Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Woman arrested in Illinois cold case deaths of newborn infants 17 years ago
foxnews.comA Michigan woman was arrested in the cold case deaths of her newborn twins 17 years ago. Antoinette Briley, 41, of Holland, is facing murder charges in connection with the deaths, Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart said Saturday.
A garbage collector in Stuckey Township, southwest of Chicago, was on the job when she found the twins' bodies in June 2003.
Mugshot for Antoinette Briley, 41, of Holland, Michigan. (Cook County Sheriff) They tumbled out of an alley garbage bin. An autopsy determined the infants were born alive and then asphyxiated, Dart's office said.
The identity of the birth mother remained a mystery until this year. Dart's office said DNA and genetic genealogy cracked the case, identifying Briley as the woman who gave birth to the.
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