Baby Has 3 Limbs Broken At Day Care; No Charges Pending!

http://www.ketv.com/news/15659706/detail.html An infant is recovering at a local hospital after he was allegedly hurt by another child at an area day care. Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services has issued an emergency license suspension for Omaha day care provider Denise Smith. Police said a 6-month-old baby suffered serious injuries when she left him with an unauthorized staffer. Sherika Shelly, 18, said she was shocked when her son came home on Monday night badly hurt. The boy, Dravion, is at Children’s Hospital recovering from injuries that include three broken limbs, a bite mark on his face and fluid buildup in his lungs that’s forcing him to breathe through a ventilator. “My son wasn’t breathing,” Shelly said. “He had bruises all over his face and his stomach, and his leg was just sticking out. I called the day care lady first, and she’s talking about did nothing, didn’t nobody do nothing to your baby. Nothing happened to him.” A police investigation showed that Smith was lying. Records said she first picked up Dravion and took him to a home child care at 125th and Spencer streets, where he was supposed to go. But police said that later Monday evening, Smith took Dravion to one of her other day cares near 30th and Emmett streets, where she left him in the care of Shawnee Allen, who is not an approved staffer. Smith left for at least 40 minutes, police records show. Allen told police that in that time, she heard a scream and observed an 8-year-old child holding Dravion, and the baby was excessively crying. Allen said she also observed swelling and injury to the cheek. Police said neither Smith nor Allen told Shelly mother about the injuries. Neither woman at the day care was reachable for comment. No criminal charges have been filed against Smith or Allen. DHHS has no previous record of disciplinary action against ABC 123 Child Care or Smith’s other business, Acquainted with an Angel Child Care. Police said they conducted several interviews, including with children who were at the child care that day. Some said they saw the 8-year-old injuring Dravion and there were no adults in the room at the time.

Girl Whose Disembowelment Led To Pool Legislation Dies!

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A 6-year-old girl who underwent a rare transplant surgery after her intestines were sucked out in a swimming pool has died in an Omaha hospital. Abigail Taylor’s family said she died Thursday evening. Bob Bennett is an attorney for the Taylor family. He said Abigail’s parents were with her when she died at Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha. NMC’s Paul Baltes confirmed to KETV NewsWatch 7 that Abigail died at the hospital, where she has been under care since the operation. Baltes was not sure whether an autopsy or exact cause of death would be released to the public. Abigail was injured when she sat on a pool drain, and its powerful suction ripped out part of her intestinal tract on June 29. She underwent transplant surgery in December at the Nebraska hospital to receive a new small bowel, liver and pancreas.

Cop: Shooting was ‘last thing I wanted to do’!

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/03/21/groom.slain.ap/index.html A detective accused in the fatal shooting of an unarmed man on his wedding day testified he shouted “Police! Don’t move!” and believed the man’s friend was reaching for a weapon before officers began firing. “I felt he had a gun, and I couldn’t wait anymore,” Detective Gescard Isnora said in grand jury testimony read in court Thursday. “It was the last thing I wanted to do.” Isnora and detective Michael Oliver were charged with manslaughter in the November 2006 death of bridegroom-to-be Sean Bell as he left a bachelor party at a Queens strip club. A third detective, Marc Cooper, faces the lesser charge of reckless endangerment. The death of Bell in a hail of bullets hours before his wedding and the wounding of two of his friends sparked community outrage and raised questions about police use of deadly force. Bell was black, as are the other victims, while the officers involved are Hispanic, black and white. A judge is hearing the men’s trial without a jury. Prosecutors have portrayed the detectives as trigger-happy and poorly supervised. The defense contends the officers were convinced they were in danger.

Giant sea creatures found in Antarctic search!

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/03/21/antarctic.search.ap/index.htmlScientists who conducted the most comprehensive survey to date of New Zealand’s Antarctic waters were surprised by the size of some specimens found, including jellyfish with 12-foot tentacles and 2-foot-wide starfish. A 2,000-mile journey through the Ross Sea that ended Thursday has also potentially turned up several new species, including as many as eight new molluscs.

Woman dies after ray strikes her!

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/03/20/eagleray/index.html A woman on a boat died after a spotted eagle ray leaped from the water off the Florida Keys Thursday and struck her. The woman was seated or standing in the front of the boat as her husband piloted the vessel at about 25 mph out of a channel, Pino said. “The ray just actually popped up in front of the vessel,” he said. “The father had not even a second to react. It was too late. It happened instantly and the woman fell backwards and, unfortunately, died as a result of the collision.” The force of the blow pushed the woman backward and she died when she hit her head on the boat deck. Wow, I thought she dies because the ray stunged her, but I was wrong. She died because she hit her head on the boat while she fell. That is sad. ;-(

Too stressed to eat or sleep on campus!

http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/wayoflife/03/18/college.stress.ap/index.html College kids are so frazzled they can’t sleep or eat. Or study. Good grief, they’re even anxious about spring break. Most students in U.S. colleges are just plain stressed out, from everyday worries about grades and relationships to darker thoughts of suicide, according to a poll of undergraduates from coast to coast. The survey was conducted for The Associated Press and mtvU, a television network available at many colleges and universities. Four in 10 students say they endure stress often. Nearly one if five say they feel it all or most of the time.

Girl’s Dying Wish Denied; Imprisoned Father Not Coming Home! :-(

http://www.ketv.com/family/15643474/detail.html A 10-year-old Lincoln girl dying of brain cancer has one wish — for her father to be at her bedside. It isn’t likely to happen. Her father is in a federal prison in Yankton, S.D. Vonda Yaeger is pleading with the warden for compassion to grant her daughter’s wish. I would have been heart-broken if I was her.  ;-(

Flooding worsens in nation’s midsection!

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/03/19/severe.weather.ap/index.html Flooding forced hundreds of people to flee their homes and closed scores of roads Wednesday as a huge storm system poured as much as 10 inches of rain on the nation’s midsection. Four deaths were linked to the flooding in Missouri, and five people were killed in a highway wreck in heavy rain in Kentucky. Searches were under way in Texas for a teenager washed down a drainage pipe and in Missouri for a man missing in a creek, and two people were missing in Arkansas after their vehicles were swept away by rushing water. The National Weather Service posted flood and flash flood warnings from Texas to Pennsylvania on Wednesday. About 10 inches of rain had fallen by Wednesday morning in southeast Missouri’s Cape Girardeau County, where street flooding marooned some residents in their homes, the State Emergency Management Agency said. The weather service said 6.7 inches of rain fell in 24 hours at Jasper, Arkansas, and 6.2 inches had fallen at Evansville, Indiana.   I would have been scared to death if something like that would have happened in New York! Wouldn’t you? Of course you would! Lolz!

Bodies of toddlers, father found in Georgia!

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/03/19/harrington.case/index.html Investigators have found the bodies of three small children and the father who allegedly abducted them from their home in Columbus, Georgia, two weeks ago, the FBI said Wednesday. The remains were discovered in a wooded area of Columbus by a person walking nearby. Eddie Harrington, 28, whom police described as depressed, took the children March 5. Before he left, Harrington sent a letter indicating he was intent on killing his twin 23-month-old girls, Aliyah and Agana Battle, and his son, Cedric Harrington, 3. The Associated Press reported it was addressed to Harrington’s father. A child abduction alert was issued in Georgia after the children disappeared. It was unclear what sparked Harrington’s decision to take the children. Well, i want to know why he did that to his own children. All I can say is that he’s crazy! Hehehe!

Suspect in UNC killing charged in another student slaying!

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/03/13/unc.arrest/index.htmlThe teen suspect in last week’s slaying of University of North Carolina student Eve Carson has been charged in a second student killing, police said Thursday. Lawrence Alvin Lovette Jr., 17, was arrested Thursday morning in connection with Carson’s death. Lovette also has been charged in connection with the January death of Duke University graduate student Abhijit Mahato, 29, a doctoral engineering candidate from India, according to a news release from the Durham, North Carolina. Lovette is the second person charged in Mahato’s killing. Mahato was found shot to death at a Durham home on January 18. Five days later, police arrested Stephen Oats, 19. Lovette also was the second person arrested in connection with Carson’s death. Heavily armed officers surrounded a house in Durham shortly after midnight Thursday following an anonymous tip that Lovette was inside.Lovette surrendered without incident after four hours, Durham police Lt. Robert McLaughlin Jr. said.