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An Indiana mom who saved her children's lives by shielding them with her own body during a tornado has lost parts of both of her legs. 36-year-old Stephanie Decker said in an interview with Fox59 that she picked her children, 8-year-old Dominic and 5-year-old Reese, up early from school when she heard the storm was approaching. They were in the family's basement when the storm hit.

A 3-year-old Maine girl, possibly confused by a dream, walked a mile to a grocery store in the middle of the night through freshly fallen snow, thinking her mother was inside buying pizza....

“I think you like testing yourself to see how much you can squeeze into a day,” my husband has said to me on more than one occasion. And, on more than one occasion, his hypothesis has added another item to my day’s things-to-do list: argue with husband. Now, I have some empirical evidence that my constant multi-tasking is neither a personal proclivity nor an enjoyable practice.

A Florida woman is sent to prison for 25 years for sexually assaulting her own children and emailing pictures of the sex acts to a Michigan man.

The mother of Lisa Irwin, an 11-month old Missouri girl missing for nearly two weeks, said in an interview she was drunk the night the infant disappeared.

A Riverside woman pushing her 2-year-old in a stroller is killed by a train near her home Saturday. The stroller was twice lodged on the tracks, but the woman pushed her daughter out of the way. A Riverside woman died Saturday evening as she struggled to push a baby stroller over a gated railroad crossing and was struck by a passing train.

Their views on the economy are relentlessly bleak, but America's so-called Walmart Moms -- the much-coveted working-class female voters whose support can swing an election -- do not blame President Barack Obama and have not given up on him.

Naiyana Patel, 33, is said to have killed her daughters, aged seven and four in Asheville, North Carolina, then tried to take her own life after a failed pregnancy.

An Alaska woman was convicted Tuesday of misdemeanor child abuse after squirting hot sauce into the mouth of her adopted Russian son as punishment in what prosecutors said was a ploy to get on a TV show.

A woman who is accused of killing her two small children before shooting and wounding herself at their home in west Harris County earlier this month has died at the hospital, officials said.