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Police in Ohio say a woman has been charged with child endangering after another motorist reported she was both breast-feeding a youngster and talking on a phone while driving.

Trading two children for a bird landed three people in jail in Louisiana, authorities say.

The father of a missing 5-year-old Florida girl said he and his girlfriend have taken and passed polygraph tests.

The Southern California mother of octuplets receives $490 a month in food stamps and three of her first six children are disabled and receiving federal assistance, her publicist confirmed Monday evening.

What are the true costs — both financial and emotional — of raising octuplets and six other children until age 18? One conservative estimate reveals that the price tag will be at least $1.5 million. And the emotional costs could prove to be the most severe, experts say.

A few hundred people arrived early Tuesday to attend the memorial service for slain 2-year old, Caylee Anthony, whose remains were uncovered in early December in woods near the home of her grandparents in Orlando, Florida.

Under investigation is Jeffrey Claude Bartleson, 52, who was arrested Jan. 29 and then re-arrested Wednesday after a campaign worker in the McCain office told police she believed Bartleson molested one of her sons.

Jonathon Porritt, who chairs the government's Sustainable Development Commission, says curbing population growth through contraception and abortion must be at the heart of policies to fight global warming.

A fire early Sunday at a home in northeast Fort Worth sent three children and their grandfather to the hospital -- two of the children with severe burns.A smoke detector was found in the house -- which is located in the 2600 block of Chenault Street -- but it was not in working order, said Lt. Kent Worley, Fort Worth Fire Department spokesman.A 3-year-old girl suffered third-degree burns, and a 1-year-old boy suffered second-degree burns, Worley said.

Fifteen people attending a party at a community center in West Oak Lane were stricken by carbon monoxide poisoning and rushed to Albert Einstein Medical Center last night, a hospital spokesman said.