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After her 2-year-old was found alone on the streets at 2 a.m., a woman was charged with felony child neglect.

Nicole Lynn Brewington, 21, of Harbor Lane was charged then released by a magistrate on a promise to appear in court, according to a police news release.

A resident in the area found the little girl wandering about 2:15 a.m. in the area near 17th Street and Jefferson Avenue and called 911, said Lou Thurston, police spokesman. The resident stayed with the child until officers arrived.

We see our paranoia about our youngest eating grapes may be well founded.

A Fairfax County police officer helped save a 2-year-old boy who was choking on a grape Monday night, police said yesterday.

Pfc. Matthew Griffin arrived at a home in the 7200 block of Marlan Drive in the Belle View area and found the choking boy with his father.

In this day and age, we’re surprised it didn’t wind up going all the way to the Supreme Court.

Richard White says he was shocked when he got a subpoena in the mail requiring his 1-year-old son, Jacy, to appear in Rockingham County General District Court next Tuesday over a $391 chiropractor bill.

Neither of Jacy’s parents was named in the lawsuit, which has been dismissed at the request of the plaintiff.

Shortly after his son’s birth in April 2007, White says he took Jacy to the chiropractor. He suspects that when the family moved, the office updated records for everyone but Jacy.

Note to criminals — do not bring your 1-month-old son with you when you’re being chased by the cops, he’ll only slow you down.

Timothy Hartford Jr., 38, and Ashley Smith, 26, are suspects in the Thursday shooting deaths of a man and woman in Winston-Salem, N.C., police said. The victims were a 77-year-old Meals on Wheels volunteer and a man she was serving lunch. Another volunteer, the dead woman’s husband, was wounded.

The suspects’ 1-month-old son was with them during the chase and ensuing standoff and was taken into the custody of child protective services. He was not injured, Virginia State Police Sgt. Michelle Cotten said.

A state police officer saw Hartford and Smith’s vehicle in Suffolk at about 2 a.m. Friday and attempted to stop it. Smith drove on and police pursued the vehicle into Norfolk and used road spikes to shred its tires, officials said.

The couple pulled into a shopping mall parking garage and were negotiating with police, but didn’t surrender until about five hours later.

Wait, is this 2008 or 1958? A manager at an Abercrombie & Fitch store in Virginia Beach, Virginia has been issued an obscenity citation for poisoning the minds of poor, innocent Virginia teenagers. The cops sprung into action when they received complaints about two large ads in the store — one that showed about an inch of ass crack peeking out from the top of a man’s jeans, and another that featured a woman displaying a bit of side boob. Shocking! And probably showing less than you would see down at the city’s namesake ocean front.

City code makes it a crime to display “obscene materials in a business that is open to juveniles,” Bernstein said.

Bernstein said police charged the manager because there is no legal way to issue a summons to a corporate entity in such circumstances. If convicted, the manager faces a fine of up to $2,000 and as much as a year in jail.

The manager declined to comment, saying that he was waiting for guidance from corporate officials at the New Albany, Ohio-based retailer. A telephone message left for an Abercrombie spokeswoman Sunday night was not immediately returned.

This is one of my phobias, that a televsion or dresser will fall on one of my children…

FALLS CHURCH, Va. ( — A 5-year-old girl was crushed when she tried to turn up the volume on a television and the dresser holding the set tipped over, police and family members said.

The mother, Gricia Estela Arevalo, ran into the bedroom after hearing the screams of Glenda Arevalo’s 8-year-old sister. Glenda was pronounced dead Tuesday night at a hospital.

Holy mass healthscare batman!

Forget HIV, forget the measles, mumps, cancer or the plague — children are catching staph infections that are literally killing them with no cure or antibiotic to fight against it and it’s contagious and in our children’s schools:

BEDFORD, Virginia (AP) — A high school student who was hospitalized for more than a week with an antibiotic-resistant staph infection has died, and officials shut down 21 schools for cleaning to keep the illness from spreading.

Ashton Bonds, 17, a senior at Staunton River High School, died Monday after he was found to have Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, his mother said.

“I want people to know how sick it made my son,” Veronica Bonds said.

Staph infections, including the serious MRSA strain, have spread through schools nationwide in recent weeks, according to health and education officials.