Skull Fracture

A 2-year-old girl was critically hurt when she fell from a third-story porch in the Lawndale neighborhood this afternoon. The girl was playing on a third-floor porch in the 1400 block of South Trumbull Avenue when she somehow fell off and plummeted to...

About four million Bumbo seats have been recalled, after it was reported that babies were injured when they fell out of the floor seats. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and Bumbo are aware of 34 incidents where babies fell out of or...

A South African-based company announced a voluntary recall Wednesday of 4 million Bumbo Baby Seats due to injuries from falls. Bumbo International Trust said they issued the recall in order to add restraint belts and new warnings to the baby seats. ...

Alissa Guernsey’s bruises had caught the attention of her Topeka pediatrician, who would later tell investigators that he thought there might be a medical reason for her repeated injuries. Testing did not yield answers, so the doctor called the...

SOUTH BEND -- Hours after his son's death, 36-year-old Terry Sturgis insisted to homicide detectives he did not cause the boy's widespread injuries, and said he "loved his children to death." On Tuesday afternoon, jurors in the Sturgis trial viewed the...

The Anchorage Police Dept. arrested Tex Daniels, the driver accused of the New Year’s Day vehicle-pedestrians crash that injured an Anchorage School District teacher and her boyfriend, and have also finished two other traffic investigations on...

A man accused of killing his 70-year-old mother appeared in the Franklin County (Pa.) Court of Common Pleas on Monday, where a flurry of federal and local court motions in the case were reviewed. Marcus Wallace, 40, is charged with first-degree and...

SOUTH BEND - Exactly what happened to 2-year-old Maya Escobedo on the night of Dec. 2, 2008, might never be known, but a jury determined Monday that the girl's father did not knowingly kill her. Valentin Escobedo, 25, was acquitted of murder, but found...

Needing a moment to prepare a snack, nanny Teri Deel set her 3-month-old charge in a Bumbo Baby Seat on the kitchen floor nearby. Suddenly the 20-pound boy arched his back, lurched out of the round plastic seat and struck his head on a rattle. The fall...

An Anchorage man has been charged with two felony counts of second-degree domestic-violence assault after allegedly throwing and hitting his fiancée’s 21-month-old son in two separate incidents this week. Charging documents (PDF) claim Jeremy...

A man accused of beating the bassist for a Chicago rock band when the musician tried to stop the man from attacking his wife was found not guilty today, prosecutors said. Justin Pivec, 35, was found not guilty in a bench trial that ended midday today...

Hagerstown police and the Washington County State’s Attorney’s Office are investigating the circumstances surrounding brain injuries a toddler suffered in March which a report said have left the boy with “no chance of a meaningful...