Asa Ames is a mysterious and tragic figure. The young sculptor died from consumption when he was 27 years, 7 months, and 7 days old. Though his own life was short, he immortalized family members and neighbors in the vicinity of Evans, Erie County, New York, in a legacy of twelve three-dimensional portraits of children and young adults carved between 1847 and his death in 1851.

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Defence: Ohio mother didn't kill baby in microwave, someone else did

Mon Aug 18, 1:55 PM

By The Associated Press

DAYTON, Ohio - A defence attorney in Ohio says it wasn't the mother, but someone else who killed a month-old baby by burning her in a microwave oven.

Defence attorney Jon Paul Rion told jurors during opening statements Monday that a cousin of the baby told to two friends: "I know who killed that baby."

Rion says in that conversation, days after the 2005 death, the cousin allegedly confessed that he had put the baby in a microwave.

China Arnold, 28, has pleaded not guilty to a charge of aggravated murder in the death of her daughter, Paris Talley.

Prosecutors say evidence will show Arnold was responsible for the death.

Arnold could face the death penalty if convicted at her retrial.

Baby pronounced dead lives after hours in cooler

Mon Aug 18, 3:53 PM

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A stillborn Israeli baby who was pronounced dead by doctors "came back to life" on Monday after spending hours in a hospital refrigerator.

The baby, weighing only 600 grams at birth, spent at least five hours inside one of the hospital's refrigerated storage units, before her parents, who had taken her to be buried, began noticing some movement.

"We unwrapped her and felt she was moving. We didn't believe it at first. Then she began holding my mother's hand, and then we saw her open her mouth," said 26-year-old Faiza Magdoub, the baby's mother.

The baby was pronounced dead several hours earlier, after doctors at Western Galilee hospital in northern Israel were forced to abort her mother's pregnancy because of internal bleeding. Magdoub was 23 weeks into her pregnancy.

"We don't know how to explain this, so when we don't know how to explain things in the medical world we call it a miracle, and this is probably what happened," hospital deputy director Moshe Daniel said.

The baby was then taken to the hospital's neonatal intensive care unit for further treatment, but doctors were not sure how long she will live.

Motti Ravid, a professor of internal medicine, told Israel's Channel 10 that the low temperature inside the cooler had slowed down the baby's metabolism and likely helped her survive.

(Writing by Avida Landau, Editing by Mike Collett-White)

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