Author: Erin Elizabeth

Due to unpaid traffic tickets, 27-year-old Kelly Coltrain was locked away in a Mineral County jail cell even though she had asked to go to the hospital. As her condition worsened, officers handed her a mop and told to clean up her own vomit. She died in her jail cell less than an hour later.1 And this all happened despite the fact that her cell was being monitored by video. Somehow, Mineral County Sheriff’s deputies didn’t recognize that Coltrain had suffered a seizure and had not moved for more than six hours. And even then, when a deputy finally did enter her cell...

For those of you who didn’t know Claire Wineland, she was amazing. She was amazingly strong. Amazingly fierce. Amazingly ready to take on her life. Even with cystic fibrosis. She was determined to live a life that mattered and inspired countless people along the way. She will be greatly missed. “On Sunday evening, after being taken off life support and using the newly transplanted lungs she received just one week earlier, Claire took her last breath. The cause of death was a massive stroke she suffered soon after the transplant surgery. She was 21. A quarter of Claire’s life...

A Chinese kindergarten headmaster has had to apologize for allowing a pole dancer to perform on the school’s opening day. For some odd reason, she thought it was a good idea to have a scantily clad woman writhing around a pole in the school courtyard. “American writer Michael Standaert, who is based in the southern city of Shenzhen, was surprised, to say the least, when he and his wife took their children to the privately run Xinshahui kindergarten in the Bao’an district of Shenzhen on Monday. There, on a stage in the courtyard, in front of rows of children aged...