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DEKALB, TX (KSLA) - Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moo: A DeKalb, TX cow has managed the extremely rare feat of giving birth to 4 live calves. The black calves, 3 bulls and a heifer, were born to the cow owned by Dora Rumsey-Barling and her husband, Jimmy. The cow, described by Dora as "just a run of the mill red cow," had been bred to an Angus bull, so all 4 of the calves are black. “We didn't think she was due, even for one calf,” Dora says. Buzzards spotted circling over their 100-acre property in the Hubbard community south of...

Like most moms, Mek needs a break. The mother of the four fast-growing Malayan tiger cubs at Fresno Chaffee Zoo has frayed nerves and needs some space. “You can tell Mek has had it,” says Lyn Myers, assistant curator for mammals at the zoo. “It’s like the end of summer, when kids have been home all the time, and mom wants school to come. They’re ready for them to go.” Born Jan. 5 at the zoo, the cubs are now 11 months old. They are in good health and are receiving training from zoo officials to become more independent. They...

For our latest mission we filled a New York park with eight sets of identical quadruplets, creating a surreal experience for anyone who happened to be walking through the park.

March 26, 2012 (40DaysforLife.com) - Here we are — the final Monday of this 40 Days for Life campaign. And the stories of God’s miracles keep rolling in! In the first 33 days of prayer and fasting, there have been 496 babies saved from abortion — that we know of! Here are just a few stories from the sidewalk. INSIDE STORIES You may remember a story last week about an abortion center employee advising a young woman not to have an abortion after her ultrasound showed pictures of twins. Well — a campaign director in another location wrote me to...

Calgary woman delivers identical quadruplets A rare set of identical quadruplets will be reunited Friday at a Calgary hospital after spending their first night apart Thursday - two in Canada and two in the United States. Karen Jepp, 35, of Calgary delivered four healthy little girls Sunday at a hospital in Montana, after being sent there because of a shortage of neonatal beds in Canada. Babies Calissa and Dahlia, the strongest of the newborns, were flown to Alberta by air ambulance Thursday afternoon with their father, J.P. Jepp - only two babies can be accommodated at once in the air...

The quadruplet sisters, Autumn, Brooke, Calissa and Dahlia, born to Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Jepp began life with the odds stacked heavily against them. First, successful delivery of naturally conceived identical quadruplets occurs only once every 13 million births. According to Dr. Jamie Grifo of the NYU Fertility Center in New York, there are only 50 living sets of such twins in the entire world. More daunting, the Jepps are Canadians. That Karen and J. P. Jepp lived with their 2 year old son Simon in Calgary, Alberta presented a potentially life-threatening challenge Friday night when Mrs. Jepp began...

HELENA, Mont. - A 35-year-old Canadian woman has given birth to rare identical quadruplets, officials at a Great Falls hospital said Thursday. Karen Jepp of Calgary, Alberta, delivered Autumn, Brooke, Calissa and Dahlia by Caesarian section Sunday afternoon at Benefis Healthcare, said Amy Astin, the hospital's director of community and government relations. The four girls were breathing without ventilators and listed in good condition Thursday, she said. "These babies are doing grand," said Dr. Tom Key of Great Falls, the perinatologist who delivered the girls. The babies were born about two months early and were conceived without fertility drugs, he...

An ultrasound picture sits next to a constantly ringing phone on the reception desk of the Planet Salon that just opened in Beaumont Centre. The photo is a clue that something possibly unique is about to happen to the men who own the salon, domestic partners Thomas Dysarz and Michael Meehan. The men expect to become parents in late August, when a Caesarean section is scheduled. Meehan, 36, is the biological father. The mother is a 23-year-old surrogate who agreed to help Meehan and Dysarz have a baby through in-vitro fertilization. But then something happened that nobody expected -- and...