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Axel Laverne Dolton was born three weeks premature and still wieghed in at more than twice the average birthweight of babies born in Minnesota.

Axel’s mother and father, Wendi and Michael Dolton of Rochester, Minn., told the TODAY Show this weekend that they knew their infant would be big, at least 12 pounds, but they weren’t expecting the baby to weigh in at 15 lbs.

Wendi Dolton says she too was a big baby, and weighed more than 10 lbs. at birth. She said doctors had to break her shoulders to deliver her.

Axel is the Dolton’s third child and their first boy.

In 1955, an Italian woman set a world record when gave birth to a 22lb. 8 oz. baby boy. More recently, a 19 lb. 2 oz. baby was delivered in Indonesia earlier this year.

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Man Trapped In 23-Year ‘Coma’ Was Conscious
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Rom Houben was misdiagnosed as being in a vegetative state after a car crash left him totally paralysed.

For the whole time, he was trapped in his own body with no way of letting friends and family know he could hear every word they were saying.

The 46-year-old, who can now tap out computerised messages and read books on a device above his hospital bed, has revealed: “I screamed, but there was nothing to hear.

“All that time I literally dreamed of a better life. Frustration is too small a word to describe what I felt.

“I shall never forget the day when they discovered what was truly wrong with me - it was my second birth.

“I want to read, talk with my friends via the computer and enjoy life now people know I am not dead.”

His misdiagnosis was discovered by neurological expert Dr Steven Laureys, who fears there may be similar cases all over the world.

He looked at Mr Houben’s case again at the University of Liege, Belgium, using state-of-the-art imaging that showed the patient was aware of what was happening around him even though he had lost control of his body.

Dr Laureys, who leads the Coma Science Group, was unavailable for comment when contacted by Sky News Online.

He told the Daily Telegraph: “In Germany alone each year some 100,000 people suffer from severe traumatic brain injury.

“About 20,000 are followed by a coma of three weeks or longer. Some of them die, others regain health.

“But an estimated 3,000 to 5,000 people a year, remain trapped in an intermediate stage: they go on living without ever coming back again.”

Rom, a martial arts enthusiast who remains in constant care at a facility near Brussels, was repeatedly wrongly assessed in Zolder, Belgium, by doctors using technology available at the time.

They used the internationally accepted Glasgow Coma Scale to assess his eye, verbal and motor responses. But each time he was graded incorrectly.

The disclosure is likely to renew the right-to-die debate over whether people in comas are truly unconscious.

There have been several cases where people in deep comas have recovered.

Carrie Coons, 86, from New York, regained consciousness 20 years ago.

Days before her recovery, a judge had granted a request for the removal of her feeding tube which had been keeping her alive.

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Up popped an URL named just for her, with a message from her father, Dr. Scott Becker and an e-mail address to contact him. Thirty years had passed, but she did.

The very simple site said: “April Joi (Joy) Becker Dear April, When you read this, please send an email to: april@aprilbecker.com. Im your Dad and I would really like to talk to ya. When I get your email, I will ask you a couple of questions that only you would know so I can filter out the crazies out there. By the way, You have a lil sister that REALLY wants to talk to you Dad Scott Robert Becker”

CBS News in Atlanta chatted Becker father and daughter up before their meeting in Georgia - where she now lives after having been brought up in California (Scott is from Wichita, Kan.). After making contact, Antoniou was able to obtain details from her dad which only he could have known - the stuff that enabled her to tell this was truly her father. Chats on the phone and via e-mail led to the face-to-face meeting.

Now Antoniou, who was born in 1979 and had never met her father is on cloud nine. The first time she spoke to Scott, she posted to Facebook “ok…so…for any of you that know me, you know I’ve never met my real dad. 30 years..and today we spoke on the phone for the first time. Feels like a made-for-t.v. movie. Only WAAAY better. Somebody pinch me.”

Friends have responded that Antoniou’s daughter shares traits with Becker, and proudly posted photos of the two on the Today Show.

So for everyone who feels guilty about sitting alone at home and Googling themselves, don’t - you never know what kind of beautiful story can come of it.

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“The email says, ‘You look familiar. Were you in Vietnam or Cambodia between 1972 and ‘73?’” McKibben told CNN.
After swapping more emails last month, it became clear McKibben’s long-lost son, Richard Nabineaux, had found the father he never met.
“And I answered back. I said, ‘Well, I guess, yes, I’m the man you’re looking for. I don’t know what to say.’ Thirty-six years later I have a son and two grandkids,” McKibben told CNN.
Nabineaux, who lives in Paris with his wife and two children, had his mom by his side when he found McKibben.
“My reaction was to cry. It was a shock. I didn’t know it would be that easy to find him,” Nabineaux said.
Now, the family is waiting for the day they can reunite.
When they do, Nabineaux’s mother, Ko Kim Lein, said she will ask McKibben to take her in his arms. “Because he didn’t do that when my son was born,” she said.

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Jamie Wheat was born at Barksdale Air Force Base’s hospital. His birth mother, Joellen Cottrell, eventually moved from Louisiana and had other children, but did not keep her son a secret.

“My girls always knew that they had a brother,” she said. “I’ve always looked for him.”

Eloph, who is one of those daughters, found her brother by chance.

She had moved into a Shreveport neighborhood, across the street from a couple who had a 32-year-old son. Eight months ago, that 32-year-old son, Jamie Wheat, moved back in with his parents.

He and Eloph became friends — and one day started talking about family.

“We were sitting one day and talking and she said, ‘I had a brother born Jan. 27, 1977, that was adopted,’” Wheat recalled. “I was like — I was adopted. My mom was 16 when she gave me up for adoption.”

Candace called her mother, who drove all night to meet Wheat.

They knew in their hearts he was the son Joellen Cottrell had been looking for, but they wanted confirmation. DNA testing did it.

Wheat was with his families when he opened the letter from the lab. His adoptive parents said they are thrilled about the new stage in their son’s life.

“It was just surprising that they lived across the street from us for two and a half years,” Ted Wheat said. “When they told us, we said this is the greatest news it could be.”

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His name will be well-Googled by the time you read this, but to be sure, Terry Herbert, the finder, and the anonymous landowner, is having himself a damn good day.

A collection of 1,500 gold and silver pieces were discovered by Terry Herbert, 55, who found them on farmland. Archeologists are saying the warrior gold items, which date back to the age of Beowulf, are so significant, it is like discovering a new Book of Kells.

The treasure, which was unveiled in Birmingham on Thursday, is the largest collection of Anglo-Saxon gold ever discovered. The haul consists of over 1,500 items, including jewelled crosses, sword hilts and helmet decorations. For the man with a metal detector who stumbled across it, this was better than winning the lottery. For archaeologists, however, it is quite simply Britain’s biggest ever haul of Anglo-Saxon treasure.

More than 1,500 gold and silver pieces make up the loot. Dating back to the seventh century, it is set to revolutionize understanding of the Anglo-Saxon era. Herbert, who bought his first metal detector for £2.50 from a trunk sale, made the discovery, described by the British Museum as “equivalent to finding a new Lindisfarne Gospels.” Herbert will split the proceeds of selling the seventh-century hoard equally with the anonymous landowner in whose field it was unearthed.

The discovered items, which appear to be a collection of trophies, will likely go on display in the Midlands, or Mercia, as it was in Anglo-Saxon times. Believed to be worth a seven figure sum, it has been officially declared Crown property. But the proceeds from its sale will be split between both the farmer and the finder, who can now look forward to becoming millionaires.

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“We thought they were just trying to razz us,” Joubert said.

Turns out the customers were on to something. They really are brothers - and the attention they got after finding each other also has turned up a sister.

The two men were given up for adoption as babies about 35 years ago, then attended rival high schools and even lived in neighbouring towns on the Maine coast before working together at Dow’s Sleep Center in tiny Waldoboro and uncovering their relationship.

“This kid could have been anywhere in the world, and here I am riding in a Dow furniture truck with him,” Joubert said in a telephone interview Monday.

Joubert’s adoptive mother, Jacqueline Joubert, said she and her late husband raised him with four sisters. She said he knew from a young age he was adopted and she wasn’t surprised he would try to find his biological siblings when he grew up.

She said she always thought he had a brother because a social worker at the time of his adoption had mentioned it.

“But when he said he was driving a furniture truck with him, that really surprised me,” she said. “I think it’s great.”

Dow’s hired Randy Joubert on July 7, and soon afterward co-workers began commenting on how similar he and Nisbet looked. Both are light-haired, wear glasses and have stocky builds. Their goatees and curled-brim baseball caps add to the effect.

Joubert, 36, laughed off the commentary but admits he noticed the similarities himself, even mentioning them to his fiancee. He started taking the comments more seriously when people also took notice while he and Nisbet, 35, were out making deliveries.

“Customers would ask if we were brothers more often than not,” he said. “Then my brain started heading that way.”

Joubert had already taken advantage of a new state law allowing adoptees to see their original birth certificates and found out the names of his biological parents, who had died by then.

With further help from statistics officials, he also learned that he had a brother - and his brother’s original name. Joubert and Nisbet had been removed from their birth parents’ home because the couple could not properly care for them.

Well-armed with details, Joubert posed a few questions to Nisbet while the two were making deliveries about three weeks ago.

“I said, ‘Gary, I’m going to ask you a strange question: Are you adopted?”‘ Joubert recalled.

Nisbet gave him a strange look and answered, yes, he was adopted.

Then Joubert asked whether Nisbet knew his parents’ names. Nisbet, who had learned details of his adoption through a court request, again answered yes.

Joubert recited the couple’s names - only to meet a mixed reaction of amazement and annoyance.

“He takes off his hat and says, ‘How did you know that?”‘ Joubert recalled.

When Joubert asked about Nisbet’s birth date, June 10, 1974, he knew he had found his long-lost brother.

“I about fell over,” he said, “because I knew that date.”

Nisbet, the quieter of the two, said he was “star-struck and blown away. I couldn’t even believe it.” He was raised with three brothers and a sister in his adoptive family but never knew he had a biological brother.

The brothers kept their story under wraps at work until last week, colleagues said.

“Everybody was standing around with their mouths open. The girls had the tears flying and the guys, just, ‘Wow!”‘ Dow’s employee Greg Berry said. “There’s nothing like family, especially when you don’t have one. Now they’ve got it.”

More than they know what to do with, it seems.

After all the attention the brothers’ story received in the Maine press, a half-sister turned up at Dow’s furniture with copies of her birth certificate and other documents proving their relationship.

Joubert says Joanne Campbell, of nearby Warren, was “hysterical” with joy when she found her brothers. Campbell, 41, had the same mother as Joubert and Nisbet.

“I searched for her too,” Joubert said, “and I was close to finding her.”

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Peel Regional Police sent the woman on her way after receiving a call from an airport employee who had seen her sleeping on a pink suitcase in Terminal 1.

“She was very cooperative. There was no incident whatsoever,” said Const. Adam Minnion.

“Because Pearson Airport has a certain set of security matters in place that people who met the criteria of trespassing need to be removed, and this person was cooperative to do that, so we help facilitate in the best interest of all parties involved. In this particular case, we provided her with necessary bus fare.”

Airport employees said the woman may have lived at airport since Easter, which police said they couldn’t verify.

There is no evidence to suggest the woman is homeless, police said.

Airport spokesperson Trish Krale said it was not unusual for passengers to stay at the airport for extended period of time.

“It is rare. But we do run into such instances on occasion.”

Clusters of homeless settling in terminals have become a headache for U.S. authorities in recent years with 400 alone in an Atlanta Airport coaxed to shelters last year.

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