A fast thinking 14-year-old girl in Eau Claire, Wisconsin helped deliver her friend’s baby in the back of a van while they were on the way to the hospital.

Twenty-year-old Ellie Godown says her contractions started coming two minutes apart on Monday and her water broke at a gas station.

She and friends drove to the hospital, but the baby apparently wasn’t going to wait.

Fourteen-year-old Abi Middleton says she was sitting with Godown when the baby started emerging. She says she quickly wrapped the newborn in her sweat shirt to keep her warm.

A 5-year-old girl from Simi Valley, California has died from injuries sustained after a pit bull attacked her.

Katya Todesco died Friday at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, three days after the dog bit her on her face and neck, said Los Angeles County coroner’s investigator Ed Winter.

Katya’s mother Katia Todesco said she and her daughter were visiting a friend who was taking care of the pit bull Tuesday.

The little girl and the friend’s 13-year-old daughter were playing in the back yard when the 5-year-old bumped into the dog, then was mauled. Her mother heard screams and came outside to find the dog latched on to her daughter.

“It was a horrible attack,” Todesco said Monday. “With my own hands I was pulling the dog’s jaw.”

A former Omaha, Nebraska teacher who high tailed it south of the border with her 13-year-old lover has been returned to the United States and sentenced to 6 years in prison. That’s it? Wonder what the sentence would have been if the genders were reversed.

Kelsey Peterson, 26, had pleaded guilty in July to a charge of transporting a minor across state lines to have sex and avoided a similar charge that would have carried a mandatory 10-year minimum sentence.

She will be credited for time served but will not be eligible for parole.

The guilty plea does not mean Peterson is off the hook on Nebraska state charges, which include kidnapping and first-degree sexual assault. Her attorney said he hoped those charges will be dropped.

A Florida “man” has been convicted of of aggravated child abuse after he beat and burned his girlfriend’s 1-year-old baby with a hair dryer.

Darlane Toussaint was also found guilty last week of neglect of a child for burning and beating his girlfriend’s 1-year-old child.

His arrest report said the 24-year-old Toussaint shook the child violently when he wouldn’t stop crying.

Police also said he used a blow dryer on the boy and smashed his chest and back with his fist.

Well, we certainly hope these two rocket scientists can work this out. Who else should our medical community look to for inspiration than a couple of actresses?

Both Jenny McCarthy and Amanda Peet have impressive credits attached to their names, but M.D. isn’t one of them.

But that hasn’t stopped them from raging a war in the press over childhood vaccines.

McCarthy, whose son is autistic, is against childhood vaccines because she believes there is a correlation between the shots and the impairment.

Peet, who has a toddler as well, is the spokesperson for Every Child By Two, a non-profit group that wants all kids vaccinated by age two. She labeled such anti-vaccine parents as “parasites” in a recent interview with Cookie.

You mean parents *aren’t* supposed to get their kids Botox injections for smelly feet? Interesting.

In Superior Court papers, the judge also said Stone “delegates many of her parenting responsibilities to third parties” and has “simply refused” to participate in counseling unless her “schedule is accommodated and her demands are met.”

“Such conduct on the part of any parent … is unacceptable and does not serve the child’s best interest,” the San Francisco judge writes in the document, which is a tentative statement on Stone’s motion to modify custody.

The judge has turned down Stone’s request to move her son Roan to Los Angeles, where she lives, from his father Phil Bronstein’s home in San Francisco. The actress is allowed visitation time with the child, getting some weekends and holidays.