A Missouri grandmother is fighting to pass “Bentley’s Law,” a bill that would require drunk drivers who kill a parent to pay child support to the victim’s surviving children. The measure is named after her grandsons, Bentley and Mason, whose parents and baby sibling died in a drunk driving crash in 2021.

If approved, payments would begin roughly one year after the offender is released from prison and continue until the child turns 18, or up to 21 if they are still enrolled in school. Similar laws already exist in Tennessee, Kentucky, Texas, and Maine.

Supporters say the law would hold offenders more fully accountable while helping children left behind cover housing, education, and other basic needs — ensuring the loss of a parent doesn’t also mean financial hardship.

28 years ago, I made a chocolate Mr. Hankey. It’s been in my parents’ freezer ever since.

A lady comes into the bookstore I work at every so often and buys hundreds of dollars worth of books (sometimes multiple copies of the same one) and returns a month later ordering returns for all of them without a receipt. Many are damaged and not even sold here. She’s trying to use us as a library.