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60 Days Sober: OD Victim's Family Shares Truth About Addiction 60 Days Sober: OD Victim's Family Shares Truth About Addiction
60 Days Sober: OD Victim's Family Shares Truth About Addiction The family of a man who overdosed on drugs after 60 days sober is hoping his tragic story will help save someone else’s life. Robert “Bobby” Criss was on his way to Baltimore’s Hope House where a bed was waiting for him to continue in his recovery and counseling after a trip to Texas, his cousin, Connie Ratliff said. Bobby never made it to Hope House. His body was found alongside an unidentified man in Carroll Park in Baltimore on the evening of Wednesday, June 1, and he was pronounced dead at 48 years old. Bobby had been dead for an unknown amount of time before his body was found, surro…

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by Annie DeVoe
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Boy Severely Burned In Accidental School Fire Tests Positive For COVID: GoFundMe Boy Severely Burned In Accidental School Fire Tests Positive For COVID: GoFundMe
Boy Severely Burned In Accidental School Fire Tests Positive For COVID: GoFundMe Support is pouring in for a Chester County boy who suffered severe burns in an accidental school fire on Thursday and faces a long road to recovery. As of Friday afternoon, the Laird family's GoFundMe campaign had raised more than $1,000 of its $2,500 goal. Brendan was burned above the waist while working on a grinder in shop class in the Chester County Learning Center in Coatesville, Caln Township fire officials told 6abc.  By the time first responders arrived, the fire had already been extinguished by school staff, authorities previously said. He was airlifted to Jefferson Hospital…

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by Nicole Acosta
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Childhood Sweethearts: Community Rallies For Harrisburg Dad, Family Amid COVID Recovery Childhood Sweethearts: Community Rallies For Harrisburg Dad, Family Amid COVID Recovery
Childhood Sweethearts: Community Rallies For Harrisburg Dad, Family Amid COVID Recovery Kyle Schriner is a fighter. And as he recovers from COVID-19, he won't be fighting alone. More than $10,500 had been raised as of Tuesday on a GoFundMe for the father of two, who has been home from the hospital for approximately one month and continues to make great strides in his recovery, his wife Brianna Schriner says. Brianna and Kyle have been together since they were 13 years old. They met in seventh grade English class -- and have been inseparable ever since. But last April, when Kyle was hospitalized with complications of the virus, the possibility that Brianna might have to raise…

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by Cecilia Levine