A woman is charged with swinging her 4-week-old baby at her boyfriend during a domestic dispute. The baby boy, who incurred a fractured skull and bleeding in the brain, is now in a stable condition at Children's Hospital in Pittsburgh. "Never, never, never. I can never remember anything like this," District Attorney Bradley Foulk told the Erie Times-News.

An expert who examined the remains of the mysterious animal found dead over the weekend, believes it was just a wild dog. Resident from Litchfield, Sabattus, Greene, Turner, Lewiston and Auburn have complained for years about the mysterious animal with its chilling monstrous cries. Loren Coleman, a Portland author and cryptozoologist, said though he didn't know for sure what the animal was, but based on his examination of its remains, "I think this dead animal is a chow or chow-mix, a relatively small dog, that was feral, which is unusual for that area," he told the Sun Journal newspaper.

Hasim Townsend, 4, survived an 11-storey fall from an apartment window at the Lincoln Square Apartments complex on Morton Avenue, Times Union reported on Saturday. The child suffered a fractured skull, a broken leg and other injuries and was in serious but stable condition in the pediatric intensive care unit of Albany Medical Center Hospital.

A jury on Wednesday sentenced a Virginia woman to one year in jail for trying to extort money from the Cracker Barrel restaurant chain by putting a dead mouse in a bowl of soup. She has also been fined a $2,500. Carla Patterson, 38, and her accomplice, also her son, Ricky Patterson, 22, sought $500,000 from the chain after claiming they found the rodent in the vegetable soup the woman ordered at a Newport News restaurant on Mother's Day weekend in 2004.

To see a patient that is holding a piece of his own skull after it fell off, hundreds of people are heading to a hospital in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata. A large, dead section of a 25-year-old electrician Sambhu Roy's skull came away after severe burns starved it of blood.