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Australian Soldier Killed in Afghanistan Father of Newborn
It has been revealed that Corporal Mathew Hopkins, the Australian soldier killed in Afghanistan on Monday, was father to a young baby and spent just four days with him before being sent back for a second tour of duty. His devastated wife Victoria yesterday paid tribute to her husband who died during an ambush in the war-torn country on Monday...
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Mother With Herpes Unwittingly Kills Baby With A Kiss
This heart-wrenching story is made bearable by the courage of the mother it involves, who has taken her tragedy as a chance to educate others. Ruth Schofield contacted the herpes simplex virus (HSV) for the first time when she was in her final term of pregnancy. She was prescribed antibiotics for her mouth ulcers, which were still present when...
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Preteen Boy Accused Of Murdering Dad’s Pregnant Girlfriend
A sad, sad story out of Pennsylvania: 26-year-old Kenzie Marie Houk was pregnant with her third child, a boy due in early March, when her boyfriend's son, 11-year-old Jordan Brown, allegedly shot her to death. It was not possible to save the life of her unborn son. Houk's body was discovered by her four-year-old daughter, who ran outside to tell wo...
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Newborn Baby Found at Sydney Rubbish Tip
Workers at a waste disposal centre in Sydney made a grisly discovery when sorting through rubbish yesterday - the body of a newborn baby boy. The baby was found in a sorting line at Jacks Gully Waste Disposal Centre in Spring Farm, near Narellan (South West Sydney), about 10.30am. Police believe the body may have been carried to the tip in a...
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Former Foster Care Kid Adopted At 36
I may be totally ripping off Grace Slick, but everybody wants somebody to love, right? Even if it's been eighteen years since you aged out of the foster care system and gave up your dreams of one day finding a mum? Alice Jones spent sixteen years in the foster care system, and she's been out of it for eighteen. But last week, Jones finally got a...
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Baby Born Two Days After Mum’s Death
There's no avoiding the horrors of this story. A woman has died. A mother will never get to see her baby girl. And yet, there's something beautiful about the story of little Aya Jayne Soliman (OK, beautiful and total sob, melt-down inducing). Her mother was forty-one, a former skating champion, who always wanted to be a mother. When she colla...
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Grieving Chinese Parents Not Allowed To Sue
A Chinese court has officially refused to hear the lawsuit filed by 57 parents whose children were killed in the earthquake earlier this year, according to the AP.The New York Times had confirmed this morning that the lawsuit had in fact been filed. 127 students in the town of Deyang lost their lives on May 12; some, but not all, of their parents a...
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Granting Son’s Last Wish, Mum Opens Orphanage in Nairobi
When 15-year-old John Halgrim told a Make-a-Wish volunteer that his last wish was to open an orphanage in Africa, the volunteer was dumbfounded. Normally, the foundation grants requests such as meeting a celebrity or taking a trip to Hawaii. She wasn't sure that Make-a-Wish could carry out such an ambitious, long-term request. "Do you have a s...
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Woman Loses Partner, Two Sons In Drowning Tragedy
I can't imagine being Stacey Lambert right now. Yesterday we brought you the news that a father and his two sons died in a drowning accident. Today, tragic new details have emerged of what happened that night in Tathra, on the far south coast of NSW. Read more...
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