Florida mom arrested after leaving 4 children home alone during Vegas trip

🗞️ Story file #1027

Florida mom arrested after leaving 4 children home alone during Vegas trip

Oct 27, 3 PM ET to Oct 28, 6 AM ET

7outlets carried it
🫏4 · 0 · 3🐘left · center · right
15 hourson the front pages
7front pages at once, at its peak
52 sof TV captions

👣 How this story traveled: from the front pages that broke it, out through TV, radio and the shows, into what people retold and what fact-checkers examined, and on into the saga it is part of. Everything here is matched to the story by our tools, so a link can be wrong; the trackers' pages say how each is made.

Oct 27, 3 PM ETfirst on a front page: ABC News
Oct 27, 3 PM ETfirst on TV: CNN
Oct 27, 5 PM ETpeak: on 7 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 27, 3 PM to Oct 28, 6 AM ET (peak 7), by the outlets' lean: left · right

Who carried it and when: each outlet in the order it picked the story up, a bar for each headline from when we first saw it on the front page to when we last did, in the outlet's lean color (dashed: not rated); a dot marks a new headline. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

💬 quoted: “hit by falling dumbbell”

🗣️ only one side says: 🫏 florida mom

✏️ 3 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

ABC News (2 wordings): “Mom arrested after allegedly leaving 4 kids under 14 alone while working in Vegas” → “Mom arrested after leaving 4 kids alone”
New York Post (2 wordings): “Playing the odds Disturbing family details emerge about mom arrested for leaving 4 kids home alone during Vegas jaunt” → “Disturbing family details emerge about mom arrested for leaving 4 kids home alone during Vegas jaunt”
The Sun (3 wordings): “MOM ARRESTED Dramatic moment mom is cuffed after leaving 4 kids home alone for Vegas work trip as boy, 9, 'hit by falling dumbbell'” → “FAMILY CRISIS Troubling twist after mom's arrest for leaving 4 kids at home over 5 days for Vegas work trip as dad reveals new details”

Every outlet's first headline (7), left to right by AllSides rating