Another heartbreak for family of Brody Allen

Eleven days after burying their 2-year-old son Brody, whose congenital brain cancer claimed his life, Shilo and Todd Allen were at the hospital with another child. Andrew Allen, 18, lay unconscious Thursday morning at the center of a nest of tubes: One down his throat to help him breathe; an IV in his left arm; monitors attached to his temples. He had been struck by a car while crossing Springdale Road on Monday, according to Colerain Township police spokesman Jim Love. Then he had been struck by another. Police did not publicize the total number of drivers who hit him -- only that there had been several and none of them had been charged by Thursday night.