Photo: Courtesy Andrea Blackstone An 8-year-old boy from Maryland is helping veterans get back on their feet one care package at a time. Tyler Stallings was just four years old when he felt compelled to help veterans in need, his mother, Andrea Blackstone,explained toGood Morning America. At the time, Blackstone had shown Tyler a few online videos about veterans to teach him about what some of his relatives who enlisted in the military had done....

Photo: Colorado Parks & Wildlife An 8-year-old Denver boy has been seriously injured after a mountain lion viciously attacked him outside of his home. The young child was jumping on a trampoline with his brother on Wednesday evening when he heard one of his friends calling for him from a house next door, officials with the Colorado Parks & Wildlife said in apress release. As he ran over, a mountain lion pounced on him and bit the boy on the head, according to the press release....

Photo: Oak Island Water RescueAn 8-year-old boy was visibly shaken after he was swept out to sea on a unicorn float in North Carolina, reports say.Declan O’Connor, of Ohio, was at Oak Island beach with his family on June 3. The boy got on top of a large unicorn pool toy to enjoy the water, but then a wave swept him out to sea,ABC News reported. As he drifted further out into the water, his panicked mother called for help....

Photo: Escambia County JailA Florida man is facing criminal charges after his 8-year-old son shot and killed a 1-year-old girl with a gun that authorities allege was unsecured at the time.Escambia County Sheriff Chip Simmons detailed the allegations against Roderick Dwayne Randall, 45, during a press conference Monday.Randall was charged with being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm, two counts of culpable negligence, tampering with evidence and failure to store a firearm in a required manner....

Thomas Berry.Photo:Tara Wright-Berry/FacebookAn 8-year-old Texas boy riding in a truck with his mother on Friday afternoon was killed in an accident after a truck allegedly blew a stop sign at an intersection, striking the vehicle carrying the child.The boy, Thomas Berry, was pronounced dead after being transported to a hospital in Dallas while his mother, 48-year-old Tara Lynn Wright-Berry, was taken to a local hospital in Canton, Texas, with non-life-threatening injuries....

Photo: KDVRA 9-year-old boy was shocked to learn that snowball fights were illegal in his small Colorado town — and have been for nearly a century! So he sprang into action, taking on the town’s board to reverse the ban.“It’s pretty lame. I broke the law a lot,” Dane Best, of Severance, toldNBC Newsof the ban. He added toThe Greeley Tribune: “I think it’s an outdated law. I want to be able to throw a snowball without getting in trouble....

Though he is only 9 years old, Parker Williams would like to set an example for others when it comes to spreading kindness. “I think more people should be nice,” Williams said, according toKABC. “It’s just a better thing to do than being mean.” Because he follows the slogan “pay it forward,” Parker immediately knew he wanted to give $15 that he received for his birthday to someone special — and it didn’t take long to figure out it would be his teacher, Mary Hall Chambers....

MeetingQueen Elizabeth IIproved to be too much to handle for one little boy! On Wednesday, Nathan Grant anxiously waited in line with his parents to greet the Queen during her visit to The Thomas Coram Foundation for Children. Coram, as it is known, is the United Kingdom’s oldest children’s charity based at the Foundling Hospital in London. When the moment came to finally meet the monarch, the 9-year-old boy stood quietly beneath his parents and watched as they interacted with Britain’s royal leader....

A 9-year-old boy is in a medically-induced coma after being injured in theAstroworld Festival crowd surgethat killed at leasteight peopleover the weekend. Ezra Blountis fighting for his life at Texas Children’s Hospital, ABC 13 HoustonreportedMonday. Ezra was sitting on his father Treston’s shoulders during the concert when the fatal crowd surge began, according to ABC 13 Houston and theHouston Chronicle. Treston eventually passed out from thepressure of the crowd, and Ezra fell from his shoulders and was trampled, the outlet reports....

Jurors in Illinois have convicted two gang members of murder inthe execution-style killing of a 9-year-old boy, who was shot in 2015 in an act of retaliation against his father. Late last week, following separate trials that lasted three weeks, 25-year-old Dwight Boone-Doty and 31-year-old Corey Morgan were found guilty in connection with the death of Tyshawn Lee. Two juries determined thatBoone-Doty and Morgan deliberately targeted Tyshawnas he was making his way home from school,luring him into a Chicago alleywaywith a promise to buy him a snack before killing him....

Hunter Heater.Photo: GoFundMe “Hunter was severely wounded from head to toe,” reads aGoFundMe pagestarted to help pay for his medical expenses. “He suffered massive lacerations and wounds that were [just] inches from main arteries. Luckily he was able to receive immediate medical attention and rushed to a hospital.” In the end, Hunter received more than 200 stitches on his arms, face, legs and neck, and more than 40 staples in his skull....

Photo: GoFundMe A 9-year-old boy who was tragically killed in a Detroit house fire just days before his tenth birthday last week has saved four other lives after five of his organs were donated. A GoFundMe page was createdto help the family. “Their house was burned to the foundation of the house, losing everything that they had in there home,” wrote the creator of the fundraising page. “And now they have to prepare to lay O....

A 9-year-old boy survived a horrific tractor accident that left him with severe injuries, including the loss of his left arm. After being flown to Saint Alphonsus Hospital in Boise, he underwent a six-hour surgery and would ultimately have 28 surgeries over the next few months. “For us to be home within three and a half months, four months, is a miracle,” his mother, Brianna Watson, told the news outlet. “Alex is a tough, tough cookie....