Nebraska authorities have placed a 16-year-old girl and her eight-month old son under state foster care after she sought safe haven at an Omaha hospital but did not qualify. The unnamed mother's aunt drove her niece to the Immanuel Medical Center on Oct. 17 as she wanted to place herself under the state's Safe Haven Law, which allows parents to abandon children without getting prosecuted. The girl claimed she sought refuge because her mother emotionally abused her, withheld state money intended for the care of her son, and kicked her out of their home.

A 27-year-old Oregon man has a search and rescue team to thank, as it located him five days after he set off climbing southern Washington's Mount Adams. Derek Mamoyac of Philomath, Ore. was found 6,000 feet up on the mountain reportedly surviving the ordeal by eating centipedes and drinking water from creeks.

St. Paul's Hospital in Vancouver had a medical milestone last weekend: 13-year-old Sikander Sakota surviving a potentially fatal heart disease, when he became the youngest patient in the world to receive the world's smallest heart pump. Sahota started feeling ill last Saturday and was diagnosed with viral myocarditis, an infection that destroys heart muscle. A heart pump was inserted into his groin and threaded into his heart. From there, the pump began helping his heart push blood.

A four-year-old boy from Watertown City, New York is developing an extra skeleton because of a rare disease and will eventually become stiff for life. Kimberley Hayes, a 4th-grade teacher at Watertown City School District's Knickerbocker Elementary School, revealed to Watertown Daily Times on Thursday that his son, Shane, has been diagnosed with fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP), which affects only 600 people worldwide.

An 88-year-old man shot dead his 87-year-old wife before shooting himself inside a patient room at the Community Medical Center in Toms River, New Jersey in an apparent mercy killing-suicide on Friday. The shooter did not die but was seriously wounded and taken to the Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune, according to police.