A 9-year-old Connecticut girl who climbed to the roof of her house and attempted to crawl back inside through the chimney has been rescued after getting stuck. Assistant Fire Chief Jack Hennessey said the girl climbed up a house painter's ladder Wednesday morning, walked across the roof and tried to climb down the chimney.
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Police have a suspect in custody after a man peeked under a seven-year-old girl's dress Monday evening while she played outside with two friends. It doesn't appear the girl, who was in the southeast community of Ogden at around 6:30 p. m., was targeted, said Calgary police duty inspector Jim Stinson.
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Sarah Slicker became known as "the Naked Nanny" after she was arrested and accused of removing her clothes in front of a 4-year-old boy she was babysitting in 2004. But now the 27-year-old woman is a mother, and she appeared in court on Friday cradling her blond-haired toddler son.
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For 5-year-old Andrew Polasky, being loud has paid off.
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BEIJING - Almost a year after Michael Jackson's death, the spirit of the King of Pop appears to live on in a 4-year-old Chinese boy, who is fast becoming an international dance sensation.
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An 18-year-old in Montana apparently thought it would be funny to yell "I'm going to kidnap you" at a 7-year-old girl, but the joke cost him a $185 fine for disorderly conduct.
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A pistol-packing 69-year-old woman in northern Alabama believes intruders will think twice before messing with her again. Police said Ethel Jones shot an 18-year-old man in the stomach when she found him inside her bedroom at her home in Decatur. Jones said she sleeps with her gun under a pillow next to her and said she grabbed it after hearing a door rattle shortly before 3 a.m. Monday.
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A girl can be sued over accusations she ran over an elderly woman with her training bicycle when she was 4 years old, a New York Supreme Court justice has ruled.
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Oregon State Police gave an 82-year-old woman a ticket for driving 28 miles per hour over her age and twice the posted speed limit of 55 mph.
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Nine-year-old Miu Hirano has grabbed the headlines for the second year running with another tearful record at the Japanese table tennis championships.
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A 56-year-old chimpanzee has surprised officials at a zoo in northeast Kansas by giving birth.
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Authorities say a woman has been charged for allegedly letting a 12-year-old child drive her and her family from Nichols to Iowa City. Twenty-one-year-old Melissa Garcia was charged with three counts of child endangerment and operating a vehicle with no consent. She was in custody Sunday at the Johnson County Jail on a $10,000 cash only bond. Garcia was arrested Saturday night in Iowa City.
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The man wanted a dollar. When the 81-year-old woman
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Police are looking for the brother and sister who ran away from home and got married after learning that they were not relatives by blood. Their parents, well-off residents of Smolensk city in Central Russia, adopted the boy as a baby when their own daughter was five years old, and never told the son he was adopted.
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An 80-year-old woman with a criminal record stretching back to 1955 has been sentenced to three years in state prison for ransacking and stealing cash from a Southern California medical office. Doris Thompson thanked a judge Wednesday for not sending her to Los Angeles County jail, which she doesn't like, and said she deserved a longer sentence. She also told the judge, "God bles..
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St. Louis County highway officials are crediting a 6-year-old boy with giving them some direction on making their road signs more accurate.
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Swiss police said they are investigating a 7-year-old girl's discovery of a condom in her McDonald's Happy Meal. Fribourg state police said the mother called them after the girl discovered the condom among her French fries.
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A 12-year-old student is working toward degrees in physics and math at Florida International University -- after taking his first class there two years ago.''We have fun here,'' he said as he prepared to start a work sheet on pistons, gases, and pressure with his lab partners.
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Police in Wichita said a little girl in a pink costume played a part in a Halloween holdup. A 19-year-old woman was driving through a neighborhood Sunday night when she saw a girl dressed as a princess or fairy run into the street.
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Authorities said an 8-year-old boy grabbed control a pickup and brought it safely to a stop after his grandmother had a seizure while driving on a western Colorado interstate. Authorities said Lisa DeKruger suffered a seizure while driving at about 75 mph on Interstate 70 outside Grand Junction on Sunday.
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