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A missing 9-year-old girl escaped an apparent kidnapper and called 911 herself from a convenience store in Colorado Springs on Friday, police said. The Pueblo girl was reported missing Thursday night after she failed to return home from school. The car of the man she was with broke down Friday in Colorado Springs, and a passerby gave them a ride to a Circle K, police said.

Authorities in Milwaukee are investigating the apparent suicide of a 10-year-old boy Saturday night, according to a report on WTMJ-TV, an NBC affiliate in Wisconsin. The child's mother called 911 after finding him unresponsive in their home near 7th and Chambers on Milwaukee's north side, the station reported. The Medical Examiner's Office is investigating the circumstances surrounding the death, but told the station it appears the boy took his own life.

A 4-year-old boy’s 911 call for help is credited with helping save his mother’s life. The boy dialed 911 from a cell phone in his home and said: “Um, my mommy doesn’t feel good.”

A distraught caller trying to save the life of a 2-year-old Florida girl strangled by a pet python screamed 'The baby's dead!' in chilling 911 tapes released in the toddler's death.

Octuplet mother Nadya Suleman became unhinged with fear last year when she thought she had lost one of her children, repeatedly telling an emergency dispatcher, 'Oh God, I'm going to kill myself.'