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BOSTON – Quick-thinking school nurses and paramedics are being credited with saving the life of a 7-year-old boy who went into cardiac arrest after choking on food during a school Christmas party. Authorities say the second-grader at the Josiah Quincy School in the city’s Chinatown neighborhood collapsed on the floor …

CINCINNATI – A bar owner took an 11-year-old girl’s skateboard at gunpoint and was charged with armed robbery, police said. Jack Connerton, 50, was angry over children cutting through his parking lot on skateboards, according to authorities. He was arrested on the felony count Saturday after he allegedly pointed a …

NUKU’ALOFA, Tonga – Eighty-five passengers were missing and feared dead Saturday after their ferry flipped and sank off Tonga, with only two bodies recovered more than two days after the disaster. Police Chief Inspector Sokopeti To’ia told The Associated Press on Saturday the latest count of those aboard the ill-fated …