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7-Year-Old Boy Suspended for Using Pencil Like a Gun

Drew Weisholtz — Thu, 09 May 2013 20:31:52 +0000

The debate over guns in schools has taken a turn for the unusual.

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Amber Alert Issued for Two Central Texas Teenagers

Danny Merrell — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 20:01:24 +0000

: We've now heard that they have been found safe and unharmed. More details to come.

5:45 p.m.: Apparently, they were found at a relative's house in a neighboring community, no foul play suspected

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School Suspends Boy, 7, For Biting Pastry in the Shape of a Gun

Drew Weisholtz — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 14:27:22 +0000

The issue over guns in our schools has taken on a very strange twist in one Maryland school.

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5 Surprising Facts About St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Drew Weisholtz — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 21:17:15 +0000

You may know St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital was founded with the specific goal of curing cancer in children, but there’s probably a whole lot more about it you don’t know.

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Waiter Who Defended Boy With Down Syndrome Gives All Donations To Charity

Jeremy Taylor — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 20:16:06 +0000

Last month, Michael Garcia made a lot of people smile. The 45-year-old, who is a waiter at Laurenzo’s Restaurant in Houston, Texas, refused to serve a family who insulted Milo Castillo, a five-year-old with Down Syndrome, by suggesting that "special needs children need to be special someplace else."

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Costumed Window Washers Are Real Heroes at Children's Hospital

Jeremy Taylor — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 19:43:12 +0000

Superheroes are often used to cheer up kids who've been confined to the hospital. And while costumed do-gooders are always appreciated, a Pittsburgh-area window washing company thought of a novel way to make the experience even more memorable.

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Restaurant Receipt Includes Discount For Well-Behaved Kids

Jeremy Taylor — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 16:53:56 +0000

As every parent knows, it's tough to get little kids to behave in a restaurant. Being in a new environment will excite the youngsters and many of their typically inoffensive meal time antics, such as loud talking, hyperactivity and the occasional food play, become amplified into something less adorable and more annoying when strangers are watching.

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Gunman Shoots and Kills Bus Driver, Holds 6-Year-Old Hostage in Bunker

Chris Chaberski — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 16:28:26 +0000

On Tuesday afternoon, a man in Dale County, Alabama, near Midland City, got on a school bus, demanded a child be let off with him, then shot and killed the bus driver when he refused. The shooter, identified as Jimmy Lee Dykes, then took the boy from the bus and is currently holed up with him in an underground bunker nearby.

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'Golden Eagle Snatches Kid' Video Was a Hoax

Kyle Dowling — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 16:07:11 +0000

For the past two days, the talk of the internet has been the viral video above showing an eagle snatching up a baby in Montreal. First posted on Dec 18, the sensation has since racked up nearly 17 million hits, leaving many to wonder whether or not it was real or fake.

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Talking to Children About Tragedy in Wake of Connecticut School Shooting

Stephanie McMaster — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 00:16:03 +0000

How do you explain the unexplainable to children? Today, parents across the country, including myself, were faced with this -- fumbling over words while explaining the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown - located only 20 miles away from my own daughter's elementary school.

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Teen Launches Campaign for Gender-Neutral Easy Bake Oven

Amanda Ferris — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 21:23:35 +0000

Thirteen year-old McKenna Pope is fighting mad at Hasbro, and this little activist wants some positive changes now. The eighth grader, who hails from Garfield, New Jersey, has started a petition on Change.org asking Hasbro to make their Easy Bake Ovens more gender-neutral.

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'Toys For Tots' Comes to Lufkin and Nacogdoches Region

Rick St. Nick — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 20:26:13 +0000

If you happen to see some military troop carrier trucks with a conspicuously looking banner draped across it that reads "MARINE CORPS RESERVE...Toys For Tots", that's the place to hand over a newly unwrapped gift to be distributed to less fortunate children around East Texas.

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Hudson Child Care Facility Shut Down For Negligence

Rick St. Nick — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 19:12:53 +0000

Being in broadcasting sometimes exposes you to the "Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" of the world, and I prefer to stay on the positive side of the career, and only alienate the negative when "ugly" rears its 'ugly' head.

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Grade School Football Team Has 6-foot-7, 225 Pound Kid on Roster

Tom Barrabi — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 17:52:39 +0000

Think back to your days on the 8th grade football team. If you’re like us, you sat on the bench daydreaming about girls while the man-child that could already grow a beard ran sideline to sideline and crushed anyone in his path.

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Daddy Blogger Causes Uproar By Revealing His Favorite Son

Jeremy Taylor — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 15:45:52 +0000

Buzz Bishop (not pictured) says he was just being honest when he wrote that his older son is "my favorite of the two." However the daddy blogger's truth-telling hasn't sat well with many of his readers, who have expressed their surprise and outrage that he would put something like that on the internet.

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What Type of School Provides Kids with the Best Education? — Survey of the Day

Jeremy Taylor — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 17:27:12 +0000

Every child in the United States is entitled to a free public school education. However, according to a new survey from Gallup of 1012 adults, public schools rate lowest among all the education options children have.

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High School Senior Combats Bullying With 'Good News Only' Twitter

Jeremy Taylor — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 18:53:38 +0000

Kevin Curwick is a senior at Osseo High School in Osseo, MN. He’s also the captain of the school’s football team — which makes him an unlikely candidate for cyberbullying.

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Detroit Bribes Kids with Free Pair of Shoes to Get Them to Come to School

Mike Adams — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 14:02:07 +0000

There is no better motivation to get kids to show up for school quite like some good old fashion bribery, right? Well, the city of Detroit seems to think so.

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Polish Olympian to Sell Bronze Medal to Help Sick Five-Year-Old

Jeremy Taylor — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 20:26:24 +0000

The 2012 Summer Games are over. But the Olympic spirit lives on thanks to Polish windsurfer Zofia Noceti-Klepacka, who will fulfill the promise she made to the family of a five-year-old who suffers from cystic fibrosis by selling her bronze medal.

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Do Pets Make Kids Smarter?

Jeremy Taylor — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 14:55:29 +0000

If you have or are thinking of having kids, it might be a good idea to also add a pet to the equation. That’s because last month a study found that babies who grow up in households with pets are healthier than their pet-less counterparts. And now a survey of children suggests that having a furry friend is one of the keys to academic success.

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