A California man allegedly shot his wife in the face and took off with their son. The woman is expected to survive.

An Amber Alert was in effect throughout California for Lonnie Ramos, 46. He was believed to be driving a rented 39-foot purple-and-gold Fleetwood Providence motor home with the license plate number 5EGW556, the Orange County Sheriff’s Department said.

Ramos was possibly in the San Diego area and Border Patrol agents were notified in case he tried to head for Mexico, sheriff’s spokesman Jim Amormino said.

Amormino said Ramos was considered “armed and extremely dangerous.”

We can’t believe this is the second type of this story in so many days. Sometimes the world really sucks.

A 14-year-old South Carolina boy accused of raping and killing an 8-year-old girl is due in court.

Master Deputy Mike Hildebrand says a hearing is scheduled in Family Court in Greenville at noon Thursday.

Dymia Janae Woody was reported missing Monday evening. Deputies found her body early Tuesday in a nearby mobile home that had no electricity. An autopsy showed she died of asphyxia after being sexually assaulted.

A 3-year-old in New York City was mauled by a pit bull after a man allegedly used the dog as a weapon.

The incident occurred after a man who had been fighting with his ex-wife at a relative’s apartment kicked an air conditioner out of a basement window and unleashed his two pit bulls into a room occupied by five children, police said. The other four children escaped.

The man was arrested Wednesday and was charged with assault, criminal possession of a weapon and acting in a manner to injure a child. His dogs were taken by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

Officials in Milwaukee, Wisconsin are investigating a day care there after a toddler in their care was supposedly left behind at a park.

Excellent Little Angels Daycare is still on a probationary license and has only been open a few months.

Investigators say workers left the child at a splash pad in Brown Deer’s Algonquin Park, near 51st and Bradley.

He reportedly fel off a swing set at the park.

Lauren Watson say she was playing with her child when the boy came up to her.

“He kind of tagged along with us to the pool,” said Lauren.

A home day care provider in Meridian, Idaho is in jail after being investigated for abusing the children under her watch, and for deplorable conditions in her home. Uh, didn’t the parents perhaps notice that when they dropped their kids off? Perhaps quality care is hard to find in Meridian…

Ada County Sheriff’s detectives say on Monday [Dawn] Seekamp got angry at the baby.

Other children in the home say she slammed the little boy into his high chair three times, and the impact was so hard that he suffered a spiral fracture to his femur.

When detectives went into Seekamp’s home they found deplorable conditions — feces on the carpet and on a baby seat, as well as rotten food all over the home.

A 7-year-old playing in a Sacramento park became a victim of a random shooting and now has a bullet lodged in her skull.

Yamilet Leon was with her uncle and brother near Robertson Park on Monday, when gunshots were fired, police said.

Seconds after hearing the gunfire, Leon said that her ear hurt, and that the pain felt like a needle.

The girl’s mother, Maria Calderon, noticed the bullet when she came home.

It’s unknown how the bullet came in contact with Leon, but police said with Fourth of July just around the corner, people may be randomly firing bullets into the air.

“Randomly firing bullets into the air”?! Stick with the smoke bombs and maybe a sparkler or two, people!

We don’t really think we would classify someone with intact female organs a “man”, but whatever.

[Thomas] Beatie, 34, who began life as a woman and legally switched to a male identity, while preserving his female reproductive organs, and his wife Nancy, 46, welcomed a daughter at an Oregon hospital on June 29. Both Beatie and his daughter are healthy and doing well, he tells PEOPLE.

Beatie, who took twice-weekly doses of testosterone and had his breasts surgically removed during his female-to-male transition, made headlines around the globe last April when he announced in an exclusive interview in PEOPLE and on The Oprah Winfrey Show that he was expecting a child – while legally living as a man.

Well, in his defense, it’s illegal to have kids ride in the back of a pickup truck unsecured…

A Midlothian man was arrested Monday at a Posen gas station for keeping his two children in a cage in his pickup truck in order to control them, police said Thursday morning.

Ricardo Gonzalez, 35, was charged with misdemeanor child endangerment, according to Posen police, and admitted to keeping his two daughters, ages 6 and 3, in the cage, police said. A Cook County state’s attorney’s office spokesman said it has not yet been determined whether the offense will be upgraded to a felony.

Gonzalez’s Chevrolet S-10 pickup truck was spotted about 4:30 p.m. Monday at a gas station in the 3000 block of West 147th Street when someone standing at a fuel pump heard what she thought was a crying child.

“She looks inside this pickup truck and noticed a male subject pushing a juvenile’s hands back into the cage,” said Posen Deputy Police Chief Vickie Paggi. “She didn’t think this was right and notified police right away.”

Police have discovered the body of Brooke Bennett about a mile from her uncle’s property just a day after he was named a person of interest. Documents also came out yesterday implicating him in planning on using Bennett as part of a child sex ring.

The girl’s uncle, Michael Jacques, who has been in custody since Sunday on sexual assault charges involving another underage girl, is to be charged in federal court with kidnapping, police Sgt. Tara Thomas said.

Bennett last was seen alive with Jacques at a convenience store last Wednesday.

“The painful discovery of Brooke’s body today is tragic and heartbreaking,” Baker said.

He called the death “clearly suspicious” but declined to give details before a planned briefing Thursday morning.