Tag: father-before
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Boy, 6, fights for his life after South Carolina school shooting
By Harriet McLeod CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) – A first grader who was shot and wounded by a 14-year-old boy accused of killing his father before he opened fire outside a South Carolina elementary school is “fighting for his life,” a fire chief and the boy's family said on Thursday. Jacob Hall, 6, was struck in…
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Boy, 6, fights for his life after South Carolina school shooting
By Harriet McLeod CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) – A first grader who was shot and wounded by a 14-year-old boy accused of killing his father before he opened fire outside a South Carolina elementary school is “fighting for his life,” a fire chief and the boy's family said on Thursday. Jacob Hall, 6, was struck in…
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Zika-related birth defects likely higher than anticipated: panel
By Bill Berkrot BOSTON (Reuters) – The risk posed by the Zika virus to developing fetuses is likely far greater than current estimates suggest, a top U.S. health official said on Thursday. Microcephaly, a rare birth defect in which babies develop abnormally small heads, is one of a constellation of Zika-associated problems increasingly being seen…