Skull Fracture

CHICAGO (AP) — Cheerleading isn't just jumping and waving pompoms — it has become as athletic and potentially as dangerous as a sport and should be designated one to improve safety, the nation's leading group of pediatricians says. The number...

SOUTH BEND - Exactly what happened to 2-year-old Maya Escobedo on the night of Dec. 2, 2008, might never be known, but a jury determined Monday that the girl's father did not knowingly kill her. Valentin Escobedo, 25, was acquitted of murder, but found...

Tuesday, jurors got to hear from Terry Sturgis – in his own words – for the first time during his murder trial.  Prosecuting attorneys played more than two hours of a very long interrogation with Sturgis that began about three hours after...

MISHAWAKA -- The owner of an area nightclub wants people to know his business was not the location of a violent attack earlier this month. A 45-year-old South Bend man told police last week that he was robbed and beaten inside Club Sky at the 100...

MISHAWAKA — A 45-year-old South Bend man told police he was attacked and robbed inside a bar at the 100 Center over the weekend. The man said he was at Club Sky, 100 N. Center St., late Saturday night into early Sunday morning when he was...

SOUTH BEND — Calling his crimes “the worst of the worst,” St. Joseph Superior Court Judge Jane Woodward Miller sentenced a local father to 53 years in prison today for fatally beating his young daughter in 2008. Valentin Escobedo, 25,...

Police say two people received reportedly minor injuries and a third may have fractured her skull in a crash at Lincoln Way West and North Middleboro Avenue in Mishawaka. This happened around noon Monday. A WSBT photographer at the scene said a Mustang...

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Nolan Ryan would always try to accommodate kids clamoring for a baseball when he was pitching. And the new owner of the Texas Rangers has had a goal of helping create cherished memories for families, for fathers and sons...

PARIS (AP) — A big study in older veterans raises fresh concern about mild brain injuries that hundreds of thousands of American troops have suffered from explosions in recent wars. Researchers say even concussions seem to raise the risk of...

SOUTH BEND - A man accused of inflicting fatal injuries on his 2-year-old daughter took the witness stand during his trial in St. Joseph Superior Court Monday morning, denying all allegations against him. Valentin Escobedo, 25, said he never abused his...

A South Bend man suffered a fractured skull when he was beaten and robbed of his car and wallet at a gas station early Friday. Police said the 36-year-old victim admitted to being intoxicated when he pulled his gray 2002 Ford Focus into the Phillips 66...

A Knox woman is facing charges, accused of shoving her 3-year-old stepson to the ground and injuring him so severely that he died. It happened on Father's Day weekend, but charges were just filed Friday against Stacie Brown. “He had a skull...