Child's neighbour helped arrest hit-and-run suspect

This is follow up of the news item titled "Car struck three-year-old boy, driver arrested". Lebert St. Bernard, a neibour of the child, saw the car strike the child and leave the scene. " A Mississauga,...

Car struck three-year-old boy, driver arrested

A three-year-old Mississauga boy was struck by Car around 1 a.m. Its believed that the baby had put on his father's running shoes, walked through the front door, squeezed though a break in the fence and was...

Missing Toddler Elise André Found in Hungary With Her Mother

Three-year-old Elise André was violently abducted from the custody of her father Jean-Michel André on March 20 of this year in the city of Arles in France. The girl’s father suspected that his estranged wife and Russian citizen Irina Belenkaya was behind the kidnapping of...

Children Struggle With Death

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorA Child witnessing the strangulation of their mother, at the hands of the father, one cannot imagine what goes on in the mind of a child.  One wonders what life...

UPDATE: Three-year-old girl abducted in Nigeria Has Been Released Unharmed

"A three-year-old girl has been abducted in the Nigerian oil city of Port Harcourt. The child, who is thought to be the daughter of a British businessman, was snatched from a car while she was being driven to...

£1m reward for Madeleine as police scale down hunt

This is so sad...I really hope the Portuguese authorities start cooperating more effectively. "Portuguese police admitted yesterday they have "zero results" from their hunt for Madeleine McCann and are scaling it down. The admission came as a businessman offered a £1million...

Dad poisons soup, feeds it to kids to sue Campbells

A man who systematically poisoned Campbells soup and force-fed it to his young children is facing jail time. His intent, he claims, was not to harm his children but rather to sue Campbells and get financial...

Toddler Fight Club: "It Toughens Them Up"

A mother who forced her children to fight as she videotaped them was spared jail time and is allowed to keep custody, although the environment in which they're raised is clearly unsafe:"A mother who forced her two toddlers to attack each other with weapons and filmed the...

'Gordon to send son to state school'

Sunday, January 14, 2007 Gordon Brown is to send his elder son to a non-denominational state school. The Chancellor's decision contrasts sharply with Tony Blair's educational choices for his family - who went to selective church schools. It will also be seen as a rebuke for...

Girlfriend of man shot by police appears on Larry King Live

"NEW YORK Nicole Paultre says she's not angry. Instead, the fiance of Sean Bell -- an unarmed man who died when New York City police sprayed 50 bullets at his car on his wedding day -- says she's trying to be strong for her two young daughters. Bell was shot outside s strip...

American Civil Liberties Union Drops Lawsuit Over Patriot Act

"Citing improvements to the law, the American Civil Liberties Union today withdrew a three-year-old lawsuit over Section 215 of the Patriot Act, but said it is prepared to defend individuals who receive demands for information under the provision. Under the original Patriot...

Three-Year-Old Buys Pink Convertible on eBay

"Jack Neal briefly became the proud owner of a pink convertible car after he managed to buy it for 9,000 pounds ($17,000) on the Internet despite being only three years old."

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