Mass in a tent village. Handouts of donated chocolate Easter eggs, and a holiday lunch consisting of aid food. It’s not the way people in L’Aquila expected to celebrate their Easter holiday.
Survivors of deadly Italian quake mark somber Easter
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Woman gives birth on airliner, leaves baby in trash
Fate, police say, saved baby Grace from being tossed out with the trash. Were it not for a cleaning lady who chanced upon the newborn waving a feeble arm from a blue trash bag in an airplane bathroom, Grace would have met the fate her mother apparently intended for her, authorities said. On Wednesday, police in New Zealand charged the 29-year-old woman with abandonment and assault — for giving birth to the child on an international flight and then leaving her, without alerting anyone, in a toilet bin amid bloodied paper towels
Adams: Free or charge N. Ireland suspects
Police in Northern Ireland should either charge or release suspects held over the killings of a policeman and two soldiers, Gerry Adams of Sinn Fein said Monday. Nicholas Hughes, whose mother gassed herself in 1963 at her London home while her two children slept in the next room, hanged himself at his home in Alaska, his sister Frieda told The Times newspaper.
Tragic poet Sylvia Plath’s son kills himself
The family history of poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath took another tragic turn Monday when it was revealed that their son had committed suicide after battling depression. Nicholas Hughes, whose mother gassed herself in 1963 at her London home while her two children slept in the next room, hanged himself at his home in Alaska, his sister Frieda told The Times newspaper. Hughes, 47, was unmarried with no children of his own and had until recently been a marine biologist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks
As gunman roamed streets, neighbor rushed to save infant
Alina Knowles anxiously crept along her neighbor’s porch, where the bodies lay strewn on the blood-covered floor. And then she heard the baby’s wail
Deputy: ‘It’s supposed to be me getting shot, not my family’
"Get home now." Then, another urgent message: “We got notified on the radio that a trooper was chasing a suspect that had fired shots,” Myers told reporters on Wednesday.
TV for Babies: Does It Help or Hurt?
Early parenting choices are never clear-cut, and deciding whether to allow your infant to watch television or DVDs ranks as one of the more perplexing. Thanks to marketing claims for TV shows and DVDs created for babies, many parents believe that watching educational programming will stimulate infants’ brains and actually promote learning. It’s a seductive line of reasoning
Robbing banks no longer just for guys, FBI statistics show
She said she had nothing left to lose when she handed the bank teller the hastily scrawled note. “We’re armed,” the note said. “Don’t say anything.
Doctor loses license in live birth abortion case
A doctor’s license was revoked Friday in the case of a teenager who planned to have an abortion but instead gave birth to a baby she says was killed when clinic staffers put it into a plastic bag and threw it in the trash.