Old Boy

The uncle of a 10-year-old boy struck by gunfire during a Northeast Philadelphia drive-by shooting earlier this week is now facing charges for returning fire, authorities said.

A 10-year-old boy was rushed to the hospital Wednesday in Northeast Philadelphia after being shot in the back of the head during a drive-by shooting, police said.

New Haven police are investigating a hit-and-run that injured a 3-year-old boy on Sunday.

Doctors in India found 526 ‘teeth-like structures’ in a 7-year-old boy’s mouth. The boy had been bothered by swelling and it went unnoticed for four years.

Dentists at the Saveetha Dental College and Hospital in India hit the jackpot — of teeth. When a 7-year-old boy was brought to the hospital for swelling in his jaw, the surgeons noticed a large lesion with multiple hard structures at a single site in his lower jaw. Once they were able to begin surgery, doctors discovered a “bag-like mass”...

A 6-year-old boy was one of the three people killed when a gunman opened fire Sunday at the Gilroy Garlic Festival, a family event southeast of San Jose that he attended with his mother and grandmother.

A Maryland family is pleading for help to find their 4-year-old son’s emotional support dog.

A Maryland family is pleading for help to find their 4-year-old son’s emotional support dog.

A 12-year-old boy was allegedly chained up, abused and starved by his parents, who are circus promoters, before he died last week in Indiana, NBC News reported. The parents, 33-year-old Luis Posso and 26-year-old Dayan Median Flores, were charged with felony neglect Friday, a day after the boy, Eduardo, died in a hospital in Bloomington, according to a statement from...

A D.C. boy’s dream to produce and direct his own movie has come true — and he’s only 10 years old.

A 22-year-old man facing a capital murder charge in the fatal shooting of a 2-year-old boy says the child shot himself and that he was not in the room when the gun went off, according to an arrest warrant affidavit obtained Monday afternoon by The Dallas Morning News.

Waterbury police have arrested a man accused of ignoring a school bus stop signal and hitting a 7-year-old boy with his car.

Waterbury police have arrested a man accused of ignoring a school bus stop signal and hitting a 7-year-old boy with his car.

A 7-year-old boy was injured in a hit-and-run crash in Waterbury Monday, and police are searching for the driver who struck him. On Tuesday, police released surveillance video and warned that it might be disturbing because it shows the moment the child was injured.

Police in western New York are searching for a 14-month-old boy after his mother’s body was found in a bag hidden in the woods a week after she had been reported missing.

A 32-year-old woman has pleaded guilty to first-degree murder for torturing and killing a 17-month-old Staten Island boy she had been babysitting two years ago, authorities said Monday.

More than half of the homicide victims in Washington, D.C. so far this year have been under age 19, a News4 analysis of Metropolitan Police Department data shows. Five teenagers, one infant and five adults have been killed.

An 11-year-old New Haven boy is recovering after being bitten in the face by a pit bull, according to New Haven police.

Stamford police have arrested a man accused of driving under the influence with his girlfriend’s 10-year-old son in the car, then strangling and threatening to kill his girlfriend during a subsequent argument in front of the child.

A 4-year-old avid Mets fan from Texas went swimming with his family over Memorial Day weekend. Six days later, he abruptly woke up during the night, took a deep breath and died, the apparent victim of a rare phenomenon often referred to as “dry drowning.”