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Layton toddler laid to rest

Last updated Saturday, May 19, 2012 - 10:57pm

LAYTON — Corbin Anderson, 4, of Layton, who is believed to have drowned in the Weber River April 28, was laid to rest Saturday.

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Coroner IDs 3-year-old swept away in Virgin River

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, May 16, 2012 - 11:33am

MESQUITE, Nev. -- Authorities are identifying a 3-year-old girl who died after she was swept into the Virgin River while playing on the shore.

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April 30, 2012 -- Lila Ruiz pulls her little sister Stella in a wagon. Lila, 3, has underwent more than 30 surgeries in her lifetime due to a rare condition, Megacystis-Microcolon-Intestinal-Hypoperistalsis Syndrome. (SHNS photo courtesy Maghann Ruiz)

A 3-year-old battles chronic condition with help from earthly 'angels'

Sarah Whitman Tampa Bay Times

Last updated Wednesday, May 2, 2012 - 1:03pm

RIVERVIEW, Fla. -- Maghann Ruiz chronicles her daughter's story with photos on the family blog.

Asleep in her child-sized hospital bed, 3-year-old Lila cuddles with her mom.

Sporting pigtails and a "Hello Kitty" shirt, a smiling Lila pulls her 18-month-old sister around in a wagon.

Sipping juice after surgery, Lila doesn't seem to notice the camera.

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Toddler buried in Utah after washing machine drowning

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, April 2, 2012 - 2:41pm

OREM — At 21 months, Ollie Hebb was his mother’s helper on laundry day, climbing atop a bin so he could toss clothes into a top-loading washer.

On the morning he went missing for a few minutes, Tiffany Hebb went through her house calling for him but got no answer. She found the toddler in the washing machine, submerged in a full tub. He died a day later.

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Mother, boyfriend charged in toddler's accidental shooting death

Christine Clarridge The Seattle Times

Last updated Wednesday, March 28, 2012 - 3:38pm

SEATTLE -- Second-degree manslaughter charges have been filed against a mother and her boyfriend in connection with the accidental shooting of the woman's toddler at a Tacoma, Wash., gas station earlier this month.

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The vehicle where a 3-year-old boy fatally shot himself with a gun is seen behind police tape and parked at a gas station early Wednesday, March 14, 2012, in Tacoma, Wash. Police said the boy fatally shot himself with a gun he found in the vehicle after the father put his pistol under the seat and got out to pump gas while the mother went inside the convenience store. It was western Washington's third recent shooting by a child. (AP photo/komonews.com)

Toddler fatally shoots self with gun found in car

Donna Blankinship, Doug Esser The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, March 14, 2012 - 5:14pm

SEATTLE -- A 3-year-old scrambled out of his child seat after his parents stopped for gas early Wednesday, found a gun police say was left in the car by his father and fatally shot himself in the head.

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Toddler killed in West Jordan crash; mom, infant hurt

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, February 7, 2012 - 12:59pm

WEST JORDAN, Utah — Police are identifying a 2-year-old girl who died in a crash with a cement truck in West Jordan that also injured a mother and her son.

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Cache 2-year-old dies after dad backs car over him

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, January 30, 2012 - 3:11pm

MENDON -- A 2-year-old boy is dead after his father backed a car over him at their home in Mendon.

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This Dec. 20, 2011 booking photo provided by the Chicago Police Department shows, Andre Curry who is charged with Aggravated Domestic Battery. A judge in Chicago set bond at $100,000 for a Curry Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2011, who is accused of binding his young daughter's hands, legs and mouth with painters tape and posted a photograph of her on Facebook. (AP Photo/Chicago Police Department)

Dad 'only joking' when he posted Facebook photo of his bound, gagged toddler

Jason Meisner Chicago Tribune

Last updated Wednesday, December 21, 2011 - 5:29pm

CHICAGO -- A Chicago father who allegedly posted a Facebook photo of his 22-month-old daughter bound and gagged was just joking around and the whole case has been "blown out of proportion" by the Internet, his attorney and family said Wednesday.

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Police question behavior of missing boy's mother

Christine Clarridge, Sara Jean Green Los Angeles Times

Last updated Wednesday, November 9, 2011 - 4:34pm

SEATTLE -- The refusal to take a polygraph examination by the mother of a missing 2-year-old "looks suspicious," Bellevue, Wash., police said during a media briefing Wednesday.

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Questions plague hunt for missing toddler

Kim Murphy Los Angeles Times

Last updated Tuesday, November 8, 2011 - 6:59pm

SEATTLE -- The case of a toddler missing in Bellevue, Wash., after, his mother said, she left him unattended in a car for an hour has turned into a search through the parents' troubled marriage, with accusations of beatings, lies and mental illness vastly complicating the search for 2-year-old Sky Metalwala.

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SLC toddler critically hurt by falling television

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, October 25, 2011 - 3:40pm

SALT LAKE CITY -- A toddler has suffered critical injuries after a 27-inch television fell on top of him at a Salt Lake City motel.

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Deputies ID Cache girl killed by brother's BB gun shot

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, August 25, 2011 - 2:21pm

LEWISTON -- Cache County sheriff's deputies are identifying the young northern Utah girl who died after her 9-year-old brother allegedly shot her in the head with a BB gun.

Authorities say 4-year-old Karely Arzeta-Reyes of Lewiston suffered a fatal head injury after the shooting last Friday.

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