissed her. The kiss led to a passionate romance that lasted for over a decade — with young Brodeur acting as her mother’s secret keeper and facilitator of the affair....

Photo: Denis Poroy/APA 50-year-old California man is behind bars this week, accused of killing his 79-year-old mother after taking too much of his medication.A statementfrom the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department alleges Arleigh Clifford Anderson beat his mother to death Monday inside a Lakeside home.Police have not released the victim’s name. According to the statement, deputies were summoned to the home at 1:18 p.m. on a report of a battery.“When deputies entered the home, they contacted a 50-year-old male identified as Arleigh Clifford Anderson,” police said in the statement....

Photo: Las Vegas Metropolitan Police The Las Vegas Police Department said the arrest came after the Las Vegas Criminal Apprehension Team developed information on the whereabouts of Whipple and passed on the information to the FBI’s Phoenix Violent Crime Task Force. Whipple is currently in custody at the Estrella Jail in Maricopa County. It is unclear if she has retained a lawyer who can comment on her behalf. Nhu “Annie” Ngoc Nguyen....

Autonet mobile , the company responsible for for putting theInternet indoors of Avis rentalsis selling their WiFi railcar router to the public this spring . The routers stop up into your ciggy adapter , and use what sounds like EV - DO via Virgin Mobile . Interesting . speeding should arrive at 400 kbps to 1 mbps , as we reported before . But the pricing sound like it might be the match ....

Photo: Jacopo Raule/GettyAvril Lavignewears her emotions on her sleeve…literally.Shortly after breaking off her engagement toMod Sun(and the day afterhe addressed the sudden split on social media) Lavigne, 38, attended the Courrèges show atParis Fashion Week, where she sat front row next toLisa Rinnaand sported a statement tee that made a literal statement.The top in question? A Vetements T-shirt that read “I’m not doing s— today” with another line of text underneath saying “Mission Accomplished” and a green check mark....

Ashley Wirkus‘Summer Houseis about to get a little bigger! The Bravo star is pregnant, she and husbandBrad McAteeannounced on Instagram Sunday, sharing photos from their gender-reveal party. The first twoimages featured the parents-to-beholding up a strip of ultrasound photos, while the third showed them holding two huge black balloons with questions marks covering them. In the last snapshot, Wirkus and McAtee are seen celebrating as blue confetti explodes into the air around them....

Photo: Iowa Attorney General’s Office; AP/REX/Shutterstock An Iowa father whoseson died after being left in a motorized swingfor more than a week was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday, according to multiple reports. He had been wearingthe same diaper and had been left in the swing for nine to 14 days, according to theWaterloo-Cedar Falls Courier. He weighed just under 7 pounds when he died. Sterling’s mother, Cheyanne Harris, 21, has also been charged with first-degree murder and pleaded not guilty, according to the complaint....

On Dec. 29, a 29-year-old Native American woman, who has been in a vegetative state for more than a decade after a near-drowning, gave birth to her first child at the Phoenix-based nursing facility, Hacienda HealthCare, according toKPHO. Google Maps • Want to keep up with the latest crime coverage?Click hereto get breaking crime news, ongoing trial coverage and details of intriguing unsolved cases in the True Crime Newsletter....

Johnny GaleckiandAlaina Meyerare a pair of glowing parents-to-be. The couple stepped out Wednesday to attend theStatue of Liberty Museumopening celebration at Battery Park in New York City, where they smiled and posed for photos surrounding the event. Meyer, 22, wore a long-sleeved white dress boasting a plunging neckline and thigh-high slit, whileThe Big Bang Theorystar, 44, donned a dark suit with a long jacket and black shoes. The event came just one day before Galecki’s hit CBS sitcom is set to end its 12-season run,with a two-episode finale airingThursday night....

This post contains spoilers from Monday’s episode ofThe Bachelor. Clayton Echardheaded to hometown dates with his final four women on Monday’s episode ofThe Bachelor. First, he traveled to Virginia to meet Susie’s family. “Today we’re going to find out if Clayton likes being choked,” Susie, 28, told the cameras of what she had planned for him. Susie brought Clayton to a jiu-jitsu studio to learn about the sport she first picked up in Japan....

Bad Bunny and Kendall Jenner pose together at the Gucci fashion show in Milan.Photo:Jacopo M. Raule/Getty Jacopo M. Raule/Getty Bad BunnyandKendall Jennerare taking their romance to the front row! The outing came during Creative Director Sabato De Sarno’s debut of his first collection with the brand, as Bad Bunny, 29, and Jenner, 27, looked excited to participate in the audience. The musician (whose real name is Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio) and model coordinated their effortlessly cool outfits....

BeforeFreddie Mercurywas Queen’s lead vocalist, he was a baggage handler at London’s Heathrow Airport.Born Farrokh Bulsara, the singer would have been 72 years old on Sept. 5, and in honor of his birthday, the baggage crew ofBritish Airwaysdecided to pay tribute to him with a video of themselves dancing to Queen.In the video, the handlers perform a choreographed number and lip sync to the band’s hit song “I Want to Break Free....

Angie Dudley, a.k.a Bakerella is the author of theNew York Timesbest-selling bookCake Popsand creator ofBakerella.com. Visit PEOPLE.com on Fridays for her dish on desserts. So, I’m kind of in love with this milkshake. Brownies, ice cream, chocolate syrup and a little Kahlua coffee. My Saturday night is to blame for these. With a sudden late night craving for chocolate, I went to the pantry … fingers crossed … that I had a brownie mix (aka my guilty pleasure quick fix) in there....