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An American toddler has had a miracle recovery after getting a key lodged in his eye.

TIJUANA, Mexico — Four men were shot dead in front of a crowd at an amusement park, a toddler died after the car he was traveling in crashed during a gunbattle, and a businessman was killed after leading a protest against violence, officials said Thursday. All together, 21 people died during 24 hours across Mexico, which is waging a fierce battle against drug traffickers and other criminal gangs...

Boy, 5, blew £60,000 at shops A five-year-old boy went on a £60,000 shopping spree after finding a fortune in cash in his dad's safe. The boy took a gang of friends to a shopping mall and blew the lot on clothes, toys, bicycles, sweets, computers and games. His father Slobodan Markovic, a Serbian businessman, kept the money in a safe at home, only realised what had happened when his son and his friends came home with dozens of shopping bags.

"I couldn't believe that our son has to pay child support to his abuser."I've previously discussed cases where boys who have been statutorily raped by older women are forced to pay child support to their rapists. Here's a new one, from Ohio. From Boy's parents sue to get his baby from mom, 21 (Columbus Dispatch, 8/16/08): LANCASTER, Ohio --- A Pickerington couple and their son are fighting for custody of a baby born to a Lancaster woman charged with having unlawful sex with the boy, who was 15 at the time of conception. A paternity test shows that the teen...

Cadaver Dogs Records Requested By Attorney ORLANDO, Fla. -- Cell phone calls made in a span of several hours by the mother of a missing Orlando girl could help detectives determine where the woman was in the days after her daughter was last seen. Casey Anthony's cell phone records from June 16 -- the day investigators believe something may have happened to her daughter Caylee -- show she made nearly a dozen calls in less than five hours, records obtained by Fox News Channel showed. Anthony called her mother seven times, her dad once, her boyfriend and two other friends,...

<p>Missing Florida 3-year-old Caylee Marie Anthony might have died accidentally on or around June 16, according to police. Orange County detectives told FOX News on Wednesday that they are looking at several theories as to what may have befallen the little girl, among them the accidental death hypothesis.</p>

ORLANDO, Fla. -- A source inside the Orange County Sheriff's Office shared a new theory in the Caylee Anthony disappearance on Tuesday. At the center of the theory is the possibility that the missing toddler is dead. Authorities at the Orange County Sheriff's Office said they're focusing on three key dates in their investigation. Members of the Anthony family said they refuse to believe the theory that Caylee died, but there are many people who think it is a possibility. "I think it was accidental, and I think her mom tried to cover it up, and it kind of blew...

KNOXVILLE, TN (WOFL FOX 35, Orlando) -- DNA samples taken from Casey Anthony's car are still undergoing analysis, but FOX 35 can confirm that forensic anthropologists from the University of Tennessee have now been called in to test air samples from the vehicle. Anthony, 22, is being held on over half-a-million dollar bond after investigators said she lied to them and did not report daughter Caylee Marie Anthony missing for more than a month. Last week, she was formally charged with child neglect, a felony, and making false statements to law enforcement officers, a misdemeanor. Sheriff's deputies testified that her...

The jailed mother of a missing Orlando toddler reportedly told her father during a jailhouse visit that the girl will be home by her third birthday next week. "Dad, she's close," Casey Anthony, 22, told her father, George Anthony, during a jailhouse visit on Sunday, according to MyFOXOrlando.com. "Dad, she's close." Anthony said he's convinced Caylee Marie Anthony is still alive and indicated that his daughter sobbing during their visit, saying that she wants to be there for the girl's birthday on Aug. 9, MyFOXOrlando.com reported.

A 23-year-old father was booked into jail under suspicion of second-degree child abuse after leaving his son in his car while he watched the midnight showing of "The Dark Knight." David Farnham of Salt Lake City left his 2-year-old son inside his car in the parking lot of the Century 16 Theaters at 125 E. 3300 South on Saturday night. An onlooker walking by the car at 1:22 a.m. on Sunday saw the baby inside the vehicle crying and sweating profusely, said detective Gary Keller with the South Salt Lake City Police Department. Farnham rolled the windows up in the...

CHICAGO — A gust of wind blew a 2-year-old in a stroller into Lake Michigan, where the boy remained submerged for at least 15 minutes before being pulled out unconscious but alive. The child's grandfather, who had been pushing the stroller on the lakeside Friday afternoon, jumped into the harbor to try to save the boy, the Chicago Fire Department said. Witnesses said the frantic grandfather struggled in the frigid water, just off a 70-foot long pier, pointing a few feet away and shouting, "Child! Child!" "He was just moaning in the breakwater, crying," said

COMMERCE CITY, Colo. -- A couple arguing about which gang their 4-year-old toddler should join caused a public disturbance that resulted in the father's arrest, Commerce City police said Thursday, reported KMGH-TV in Denver. His girlfriend told police that they had been arguing about the upbringing of their son and which gang he should belong to. The teen mother, who is black, told authorities she is a member of the Crips, police said. Manzanares is Hispanic and belongs to the Westside Ballers gang, the woman told police.

Police move a suspect believed to have tossed a toddler from the H1 pedestrian overpass off Magellan St. in the lower Punchbowl area of Honolulu Thursday Jan. 17, 2008 The man in hospital scrubs threw the toddler like a doll from a pedestrian overpass to the freeway humming with traffic. The 2½-year-old boy fell 30 feet to the asphalt and was pronounced dead at the scene. The horrifying incident Thursday on the highway cutting through the heart of the city shocked Honolulu residents, causing panicked parents to phone day care centers to check on their children. Police arrested a...

PHOENIX — The mother of a 17-month-old boy found dead after he was left unattended inside a hot car for at least seven hours in a north Phoenix Hooters restaurant was arrested on one felony count of negligent homicide. Police say the woman, Ashly Duchene, 22, left her son in her car when she arrived at the north Phoenix Hooters restaurant where she works at about 10 a.m. Tuesday. When she returned to the car after her shift at nearly 5 p.m., her son was dead. Efforts to revive the boy by witnesses, officers and firefighters were unsuccessful. Police Sgt....

GOLDEN, B.C. – Rescuers who helped find a 3-year-old girl alive in the crumpled wreckage of an airplane in the rugged British Columbia mountains say they knew she was OK when she cried for her teddy bear. The girl, Kate Williams, miraculously survived the crash on Sunday because she was strapped into a child's car seat, said Mike Plonka, a member of Golden's search-and-rescue team. Her pilot grandfather, Allen D. Williams, 65, and Steven T. Sutton, died in the accident. The plane was found nose down and flipped over in the icy water on the edge of a riverbank. "What...

PHOENIX — Officers responding to a report of an exorcism on a young girl found her grandfather choking her and used stun guns to subdue the man, who later died, authorities said Sunday. The 3-year-old girl and her mother, who was also in the room during the struggle between 49-year-old Ronald Marquez and officers, were hospitalized, police said. Their condition was unavailable. The relative who called police said an exorcism had also been attempted Thursday. "The purpose was to release demons from this very young child," Sgt. Joel Tranter said. Officers arrived at the house Saturday and entered when they...

ATLANTA - A woman said she and her toddler son were kicked off a plane after she refused a flight attendant's request to medicate her son to get him to quiet down and stop saying "Bye bye, plane."

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A man has been arrested in the beating death of a passenger who'd been riding in a car that struck a toddler in Austin, Texas. Golden Gloves boxer Kurtiss Colvin has been charged with felony manslaughter and theft and a misdemeanor count of assault. He is being held on $215,000 bond. Last month, David Morales died trying to protect the driver of the car he had been riding in. The driver had struck a 2-year-old boy after dropping Morales off. Though the child was not seriously injured, several people attacked the driver, and Morales tried to...

Bark helps save lost toddler Toddler Connor Cummings wandered away from his rural home Friday night, gone suddenly into the surrounding woods. More than 300 people on foot, all-terrain vehicles and in helicopters scoured the dense brush for two miles around the Granville County house, about 50 miles north of Raleigh. But hearts grew heavier as night fell, thunderstorms raged and another day passed. It was about 8:30 p.m. Saturday when family friend Steve Brewer, picking through the forest on horseback after more than 24 hours in search, heard a bark. "It's just like one of those Lassie stories," he...

ANTIOCH – Kim Mayorga was confused when her 2-year-old started making funny faces and pushing away the apple juice he had ordered at Applebee's. The explanation came when she opened the lid of the sippy cup and was hit by the smell of tequila and Triple Sec. The restaurant staff accidentally gave Julian Mayorga a margarita Monday. He grew drowsy and started vomiting a few hours later and was rushed to the hospital. “I wasn't going to make a big deal about it,” the mother told the Contra Costa Times on Thursday, “but then he got sick.” The apple juice...