h Boy survives crash, night on freezing beach

h Boy survives crash,night on freezing beach
LOWER COVE, Nova Scotia -- Gage Gabriel, 3, gets a kiss from his great-grandfather, Roy Gabriel, in Amherst, Nova Scotia. The boy spent an entire night shivering on a beach near the body of his dead mother after surviving a 90-foot plunge in a car off a seaside cliff, police said Friday.
Officials were at a loss to explain how Gage suffered only minor injuries, then almost 12 hours in freezing rain on a beach.
"There was a bump on his head, it's pretty amazing that's all he had," RCMP Constable Dan Naud said.
His mother, Toby Gabriel, 24, was found lying in the surf in Lower Cove, on Nova Scotia's Chignecto Bay.
Officials believe spray from the ocean turned to ice on the road where the car plunged off the cliff at about 9 p.m. Christmas Eve. There was no guardrail.
He was not found until midmorning Christmas Day after a woman saw a car on the beach then heard crying.
"I found him about 20 feet from the car, sitting in the gravel crying," Linda Belliveau said. "He was a pretty cold little boy. He wasn't banged up a bit, considering what he'd gone through."
Gage suffered frostbite on his toes and a bruised forehead. He was treated at a hospital and released.
Judge denies bailfor Fla. youngsters
PENSACOLA, Fla. -- A 13-year-old boy admitted killing his father with about 10 cracks to the head with a baseball bat, and his 12-year-old brother said the murder was his idea, an investigator testified Friday.
Derek King and his younger brother, Alex, sat impassively in handcuffs, shackles and green jail-issue jumpsuits as Circuit Judge Kim Skievaski refused to release them on bail.
The judge ruled after hearing the investigator's testimony and reading transcripts of their statements to investigators, which he then ordered sealed.
Both boys are charged as adults and face automatic sentences of life in prison without parole if convicted of murdering their father, Terry King, whose body was found Nov. 26 inside his burning home in suburban Cantonment. They are also charged with arson.
The brothers were missing when firefighters arrived. A convicted child molester has been charged with hiding them in his home.
Sheriff's investigator John Sanderson said the boys complained their father had been physical with them, but they admitted he did not spank them for running away from home earlier in November.
Ebola death toll at 21
MEKAMBO, Gabon -- A 5-year-old boy died early Friday in an improvised isolation ward as the death toll from an outbreak of the deadly Ebola disease rose to 21 in two Central African nations.
Adamou, who only had one name, was the fifth member of his family to catch the highly contagious disease in the remote town of MeKambo in northeastern Gabon, near the border with Republic of Congo. His mother, a nurse, died after treating an Ebola patient.
The disease then spread to her mother, brother and another child.
Coup leader in custody
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic -- A former Haitian police chief accused of plotting a failed Dec. 17 coup in his homeland has been detained in the Dominican Republic, authorities said Friday.
Guy Philippe arrived in Ecuador a day after the coup attempt. Haiti asked Ecuador to extradite him, but authorities decided to send him back to the Dominican Republic, where he slipped into the country.
Dominican President Hipolito Mejia told a press conference Friday that Philippe had been detained, but would not say where or when the Haitian was found. Philippe was now under house arrest in an undisclosed location.
The Dominican Foreign Ministry has said it is searching for a country that will accept Philippe, but will not hand him over to Haiti.
Associated Press