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9-month-old found dead after being left in hot car for over 7 hours in Texas, officials say
Texas officials are investigating after a nine-month-old baby was found dead inside a hot car.
The Beeville Police Department said on social media that it appears the child’s grandmother left the baby in the rear seat of the car, in a carseat, at 8:30 a.m. on Wednesday. The grandmother then allegedly returned to find the child non-responsive around 4 p.m.
The grandmother called the police after making the discovery, CBS affiliate KZTV reported.
The incident is being investigated as a criminal homicide, the police department said. No official charges have been filed yet, but they are expected later, the department said. The Department of Public Safety and the Texas Rangers are assisting with the investigation.
The parents of the child have been notified, KZTV reported. It’s not clear where they were at the time of the incident.
That is the third hot car death in Texas in 2024, according to Kids and Car Safety, and the second this week. A 22-month-old toddler was left inside a hot car at a local middle school in Corpus Christi after their mother forgot to drop the child off at daycare on Tuesday, CBS Texas reported. The child was found dead hours later. The parent, identified by police as schoolteacher Hilda Adame, was arrested on charges including injury to a child and abandonment of a child.
There have been 26 hot car deaths reported nationwide this year, according to Kids and Car Safety. At least 1,108 such deaths have occurred in the U.S. since 1990, the organization said.
Since 1991, at least 157 children have died in hot cars in Texas, making it the “worst state in the country,” according to Kids and Car Safety.
Some advocates have called for better safety technology that could help prevent such deaths. Kids and Car Safety founder Janette Fennell told CBS Texas that her organization is pushing for “occupant detection technology in all cars immediately.” That technology would include radar systems that detect movement and even breathing, and rear alert reminders that can inform car owners of the presence of a child in the backseat.
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Barry Enderwick is eating his way through history, one sandwich at a time. Every day from his home in San Jose, California, Enderwick posts a cooking video from a recipe that time forgot. From the 1905 British book “Salads, Sandwiches and Savouries,” Enderwick prepared the New York Sandwich.
The recipe called for 24 oysters, minced and mixed with mayonnaise, seasoned with lemon juice and pepper, and spread over buttered day-old French bread.
Rescuing recipes from the dustbin of history doesn’t always lead to culinary success. Sampling his New York Sandwich, Enderwick decried it as “a textural wasteland. No, thank you.” Into the trash bin it went!
But Enderwick’s efforts have yielded his own cookbook, a collection of some of the strangest – and sometimes unexpectedly delicious – historical recipes you’ve never heard of.
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He even has a traveling stage show: “Sandwiches of History Live.”
From the condiments to the sliced bread, this former Netflix executive has become something of a sandwich celebrity. “You can put just about anything in-between two slices of bread,” he said. “And it’s portable! In general, a sandwich is pretty easy fare. And so, they just have universal appeal.”
Though the sandwich gets its name famously from the Fourth Earl of Sandwich, the earliest sandwich Enderwick has eaten dates from 200 B.C.E. China, a seared beef sandwich called Rou Jia Mo.
He declared it delicious. “Between the onions, and all those spices and the soy sauce … oh my God! Oh man, this is so good!”
While Elvis was famous for his peanut butter and banana concoction, Enderwick says there’s another celebrity who should be more famous for his sandwich: Gene Kelly, who he says had “the greatest man sandwich in the world, which was basically mashed potatoes on bread. And it was delicious.”
Whether it’s a peanut and sardine sandwich (from “Blondie’s Cook Book” from 1947), or the parmesian radish sandwich (from 1909’s “The Up-To-Date Sandwich Book”), Enderwick tries to get a taste of who we were – good or gross – one recipe at a time.
RECIPE: A sophisticated club sandwich
Blogger Barry Enderwick, of Sandwiches of History, offers “Sunday Morning” viewers a 1958 recipe for a club sandwich that, he says, shouldn’t work, but actually does, really well!
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