Author: Lindsey Bever
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A 2-year-old’s kidney transplant was put on hold – after his donor father’s probation violation
A father in Georgia who had prepared to donate a kidney to his 2-year-old son said last week that he is being forced to wait after a recent stint in county jail. Anthony Dickerson’s son, A.J., was born without kidneys and Dickerson, who is a perfect match, was ready to donate one of his, he…
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WATCH: A doctor shouted at a sick mother to ‘get the hell out.’ Now he’s under criminal investigation.
A doctor in northern Florida is under criminal investigation after he was seen on video shouting at a patient to “get the hell out” of an urgent-care clinic, then apparently grabbing her daughter’s cellphone, which was recording the incident. Peter Gallogly, a physician at Gainesville After-Hours Clinic, was captured on video Monday arguing with a patient…
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A family left a toddler in a corn maze and didn’t realize it until the next day, police say
A 3-year-old boy was found wandering alone through a 10-acre corn maze in northern Utah after his family left him behind, not realizing the small child was missing until the next morning, police say. The distraught toddler was discovered by a good Samaritan on Monday night near the entrance of the Crazy Corn Maze in…
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Dr. Seuss museum to replace mural after complaints that it depicted ‘jarring racial stereotype’
A controversial mural at the Amazing World of Dr. Seuss Museum in Massachusetts will be replaced after several children’s authors complained that it promoted racial stereotypes — and that they were boycotting an upcoming festival at the newly opened museum because of it. The authors — including Mo Willems, the Caldecott-winning writer and illustrator behind the popular Pigeon and Knuffle Bunny books — issued…
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A father was cleared of killing his toddler — after his 7-year-old son confessed
A Texas father accused of killing his 2-year-old daughter in what police had called a “fit of rage” has been cleared of the crime after the toddler’s 7-year-old brother admitted that he accidentally smothered her in 2015. More than a year after Anthony Michael Sanders was charged with capital murder in the death of his daughter, Ellie, prosecutors discovered that the…
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Doctors thought a woman had cancer — but it was just a reaction to an old tattoo
Her symptoms pointed to cancer. She had sought medical attention for small lumps under her arms, but doctors in Australia discovered it was worse than that — enlarged lymph nodes were also in her chest and in the roots of her lungs. They suspected it was lymphoma, a type of cancer that attacks the lymphatic…
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‘I wish I could say I’m surprised’: Ex blasts mom charged with abandoning kids to tour Europe
Police say Erin Lee Macke left a gun on her bedroom shelf and her four young children to fend for themselves, and jetted off last week for an 11-day vacation in Europe – cut somewhat short by the mother’s arrest Thursday on child endangerment charges. Macke left her 12-year-old twins and 6- and 7-year-old daughters…
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He thought he had a lung tumor. It was a tiny toy traffic cone he inhaled 40 years ago
For more than a year, he had felt ill, inexplicably coughing up phlegm. The British postal worker, a former smoker, had already been treated for pneumonia, but now doctors suspected it might be much worse — an x-ray had revealed a mysterious mass in one of his lungs, and it was suspected to be a…
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A woman survived a fall into Hurricane Harvey’s floodwaters – only to die of a flesh-eating infection
A Texas woman died earlier this month after contracting a flesh-eating infection from floodwaters brought by Hurricane Harvey, according to health officials in Houston. The Houston Chronicle reported that Nancy Reed, 77, of Houston, contracted a dangerous bacterial skin infection after she fell into dirty floodwater in her son’s home, breaking and cutting open her…
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Three goodbyes in three days: Why these parents watched their children die at home
Years of suffering – and months of struggling with the decision to end it – had brought them here: To a bright white living room where three of their children lay side by side by side, waiting to die. Les and Celeste Chappell loved the children, of course, and the thought of letting them go…