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San Bernardino police have shared information on a homicide suspect who is wanted in connection with a shooting that left a single mother dead in early February.
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Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 26 Feb. 2026
Leanne, a single mother, turns to her amateur heists to avoid losing her family flat, Mattie to get some money to his daughter as child maintenance, despite his chronic gambling.
—John Hopewell, Variety, 25 Feb. 2026
He was brought up by a single mother in a house that was foreclosed on during the Great Recession.
—John Aguilar, Denver Post, 23 Feb. 2026
This unnerving Australian indie follows a single mother and her troubled young son, whose lives are fundamentally changed forever upon discovering a pop-up book called Mister Babadook.
—Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 21 Feb. 2026
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Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 26 Feb. 2026
Leanne, a single mother, turns to her amateur heists to avoid losing her family flat, Mattie to get some money to his daughter as child maintenance, despite his chronic gambling.
—John Hopewell, Variety, 25 Feb. 2026
He was brought up by a single mother in a house that was foreclosed on during the Great Recession.
—John Aguilar, Denver Post, 23 Feb. 2026
This unnerving Australian indie follows a single mother and her troubled young son, whose lives are fundamentally changed forever upon discovering a pop-up book called Mister Babadook.
—Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 21 Feb. 2026
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“Single mother.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/single%20mother. Accessed 5 Mar. 2026.
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