Archive for tennessee
Monday, September 10th, 2012
Parents of a 13-year-old girl had the scare of a lifetime when they discovered their daughter had disappeared in the middle of the night and left behind a disturbing letter filled with lies to mislead them if they tried to find her. The parents used quick thinking and checked through their daughter’s cell phone, which ... read more »
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Sunday, May 20th, 2012
Outraged parents Heather and Patrick Walker are looking for answers from the social networking giant Facebook as to why they took down the pictures she posted of her son, Grayson James Walker, who was born February 15, 2012 with a rare birth defect, and why she her account was later suspended. Baby Grayson, from Memphis, ... read more »
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Wednesday, April 25th, 2012
Tennessee legislators have passed changes to a law that would make the death of an embryo a punishable crime. The bill revises a law passed in 1989 that made the death of a “viable fetus” during the course of an assault or homicide an additional criminal offense. The latest revision adds to changes last year ... read more »
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Wednesday, October 26th, 2011
A family in La Vergne, TN, is alive today thanks to a generations old high school parenting assignment. Christian Deason, 17, who is a self proclaimed “heavy sleeper”, was awakened by the sound of a simulation doll that began to cry at 3:30 a.m. on Oct. 24, and quickly realized that the house was on ... read more »
Posted in Babies/Infants, News & Politics, Parenting, Teens | No Comments »
Thursday, September 29th, 2011
A Tennessee mom has stumbled upon another one of the pitfalls in posting personal information on Facebook. Rodney and Ryan Belasic, two football players for the Perry County High School Vikings, were found to have been ineligible to play in the team’s first three games of the season after their mother’s Facebook post tipped off ... read more »
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Friday, August 12th, 2011
It’s a standard question from teachers to their students when they return in the fall: “What did you do on summer vacation?” Usually the responses are something like, “nothing,” or “we went to Florida,” or “I hung out in front of the drugstore,” but one Nashville 13-year-old had a decidedly unique response — he told ... read more »
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Wednesday, July 13th, 2011
A Tennessee woman who allegedly yelled at Transportation Security Administration officers and refused to allow her daughter to go through a full-body scanner and a pat-down search was jailed. A report in the Tennessean indicated that on Saturday, Andrea Fornella Abbott (41) shouted and cursed at TSA workers at Nashville International Airport. A police report quoted Abbott as saying that she didn’t ... read more »
Posted in Crime and Punishment, Safety | 2 Comments »
Sunday, April 12th, 2009
This is why I’ll never live anywhere without a basement… Funkhouser ran outside and found his neighbor John Bryant lying in Funkhouser’s front yard, covered with blood and screaming. “He kept saying that his wife and baby were out there with him, and he had to find them,” Funkhouser said. Twenty minutes later, Funkhouser and ... read more »
Posted in Tragic Endings | 3 Comments »
Thursday, September 18th, 2008
Police are trying to determine the cause of bruises found on an 18-month-old toddler found dead in Memphis, Tennessee. Officers say when they got to the house on Frayser View Drive at Frayser Boulevard, the toddler was already dead. Police say the child died Wednesday, September 17, 2008, sometime after 11:30 p.m. According to investigators, ... read more »
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Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
An 8-year-old boy hiking with his father in the Smoky Mountains was attacked by a black bear. The boy now regrets hiking with pocketfuls of salmon. Evan Pala was cut, scratched and bitten. His father, John Pala of Boca Raton, also was cut before driving off the bear with rocks and sticks. They were both ... read more »
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Thursday, July 17th, 2008
A woman says that it was post-partum depression that caused her to begin poisoning her child with table salt. She then visited the infant at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, where officials are saying she tried to “finish the job”. Amber Brewington, 21, was arrested Wednesday morning on charges of attempted homicide, aggravated assault and endangering ... read more »
Posted in Child Abuse | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
A couple in Clarksville, Tennessee is being charged with leaving their infant in a hot car while they went drinking inside a bar. Hey, guys, there are these places called LIQUOR STORES, that actually allow you to purchase alcohol and TAKE IT HOME, you know, so your baby can be in her crib while you ... read more »
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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
A little sting from a bee would definitely been a better alternative than to what happened. Madison County Sheriff David Woolfork said his department believes the death of 4-month-old Kaejae Mahlik Dashon Duckworth was accidental. The boy’s father, Donovan Fields, told deputies he was trying to avoid a bee near his home in Beech Bluff ... read more »
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Thursday, June 19th, 2008
A Tennessee woman is heading to prison for 12 years after pleading guilty to abusing her 9-month-old son. Evone Corriea Blaylock, 32, pleaded guilty to attempted aggravated child abuse in exchange for a 12-year sentence in state prison. Investigators said the baby suffered seizures, retinal hemorrhages, subdural acute and chronic hematomas, fractured ribs and a ... read more »
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
Steven Curtis Chapman, a huge Christian music star, suffered a tragedy at his home when his 5 year old daughter was struck and killed by a car driven by her older brother. The girl, Maria Sue, was hit in the driveway of the family’s home Wednesday afternoon by a Toyota Land Cruiser driven by her ... read more »
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