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CAMP TAJI, Iraq, Aug. 13, 2007 — Multi-National Division - Baghdad soldiers rescued a 2-year-old Iraqi boy from a dry well in which he fell Aug. 9. "He sounded scared, but OK. I don't think I have ever heard a more beautiful sound." Capt. David Powell Soldiers with Company B, 2nd Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division responded to the pleas for assistance from the father of a boy who had fallen into a dry well near the family's residence. The company commander, Capt. David Powell of Newport Beach, Calif., was about to begin a...

DNA Taken From Pitbull That Raped 2-Year-Old Police say DNA has been taken from the pitbull that attacked a toddler by allegedly sodomizing it last weekend. It was a disturbing and violent attack. The two year old child is in Women and Children's Hospital. Neighbors heard a mother screaming that her child was being raped. Now people are calling to adopt the pitbull. Lockport, NY -- Police say DNA has been taken from the pitbull that attacked a toddler by allegedly sodomizing it last weekend. It was a disturbing and violent attack. The two year old child is in Women...

THE VILLAGES -- Nearly two weeks after toddler Trenton Duckett disappeared, his 21-year-old mother shot and killed herself Friday afternoon in her grandparents' retirement-community home, authorities said. Melinda Duckett died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said, but they provided few other details about her death. Two-year-old Trenton had not been found by early today. (snip) In the taped interview aired Friday night on the CNN Headline News program Nancy Grace, Melinda Duckett was interrogated on her whereabouts before and during Trenton's reported abduction. She was asked whether she had undergone a lie-detector test, where she was before her son's...

MILWAUKEE -- A 2-year old Milwaukee girl is in critical but stable condition at Children's Hospital after being shot early Sunday on the city's north side. Police have one man behind bars accused of the shooting. They said he the little girl's uncle and lived in the home. Police said Monday morning that it appears the man was pulling the gun out of his pocket when it went off. Maurice Claypool lives just a few houses away from where the shooting took place. He said he's had enough and has decided to move out. "The neighborhood is going bad. It's...