Baby

WASHINGTON TERRACE -- Weber County Sheriff's Deputy Tyler Greenhalgh saved a baby's life Wednesday morning.

CHICAGO -- Chicago Fire Lt. Ed Stutz had just started his shift at Engine 107 on the West Side Monday morning when he looked out a window and saw a young woman clutching a baby.

He heard a light tap on the door of the station. The woman was standing there and seemed upset. Stutz and firefighter Ryan Rivera took her into the station, where she handed the baby, tightly bundled in a brown winter suit, to the firefighters.

"She said she couldn't handle it anymore and that it was too much for her," Stutz said.

BRIDGEPORT, Ill. -- Eli Evans doesn't dwell on the horrific violence that surrounded his birth 16 years ago.

He has known the unfathomable details for years since he and his older brother came to live with their grandfather in this rural southeastern Illinois community. Sam Evans still encourages the boys to come to him whenever they feel the need to discuss what happened.

"I always think God has a plan for me since he kept me here," Eli said. "I was put on this earth for a reason, and I'm still trying to figure out what the reason is. I know it's going to be something good because not many people could have survived what I did."

Elijah "Eli" James Evans, who cherishes his brother, Jordan, and grandfather, seems to be thriving now as a high school football player who dreams of an NFL career. He is keenly aware that the story of his birth shocked the nation.

LOS ANGELES -- At birth, Melinda Star Guido was so tiny she could fit into the palm of her doctor's hand. Weighing just 9 1/2 ounces -- less than a can of soda -- she is among the smallest babies ever born in the world. Most infants her size don't survive, but doctors are preparing to send her home by New Year's.

Melinda was born premature at 24 weeks over the summer and spent the early months cocooned in an incubator in the neonatal intensive care unit in Southern California. Almost every day, her 22-year-old mother sits at her bedside and stays overnight whenever she can.

OGDEN -- When Robin Carpenter's phone rings at work, it's usually not good news.

Car accidents, shootings, heart attacks, family fights, attempted suicides, drug overdoses, and even babies being born on the side of the road are just a few of the things she hears about when she picks up the receiver.

WILLARD -- Ashley Marsden was born at home 31 years ago on Sept. 19 when her mother didn't have time to make it to the hospital after she went into labor.

ORANGE, Calif. -- A Southern California woman accused of tossing her 7-month-old son from the fourth floor of a hospital parking structure was arrested after she circled back to the scene four hours later, a police spokesman said Tuesday.