Since the drought began in California, my mom has become even more overzealous about conserving water. “The lawn is all brown blotches,” she giggled before I went home to visit last summer. “I turn off all the sprinkler but I think Marcelino turns it on.” Marcelino is our neighbor. He is retired gardener who sometimes comes over with his grandkids to tend to our yard. I think he feels bad for it.

Authorities say an Alabama man charged with murder this weekend beat his mother to death following an argument about his college grades, CNN reports.

Three months ago, I sat in my bed frustrated with myself. I was upset at all the life choices I'd made up until this point. Physically and mentally exhausted, I ran out to get an energy drink; I'd needed a caffeine-enriched charge to help meet a deadline. And then it happened: later, rushing to the bathroom, I tripped and went hip-first into my desk, knocking the energy drink onto my laptop, its red liquid bleeding into my keyboard.

A Massachusetts mom threw herself under a car and used her body as a speed bump to save her two-year-old twin daughters earlier this month.

Scientists have always believed that, as you get older, you look all worn down and old, and hell, that's just the way it is, tough shit. But a groundbreaking new study says that, like everything else screwed up about you, this is something that you can blame on your mom.

Canadian folk hero Ryan Gosling returned home to his ancestral land Wednesday to attend the graduation of his mother, Donna, from Brock University. He brought Eva Mendes. Canada freaked out.

The United States is a slightly better place to be a mom this year than it was last year, according to the annual State of the World's Mothers report released by the Save the Children international aid organization earlier this week.

Much of the time, when a mother adds her child on Facebook, she finds herself thrown on limited profile lockdown real quick—if her request is not ignored entirely.

A couple years ago, when CNN Entertainment correspondent Shanon Cook was nine months pregnant, a man was polite to her in a grocery store. The obvious conclusion from this story is that this dude wanted to GET. IT. IN.

Today we learned about a mother who is definitely not a narc. And we learned about a mother who could have probably used a narc. Crazy mama's abound, so it's no wonder that your mother is probably the reason behind your case of the sads.

Welcome to the terrible nexus of Foodie and Earth Mama culture: In "The Placenta Cookbook," New York Magazine reports that the placentas of Brooklyn are no longer content to be buried in gardens, or ground into powder and consumed as nutrient-rich dietary supplements. (That is so 2009.) Every placenta who is any placenta gets blended into a coconut juice smoothie, or Bloody Mary, or placenta jerky strip:

A new survey says that practically all mothers are stressed out, no matter if they work or stay at home. No one said this was going to be easy!

"My mom is going to kill me." A phrase used so often it has lost its urgency and true meaning. But the Casey Anthony trial commanded our attention because it tapped into this dark side of motherhood. [Jezebel]

Today we told you about a rude mother-in-law who sent her rude daughter-in-law a rude email about her manners. There was lots of rudeness and mother-in-law bashing going around. But what's even worse than an awful mother-in-law is an awful mother.

Being a mother is difficult! But there are a few no-nonsense guidelines that can help, such as: Do not sell your daughter's virginity. Not even for $10,000. Felicia Rae McClure, of Salt Lake City, has — according to police — not followed this guideline.

Breast milk is designed to nourish your baby, of course. But if you're willing to sell this precious body fluid on the black market, you could make thousands, believe it or not. [Jezebel]

Botox Mom Kerry Campbell has released a sworn statement saying her attention-grabbing, Good Morning America-baiting scandal was a hoax!

Botox Mom Kerry Campbell (who might not be "Kerry Campbell" at all, but a multi-named mystery chupacabra of indeterminate origin) has returned to The Sun, the publication where her insanity spree began, to apologize for shooting botulism into her 8-year-old daughter's face, then bragging about it on TV.

It's time that Kerry Campbell, the pageant mom who proudly admitted to injecting her 8-year-old daughter with Botox and administering "virgin waxes" so her child "won't development pubic hair," gets a moniker. Let's go with "Botox Mom."

Just in case you forgot: Mother's Day is today! Alert, alert! You have just hours to scramble and get her something nice and thoughtful. But be careful what you get. Different gifts say different things about you.