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MANCHESTER, Mo.- A music teacher who twice ordered a seven-year-old pupil to hit himself in the head with drum mallets will not return to the Parkway School District next year. The incident happened on February Ninth in teacher Paul Provencio's music class at Carman Trails Elementary School in suburban St. Louis. State officials say the 36-year-old teacher intended the head-banging as a lesson to Justin Barricklow about hitting the drums too hard.

2/8/2006 - LACKLAND AIR FORCE BASE, Texas (AFPN) -- Meaghan Ababa is now resting comfortably at the Children’s Hospital in Los Angeles thanks to the medical personnel of the 59th Medical Wing. Her doctors say it is “a miracle” considering the arduous journey the 7-year-old Hawaiian girl just completed. The journey began at the Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children in Honolulu Feb. 3. Doctors there had placed Meaghan, whose heart was failing, on an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, or ECMO, machine. The machine was doing all the work for Meaghan’s heart and lungs. The problem: Doctors at Kapiolani were...

I'm looking for a link to a local Ohio news: a 7 year old was apparently stopped, driving his dad's truck, after leading the police in a "slow-speed chase". LOL. I would like to read the original news report and, if possible, keep up with the kid and what happens to him. Thanks.

SHEBOYGAN (AP) -- A 7-year-old boy had to be rescued with the help of a locksmith Saturday after crawling into a supermarket's stuffed animal game machine while his father talked on the telephone. "He was sitting right in there with the stuffed animals," said Shift Commander Mark Zittel of the Sheboygan Fire Department. He said the boy, whose name was not released because he is a minor, crawled through about an 8-inch-by-10-inch opening to get into the glass enclosure via a chute where the toys come out, but when he tried to get back out his way was blocked. The...

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - A mother and her boyfriend were arrested for allegedly locking the woman's 7-year-old daughter in a room for four months and giving her so little food she looked like "a walking skeleton." The girl weighed just 25 pounds, less than half the normal weight for a child her age, when police found her this month, according to a police report. Connie Warrington, 23, and David LaPointe, 36, were arrested Friday on multiple counts of abuse, including caging, food deprivation and medical neglect, police said. "She looked like a walking skeleton," police spokesman Joe Durkin said. The...