Injured Child Transported To Little Rock Hospital

FORT SMITH -- A 23-month-old boy who fell out of a vehicle and then was run over by another vehicle Friday has been transported to a Little Rock hospital, according to Fort Smith police.Ruben Lopez, 35, of Fort Smith was traveling south in Sixth Street just before 6 p.m. and as he attempted to turn left on T Street, his son, who was in the front seat, somehow fell from the vehicle onto Sixth Street, said Cpl. Jeff Taylor of the Fort Smith Police Department. The boy, Alex Valdez, was not secured in a child safety seat, police said.Lopez stopped his vehicle in the middle of turning onto T Street, which caused a woman driving northbound on Sixth Street to veer to the left, Taylor said. The woman, Anna Hernandez, 38, of Fort Smith, swerved left, not realizing the child was in the street, Taylor said.

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Because Child-Rearing's The Most Important Job

Ben Franklin wrote that assertive women tend to be "active in the business of the family." In Franklin's day, such women were frowned on. Today women who choose full-time motherhood over a profession are seen as less assertive or less accomplished. But not the wives of Dell CEO Kevin Rollins or JetBlue Airways CEO David Neeleman. .

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Bayfield man faces child porn charges

A convicted pedophile has been charged after police found him -- and a computer on which child pornography was being downloaded -- in a London home. Police detectives last week went to a Bayfield home where a man was supposed to be staying according to his bail conditions. When they couldn't find him there, detectives went to an east London apartment where they thought he might be. That led to his arrest Thursday on alleged breach of bail conditions, said Const. Reed Holland. "They spun around and there was (a) computer humming away, actively in the process of downloading child pornography. They caught him red-handed, so to speak." The Bayfield man spent four months in jail for possessing child porn in 2005. He had previously been given an 18-month conditional sentence in 1998 for sexual interference and touching a 13-year-old boy.

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