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Reports say a teacher’s assistant became so enraged last week she threw a toddler to the floor, killing him.   Melissa Calusinski, 22, allegedly threw 16-month-old Benjamin Kingan to the floor threw when she became frustrated for his being too noisy. Benjamin later collapsed and died from His skull fractured, reports say.   Calusiniski was charged with two counts of first-degree murder and ordered held in lieu of $5 million bail. A criminal check apparently showed nothing that would have…

Cindy Becker-Watkins, 51, of Auburn, CA, was pronounced dead early this month after being pulled from the water at Portuguese Beach, a sandy stretch of coastline north of Bodega Bay, CA. Becker-Watkins went into the surf after a dog at about 8 a.m. in the morning, but was quickly overcome by the icy cold water, ultimately disappearing from view before being washed back to the shore. She was pulled out by her husband and a State Park Ranger and emergency…

In a massive Salmonella outbreak ultimately linked to the Peanut Corporation of America, several victims, or families of victims, want the Justice Department to file criminal charges against PCA, reports say. The Salmonella outbreak sickened thousands in the United States and Canada, causing a number of deaths, reports say. PCA reportedly furnished peanuts that went into some 3,500 products. Those products in turn made some 22,500 people sick and nine people dead from Salmonella infection, reports say. When US FDA…

The cause of Leslie Lavern Matthias, 61, was accidental drowning, according to reports from the autopsy performed by the state medical examiner. Police were originally concerned that the death might have been as the result of foul play, reports say. The incident occurred when, early this month, officers from the Readlyn Police Department stopped to make a regular check at Matthias’ home. Matthias was known to the police as an easygoing resident who sometimes required assistance in his daily life…

  Charges against the owner of a Casper, WY childcare facility were filed after an infant died in October last year. The child, Tyler Parker, was found by his mother with what appeared to be severe hypoxic, conisistent with suffocation.  Sara Beth Whited, 48, faces one count of child endangerment.   The mother came to the facility and found her son blue and purple and cold. She tried to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation, but found his jaw basically locked, reports say….