Safety

A fifth grade boy returning home from school on Friday was hit by a Chicago commuter train in an upscale suburb northwest of the city. Dominic Szymanski, 11, crossed the tracks around 6 P.M.. Szymanski was apparently waiting for an oncoming train to pass and stepped onto the tracks on the other side of the ... read more »

A 13-year-old boy is in critical condition on Monday after nearly drowning at Disney World’s Pop Century resort over the weekend. The unidentified teen was reportedly vacationing at his family from Missouri at the resort in Disney World when he start struggling in the resort’s pool. The boy was apparently playing with relatives in the ... read more »

Two young Roseville Texas. children, a 3-year-old boy and a 5-year-old girl, are undergoing surgery at Shriners H0spital in Galveston after the pair were allegedly shocked by a power pole outside their home on Sunday. The 5-year-old girl reportedly fell unconscious after the initial shock. The children, who are brother and sister, were reportedly playing ... read more »

Two Naperville, Ill. moms were arrested on Wednesday after protesting the installation of smart meters, the electric company’s new meter technology which allows the utility company to monitor electric usage though wireless technology. Jennifer Stahl was one of the moms arrested after she reportedly interfered with a police officer after she stood in front of ... read more »

An Ohio mother could be charged with neglect if an investigation in to why her 5-year-old son fell out of the family’s second story window finds the woman negligent. The boy fell out of the window early Wednesday morning after a neighbor warned him not to stand in the windowsill. Shayna Shuman lives next door ... read more »

A Columbus, Ohio, man, who arrived at his home shortly before 9 P.M. on Monday night, used the power of his conceal and carry license to shoot a man he felt threatened the safety of he and his 2-month-old infant. Kelby Smith, 34, reportedly had his infant son in a car carrier, walking up his ... read more »

On the 32nd birthday of Polly Klaas, who was abducted and killed in 1993 in Petaluma, Calif., Polly’s father Marc announced partnerships between the KlaasKids Foundation and several technology companies to introduce new child-safety devices. The first is a free online web browser by Virtual World Computing called Cocoon for KlaasKids.  It is designed to ... read more »

Ohio burglars, who entered a home in West Columbus a few days after Christmas, pried $6 from the hands of a 2-year-old boy while he was sleeping. Danielle Mobley, the tot’s mother, said her son was actually sleeping with his fist clenched around his Christmas stash. “He loves money, and he was sleeping with it, ... read more »

A Florida woman who was riding a scooter while eight months pregnant, died on Wednesday night after she lost control of the scooter. Shaneice S. Porter, 18, hit a curb while driving the scooter at 11 PM EST. She was not wearing a helmet. A police report stated that when Shaneice hit the curb, she ... read more »

An Illinois couple who hired a babysitter to look after their 13-month-old toddler while they ran out to run a few holiday errands, were shocked and horrified to find the babysitter slumped over and passed out when they arrived home. The babysitter was reportedly drunk. Jessica M. Vaughan, 23, was hired to look after the ... read more »

A missing Limestone County, Alabama, teen was found on Tuesday, three days after his family reported him missing. Tyler Campbell, 19, had been the victim of a vehicle crash after he apparently fell asleep at the wheel of the his truck. Campbell was reportedly driving home from a church function late Saturday night, when he ... read more »

Two young children are dead today after a mother and her two young children, 7 and 8-years-old, moved into a single family home in Elkin, North Carolina, and were reportedly poisoned by fumes produced by a generator. My Fox 8 reports that the mother, Kathryn Gilliam, and children were found early this morning, shortly after ... read more »

A 19-year-old teen was reportedly acting erratically and with poor judgement on Sunday when he cut to the front of the line of a very steep water slide at Six Flags, Los Angeles, California, and fell. Witnesses say the unidentified man was acting drunk as he muscled his way to the front of the line and ... read more »

  The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) is discouraging parents from allowing their children to play on trampolines, citing the high number of children who are injured on trampolines each year. In fact, they are asking pediatricians to actively request that the parents of their patients not allow recreational trampoline use. Those at the greatest ... read more »

A Marion, Ohio man was reportedly shot in his side by his toddler while sleeping on his couch on Sunday afternoon. Police say the victim, Walter J. Call III, 24, had fallen asleep on this sofa when his 3-year-old son found a loaded gun laying around the house, picked it up and accidentally fired the ... read more »