Mother's Day News

As a health nut and foodie, 36-year-old Shazi Visram had a problem with processed baby food.

I've seen them all over. Maybe it was Mother's Day last weekend. Maybe it is just the over-abundance of social media in my life.

Joyce Hiatt called the News-Times as soon as she read the front-page story about a mysterious flower thief who'd uprooted and taken 30 plants - about $250 worth - from Forest Grove's Mountain View Memorial Gardens on Mother's Day weekend.

Singer-songwriter Seth Walker plays two solo shows in New Orleans on Thursday, May 23, 2013: An early evening gig at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, followed by a show at Chickie Wah Wah.

New Orleans police last Wednesday night booked Akein Scott, 19, left, in the Mother's Day shooting that left 19 people hospitalized with gunshot wounds, and one trampled, on Sunday, May 12, 2013.

Michael Luangrath, 29, gave his mother, Dao Vahn, a longtime downtown Las Vegas business owner and cancer survivor, a $175,000 house for Mother's Day.

No word yet on if she'll be quitting her day job, but a Phoenix nurse has turned in her winning $1 million Powerball ticket from the drawing on May 11.

Gambit has joined other local organizations in an effort to raise funds for the victims of the Mother's Day shooting in New Orleans.

The baby monkey was born on March 9, weighing barely more than an ounce. Saint John's Cherry Brook Zoo is mourning the death of a rare Callimico goeldii monkey, born just two months ago.

A man takes a holy bath at Matathirtha to observe Mother's Day in Kathmandu on May 9, 2013.

Our lawn mower used to attract barn swallows in swarms. They would swoop over the tractor, barely missing the driver, while they harvested the insects the machine stirred up in the grass.

When in high school, I -- and go ahead, admit it, you too -- perceived shop kids as being on the lower end of the educational totem pole.

A group of seniors residing at the Cumming Nursing Home recently received a special visit from members of the Sawnee Cumming Optimist Club.

MONSANTO'S 2013 "FARM MOM OF THE YEAR" NAMED May 20, 2013 Source: Monsanto news release The online votes have been tallied, and Betty Rosson , a Virginia grain and cattle farmer, is Monsanto's 2013 America's Farmers Mom of the Year.

The Fort Steuben Mall celebrated Mother's Day on May 11 with a Mom 2 Mom Expo featuring more than 40 local businesses and a mother-daughter look-a-like contest that was sponsored by WCDK-FM. With radio program director Cindy Taylor, and morning radio show host Dino Orsatti, were first-place winners Virginia Pinkerton and daughter Sarah ... (more)

Police have arrested a second suspect in the cold-hearted mugging in Tremont of an elderly man who had been preparing to honor his deceased wife on Mother's Day.

For the first time since the Mother's Day shooting, hundreds gathered in New Orleans for a second line on Sunday as a sign of New Orleans' resilience in a time of tragedy.

Several hundred people gathered at the Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation on Sunday, May 12, for Buddha Day and Mother's Day celebrations.

New Orleans police on Wednesday night booked Akein Scott, 19, left, in the Mother's Day shooting that left 20 people injured on Sunday, May 12, 2013.

A bright afternoon filled with festive sun hats, wine and fancy cakes took a sharp turn for grave when the keynote speaker of the 11th Annual Denim and Diamonds fundraiser for Safe Alternatives For Everyone reminded hundreds of guests, through her story, of what they were there to support.