Porter Stone was kidnapped Tuesday after he completed an evaluation for a transplant. Police found them Wednesday in a motel in the Chicago area.

Porter’s father, Jeffrey Stone, his aunt and Jeffrey’s sister, Heather Minton as well as their mother, Rhonda Marie Matthews are all facing kidnapping charges, interfering with custody and endangering the welfare of a child.

The three are currently being held on a $1 million bond in Chicago.

Porter is very sick and requires medication, which he had very little of at the time of the alleged abduction.

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According to reports, 41-year-old James Leon Nordrum, Jr. from Minnesota has a history of mental health issues and has alluded to officials that he would harm his son, 7-year-old Wyatt Nordrum, if he lost custody. The two allegedly fled with James Nordrum Jr’s father sometime before Tuesday afternoon when law enforcement went to the listed address and discovered all three were missing.

James Nordrum, Jr. is described as a white male about 5 feet 6 inches tall, weighing 225 pounds with brown hair and brown eyes.

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Rep. Kevin McManus, D- Kansas City, has proposed legislation giving parents up to 60 days to surrender a newborn. Currently, Missouri state law allows a parent to leave their child at a hospital, fire station or police station within five days of birth.

The law was created to give parents an option instead of abandoning their child in unsafe conditions if they were overwhelmed and didn’t feel they could care for the infant.

In February, an infant was found abandoned in Ellisville wrapped in a towel beneath a tree. The 9-year-old mother is now facing two felonies for leaving the baby boy. He is currently in custody with the state of Missouri.

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The article cites research conducted by Dr. Howard Markman who is the co-director of the Center for Marital and Family Studies at the University of Denver. Markman pointed out that while all couples deal with nagging at some point in their relationships, those who learn to reduce nagging will increase the changes they will stay together and stay in love.

Research conducted by Markman and published in 2010 in the Journal of Family Psychology showed couples who were unhappy five years into their marriage had about a 20 percent increase in negative communication, such as nagging in addition to about a 12 percent decrease in positive communication.

While it is possible for men to nag, the WSJ article states it is more likely a woman is doing the nagging because they often feel more responsible for managing home life. Either way, both people need to change habits to improve their relationship.

The good news is that even though nagging seems to be hard-wired for some, this does not mean your relationship is doomed. Couples who acknowledge and worked on increasing the positive communication and decreasing the negative communication seemed to fare better in the long run.

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As recently as the 1960s, 72 percent of adults over the age of 18 were married, according to researchers. The number of adults who are married may fall below 50 percent as soon as a few years from now.

The study did note that some of the decrease can be attributed to factors such as increased rates of cohabitation and adults waiting until they reach an older age before they marry for the first time.

The median age of woman getting married rose from 20.3 percent to 26.5 percent in 51 years. The average age of men getting married rose from 22.8 percent to 28.7 percent during that same period.

The study also showed that nearly 30 percent of all adults have never married.

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The accident happened about 3:30 p.m. near the intersection of Itaska and Alfred. After the car hit the bus, the driver allegedly fled from the scene. The car caught fire after the collision.

Police spoke with the passenger of the vehicle and were still trying to locate the driver.

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Jeremy W. Hansell was reportedly driving north on a southbound lane of Highway 67 about 11 p.m. Wednesday when he collided with a southbound vehicle with 41-year-old Rickey D. Mowery. Mowery was pronounced dead on the scene, just before 11:20 p.m. He was trapped in the vehicle and was not wearing a seatbelt at the time of the accident.

Hansell’s passenger, 28-year-old Jackelin L. Rincon also died as a result of the crash. She was taken to a nearby hospital where she was pronounced dead about 12:30 a.m. Thursday.

Hansell was the only survivor of the crash.

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