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Family health insurance costs are skyrocketing as companies shift a higher portion of premium expenses to their employees.
After a stint in rehab, that 2-year old smoking baby has finally kicked his nicotine addiction.
Parents face challenges wherever they live:
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The NYPD polices its own as they come down hard on a cop who allegedly refused to help a mother desperately rushing her daughter to the hospital as she suffered a fatal asthma attack.
The conservative Christian group Focus on the Family complains that anti-bullying curriculums in schools are interfering with their anti-gay agenda.
Thanks to a nanny cam, this sitter was sentenced to 8-years in jail:
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When a mom in Connecticut found out via YouTube that her neighbor allegedly taught her 8-year old child how to curse, she called the police nd had him arrested for impairing the morals of a child.
Every students knows that reading the instructions is the first thing you should do when taking a test but the head of New Jersey’s schools got it wrong and cost the state $400 million in education funding and cost himself his job.
The Head Start pre-K care program comes under fire for fraud:
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Did a middle school in Mississippi actually forbid African-American students from running for class president? (Hint: the answer is yes).
Tragedy strikes at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway with a 13-year old motorcycle racer sustaining fatal injuries from being run over by a 12-year old rider coming up behind him.
Concussion rates among children have doubled since 1997:
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The good news is that tobacco use by youth is still declining but the bad news is that the rate of decline is slowing down.
Deana Vega, 11-year old cancer survivor, is about to also become Deana Vega, 11-year old inspirational author.
Five years after – the children of Katrina:
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The Atlanta public school system finds itself caught up in a major cheating scandal with teachers allegedly whispering answering to students and correcting papers before they are graded.
Should a verbal exchange between a school official and a student ever lead to the child being tasered?
Meeting your newborn via webcam:
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The USDA is going to do its part to support the rising interest in school gardens with a $1 million grant program.
And the winners of the $3.4 billion Race to the Top for education grants are…
Meanwhile cash-strapped states look to raid their federal school funds for use toward everything but education.
No school volunteering allowed for this ex-con mom:
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RECALL: Almost 400,000 pounds of deli meat sold through Wal-Mart nationwide have been recalled due to a potentially deadly Listeria contamination.
The devastating emotional upheaval created by Hurricane Katrina is still impacting the mental health of the children who were caught up in the natural disaster.
Laptop computers are quickly becoming the new must have back-to-school supply.
Flashback to those bubble gum ‘cigarettes’ of yesteryear:
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The value of teaching CPR to kids shines through as a 9-year old boy saves his 2-year old brothers life after a swimming pool accident.
India comes up with an obvious incentive to help cut birthrates – cold hard cash.
The invasion of the bed bugs continues!
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Nebraska finds itself in the middle of a lawsuit after it eliminates government funded prenatal care for low-income women and illegal aliens.
The Southwest flight attendant who took a baby away from its mother says she made a mistake, not for taking the child but for the unintentionally misleading way how she worded her account of the incident.
What to do when you see a parent take discipline too far?
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