A 12-year-old accused of bringing a gun to school may have screwed over his entire family, who’s parents now face the threat of deportation.

The MCSO said deputies were called to Queen Creek Middle School, on Ellsworth and Queen Creek roads, after a teacher saw the boy show the gun to other students.

The teacher confiscated the 9 mm pistol, authorities said, and school officials notified MCSO. Deputies arrived at the school around noon.

The boy told MCSO that he brought the gun in his backpack because another student was picking on him, according to the sheriff’s office. He was taken into custody and will be sent to a juvenile detention facility.

According to MCSO the boy is one of four children whose parents are in the country illegally, meaning the family could potentially be split up.

A Utah girl accidentally had her toes cut off when she fell of the back of a riding lawnmower and it ran over her feet.

She’s now in the hospital, and paramedics say she’s lucky to be alive.

Clinton’s assistant fire chief, Guido Smith, tells the Ogden Standard-Examiner the little girl was riding with her father on the back of a four wheeler with a lawn mower attachment. She fell off the back, and the mower ran over her.

Paramedics say when they got to her last night, many of her toes had been amputated. She was taken by Life-Flight to the hospital. “In all reality she is extremely fortunate to still be alive,” Smith said.

Two North Carolina birthing centers are being applauded by breastfeeding advocates for refusing to accept free infant formula to pass on to their patients.

UNC Health Care stopped distributing the bags in late June. The Women’s Birth and Wellness Center in Chapel Hill never gave away the bags.

The Golden Bow Awards are from the nonprofit N.C. Breast-feeding Coalition, a group of lactation consultants, nurses and other women’s health professionals.

Coalition members started the campaign, a version of a national effort to ban the bags, in February. Four other hospitals in North Carolina received the award earlier this year.

Studies show that the free bags make it easier for new moms to stop breast-feeding.

Emily Taylor of the the Center for Infant and Young Child Feeding and Care at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill said mothers perceive the free bags and formula as an endorsement of a particular brand from the hospital.

A woman being accused of kidnapping 5 children is set to surrender. She claims she took the kids for their own safety. Call us crazy, but protecting the children by abducting them seems like a wrong way to go about things…

The Houston Chronicle reports 44-year-old Rhonda Tavey says she’ll surrender today but no additional details were provided about the possible surrender.

Tavey and the children’s mother Erica Alphonse tell different versions of events that led to police issuing an Amber Alert for the Houston children.

Tavey, who is white, said all she ever wanted was to do God’s will and that she also took the children, who are black, for their own safety.

She said their mother was “abusive.”

Alphonse denies threatening Tavey and said she never would have thought, quote, “in a million years” that Tavey would take the children.

Reports are coming from British police saying they were told in March that Madeleine McCann may have been kidnapped by a pedophile ring that had stalked her for 3 days before her abduction. Far fetched?

Britain’s Daily Telegraph and The Sun newspapers both reported Thursday that an email released this week as part of the documents compiled by the Portuguese investigators probing Madeleine’s disappearance revealed the connection to the ring.

Madeleine was 3 when she disappeared May 3, 2007, while she was on holiday with her family at the Portuguese resort of Praia da Luz. Her disappearance prompted headlines worldwide.

According to the newspapers, the email was sent on March 4 by a London-based Metropolitan Police intelligence officer to Leicestershire police — Madeleine’s home county — who then forwarded it on to investigators in Portugal more than a month later.

A dog in Colorado was attacked and killed by a mountain lion, but not in the family’s backyard. The precocious cat actually snuck inside the house.

A mountain lion crept through an open door into a house outside Denver, snatched a Labrador retriever from a bedroom where two people were sleeping and left the dog’s dead body outside, wildlife managers said Tuesday.

No one else was hurt in the home about 14 miles southwest of Denver.

Wildlife officials later trapped the 130-pound male cat using the dog’s body as bait and fatally shot it.

Colorado Division of Wildlife spokesman Tyler Baskfield said the cat entered the house through open French doors early Monday and fled with the Labrador after the owners woke up.

Who can blame this woman? Why such grisly photos need to be released in the first place, we don’t know.

The mother of the so-called “D.C. Madam” wants to stop the release of police photos taken after her daughter’s suicide in Pinellas County, Fla.

In May, 52-year-old Deborah Palfrey hanged herself with a nylon rope in a shed outside her mother’s mobile home in Tarpon Springs. Her 76-year-old mom, Blanche Palfrey, discovered the body.

The St. Petersburg Times reported Thursday that Blanche Palfrey’s attorney Serbo Simeoni filed a lawsuit Tuesday arguing that releasing the pictures would be “inappropriate, unacceptable and personally harmful” to his client.

Apparently a couple of teenagers on a rail platform in Britain didn’t take to kindly to a woman chiding them for smoking. The two allegedly proceeded to shove the woman onto the train tracks.

The woman, whose identity is not known, suffered burns and a suspected broken collar bone and was taken to the hospital after the incident, at Farningham Road station in Kent during the rush hour shortly after 7a.m.

South Eastern train services between Kent and London were disrupted because the power had to be turned off.

The woman had asked the youths to stop smoking on the station platform, where smoking is banned, the train company said.

A scuffle started and she was thrown on to the track before fellow passengers dragged her off.

Another easily prevented handgun accident. We’re not against private gun ownership, but for godsakes be responsible about it. This gun owner should be charged with reckless manslaughter.

A 3-year-old boy from Nerstrand, Minn., died Tuesday after being accidentally shot in the head by his 6-year-old sister, who was playing with a handgun, according to the Rice County Sheriff’s Office.

The Rice County Sheriff’s office today identified the boy as Anthony Brastad.

His sister, Lisa Brastad, was handling a loaded, unlocked .357-Magnum revolver that the two children had found in an unlocked night stand in the upstairs bedroom of their home, said Rice County Sheriff Richard Cook.

Yikes, we don’t know if we’ll be able to let our kids swim in anything other than a heavily chlorinated pool for a while after reading this story.

Health officials have issued warnings and guidelines for swimmers after the weekend death of a 9-year-old Lake Elsinore boy exposed to an amoeba that causes a rare and usually fatal brain infection.

The boy who died Saturday had been swimming in Lake Elsinore several times, and the amoeba is commonly found in similar warm freshwater lakes, but officials could not confirm where the child acquired the amoeba known as Naegleria fowleri, the Riverside County Department of Public Health announced Tuesday.

“The risk of infection is extremely low and is no different in Lake Elsinore than in any other warm-water lake,” said county public health officer Eric Frykman.

The boy was the first ever confirmed case of the infection in Riverside County. Just 33 cases were reported nationwide between 1998 and 2007.

A San Bernardino, California man is being charged with going into a rage and beating his girlfriend’s young daughter to death. He was babysitting the girl at the time.

Robert Demeco Davis, 34, of San Bernardino, who was on probation for a felony assault conviction earlier this year, was booked into West Valley Detention Center in Rancho Cucamonga on Tuesday for investigation of murder.

The beating occurred at his girlfriend’s apartment in the 1800 block of Argyle Avenue at 5:30 p.m. Monday, police said.

His girlfriend’s teenage son had been left to baby-sit the 22- month-old child, whose name was withheld pending notification of her birth father, said San Bernardino police Lt. Scott Paterson. The teen allowed Davis to take over when he arrived, Paterson said.

“He becomes frustrated when the baby cries, and hits the baby,” Paterson said of Davis.

Another day, another story about a toddler being left at the airport.

An Israeli couple going on a European vacation remembered to take their duty-free purchases and their 18 suitcases, but forgot their 3-year-old daughter at the airport, police said Monday.

The couple and their five children were late for a charter flight to Paris Sunday and made a mad dash to the gate. In the confusion, their daughter got lost.

Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said a policeman found her wandering in the duty-free area at Ben-Gurion airport, Israel’s bustling main international air portal. He said the officer alerted airline staff, but the flight had already taken off.

The incident happened on what Israeli media said was one of the busiest days of the year at the Israeli airport, with thousands of people leaving for summer vacations abroad. The Haaretz newspaper reported that 2.6 million passengers are expected to pass through the airport in July and August, an increase of 12 percent compared to the same period last year.

First rule of toddler fight club, don’t make videos of toddler fight club.

Child Protective Services in Putnam County has opened an investigation into a YouTube video of two toddlers allegedly being forced to fight.

State Department of Health and Human Resources spokesman John Law confirmed the investigation and said his agency will also look into the incident if the children in the video are identified.

The Putnam County Sheriff’s Department began investigating the video Monday night after WCHS-TV drew it to their attention.

Law said the video showed several teenagers holding two boys by their arms and urging them to hit each other until one started to cry. He said the teens also encouraged the toddlers to use obscenities.

A Provo, Utah man has been arrested after he allegedly took his 18-month-old toddler and drop kicked her.

A witness reported seeing the 23-year-old man kick the child from the doorway of their motel room back into the room, where the child began screaming, according to a police affidavit filed in 4th District Court.

Police who responded to the scene observed a blue and purple bruise covering the side of the child’s face, but found no marks on her stomach, according to the affidavit.

The suspect initially said he had accidentally walked into his daughter and knocked her over, but later changed his story, saying he was so upset during the argument with his wife that he “blacked out” and could not remember what happened, the affidavit states. He said it was possible that he kicked the child during this time.

A toddler who wandered away from his hotel room was found sleeping under a van in the parking lot.

About 20 Buena Park police officers searched for the boy for 1 1/2 hours after his father William May noticed one of his five children was missing at about 4 a.m. The search ended when an officer found the boy curled up on the parking lot outside the Radisson Suites hotel, said Sgt. William Kohanek.

Police believe the toddler left through a security gate and began looking for his family’s car. After the boy was found, the hotel staff watched a surveillance video and saw the boy running around outside the hotel.

“It looked like he was probably scared,” Kohanek said. “He must have just exhausted himself and crawled under a car to sleep.”