On Aug. 16 at 11:39 a.m., Brianna Bloyer did a Google search for “how to make someone come to,” according to testimony at her Friday preliminary hearing. Fifteen minutes later, a 911 call was placed to help 2-year-old Bentlee Myers. Three days later, the toddler was dead. Bloyer, 30, ...

In the past year the region saw a number of cases of young children being severely injured, and in some cases killed, as a result of physical abuse from a caretaker. More recently in Washington County, 24-year-old Lyndon Gerald Henderson was arrested in November after his girlfriend’s baby ...

A 6-year-old Brownsville girl told police her parents locked her in a dog cage naked overnight, fed her dog food and physically abused her. On Tuesday, Jacob William Weight, 37, and Mimi Ann Frost, 33, both of Brownsville were arrested on charges that include aggravated assault, unlawful ...