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A 3 1/2-year-old boy at the center of a custody dispute faces a wrenching weekend. He is to be transferred from the only parents he knows to his biological mother, an attorney said Saturday.
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A mother makes a public appeal in New Zealand for the return of her baby, taken by her estranged husband.
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VERO BEACH, Fla., Sept. 28 -- Janet Hettinger waited more than two days to return home to this city's barrier island only to be told she couldn't go inside. Hurricane Jeanne's winds caused too much damage.
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A 12-year-old girl taken from Scotland to Pakistan allegedly against her will has said she chose to return to be with her father in the South Asian nation, where the father plans to seek legal custody.
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A teenage mother has had her baby son removed and placed in care for the second time this week
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Faced with allegations of torturing their own children, John and Linda Dollar skipped a hearing with child welfare workers, piled into their Lexus sport utility vehicle and left central Florida. Now the two sit in jail in the 2,000-person town of Monticello, Utah, awaiting extradition on Florida warrants of felony aggravated child abuse.
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A teenage mother who had her baby son returned to her in hospital by order of a judge will fight to keep him.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida  - A Florida judge on Thursday ordered that the body of former Playboy centerfold Anna Nicole Smith be handed into the custody of the court-appointed guardian of her 5-month-old baby daughter, sidestepping a ruling on her burial.
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With Hurricane Frances bearing down on his Palm Beach County home, Florida Atlantic running back Doug Parker called his mother one last time before kickoff in Honolulu -- wanting to make sure everything was OK.
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A newborn girl with her umbilical cord still attached was found in a basket on a doorstep 45 miles from where a pregnant woman vanished, authorities said Tuesday. A DNA sample was taken from the infant Tuesday and was given to authorities investigating the disappearance.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- The woman who claimed to have seen a baby being tossed from a moving car fabricated the story as a cover to abandon her newborn and hide an unwanted pregnancy from her family, authorities said Friday.
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MEMPHIS -- An 8-year-old girl taken from an American couple and returned to her Chinese parents earlier this year after a seven-year custody fight now faces another big adjustment: moving to China.
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PRAIA DA LUZ, Portugal - A British couple named as suspects in the disappearance of their 4-year-old daughter, Madeleine, in Portugal would like to go home but don't want to be perceived as running from justice, family and friends said yesterday.
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Kenyata Johnson is worried that her 7-year-old son may become an academic casualty of Hurricane Ivan. The first grader is among 92,000 Escambia and Santa Rosa county students who will return to their classrooms Monday after missing 19 school days because of the storm that slammed the Florida Panhandle on Sept. 15.
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TALLAHASSEE - A bitter legal battle over whether the husband of a brain-damaged woman should be allowed to remove her feeding tube against the wishes of her parents reached the Florida Supreme Court on Tuesday.
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The woman who claims to be James Brown's fourth wife will be allowed to return to the home she shared with the singer to retrieve her belongings, a judge ruled Friday. It was not immediately clear when she planned to go to the home.
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Chicago - The woman accused in the slaying of a pregnant woman and abduction of her infant, waived her rights to certain legal formalities on Thursday, paving the way for her to be transferred to the state where she allegedly committed the crimes