Planned Parenthood affiliates sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Friday over its efforts to impose an abstinence-only focus on its Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program that has served more than 1 million young people.
Read moreA Chicago police officer testified before a Cook County jury Wednesday about his fatal shooting of a teenager and his neighbor, saying the incident has left him scarred but that he responded in the way he was trained to.
Read moreWhile American high school students are less sexually active and are doing fewer illicit drugs, a growing number are feeling hopeless and reporting suicidal thoughts, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Read moreA detailed lawsuit filed Thursday in New Jersey federal court claims the former headmaster of a prestigious Upper East Side private school sexually assaulted a Brooklyn teenager who was living with him in the 1980s and helping around the house in exchange for free tuition.
Read moreUpbraiding the government for its treatment of immigrant children, a federal judge called it indefensible Thursday that the Trump administration kept one teenager separated from his mother for seven months.
Read moreSuing the Buckeye, Arizona, police officer who beat up their autistic 14-year-old while he was playing with a piece of string in a public park, the boy’s parents say department brass justified it by saying the boy’s repetitive behavior indicated that he was “under the influence of an inhalant.”
Read moreAttorneys for a young immigrant who faced federal opposition in her bid to undergo an abortion said a ruling in their case from the Supreme Court on Monday will have no impact on the ongoing litigation.
Read moreMore teens say they use social media like YouTube, Snapchat and Instagram “almost constantly,” according to a new Pew Research Center survey released Thursday.
Read moreA senior at Truman High School in Harry Truman’s home town sued the Independence School District for barring him from the graduation ceremony because he posted a satirical ad on Craigslist offering the school for sale for $12,725.
Read moreThe body of a 17-year-old Pakistani exchange student killed in a mass shooting at a high school in Texas arrived before dawn Wednesday in the port city of Karachi, where her family lived and where she was being buried.
Read moreA Louisiana man who served more than 20 years in prison after being convicted of killing a pizza man as an intellectually disabled 16-year-old was released from prison Tuesday.
Read moreTen students or former students claim in a federal complaint that the Chandler Unified School District in Arizona failed to stop sexual and physical assaults that football players inflicted upon teammates.
Read moreThe Ohio Supreme Court on Thursday affirmed the death sentence of a man who was convicted of the brutal murder of a childhood friend, rejecting his request for leniency based on his claim that he did not touch the murder weapon.
Read moreA federal judge who restored federal funding last month for teen-pregnancy prevention groups expounded on her decision Friday, saying that the government’s silence in slashing the grants at issue spoke volumes.
Read moreAn Ohio mother claims in a wrongful death lawsuit that Akron police officers could have prevented her son’s suicide if they had searched him before he fatally shot himself while handcuffed in the back of a squad car.
Read moreThe mother of a Pennsylvania 16-year-old girl who police say was taken out of school and to Mexico by a 45-year-old man is suing him and the school, claiming she suffered financial, psychological and emotional harm.
Read moreA federal judge ordered the National Endowment of the Arts and its national Poetry Out Loud competition to allow Maine’s state winner, an immigrant from Zambia seeking asylum, to participate, just in time for the start.
Read moreA federal jury on Monday found a U.S. Border Patrol agent not guilty of second-degree murder in the death of a Mexican teen he shot and killed in 2012 through an urban fence separating Arizona from Mexico.
Read moreA federal judge Thursday ruled that the Trump administration unlawfully terminated grants awarded for teen pregnancy prevention programs.
Read moreAn 18-year-old who has been jailed since he was charged with plotting a mass shooting at his former high school in February will face a bail hearing Tuesday.
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