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A student and baseball player at El Camino Real Charter High School in Woodland Hills died of a suspected fentanyl overdose on Oct. 3, officials said. Cade Kitchen, 17, was described as a stand-out student and a dedicated athlete. School officials have not released many details about the death, but indicated it was the result of a fentanyl overdose. It is unclear if the drugs were consumed on or off campus and how they were obtained.

Two parents are facing multiple charges related to the investigation surrounding the death of their three-year-old -daughter. Laredo Police arrested the mother, 37-year-old Monica Dominguez and father, 32-year-old Gerardo Zavala Loredo for allegedly covering up the death of their daughter, Rebecca Zavala. The incident happened on Thursday afternoon at around 1:30 p.m. when police received an anonymous tip saying that something suspicious was going on in one of the apartments at the 1800 block of Jefferson Street. When authorities arrived at the scene, they began securing the area and requested assistance from the Laredo Fire Department HAZMAT Unit. When authorities...

Mother has special headstone made for deceased 4-year-old, only to see it removed because one person was bothered by it. What. It’s modern life circa 2017, I guess. Everything everyone does, always, everywhere, is fair game for everyone else’s mockery, scoffing, complaints, critiques . . . whatever. We can all speak to thousands of people instantly, or millions if we’re famous enough, so why miss a chance to #? Allow that type of thinking to become familiar enough, and pretty soon you get it in your head that you need to keep your fault-finding periscope up all the time, to...

Hamas leaders in Gaza announced Saturday that a young child had been killed in an Israeli airstrike. The child was identified as Ali Muataz al-Shawaf, 4. Pictures of the child’s bloody body were published in Palestinian Authority media outlets. However, IDF officials later revealed the story as a lie. There was no Israeli airstrike in the region in which the child was killed, they said. IDF officials confirmed that a Gaza terrorist was killed in an airstrike elsewhere in Gaza. The 25-year-old terrorist was targeted as he prepared to launch a rocket at southern Israel. .....

GADSDEN, Ala. — A 5-year-old boy who was asleep in the back of a car when it was stolen from the parking lot of an Albertville convenience store was found dead Tuesday morning in a neighboring county, authorities said. A dispatcher with the Etowah County Sheriff's Department said the body of Geontae Glass was discovered in a rural area. Officials planned to release details at a mid-morning news conference, said the dispatcher, who did not give her name. An FBI spokesman did not immediately return phone calls, and further details weren't available. The child was abducted shortly after 6 a.m....