Police have identified and arrested a 16-year-old girl in connection with a massive brawl inside a Brooklyn-area McDonald’s, NBC reports. The brutal brawl, which left…
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A former substitute teacher who showed a movie featuring graphic sex and violence to a high school class has been convicted of disseminating matter harmful to juveniles. Sheila Kearns showed the film, “The ABCs of Death,” during five periods of a Spanish class at East High School in Columbus in April […]
A dad in Reading, PA now admits he may have gone too far. After finding a 19-year-old man with his 17-year-old daughter in the dad’s home, Reginald Hardy finds himself apologizing after police say he dragged the young man by the hair into the kitchen and used a knife to chop off his locks. Hardy […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Struggling teen clothing retailer Wet Seal is closing 338 stores, about two-thirds of its stores, resulting in nearly 3,700 full- and part-time workers losing their jobs. The retailer said Wednesday it decided to close the stores after reviewing its financial condition and failing to negotiate meaningful concessions from landlords. The closings […]
Texas teen Montrae Toliver is finding out the hard way that a threat made on social media, however joking is going to be taken seriously. Fort Worth police arrested Toliver, 17, after a Twitter user reported a post where he was pictured pointing a gun at a police car and asking “Should I do it?” […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — More teens are trying out e-cigarettes than the real thing, according to the government’s annual drug use survey. Researchers were surprised at how many 8th, 10th and 12th graders reported using electronic cigarettes this year, even as regular smoking by teens dropped to new lows. Nearly 9 percent of 8th graders said […]
RICHMOND, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say five students got sick — including two who were rushed to the hospital unconscious — after eating marijuana brownies that were sold at a San Francisco Bay Area high school. Richmond police Capt. Mark Gagan says a 17-year-old senior allegedly sold the brownies Thursday at De Anza High School […]
Quinton Murphy of Jack Britt High School ini Fayetteville North Carolina was very excited about his graduation. So excited that when it was his time to pick up his diploma, he stripped off his robe to expose his bare chest and some leopard patterned boxer briefs. Fayetteville school officials were not as amused as the […]
FARMINGDALE, N.Y. (AP) — Students at a suburban New York high school dressed in green on Monday — the school’s color — in memory of five teenagers who died over the weekend in a head-on collision with a sport utility vehicle on a busy street in this Long Island community. “They’re young kids who had […]
CHICAGO (AP) — A 14-year-old Chicago girl accused of killing another girl in a dispute over a boy tried unsuccessfully to fire a gun before someone fixed it for her and handed it back to her so she could open fire, prosecutors said Tuesday. That detail emerged during a hearing in juvenile court on the […]
Deputies are conducting a major investigation into a teenage “sexting” scandal in Virginia involving more than 100 teens and more than 1,000 photos of underage girls posted to a social media account. The investigation, involving both middle and high schoolers across six counties, began when a mother reported suspicious activity on her daughter’s Instagram account […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — More parents need to talk with their teens about the dangers of abusing Ritalin, Adderall and other prescription drugs, suggests a new study of trends involving kids and drug use. The report was released just days before the next National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day (Operation Pill Drop), which is Saturday. When teens […]
