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Kayla Tovo paced next to her parked car, not sure what to expect. "Mom, what are you doing?" her little boy called out the window. "Give me a minute," she answered. A decade ago, Tovo manned a machine gun for the Army in Afghanistan. Yet the meeting she was about to go to, at a park in Huntington Beach, spooked her. On the drive over she'd stopped to buy a yellow rose. A yellow rose means friendship. A yellow rose means starting over. A yellow rose would express three words to someone she'd be meeting for the first time –...

Court Returns Adopted Boy to Birth MomLANSING, Mich. (AP) -- The Michigan Supreme Court reversed the adoption of a 5-year-old boy by the couple who raised him for most of his life, saying the child should be returned to his birth mother.In a unanimous decision, the high court said Tuesday that the family judge who terminated Melissa Kucharski's parental rights lacked enough evidence. The court also said that the judge should never approved the adoption while Kucharski was fighting the termination."I'm excited, pretty happy, kind of anxious," Kucharski said. "I knew in my heart that if the right person heard...