(I have never before printed part of somebody's death notice. I never knew this kid but he sounds like he was a very cool young person.)

Isaac Hall didn't know that cancer is supposed to make you miserable.

The 8-year-old relished tractor rides, playing in the mud, messy crafts and practical jokes despite having leukemia.

He chose to see the positive side of everything, said his father, Air Force Tech. Sgt. Travis Hall of Bellevue. Instead of focusing on the spinal tap procedures he had to endure, Isaac looked forward to the Mountain Dew Code Red drinks he got afterwards, Hall said.

Last year, when a second-grade teacher assigned him to write about a bad day in his life, Isaac thought for a while, then approached the teacher. "I haven't had a bad day," he said.

"That was two and a half years into treatment" for the leukemia, his father said.

(When we have a bad day lets try our best to follow the attitude this little boy had and lets keep his family - friends in our prayers.)

 Brothers Kip and Cole Russell shivered as the sun began to set late Wednesday afternoon and the wind picked up, but they knew they weren’t going anywhere.

The brothers were going to spend the next hour and an hour again on Thursday publicly apologizing for shoplifting from a nearby Dollar General store on a busy street

, the brothers carried bright orange signs outlining their indiscretions.

It was Cole, 15, who went into the store and stuck a small ax under his coat while Kip, 12, remained outside.  Watch a video I did on this issue  (Old Kind of Discipline)  

 

 When Sara Wiley visits the hospital because of her cystic fibrosis, breathing treatments and many hours in her room fill her days.

It's important that the 15-year-old gets a chance to relax and have some fun. Now she and other teens at the Nebraska Medical Center have a new place to do it.

The hospital on Wednesday officially opened a renovated and expanded teen activity room. Teens had shared another room with younger patients.
The new room has 1950s theme complete with a jukebox, neon lights and a table that looks like a record album. It also features an electronic dart board, a video game system, Internet access and a flat-screen TV.

"It's really, really cool," said Wiley, who's from Early, Iowa. "I like the jukebox."

 

(Read more about how this  MAD hospital (MAD= Make A. Difference)  is helping ill children along with  teens, Teens get a place to chill.)

Inside her bedroom on Cuba's Isle of Youth, 7-year-old Daviana González prays to be reunited with her mother after more than five years, relatives say. In Camagüey, Marta Daniela Batista, another little girl separated from her parents, is said to suffer from mental health problems.

The girls are children of Cuban medical professionals living in Miami who deserted their posts in various nations where the Cuban government sent them to help spread ideology and earn income for their cash-starved homeland.

But the price for desertion was higher than the families believed possible: The Cuban government is denying the little ones permission to leave, even though they have U.S. visas that would allow them to come here.

''Marta isn't to blame for what her parents did, and yet they punish her,'' said her mother, Melvis Mesa, 42. ``She's just a child, and children have a right to be with their parents. What the Cuban government is doing is a terrible abuse.''

 

(The truth is Cuba has an evil government. Please pray for these children and a change of  heart in the leaders or change of leadership takes place in Cuba soon. Read more on this issue right here)

Newly discovered DNA evidence in the JonBenet Ramsey murder case does not match any Ramsey family members or anyone in law enforcement DNA databases. (  New DNA clears Ramsey family in JonBenet case )

The recent testing was done on a different area of the child's clothing and it matches previous DNA tested from the child's underwear in 1997. It is DNA from a male.

The discovery, from a new testing method, has prompted the Boulder District Attorney's office to release a letter officially clearing the Ramsey family, including John, Patsy and their immediate family of any involvement in the December 1996 death of the 6-year-old.

 ( Forgive me but I am not sold  on this so called new information. The way the Ramsey's  went about things after this crime was wrong and of course not the right PR. Yes the police made mistakes but even though they have been cleared  that doesn't mean the police were wrong for checking them out. If my child was murdered I would  run down to the police station and say check me out I wouldn't hire people that keep me from doing that. I am not a big fan of Nancy Grace but some good points were brought up on her show a few nights ago concerning this new information. If you like to view it here it is Transcript.)