Parents ditched kids to shop

COMMERCE, Georgia - Authorities in Georgia said two people were arrested for allegedly leaving their young children alone at a Wal-Mart so they could go shopping. Police said Mario Navarro, 35, and Elias Esmeralda, 31, left their children, ages 9 and 9 months, in a shopping cart at the Commerce, Ga., Wal-Mart at 7 a.m. on Black Friday and left the retail outlet to do more shopping. Witnesses said Wal-Mart employees paged the parents for 45 minutes---...More

Kids sentence Marcus the lamb to death

LONDON - A group of school children who reared a lamb from birth and named it Marcus has overridden objections by parents and rights activists and voted to send the animal to slaughter. Marcus the six-month-old lamb has now been culled, the head teacher of the primary school in Kent confirmed, after the school’s council - a 14-member group of children aged 6 to 11 - voted 13-1 to have him killed...More