Health plans in at least four states have announced they’re dropping children’s coverage just days ahead of new rules created by the healthcare reform law, according to the liberal grassroots group Health Care for America Now (HCAN). (more)
SWAT VALLEY, Pakistan (AP) — The painting is disturbing: raindrops shaped like bullets and branches intended to look like blood-soaked necks. The artist was a boy recruited by the Taliban to help kill Pakistani soldiers. (more)
A Mansfield man is facing unusual charges for pushing his children in a stroller while he was intoxicated. (more)
A couple have been arrested in northern France after eight newborn babies were discovered hidden in their house and buried in their garden. (more)
ATLANTA — Georgia was lauded four years ago by conservatives for passing one of the nation’s toughest sex offender laws. But the state has had to significantly — and without fanfare — scale back its once-intense restrictions. (more)
Detroit’s anti-lead program — beset with alleged shakedowns and bogus treatments, missing files, incompetence and mismanagement — was upended last year after such scorching claims were reported in state and federal investigations. (more)
PHOENIX – Emboldened by passage of the nation’s toughest law against illegal immigration, the Arizona politician who sponsored the measure now wants to deny U.S. citizenship to children born in this country to undocumented parents. (more)
Child stars are so cute, talented and charming. Until they grow up, that is. (more)
Designer denim, meet your new clientele: babies. Huggies has released a new type of diaper for fashionable tots on the go, according to the New York Daily Post. (more)
In the new issue of PEOPLE, Michaels, 47, who suffered a subarachnoid hemorrhage (bleeding at the base of his brain stem) on April 21, speaks for the first time about his ordeal, including a dramatic moment when he first arrived at the hospital. (more)
MIAMI (AP) — Adding to an already contentious divorce battle, Dwyane Wade’s estranged wife has filed a lawsuit, claiming his relationship with actress Gabrielle Union is causing her and the star Miami Heat guard’s two sons emotional distress. (more)
A man armed with a hammer and gasoline burst into an elementary school Friday morning, attacked five children with the hammer and then set himself on fire in yet another of the mysterious attacks on Chinese schools that have terrorized parents and children around the country. (more)
The battle to control type-1 diabetes in children could get a little easier — as long as the kids keep playing with their Nintendos. Bayer Diabetes Care unveiled a new gadget Monday that aims to help kids manage their disease by tapping into their love for video games. (more)
For a mere $2,500, daddy’s little office drone gets all of this: (more)
As many as 47 kindergarten teachers at Gilbert Public Schools may be laid off and most parents who want their 5-year-olds in full-day kindergarten will be asked to pay tuition, the governing board has decided. (more)
Suspected drug hitmen killed a carload of children and teenagers in northern Mexico in the latest of a [intlink id="233035" type="post"]rash of attacks[/intlink] on minors that have angered the public as drug gang violence spins out of control. (more)
“Unlike 20 years ago, in today’s modern, viral world in which content becomes instantaneously available irrespective of age, I wonder whether the music industry might need to rethink its marketing policies with regard to making an explicit music video containing profanity, sexual exploitation, nudity, and graphic violence available to anyone with Internet access,” Osmond, 52, continued. (more)
The wife of Tiger Woods — who took to the airways last night in yet another shot to repair his damaged image — ditched him for the weekend and took their kids out of the family’s yacht. (more)
E.J. Dionne of the Washington Post wrote a pretty interesting, (albeit wrong, in my humble opinion) opinion piece recently where he asked this important rhetorical question: (more)
Marcelas Owens, an 11-year-old from Seattle, headlined a press conference with Senate Democratic leadership on Thursday, telling a packed room of reporters that he wanted the president and Congress to come together and pass health insurance reform. (more)
























