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A family has turned to the Internet to help them solve a medical mystery involving their 10-month-old son. The Scott family, of Ottawa, Canada, created a website, WhatsWrongWithWyatt.com, hoping that someone may recognize their son’s problem or have some type of solution, according to ABC News. When Wyatt Scott was born, nurses realized something was wrong when his mom couldn’t …

The negative effects of childhood bullying are still evident nearly 40 years later, according to new findings by researchers at King’s College London. The study, published in the American Journal of Psychiatry, is the first to investigate the repercussions of childhood bullying beyond early adulthood.

Gwyneth Paltrow put those split-from-Chris-Martin issues behind her for a night out with the girls this weekend as she met up with pals Stella McCartney, Chelsea Handler, film director Sam Taylor Wood, Gwen Stefani, Nicole Richie and Naomi Watts at Crossroads vegan restaurant in Hollywood.

A Long Island City cabdriver has been charged with stealing more than $28,000 in toll payments from the MTA, Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said. Rodolfo Sanchez, 69, allegedly crossed the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge more than 3,000 times since 2012 without paying by “piggybacking” behind other cars, Brown said.

Your brain might be slowing down a bit sooner than you think. A new study suggests some people’s cognitive motor skills begin to slowly diminish after the age of 24. Canadian researchers gathered data from a group of more than 3000 players as they played a fast-moving computer game.

A pregnant mother-of-three with appendicitis died after a trainee surgeon mistakenly removed one of her healthy ovaries, a tribunal heard. Maria De Jesus, 32, of Wroxall Road, Dagenham, underwent the botched operation at Queen’s Hospital, Romford, after she was admitted with abdominal pains in October 2011. She died 19 days later after suffering a miscarriage.

Ogden-based Bank of Utah has been identified as the trustee for an American plane sighted this week in Iran. The plane was spotted Tuesday morning by a New York Times reporter. The sighting is significant because American enterprises are typically barred from doing business in Iran due to economic sanctions and diplomatic tension. However, the plane was in an open …

A fan of Miss America Nina Davuluri got himself in trouble after asking if she would accompany him on the prom. A student of Pennsylvania high school asked Davuluri if she would come with him to prom during a question and answer session at school. Eighteen-year-old Patrick Farves was suspended from school for three days as he said he got …

Legendary guns go for big bucks these days. A gun owned by Wyatt Earp was sold at an auction Thursday for $225,000. The gun, a Colt .45 revolver, is believed to have been used during the O.K. Corral shootout in Tombstone, reported the Associated Press. Originally valued by the auction house between $100,000 and $150,000, the revolver was sold to …

Three bodies were retrieved for the first time late Saturday night from the sunken South Korean ferry, the emergency management headquarters said Sunday. “Divers broke through the window of a passenger cabin just before midnight and pulled out three bodies,” a coastguard official said today.

Free drug samples may be costly in the long run, according to a new study from researchers at Stanford. For the study the researchers worked with a team of dermatologists to see how free samples impact their prescribing practices.