Smoke from fires sweeping across California are filling the lungs of California’s children with smoke, with potentially long-term issues for life. California as a whole has seen a steady uptick in smoke days in recent years. Counties in the state’s Central Valley, which already had some of the most polluted air in the …
Read MoreAccording to Cape Coral police, a second child in a car that drove into a canal late Wednesday night has died. Police had responded to an accident just before midnight that involved a vehicle driving into a canal with two adults and two children inside the vehicle. Police found a 2014 Ford Focus submerged in the canal and two children …
Read MoreAccording to federal prosecutors, a Massachusetts woman is facing charges of exploiting children in order to produce child pornography. 25-year-old Nichole Cyr of Fall River was indicted by a federal grand jury last week on two counts of sexual exploitation of children, according to the U.S. attorney’s office in Boston. Cyr produced …
Read MoreIt may only be weeks until a COVID-19 vaccine is approved for use in the U.S. However, when those vaccines hit the market, they will not be available to children. Few children have been part of the clinical trials to date. Pfizer only recently began enrolling children as young as 12. The American Academy …
Read More19-year-old Arthur Keith was shot and killed by a Cleveland public housing police officer in the presence of children outside an East Side public housing tower. Two of the children said they have recurring nightmares and many lingering questions about the circumstances that led to the death of a man they describe as …
Read MoreOn Sept. 8, five inches of snow fell on Boulder, Colo., just three days after the city had experienced a record-breaking heatwave. Nobody was expecting this weather whiplash, certainly not JJ Morrow, head of school of Mackintosh Academy Boulder, an independent school that had committed to nearly all outdoor learning …
Read MoreBedtime stories not only help kids relax and fall asleep more easily, they also create an emotional bond between the storyteller and the listener, and now we know another benefit, boosting children’s brain development. Researchers at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development [NICHD] find there is a clear indication of a …
Read MorePolice reports from Tallahassee’s biggest-ever investigation into child sex trafficking tells the story of a child forced into a life of prostitution and drugs —by her own mother. A customer told police when he went to the girl’s apartment, she came to the front door wrapped in a blanket. “He followed the child victim upstairs to a bedroom,” a …
Read More82,000+ people have come forward with sex-abuse claims against the Boy Scouts of America, describing a decades-long accumulation of assaults at the hands of scout leaders across the nation. The claims, which lawyers said far eclipsed the number of abuse accusations filed in Catholic Church cases, continued to mount ahead …
Read MoreDays after Quawan Charles, 15, went missing, he was found dead in a sugar cane field, more than 20 miles from his home. A preliminary autopsy found he had most likely drowned. Circumstances surrounding his disappearance, and the local police’s slowness to take action, have prompted the boy’s family to commission an independent autopsy. Oct. 30, Quawan’s mother planned to …
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