Infants

Crews rescue beached sperm whale

A crew from Sea World worked through the early morning Monday to rescue a baby sperm whale after it came ashore at Torrey Pines State Beach. The square-faced gray-brown colored mammal turned up at around 9:30 p.m. Sunday night near the San Diego La Jolla...

Tags: San Diego (San Diego, California), Nature, Animals, Amusement and Theme Parks, Conservation

Mummified babies from 1930s found in L.A. basement

KTLA News

An investigation is under way after the mummified remains of two babies, believed to be at least 70 years old, were found wrapped in historic newspapers in the basement of an apartment building in the Westlake District of Los Angeles. The grim...

Tags: KTLA, John Dillinger, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Times, Family

Whooping cough reaching epidemic levels

FOX 5 San Diego Staff

County Health Department officials say the number of whooping cough cases has reached epidemic levels and the symptoms of the disease may take a while to become evident. So far this year, there have been 412 cases of pertussis, also known as whooping...

Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Vaccines, Diseases and Illnesses, San Diego (San Diego, California), Internists

Mother leaves newborn at fire station

FOX 5 San Diego Reporter

A young mother turned over her newborn boy at a South Bay fire station Monday, telling firefighters she could not care for the child. "We got a ring at the doorbell," said Frank Fermin, a firefigher for San Diego Fire Rescue. "An EMT was the first one to...

Tags: San Diego (San Diego, California), Crime, Law and Justice, California, Children, Hospitals and Clinics

Infant dies from whooping cough

FOX 5 San Diego Staff

A 6-week-old infant died at Rady Children's HospitalSan Diego from whooping cough, also called pertussis, county health officials announced Tuesday. The baby, who was born prematurely, died last week, according to the San Diego County Health and Human...

Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Whooping Cough, San Diego (San Diego, California), Healthcare Provider, Diseases and Illnesses

Father arrested in toddler's murder

FOX 5 San Diego Staff

A 25-year-old Texas man was in custody Thursday, accused of murdering his 2-month-old infant daughter in Vista four-and-a-half years ago. Gabriel Gaitan was arrested without incident Tuesday in Texas by San Diego County sheriff's homicide detectives,...

Tags: Crimes, San Diego (San Diego, California), Crime, Law and Justice, Murder, Vista

Mom, baby killed when father slams SUV into home

KTLA News

Authorities say a 19-year-old mother and and her 10-day-old baby are dead after a truck driven by the baby's father crashed into a home in Los Angeles. The crash was reported just before midnight in the 400 block of N. Mott Street in the Boyle Heights...

Tags: KTLA, Los Angeles, Vehicles, Halloween, Los Angeles Police Department

Young mom surrenders baby at Oceanside fire station

FOX 5 San Diego Staff

A young woman who apparently had just given birth brought her baby to an Oceanside fire station and surrendered the unharmed child to firefighters Saturday. Because fire stations in San Diego County were designated in 2007 as "safe haven sites,'' where...

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Cops: Man slams baby into dresser

FOX 5 San Diego Staff

A jobless young man was jailed Friday for allegedly slamming his live-in girlfriend's 20-month-old son into a dresser in a drunken rage in their City Heights apartment and pummeling a relative who tried to stop him. Cory Devon Demery, 20, also fought...

Tags: San Diego (San Diego, California), Hospitals and Clinics, Health

Local baby dies from whooping cough

FOX 5 San Diego Staff

A baby boy, who had been diagnosed with whooping cough, died at a San Diego hospital, becoming the first fatality from the disease in nearly a decade, county health officials said Thursday. The month-old baby died Tuesday at Rady Children's Hospital,...

Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Plastic Surgeons, Diseases and Illnesses, Healthcare Provider, San Diego (San Diego, California)

Marine arrested in death of infant son

FOX 5 San Diego Reporter

San Diego police arrested a U.S. Marine Tuesday in connection to the death of his infant son. Michael Bixby was taken in to custody Tuesday afternoon, after an autopsy determined his youngest child, Andru died of blunt force head trauma while in his...

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