Three siblings, while riding in the back seat of their mother’s Mercedes, were struck by random gun fire early Wednesday morning.

A 10-year-old boy and his 4-year-old sister were in stable condition Wednesday morning at Children’s Medical Center of Dallas, police spokesman Cpl. Gerardo Monreal said. Their 12-year-old sister was in critical condition at the same hospital, although her injuries were not considered life-threatening, Monreal said.

The shooting happened around 1:30 a.m. Wednesday. The three injured children were among five siblings riding in the back seat of their mother’s four-door Mercedes sedan. The mother was behind the wheel with an adult daughter riding in the passenger seat, police said.

Another relative was following them in a separate car when the shooter began firing into the passenger side of the Mercedes, hitting three of the children. The mother transferred the three injured children to the relative’s car, and that relative drove to the hospital, police said.

The interesting question to us is, where were they going at 1:30 in the morning?

Rodlyn Petitbois is in police custody after being accused of kidnapping his wife and four children. The woman and children have been found safe. Petitbois is also suspected of fatally stabbing another woman found at their home.

State police in Massachusetts and New York had issued Amber Alerts for the siblings. Massachusetts prosecutors are seeking an arrest warrant for the father on a first-degree murder charge.

Authorities had said they believed the 25-year-old father, Rodlyn Petitbois (PET’-ee-bwah), was extremely dangerous and possibly armed. He and the children’s mother lived in New York before moving to Massachusetts.

A new survey in western Australia shows that adults there are more likely to be on ADHD medication than children. Wonder what the ratio is here in the U.S.

Public Health Physician Dr Margaret Stevens said in 2007 there were 6,997 adults compared to 6,188 children prescribed medicines such as Ritalin or dexamphetamine for ADHD.

“While the number of children treated with stimulants for ADHD has fallen by 2,671 since 2004, the number of adults treated with stimulants for ADHD has increased by 693 over the same period,” she said.

“The report doesn’t look into the reasons for this trend but it may be that there is now greater awareness that ADHD can affect adults as well as children.

A 12-year-old girl died of blood poisoning after her foster caregivers allegedly left her in the backyard with a broken leg as punishment.

Denise Reynolds and Toni Melville, who are both Deborah’s aunts and who were caring for her, faced the Northern Territory Supreme Court yesterday charged with manslaughter.

They have pleaded not guilty.

At the opening day of their trial yesterday, a jury was told that on July 22 last year, Deborah came home from a school sports day complaining of a sore leg.

Ms Reynolds, who was the registered foster carer for Deborah, was a “stubborn” woman who insisted the child had sustained a sports injury which would improve with exercise, the court heard yesterday. In fact, the girl’s left thigh was fractured and an infection was developing within the broken bone.

A 13-year-old involved in a boating accident that killed his mother and little sister was turned over to relatives.

On Sunday, RCMP sent out about 20 people in 10 boats to comb an area of the Mackenzie Delta for two others who are presumed drowned - the boy’s grandfather and a 40-year-old man who is a distant relative.

Staff Sgt. Bill Eubank said the boy, who comes from a well-known, large family in the Inuvik area, has been reunited with members of his extended family after managing to make it to shore, where he spent 48 hours waiting to be rescued.

On Saturday, a boater who had joined the search spotted the teen sitting on the rugged shore about 64-kilometres northwest of Inuvik, and quickly piloted his boat in to pick him up.

Ugh, these stories seem to pop up every summer. How on earth do you “accidentally” leave your baby in the car for over an hour?

It was the hottest day of the year. And the death was the region’s second in a week involving a young child who was apparently forgotten in a hot vehicle.

The boy’s frantic mother called police to their home in the community of Savannah, north of Little Elm, about 2:40 p.m., said Sgt. Roger Griggs, of the Denton County Sheriff’s office.

“The child was left in the car for at least an hour unattended,” Sgt. Griggs said. “The child was unconscious when the child was found by the mother.”

A helicopter flew the boy to Children’s Medical Center Dallas, where he was pronounced dead about 4 p.m., Sgt. Griggs said. The Dallas County medical examiner identified the child late Sunday as Markus Anthony Lewis.

An tragic and important safety lesson.

Connor W. Youngren of 224 Ave. C in East Peoria was pronounced dead about 5:30 p.m. at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center, according to Peoria County Coroner Johnna Ingersoll. An autopsy showed the infant died from lack of oxygen after becoming trapped between a bed and the wall at his home.

Youngren was asleep on the full-size bed and somehow rolled off, becoming trapped, Ingersoll said. She added that it did not appear as though the parents, Brandon Youngren and Amanda Whitaker of East Peoria, had done anything criminal.

An Alabama teenager shot an infant in the head with a BB gun, thinking that it wasn’t loaded. Surprisingly, the teenager is a girl, proving that not only teen boys do stupid stuff.

Police said the 11-month-old was taken to the University of South Alabama Children’s and Women’s Hospital and treated for what seemed to be non-life-threatening injuries.

The baby’s godmother, Shirley Ann Coleman of Prichard, was caring for her. Police said another teen was holding the baby when Coleman’s 14-year-old daughter fired the BB gun at the baby from about four feet away.

Police said the 14-year-old said she didn’t think the gun was loaded because she had fired it earlier and “it sounded like only air came out.”

Amongst the causalties, a 10 year old girl…

The missing included a 10-year-old girl who had been playing in the waters off Coney Island. A 10-year-old boy who was with her was rescued, police said.

Some authorities said the spate of swimmers being swept away seemed unprecedented. In the Long Island community of Long Beach, where two people drowned and another disappeared, Police Lt. Bruce Meyer said he “cannot recall there ever being back-to-back situations like this.”

The rough seas were due to a strong storm system that brought 8-foot waves to the area earlier this week, National Weather Service meteorologist Jim Connolly said

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After 18 children, MT is suprised that the babies are simply falling out of a large, gaping hole at this point…

For the Ionce family, the birth of a baby girl is special in itself.

But the fact that she’s baby No. 18 for parents Alexandru and Livia makes her even more special.

Baby Abigail’s birth Tuesday at MSA Hospital in Abbotsford made Livia B.C.’s most prolific mother.

“The whole family is celebrating,” Alexandru said yesterday. “All the kids are proud.”

Alexandru, 51, and Livia, 44, Romanian immigrants who settled in Abbotsford in 1990, never planned how many children they would have when they got married 24 years ago.

Eighteen babies later, they still prefer to leave it in “God’s hands,” said Alexandru.

Apparently, two adult children of a mother who died in her house and left there for 7+ years, were too lazy to do anything about it…

For more than seven years, Diane and John Simmeck Jr. made regular trips to their elderly mother’s modest, wood-frame home overlooking Lake Beseck in Middlefield.

The two would visit mostly after dark, entering the ramshackle house through a ground-level door next to the garage.

But they never told a soul about their visits or their secret: Their mother, Ann Simmeck, had died in late 1999 or the start of 2000 and they had left her corpse rotting on the living room floor.

Holy Mother of Mary, what a horrible way to die.

Police say the teenager was helping to unload a truck when a large amount of asphalt unexpectedly tipped onto him. The boy was working for a paving company that was doing road repairs in the Stony Mountain area. According to Manitoba’s labour laws, he was too young to work at a construction job.

Stony Mountain Fire Chief Wallace Drysdale said that when emergency crews arrived, they found the boy buried with only his hair visible. It took them 15 minutes to get him out.

RCMP said they were not releasing the boy’s name immediately at the request of his family, but the Winnipeg Free Press identified him as Andrew James.

If this doesn’t make your face hot and your blood boil and your stomach turn, not sure what will…

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Parents facing murder charges in the June death of their 2-year-old son restrained the toddler with duct tape while he stood naked in the corner of the closet, court documents allege.

An autopsy determined that Cortez Johnson died June 25 at University Hospital from blunt force trauma to his head. Prosecutors on Thursday charged the boy’s parents, Horace Johnson, 25, and Keyonda Lumpkin, 26, with second-degree murder. Court documents have also spelled her last name Lumpkins.

According to a probable cause statement, Johnson and Lumpkin blamed each other for the child’s injuries, which included severe burns on his face, neck, lip, arms and genitals; loose teeth; and deep cuts and ligature marks on his wrists.

A Grandmother who was babysitting her step-son’s 3 month old infant, died shielding him from a tornado that ripped her house to pieces. The infant lived was unhurt.

A grandmother killed when a tornado bore down on her lakeside New Hampshire home died holding her stepson’s baby boy to protect him from gale-force winds and pounding rain.

The 3-month-old infant lived, his cries helping firefighters find and save him. His grandma, 57-year-old Brenda Stevens, was being hailed a heroine.

Cindy Anthony, the grandmother of Caylee Anthony, who has not been seen in over a month, said on the Today Show that her daughter Casey knows who has the missing girl and that police should let her out so she can help find her. Or maybe, you know, SHE SHOULD JUST TELL THE POLICE THE INFORMATION.

“I know Casey knows who has her,” Cindy Anthony told NBC. “I know Casey doesn’t know where they’re at right at the moment. But I don’t know anything else right now because I can’t speak to my daughter. And we’re trying to get that changed very quickly.”

Casey Anthony, 22, reported her daughter Caylee Marie Anthony missing last week. The little girl’s grandmother says Caylee was last seen June 9. Authorities say the child’s mother has repeatedly lied to investigators and showed little emotion during interviews about her daughter’s whereabouts.

“She didn’t seem to be concerned,” Orange County Deputy Sheriff Carlos Padilla told “Good Morning America” on Monday.