Wednesday, May 22 2013 11:36 PM EDT2013-05-23 03:36:43 GMT
The rights of parents in Illinois to decide if their child can tan in a tanning bed could soon be taken away. That's what will happen if Governor Pat Quinn signs House Bill 188 into law. The bill is currently
The rights of parents in Illinois to decide if their child can tan in a tanning bed could soon be taken away.
Thursday, May 23 2013 4:19 AM EDT2013-05-23 08:19:34 GMT
A 50-year prison sentence was handed a man convicted of killing an unarmed man lured to a McHenry County home for sex.
A 50-year prison sentence was handed a man convicted of killing an unarmed man lured to a McHenry County home for sex.
JEFFERSON COUNTY, IL (KFVS) -
Illinois is looking at a record year of child abuse and neglect deaths and a Department of Children and Family Services analysis shows the most prevalent cause may surprise you.
"Illinois is looking at a record year of abuse and neglect deaths," said DCFS Spokesman Dave Clarkin. "When we looked at the data one of the prevailing causes was suffocation due to unsafe sleep."
According to DCFS, 40 babies died due to unsafe sleep conditions. It was the leading cause of child deaths in Illinois for 2012. Clarkin says of the 40, the majority were the result of parents cuddling up to baby to sleep; an act doctors warn against.
"When you're bed sharing, the infant is in an adult bed which is a softer mattress with lots of blankets and pillows, increasing the risk of pocketed gas and adults rolling over onto the kids and physically suffocating them," said Dr. Kurt Martin.
"If mom's 130 pounds, and rolls over on a seven or eight pound baby the child doesn't have a prayer," said Jefferson County Coroner Eddie Joe Marks. "The odds of an infant dying is 60 percent more likely to happen sleeping with mom and dad than alone in its bed. Sixty percent."
That's a message DCFS hopes the new statistics will help spread statewide to new parents and old ones.
"What we've learned is that it's important for grandparents the mother's mother to understand the risk of sleep deaths," said Clarkin. "So when moms turn to their own mothers for advice, they're hearing the same thing they're hearing from their doctor."
Marks suggests new parents follow the ABC's. Make sure baby sleeps alone, on its back, in a crib.
Wednesday, May 22 2013 10:32 AM EDT2013-05-22 14:32:03 GMT
(WMC-TV) - It is a tiny pest with a big bite that can do major damage. One Germantown family said it only took one infected tick to change their entire lifestyle – something they have been dealing with
It is a tiny pest with a big bite that can do major damage.
Wednesday, May 22 2013 10:50 PM EDT2013-05-23 02:50:49 GMT
You might think it's a problem in foreign countries, or big cities, but the SEMO Rescue and Restore Coalition said human trafficking is a problem in the Heartland.
You might think it's a problem in foreign countries, or big cities, but the SEMO Rescue and Restore Coalition said human trafficking is a problem in the Heartland.
Wednesday, May 22 2013 8:58 PM EDT2013-05-23 00:58:57 GMT
A Jackson County family was stunned after learning their dog was shot and killed by police.Authorities aren’t talking, but the family is.“I was just thinking how could somebody do that to me and just leave him in my yard for me to come home and find,” Tilley said.Brittney Tilley and her dad never expected they would bury their two-year-old dog Boots so soon.The beagle and lab mix was found shot in the head on Sunday. Days later, they still don’t know what drove someone to kill the dog.“A deci...
A Jackson County family was stunned after learning their dog was shot and killed by police.Authorities aren’t talking, but the family is.“I was just thinking how could somebody do that to me and just leave him in my yard for me to come home and find,” Tilley said.Brittney Tilley and her dad never expected they would bury their two-year-old dog Boots so soon.The beagle and lab mix was found shot in the head on Sunday. Days later, they still don’t know what drove someone to kill the dog.“A deci...
Wednesday, May 22 2013 8:18 AM EDT2013-05-22 12:18:28 GMT
Do you post to social media sites, upload digital pictures and videos, use credit cards or cell phones equipped with GPS? All of these modern conveniences are contributing to what's known as ‘big data.'
Do you post to social media sites, upload digital pictures and videos, use credit cards or cell phones equipped with GPS? All of these modern conveniences are contributing to what's known as ‘big data.'
Wednesday, May 22 2013 9:32 PM EDT2013-05-23 01:32:31 GMT
ORLANDO, FL (RNN) – A man with possible ties to a Boston Marathon bombing suspect was shot and killed after the FBI interviewed him early Wednesday. The FBI confirmed a special agent fatally shot a man
A man killed Wednesday during questioning by the FBI said he and Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev were accomplices in a 2011 slaying.
Wednesday, May 22 2013 7:56 PM EDT2013-05-22 23:56:01 GMT
(RNN) – Of the 24 killed in the EF-5 tornado that decimated Moore, OK, 10 are children - two of which are infants according to a release by the Oklahoma City Medical Examiner's Office. All the children
The last of the missing from Monday's massive tornado that tore through the town of Moore, OK, have been accounted for.
Wednesday, May 22 2013 9:38 PM EDT2013-05-23 01:38:14 GMT
MOORE, OK - The trembling, mud-spattered dog whose photo went viral on Tuesday was not actually standing watch over her owner's body - her name is Susie, her owner is named Curtis Collins, and he's alive.Thanks
There's a happy ending to the story of the little dog who was found standing guard over a body after the EF-5 tornado that decimated her neighborhood in Moore, OK. Her owner is alive, and they have been reunited thanks to the viral photo.
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