1-year-old 'left for dead' in Calif. house
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A 1-year-old girl spent up to three days alone with the bloody bodies of her murdered family, her face kicked or beaten and lips cracked from dehydration, police said.
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As president of Activision Publishing, Kathy Vrabeck helps promote and develop games like "Doom 3," "Tony Hawk's Underground 2" and "Call of Duty." But she might think twice before buying those top-sellers for her 7-year-old son. In a gaming world where violence reigns, parents like Vrabeck are searching for family-friendly titles bearing a rating of "E" &#151; for everyone.
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A 2-year-old boy who died from kidney failure last month had been infected with the same strain of E. coli bacteria that sickened at least 192 people and killed one woman in a nationwide outbreak, health officials said Thursday.
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MAYWOOD, Ill. - A baby born weighing less than a soda can and believed to be the smallest ever to survive went home Tuesday after nearly six months in the hospital.
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TORONTO (CP) - A man with the mind of a toddler who died after wandering off two weeks ago likely wouldn't have survived even if investigators had realized sooner that they'd already found a key clue to his whereabouts, police said Tuesday.
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COTTONWOOD, Ariz. - A 2-year-old boy went for a wild ride when the parked pickup he was in rolled out of a driveway, across a road and down several embankments, taking out a gas line, trees, and eventually the porch of a home and a chain link fence.
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All too often, the ring of Debi Faris-Cifelli&#39;s cell phone means that there is another abandoned newborn at the morgue, another forsaken child for her to name and bury in a shoebox-size coffin under a white cross in the California desert.
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The face of a partially mummified baby boy, wrapped in newspaper since 1957, is haunting -- chilling even. Imagine the shock when a suitcase was opened two weeks ago in a storage locker by a woman in Florida, and there it was, a mummified corpse with his umbilical cord still attached.
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Daniel Kerner's parents knew the experimental brain surgery was risky, but without it the 6-year-old surely would die. Last month in Portland, Ore., doctors for the first time transplanted stem cells from aborted fetuses into his head in a desperate bid to reverse, or at least slow, a rare genetic disorder called Batten disease. The so-far incurable condition normally results in blindness and paralysis before death.
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The illegal immigrant parents of a toddler with a little-known genetic abnormality were granted a one year stay in the United States, U.S. Customs and Immigration officials said Thursday.
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All too often, the ring of Debi Faris-Cifelli's cell phone means there is another abandoned newborn at the morgue, another forsaken child for her to name and bury in a shoebox-size coffin under a white cross in the California desert.
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A two-year-old boy has been pulled to safety nearly four days after becoming trapped under fallen debris during an earthquake. He was pulled alive from a car that had been buried under tonnes of rock and mud.
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By Therese Poletti, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Feb.
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A toddler would probably have died even if he had been taken to hospital immediately, an inquiry hears.
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By Dorsey Griffith, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Jun. 22--Everyone knows someone like this: The guy who sits for hours, playing video games, his heart racing as he pummels animated bad guys with controller-driven automatic weapons.
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STRATHMORE, Calif. -- On Grandparents Day, Domitila Lemus accompanied her 8-year-old granddaughter to school. As the girls lined up behind Sunnyside Union Elementary, a foul mist drifted onto the playground from the adjacent orange groves, witnesses say. Lemus started coughing, and two children...
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Every day, more than 15 people die in the United States while waiting for a lifesaving organ that never comes. At this very moment in New England, two babies under the age of 1 year old need livers.