Teen performs CPR to save baby

A suburban St Louis high school student is being credited with saving a baby's life.

KSDK-TV reports that Hillsboro High School student Abby Snodgrass knew what to do when an 11-month-old child stopped breathing last Wednesday at a Walmart store in High Ridge.

Snodgrass was in a dressing room when she heard an emergency call. She ran out to find a crowd surrounding the infant and panicked mother, but no one was doing anything to save the child. Snodgrass had learned CPR in school a couple of months earlier. She performed chest compressions and the child began breathing again.

High Ridge Fire District Chief Mike Arnhart says the child may not have survived if not for Snodgrass' quick actions.

Man attacks a roommate with boiling water

A Baltimore man convicted of throwing boiling water on his roommate after a dispute over breakfast sausages has been sentenced to 25 years in prison.

Prosecutors say 39-year-old Donte Frye was convicted of assault for luring his roommate to the top of the basement stairs and throwing a pot of boiling water on his face in April 2013. The attack caused second-degree burns and severe scarring. Prosecutors say Frye thought his roommate had eaten his breakfast sausages.

Frye was sentenced Monday.

The hefty prison term follows two prior convictions for attempted murder. Prosecutors say Frye stabbed two roommates in separate incidents in 1993 and 2004.

Prosecutors say Frye's a "violent repeat offender" who hasn't shown remorse, even mocking the victim of the boiling water attack in a recorded jail call.

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