Mar. 16, 2025
Photo: gofundmeA young boy from Nevada is fighting for his life after he was diagnosed with a rare brain cancer with no known cure and a low rate of survival.According to aGoFundMecampaign,Branimir Bankovfirst noticed his 12-year-old son Boris had difficulty speaking when he returned from a school day in late August.Boris saw his physician the next day and was immediately sent to a local emergency room, where doctors discovered a tumor the size of a “ping pong ball” growing inside his brain, per the donation page.
Mar. 16, 2025
After suffering burns on 35 percent of his body while attempting the “Fire Challenge,” Nick Howell has a message for other kids: “You shouldn’t try everything you see on social media.”
“It won’t go well,” the 12-year-old tells PEOPLE for this week’s issue, which explores the dangers ofTikTokchallenges. “I want to tell people not to be a follower, but to be a leader.”
It’s a lesson Nick learned on Thursday, Oct.
Mar. 16, 2025
Photo: Lisa BarrowWhen 12-year-old Dalton Barrow’s special-needs stroller disappeared from his Gresham, Oregon, backyard on Nov. 10, his mother, Lisa Barrow, thought she would have to save up for months to afford a new one.That is untilKool Stop, a Lake Oswego, Oregon, bike and stroller company decided to donate aspecial use joggerto the single mother and her son.Dalton, who endures almost weeklygrand mal seizuresdue to a severe form of epilepsy calledLennox-Gastaut syndrome, requires a unique type of stroller to go outside due to the unpredictable nature of his disorder.
Mar. 16, 2025
Target store in Texas.Photo:Getty
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A missing 12-year-old boy was found inside a Target store in Ohio on Monday morning, according to police.
Police said that the boy had spent the night alone in the store after running away from home, per the outlets.
It remains unclear how the boy managed to slip into the store and go undetected overnight before the store’s opening Monday.
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Mar. 16, 2025
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A 12-year-old’s teddy bear is safe and sound after the New Jersey boy called police to “rescue” the stuffed animal.
Ryan Paul, of Woodbridge, New Jersey, called 911 in a panic last week after his beloved teddy bear, Freddy, went missing while he played in his bedroom,according to News 12 New Jersey.
The call came to his parents’ surprise.
“I said, ‘Ryan, did you call 911?’ ” Ryan’s father, Robert Paul,recalled to WABC.