After two weeks in the intensive care unit at UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill, 8-year-old Slayton Maness does not know how he got there.

A Robbins Elementary School third-grader remains hospitalized in critical condition after he was struck by a pickup truck Wednesday morning while crossing the road to get on a school bus.

Bessie Hedrick went back to college at age 50 for a degree in human services and worked with handicapped adults for 17 years.