Girls

A 4-year-old girl is lucky to be alive after she survived a fall out a window 28 feet off the ground.

Keep your arms, legs, and jump ropes inside the vehicle at all times.

A 6-year-old girl is recovering after surgeons reattached her left hand, severed when it was caught in a loop of jump rope that had snagged on the axle of her mother’s car.

Erica Rix underwent 10 hours of surgery after the accident in early September and spent nine days in intensive care before returning home.

Erica was playing with a jump rope in the back seat of her mother’s car and let one end of the rope out the window to flutter in the wind.

“I wanted to see it go up and down because I thought I was going to fly,” she said Tuesday on NBC’s “Today.”

A 12-year-old who got lost while hiking in the Blue Mountains of Washington State has been found in a vacant cabin.

Trisha Patterson of Camas was found Wednesday morning by ground searchers about 10 miles east of Walla Walla.

Blue Mountain Television reports she was checked by medics at a fire station at Dixie and reunited with her mother.

Trisha had became separated from her family during a hike Tuesday evening near her grandfather’s cabin.

We would say a story like this falls firmly on the plus side for those who argue against allowing people to carry concealed weapons.

A 4-year-old girl shot herself in the chest this morning after taking a small-caliber handgun from her grandmother’s purse at a Sam’s Club in Columbia, S.C.

The child, who was not identified, was rushed to a hospital and underwent surgery. Doctors said this afternoon the bullet caused “no major damage,” the The State newspaper reports.

The girl’s grandmother was identified as Donna Hutto Williamson, 47. She has a permit to carry a concealed weapon. No charges were filed.

A girl trying to make her way onto a boys sports team is the stuff of after school specials and Lifetime movies. But usually the girl isn’t wanted because she’s viewed as a weak link on the team. But for Jaime Nared, a 6 foot tall 12-year-old in Oregon, it would appear that the parents don’t want her to play because she’s kicking their sons’ collective asses.

“If she were 4-feet-9 and no good, we wouldn’t be having this discussion,” said the coach, Michael Abraham. “To appease a small minority of parents, in this day and age, is stupid. This is a decision that really targets her. She’s a well-adjusted kid who happens to be great.”

Neal Franzer, the Hoop’s director of operations, said the parents were “adamant” that it wasn’t because Nared was too good.

“They said the problem was the boys were playing differently against her because she was a girl,” he said. “They’d been taught to not push a girl, so they weren’t fouling her hard, and the focus had shifted from playing basketball to noticing a girl was on the floor with them.”

Also, it’s believed there was great concern about cooties.

A 13 year old girl chased a Burger King employee around the BK restaurant, demanding they give her a cheeseburger.

Apparently, she was really hungry.

TAMPA - A 13-year-old girl released from the county Juvenile Assessment Center landed back inside after she tried to rob a Burger King at knifepoint over a cheeseburger, police said.

The girl, who was wearing pajamas and socks when she was arrested Saturday, told Tampa police she was hungry when she brandished a kitchen knife inside the restaurant and demanded, “Give me a burger!”

Girl Power!

This 7 year old girl is her families hero and we honor her for her bravery.

INDIANAPOLIS — Six people, including four children, are fortunate to have survived a mobile home fire early Sunday morning on Indianapolis’ southwest side in which a father and his 7-year-old niece pulled everyone to safety.

All of the victims were hospitalized. The 7-year-old girl, April Manuel, suffered the worst of the injuries, 6News’ Tanya Spencer reported. Manuel was in critical condition at Riley Hospital for Children Sunday evening with severe smoke inhalation and burns.