As Cheddar News observes Pride Month, we're highlighting Seamus Kirst, author of Dad and Daddy's Big Family. The book celebrates diversity within a families and according to Kirst, he was driven to write this book because of varying family dynamics and the need to allow others to see themselves. "I think it just so nice to be able to put books out that really just, matter of fact, have two dads because I don't remember reading a single book that had same-sex parents when I was a kid even though Heather Has Two Mommies and books like that did exist. I don't remember reading them in school or at a story time," he said.
After serving an in-school suspension over his hairstyle, a Black high school student in Texas immediately received the same punishment when he arrived at school Monday wearing his hair as before in twisted dreadlocks tied on top of his head, his mother said.
Dramatic video showed first responders rescuing a man from his vehicle during major flooding.
Russell Brand is denying a series of sexual assault allegations by several women.
Two people are facing multiple charges including murder after a one-year-old boy died at a daycare in the Bronx, NY.
The United Nations is releasing an updated death toll in the Libya flooding disaster.
Two pilots were killed following a crash at an air show in Reno, Nevada.
Hurricane Nigel has formed in the Atlantic and is expected to intensify in the next 24 hours. Meanwhile, Lee brought rough surf along the U.S.-Canada border but the storm is expected to dissipate by Tuesday.
Cheddar News checks in with a coast-to-coast forecast of the weather for Friday, Sept. 15, 2023, including the latest on Hurricane Lee.
The trial in the Elijah McClain case is set to begin Friday in a Colorado courtroom.
An Arkansas resident has died after being infected with a rare brain-eating amoeba.
