Boys

In order to help a friend feel less awkward at school, a Sacramento, California, kindergartener decided to shave his own head. Jordan shaved his head to support his friend, Jackson, who suffers from alopecia, an autoimmune skin disease that causes hair loss. Jackson lost an entire head of hair within two weeks. Arine LeStrange, Jackson’s ... read more »

An Irvine couple, who thought their teenage son might be smoking, gave a fellow church member permission to beat him, according to police. Paul Kim, 39 has been charged with a felony in relation to the incident. On Monday, the school reported that the teen had bruises on the back of his legs to Child Protective ... read more »

The Augusta Chronicle reported that an unidentified 28-year-old woman called 911 on Monday night when a Trick or Treating 10-year-old in her neighborhood pointed a 9mm handgun at her. On the corner of Schroeder and George St. in Aiken, South Carolina, the young woman recognized two 10-year-old brothers and greeted them, joking that she’d take ... read more »

Charges have been filed against Levar Jones, the father of a 7-year-old boy who police say accidentally shot his younger brother who 7 month sold. Jones, 26, of Englewood, Illinois, was charged with felony counts of having an invalid firearm owners identification card and reckless conduct, along with a misdemeanor charge of endangering the health ... read more »

Police report that a 3-year-old boy was stabbed to death and his mother injured in an apparent domestic incident with the boy’s father on the West Side of Chicago Friday morning. Police said the boy was pronounced dead and his mother was taken to a local hospital, where she remained Friday night. The man who stabbed them ... read more »

LaShanda Smith, the mother of a Chicago Public Schools student, is accusing an on-campus security guard of handcuffing her son and detaining him for more than an hour while he was a first-grader last year. In a lawsuit filed Monday in Cook County Circuit Court, Smith is seeking more than $100,000 in damages for an alleged incident in ... read more »

A man has been arrested for allegedly throwing his 7-year-old son off a sightseeing cruise boat during an argument, authorities say.  The boy was rescued safely. Sloan Briles, 35, was arrested Sunday for investigation of child endangerment and resisting arrest, according to Orange County Sheriff’s Department spokesman Jim Amormino. Amormino says Briles , who was ... read more »

The year 2011 saw a change in the trend for baby names. 2010 was marked by babies holding very traditional names such as Olivia and Jack, but this year people seem to be searching for unusual names, and celebrity choices are setting the standard. After monitoring the baby names chosen by their readers, Nameberry.com recently ... read more »

Zhang Bin, aged 15-years-old, said he invited a group of teenage boys to his house, and one bought the 50cm large sword with him. “Three classmates came to visit me at home and one of them bought a sword. He stood 3 – 4 metres away. I don’t know how the sword could fly to ... read more »

The son of former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver, Christopher Schwarzenegger (13), was hospitalized after a serious accident that occurred while surfing last weekend. A source reported that the boy was slammed face-first into an object on the beach in Malibu, California. He was treated in the intensive care unit, then moved to another unit ... read more »

  An 11-year-old Chicago boy, Deontae Haynes drowned in the Nodaway River in far southeast Iowa last night according to a press release by the Iowa Department of Natural Resources. A 16-year-old girl, Tamra Haley of Clarinda, Iowa attempted to save the boy. She was hospitalized at Children’s Hospital and Medical Center in Omaha. The Iowa DNR reports ... read more »

Six-year-old Max Shacknai, the young son of millionaire Jonah Shacknai, died this weekend after falling last week. The boy had fallen from the grand staircase in the family’s Coronado mansion, according to a Los Angeles Times report. The family announced the death to reporters in an email Sunday. “His loving, kind and vibrant spirit will forever be in ... read more »

VALPARAISO, Ind. — According to police an 11-year-old  boy was bitten on the hand by an alligator at an amusement park in northern Indiana. An unidentified man had apparently lifted the 2 foot long reptile from it’s enclosure and invited nearby children to pet it. The bite Ryan Strand of Concord, North Carolina, received to ... read more »

It’s a tragic story – 33-year-old Elena Isabel Rodriguez was doing housework, and believed her son was watching television. In reality, he had become trapped inside the families van, and died as temperatures topped 90 degrees. Rodriguez, who has seven children, said she had no reason to believe that her 3-year-old had gone outside, but ... read more »

A judge ruled Monday that a 9-year-old boy from Clarendon Hills, Illinois can attend religious services with his mother in spites of objections from his father, who argued it could harm his son’s chances of becoming a scientist. The father, David Stone, filed a court request last month to stop his son from attending Sunday services with his mother at Harvard ... read more »