Category Archives: Children

Boy finds a piece of finger in Arby’s sandwich

By doris | Published: May 18, 2012

Full Story at msnbc.com JACKSON, Mich. — A Michigan teen made a gristly discovery after biting into an Arby’s junior roast beef sandwich. Ryan Hart said he had nearly polished off his sandwich last Friday when he bit into something tough to chew that tasted like rubber, so he spit it out. Turns out it [...]

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Once-conjoined twins Angelica and Angelina thrive six months after operation

By doris | Published: May 1, 2012

Full Story at CBSNews.com (CBS News) On November 1, 2011, when they were two years old, conjoined twins Angelica and Angelina Sabuco underwent separation surgery at Stanford University’s Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital in Palo Alto, Calif. Conjoined twins undergo separation surgery in Calif.PICTURES: Conjoined twins: 40 amazing photos (GRAPHIC IMAGES)PICTURES: Formerly conjoined Sabuco twins: How [...]

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Kindergartner, 6, arrested and charged with battery for kicking principal

By doris | Published: April 29, 2012

Full Story at CBSNews.comWhat is going on with this world?  There is to much fighting going on and there is no respect for anyone any more. Some of the parents just don’t care and others are to busy to see what the children are doing. Some parents better put a better example for their children. [...]

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Warren Buffett’s son tackles hunger in rural America

By doris | Published: April 20, 2012

Full Story at CBSNews.com (CBS News) DECATUR, Ill. – Billionaire Warren Buffett is well known for his charity work and so is his son Howard. On Thursday, Howard Buffett announced a new partnership to feed the needy with the food processing giant Archer Daniels Midland and Feeding America, a national hunger charity. Howard Buffett owns [...]

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Jordan Brown, boy accused of murder at age 11, found guilty

By doris | Published: April 15, 2012

Full Story at CBSNews.com (CBS/AP) PITTSBURGH – A judge on Friday found 14-year-old Jordan Brown guilty of killing his father’s pregnant fiancee when he was just 11. Lawrence County Judge John Hodge found Brown delinquent, the juvenile court equivalent of a guilty verdict, in the deaths of Kenzie Houk and her unborn child in New [...]

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Ex-California teacher who moved in with student arrested on 1998 molestation charge

By doris | Published: April 7, 2012

Full Story at USNews.msnbc.msn.com Christopher James Hooker, the Modesto, Calif., ex-teacher whose romance with a student drew attention from around the world, was arrested Friday after being charged with one count of oral copulation with a minor in an incident that police said happened 14 years ago, the Modesto Bee reported. The charge stems from [...]

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Girl’s best friend is dog who carries her oxygen

By doris | Published: March 21, 2012

Full Story at TODAYHealth.today.msnbc.msn.com Two years ago Aaron and Debbie Knobloch learned that their baby daughter Alida was suffering from a rare lung disease and that she would need a portable oxygen tank to help her breathe. The good news was that the oxygen tank would make their little girl healthy. The bad news was [...]

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‘Pink slime’ panic grows online: Are we overreacting?

By doris | Published: March 10, 2012

Full Story at Vitals.msnbc.msn.com Updated March 9: An online petition urging the government to stop the use of “pink slime” — the scrape and waste meat products that are treated with ammonium-hydroxide — in school food has collected almost 20,000 signatures over the last several days. After reports that school districts around the country were [...]

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Green Beret dies trying to save kids from fire

By doris | Published: March 6, 2012

Full Story at USNews.msnbc.msn.com HOPE MILLS, N.C. – A Green Beret recently home from Afghanistan died trying to rescue his two young daughters from their burning home near Fort Bragg in North Carolina early Tuesday. The girls were also killed in the blaze. Edward Cantrell and his wife escaped from the 2 a.m. blaze by [...]

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3-year-old girl recovering after swallowing 37 high-powered magnets

By doris | Published: March 5, 2012

Full Story at news.Yahoo.news.com A 3-year-old with curious eating habits is recovering after swallowing 37 high-powered magnets. KPTV reports that after she ate them, the magnets formed a dangerous ring inside Payton Bushnell’s digestive track, snapping her intestines together and ripping holes in both her small intestine and stomach. “They saw a circle had formed [...]

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Disney changes obesity exhibit after complaints

By doris | Published: March 2, 2012

Full Story at TODAY.msnbc.msn.com ORLANDO, Fla. — Walt Disney World is retooling an Epcot exhibit on childhood obesity after critics complained it was insensitive to obese kids and reinforced stereotypes. The interactive exhibit, Habit Heroes, featured animated fitness superheros Will Power and Callie Stenics and super-sized villains Snacker and Lead Bottom, who eat junk food [...]

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Man arrested after alleged ‘fight’ in front of Disney ride

By doris | Published: February 22, 2012

Full Story at USNews.msnbc.msn.com A man was arrested over the weekend after allegedly attacking workers in front of the Tower of Terror ride at Disney’s California Adventure Park in Anaheim. In a YouTube video of the encounter, the man is seen flailing at a security employee and struggling to keep his balance outside the ride. [...]

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Get your kids into the kitchen and feed them for life

By doris | Published: February 19, 2012

Full Story at Eatocracy.CNN.com It’s a sweet, sticky, crunchy, ooey-gooey, chocolate-drizzled, cheese-stuffed, deep-fried world out there, and we can’t pretend it doesn’t tastes pretty darned delicious. Nearly from birth, American kids are blasted with ads for foods that send their taste buds into overdrive, but don’t do them any nutritional favors. These treats might be [...]

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Hospitals scramble to get scarce kids’ cancer drug

By doris | Published: February 18, 2012

Full Story at Vitals.msnbc.msn.com An Ohio drugmaker began releasing limited supplies of a crucial medication to treat childhood leukemia Thursday, sending hospital pharmacists facing life-threatening shortages scrambling for their share. Jerrod Milton, chief of pharmacy at Children’s Hospital of Colorado, was among those first in line as Ben Venue Laboratories began accepting new orders for [...]

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‘Crisis’: Supplies of life-saving drug used to treat children could run out in 2 weeks

By doris | Published: February 11, 2012

Full Story at msnbc.com How can a drug company run out of medicine because of quality concerns? They must have people checking everything that goes on in the company. Do you think it is like everything else it boils down to money. Cut back here cut back there and work the employees as much as [...]

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10 states freed from ‘No Child Left Behind’ requirements

By doris | Published: February 9, 2012

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — Ten states are being granted waivers to free them from some requirements of the No Child Left Behind education reform law, with President Barack Obama explaining Thursday that the move aims to “combine greater freedom with greater accountability.” Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, Oklahoma, [...]

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Entire staff to be replaced at LA school where 2 teachers were arrested

By doris | Published: February 7, 2012

Full Story at USNews.msnbc.msn.com Updated at 12:54 a.m. ET: The Los Angeles Unified School District is replacing the entire staff of Miramonte Elementary following the arrest of two teachers on lewd conduct charges last week, Superintendent John Deasy told parents at a meeting Monday night, the Los Angeles Times reported. Positions will be filled by [...]

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South Carolina authorities search for missing toddler

By doris | Published: January 27, 2012

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Authorities in South Carolina searched intently Thursday for a missing toddler who was last seen nearly two months ago, and whose pregnant mother has been charged with cruelty toward a child. Columbia police Chief Randy Scott told Vinnie Politan, of CNN’s sister network HLN, that law enforcement launched their [...]

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Students to see healthier school lunches under new USDA rules

By doris | Published: January 26, 2012

Full Story at usnews.msnbc.msn.com Millions of schoolchildren in the United States will see more fruit and vegetables and less fat on their lunch plates under new U.S. Department of Agriculture standards unveiled Wednesday aimed at improving child nutrition and reducing childhood obesity. “Improving the quality of the school meals is a critical step in building [...]

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Threat to electrify dog cage with girl inside just ‘horseplay’

By doris | Published: January 22, 2012

Full Story at USNews.nsmbc.msn.com A man accused of punishing his 12-year-old daughter by binding her hands and feet with duct tape and sticking her in a dog cage, then threatening to electrify the crate, was just engaging in “some horseplay” that “got out of control,” his lawyer says. Here’s what happened, according to a report [...]

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