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Southwest Airlines has apologized to a San Jose mom who was kicked off a plane along with her unruly 2-year-old son earlier this week. But Southwest spokeswoman Marilee McInnis told the Mercury News the airline did not regret its decision to yank Pamela Root and her son, Adam, off the plane — which flight attendants made in the interests of safety, she said — just the inconvenience it caused the family. Root said Friday she accepts Southwest's apology, "and in the future we just hope that children are not separated from their luggage."

A two-year-old Australian boy has escaped injury after crashing his mother's car through a fence and into two other vehicles. Ethan Nicol, of Rockhampton in Queensland, escaped without a scratch despite the car being written-off. His mother Althea said she was standing in her kitchen with a friend when she saw the car go past with Ethan, the youngest of seven children, standing behind the wheel. "I just started screaming because I knew that even if I ran outside and caught up to it I'd never be able to stop it," Mrs Nicol said. Mrs Nicol said when she reached...