ARKANSAS TEENAGER WITH NEW HEART GOES HOME FOR CHRISTMAS
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Fourteen-year-old Travis Marcus left the Arkansas Children Hospital Thursday after giving his surgeon a bear hug. Marcus is the first child to receive a new heart after relying on a newly developed miniature heart pump.
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DALLAS - Seven Texas children are back home in Houston after being taken to Nigeria by their American adoptive mother and apparently abandoned for 10 months, left to beg for money to buy food.
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The body of a south Wales teenager who collapsed and died on holiday on the Spanish island of Menorca is flown home.
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CALGARY (CP) - Oksana Oliynyk will be home for Christmas, well, Ukrainian Christmas at least.
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A teenage girl who has four kidneys is hoping to be able to donate two of them to patients in need of a transplant
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THE soldiers of the Black Watch pulled out of Iraq&#39;s Triangle of Death yesterday - and are expected home within a week. Seven-year-old Stephen McNicol last night celebrated the return of his father Lance Corporal Sandy McNicol, 34, in time for Christmas.
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'Tis the season for youngsters to get some quality face time with Father Christmas. If they can still find him, that is.
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Former US President Bill Clinton returns to Arkansas to mark 50 years since a historic high school integration crisis.
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A 17-year-old who survived in her car for eight days after it crashed down a ravine has returned home following a complex operation. Her doctors say she should make a full recovery within months.
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Giving a bear hug to his surgeon and a thumbs-up to other hospital staff, a 14-year-old boy went home for Christmas &#151; the first child to receive a new heart after relying on a newly developed miniature heart pump.
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Three and a half months after Travis Marcusâ rapidly failing heart brought him near death at Arkansas Childrenâs Hospital, the 14-year-old walked out the hospitalâs front door Thursday with his new donor heart.
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An autistic teen who was lost for four days in the West Virginia wilderness was released from a hospital Friday, a day after his rescue from the rugged, foliage-filled terrain.
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By Catherine Clabby, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Dec. 10--This time of year, when B.J. and Ashley Sintay step outside their Winston-Salem home, their Christmas lights flicker.   That's not an electrical glitch, it's a salutation -- from people as far away as Pakistan.
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U.S. troops returning here from Iraq and Afghanistan on Christmas didn't complain about long deployments, a lack of protective armor and other aspects of the war effort. They were just happy to be with family.
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By Cynthia Sewell, The Idaho Statesman, Boise  Feb. 17--A Boise family is looking for a 17-year-old family member who never returned home from school on Thursday.
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SHERBROOKE, Que. (CP) - A teenage girl found after she went missing for three years said Thursday she left home because she couldn't get along with her mother.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark.  - Residents of a south Arkansas  town returned to their homes on Monday after an evacuation a  day earlier following an explosion at a chemical waste disposal  plant.