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Another co-sleeping death in Milwaukee

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Published Feb. 13, 2010 at 3:46 p.m.

Co-sleeping claims the life of another Milwaukee baby. According to the medical examiner's report, the three-month-old girl died Sunday morning at her home on 18Th and Rogers, after sleeping in the same bed as her teenage mom and two-year-old sibling ...

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Mother given 6-year term in starvation death of baby

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Published Jan. 21, 2010 at 11:16 p.m.

In the end, it was Lamour Caesar-Burnley's tiny body that spoke most forcefully of the neglect he endured in the final weeks of his life.Lamour, a preemie who spent the first three weeks of his life in a hospital, had been home less than a month when he died of starvation in July 2008.In that short time, his 4-pound 12.9-ounce body dropped three-quarters of a pound. Desperate to stave off starvation, his body devoured its fat, then its muscle, then began to steal protein from its own vital

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Infant who died on plane lived most of his life in hospital

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Published Jan. 21, 2010 at 1:14 p.m.

An infant who died on a United Airlines flight diverted to Milwaukee Wednesday had been born with a heart defect and was headed home to South Dakota after treatment at a Michigan hospital.The 2-month-old baby and family were from South Dakota, but he was born with a heart defect, Pulmonary Atresia, according to an investigation report from the Milwaukee County Medical Examiner's office. He lived almost all of his life in medical unit at the University of Michigan children's hospital in Ann

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$2.4 million sought for seized baby food

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Published Jan. 20, 2010 at 10:49 p.m.

A New Berlin company has sued federal prosecutors and law enforcement, saying it should be paid for more than 81,000 cans of baby formula seized during a raid nearly three years ago ...

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charges in baby death

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Published Dec. 30, 2009 at 8:08 a.m.

Charges were filed Tuesday in the death of 6-month-old Dekia Mattox. 36 year old Darius Woodley of Milwaukee is charged with first degree reckless homicide ...

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Milwaukee police investigate death of 6-month-old baby on city's north side

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Published Dec. 28, 2009 at 5:55 p.m.

Milwaukee police are investigating the death of a six-month-old baby girl. Investigators tell FOX 6 they don't know all the details, but say what they do know is disturbing ...

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Meta House graduates pay tribute, say thanks

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Published Dec. 26, 2009 at 5:00 p.m.

For more than 20 years, Shirley Hughes' alcoholism and drug addiction fueled an out-of-control life, making it difficult to hold jobs or finish college. But about two years ago, Hughes discovered Meta House, a residential treatment center specifically designed to address the unique issues female abusers face as women and mothers.Meta House did the trick and Hughes, now a 44-year-old mother of three, says the therapists at the facility helped her to face many issues in her life that were

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Woman literally gave of herself to save sick infant

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Published Nov. 18, 2009 at 12:46 a.m.

The Lauerman family needed lots of breast milk for a baby boy, Michael, who couldn't thrive because he was unable to digest anything else. Dozens of women came forward in 1969, including Sandy Snarski ...

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No foul play in 7-month-old's death, authorities say

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Published Sept. 15, 2009 at 10:38 a.m.

Authorities have found no signs of foul play in the investigation of a 7-month-old baby who died Saturday, authorities said Tuesday morning.Police questioned the mother and grandmother of a baby who died Saturday night in a house in the 900 block of N. 35th St.Police and emergency medical crews found the child unresponsive when they answered a call for assistance about 11 p.m., police said Sunday. The mother, grandmother and several other children were in the home at the time, police said ...

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