A California couple who alleged that their son was hazed to death in 2016 when he was a freshman at the University of Nevada, Reno has settled their negligence lawsuit against a fraternity and several of its then-members.
Read moreA truck driving preacher charged with killing two Alabama teenagers found shot to death in a car trunk nearly 20 years ago was tied to the killings through a DNA match uncovered with genetic genealogy testing, authorities said Monday.
Read moreThe U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to consider whether a teen who carried out sniper attacks in Washington, D.C., in 2002 should be resentenced.
Read moreCo-workers of man who pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a young detainee at an immigration family center could be on the hook themselves in a civil lawsuit. Wednesday morning, an attorney for the woman lobbied the Third Circuit to deny the staff qualified immunity.
Read moreThe father of a British teenager who ran away to join the Islamic State group in Syria said his daughter’s citizenship should not be revoked and that she should return to the U.K. and be punished if it was determined she had committed a crime.
Read moreAn Ohio teen defied his mother’s beliefs to get vaccinated when he turned 18 — and told Congress on Tuesday that it’s crucial to counter fraudulent claims on social media that scare parents.
Read moreIllinois prosecutors on Friday hit R&B singer R. Kelly with 10 counts of aggravated sexual abuse following decades of misconduct allegations swirling around the Chicago native.
Read moreA witness told authorities a gate blocked by a ball at a North Carolina animal preserve allowed a lion to reach three people at the start of a fatal attack, biting one intern’s ankle and pulling her into the enclosure, according to a medical examiner’s report.
Read moreA Pew research poll released Wednesday confirms what decades of angsty song lyrics have been telling us: Most teenagers worry about depression and anxiety, feeling the pressure to look good and perform well in school.
Read moreA Russian teenager has refitted his car to drive it backward, and got a shoutout from Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk. But this didn’t stop the police from stripping him of the car registration.
Read moreA Massachusetts woman who sent her suicidal boyfriend a barrage of text messages urging him to kill himself was jailed Monday on an involuntary manslaughter conviction nearly five years after he died in a truck filled with toxic gas.
Read moreA California Assembly member introduced a bill Monday to amend the state constitution by lowering the voting age from 18 to 17 in the Golden State.
Read moreA 16-year-old boy was arrested after he briefly took control of a small plane during a short commercial flight over western Alaska, authorities said.
Read moreProsecutors are asking a judge to order a Massachusetts woman to begin serving her 15-month jail sentence for encouraging her suicidal boyfriend to kill himself.
Read moreThe highest court in Massachusetts upheld the involuntary manslaughter conviction Wednesday of a teen whose ex-boyfriend killed himself after she encouraged him in text messages to do so.
Read moreTeenage mothers are more likely to raise children who do not have the cognitive skills necessary for school – and that trend can trickle down to the grandchildren of teenage mothers even if their own mothers were adults when they were born, according to a new study published Wednesday.
Read moreThe Third Circuit opted Tuesday to reissue as precedential an opinion against the Rose Tree Media School District regarding its attempt to kick out a homeless teen over a disciplinary issue.
Read moreThe white Chicago police officer who gunned down a black teenager in 2014 was sentenced Friday to nearly seven years in prison, bringing an end to a historic case that centered on a shocking dashcam video and fueled the national debate over race and law enforcement.
Read morejudge rejected allegations that the shocking video of Laquan McDonald’s death proved that Chicago police officers tried to stage a cover-up in the fatal shooting of the black teen. Now another judge must decide how long the officer who pulled the trigger spends behind bars.
Read moreGeneration Z, the moniker given to people born after 1996, is the most ethnically and racially diverse generation in the U.S. and is shaping up to be just as progressive as the Millennial generation, if not more, the Pew Research Center reported Thursday.
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