Mar. 16, 2025
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WhenKenny Chesneysprang into actionlast year following Hurricane Irma’s devastation of his beloved St. John, he had every resident in mind — including those with four legs.
The country star, 50, and his assistant Jill “literally cleaned out the animal shelters” in St. Thomas, St. John, St. Croix, Tortola, Jost Van Dyke and Vieques, Puerto Rico, bringing around 1,400 needy cats and dogs to the United States through a partnership between hisLove for Love City Foundation, Victory Air andBig Dog Ranch Rescue, he shares in this week’s issue of PEOPLE.
Mar. 16, 2025
Photo:Credit: Ian BarnesIan Barnes was off duty when theMaui fires ravaged his home. After getting his two young kids to safety, the first responder joined the search and rescue efforts, working around the clock trying to find the people still missing afterjumping into the oceanto flee the deadly Hawaiian fires.“I felt like I needed to go to work and help wherever I could,” Barnes, a 34-year-old Ocean Safety Officer, which is under the Fire Department in Maui, tells PEOPLE.
Mar. 16, 2025
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Noelle Moore was going through some of the worst pain imaginable in 2013: First, her father passed away while she was five months pregnant. Then a medical accident during the birth led to the death of her daughter, Finley, two weeks later. And two weeks after that, Moore’s husband filed for divorce and never returned to their house.
During this period of intense grief, Moore realized that there were very few holistic resources aimed at helping mothers get through the most catastrophic stages of loss, and decided to start an organization of her own, which becameThe Finley Project.
Mar. 16, 2025
A father who experienced heartbreaking loss is setting out to let other dads know its okay to express their emotions during devastating times.
“I was never the guy that dreamed of being a father or dreamed of having children,” Kelly, from Aurora, Illinois, tells PEOPLE. “But, man, when you find out you’re actually expecting a child, it just, it changes everything. It changes the way you look at life.”
But when Christine was 17 weeks into her pregnancy at the end of 2004, she experienced a miscarriage.
Mar. 16, 2025
Christopher Wilson.Photo:Bucks County District Attorney’s Office
Bucks County District Attorney’s Office
A Pennsylvania woman was sentenced Monday to 20 to 40 years in prison for conspiring to kill a former lover with her son in 2020, theBucks County District Attorney’s Office said.
In July, Joyce Brown-Rodriguez, 56, pleaded guilty to third-degree murder and testified that in December 2020, she drove her son, Kahlill Brown, to Middletown Township, Pa., where Christopher M.