DES MOINES, Iowa—Four members of a rural Iowa family have pleaded not guilty in the abduction and abuse of an 18-year-old relative who had allegedly showed up at a hospital so badly beaten that his brain was bleeding and so malnourished that he weighed just 70 pounds (32 kilograms), according to court documents. Gary Graham […]
The Supreme Court refused to consider an appeal by Indiana parents who were denied custody of their teenage son who identifies as female. In recent years, the issue of transgender children has been clouded by a lack of linguistic clarity, as the concepts of sex and gender—a politically and scientifically contentious idea with a definition […]
Nearly three-quarters of U.S. teens say they feel happy or peaceful when they don’t have their phones with them, according to a new report from the Pew Research Center. In a survey published Monday, Pew also found that despite the positive associations with going phone-free, most teens have not limited their phone or social media […]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska—A 16-year-old boy charged as an adult in the shooting deaths of two people in the northwest Alaska whaling village of Point Hope was arraigned Friday on 16 felony counts. Daniel Dalle-Molle, the public defender for Guy Nashookpuk, entered not guilty pleas to the charges leveled against the teen by a grand jury. Nashookpuk, […]
PHOENIX—Two more people have been arrested in the fatal beating of a teenage boy during a Halloween party last year in the Phoenix suburb of Queen Creek, authorities said Thursday. The number of suspects in the case is now six, including three juveniles, and there could be more arrests — including charging people who tampered […]
WAUKESHA, Wis.—A group of teenagers believed to be from the Chicago area broke into a luxury car dealership in Wisconsin and drove off with nine vehicles worth more than a half-million dollars, police said. Sunday’s heist at a Jaguar-Land Rover dealership in Waukesha was captured on surveillance camera footage showing nine masked suspects filing into […]
BOSTON—An American Airlines flight attendant arrested on suspicion of trying to secretly record a 14-year-old female passenger using an airplane bathroom last September is being held in custody pending trial. Police have also alleged that Estes Carter Thompson III, 37, of Charlotte, North Carolina, had recordings of four other minor female passengers using lavatories on […]
DENVER—A 13-year-old accused of fatally shooting a man on a Denver bus opened fire in the middle of an argument after the man approached the teen and his friends at the back of the bus, according to court documents released Thursday. Police had previously said that the Jan. 27 shooting happened after a “verbal exchange” […]
DUNNELLON, Fla.—A missing Ohio teen was recovered in Florida after she logged in to an online video game at the home of the man who took her, authorities said. Thomas Ebersole, 31, was arrested last Wednesday at his Dunnellon home, according to the Marion County Sheriff’s Office. The area is about 80 miles (130 kilometers) […]
SAN ANTONIO—The dead bodies that Texas investigators believe to have been a pregnant woman and her boyfriend were found with gunshot wounds days after they were reported missing, police said Wednesday. A medical examiner has yet to confirm that it was the bodies of Savanah Nicole Soto, 18, and Matthew Guerra, 22, that police found […]
SAN ANTONIO, Texas—A missing pregnant Texas teenager and her boyfriend were found dead in a parked car Tuesday in San Antonio and police said they may have been there for days. Savanah Nicole Soto, 18, and Matthew Guerra, 22, were reported missing by police in Leon Valley, a few miles northwest of San Antonio suburb. […]
LONDON—A criminal investigation was launched into the alleged abduction of British teenager Alex Batty, who was found last week in France six years after his mother and grandfather took him on a vacation and never returned home, Greater Manchester police said Friday. Alex, 17, returned to Oldham, near Manchester, on Saturday and was reunited with […]
Around 220,000 under-18s in the United States were diagnosed with arthritis between 2017 and 2021, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Notably, the joint disease was twice as common among non-Hispanic black or African American children and adolescents compared to non-Hispanic white counterparts. Arthritis symptoms were primarily reported in American children […]
A teenage Iranian girl who fell into a coma after she was allegedly assaulted by the country’s morality police for not wearing a headscarf is “brain dead,” state-aligned media said. Armita Geravand, 16, was hospitalized with head injuries following the alleged assault at a Tehran metro station earlier this month, according to activists, just weeks […]
DELPHI, Ind.—The prosecutor overseeing the case against a northern Indiana man charged in the 2017 killings of two teenage girls has dismissed as “fanciful” a recent court filing by the man’s attorneys contending the girls actually died as part of a ritual sacrifice. Carroll County Prosecutor Nicholas McLeland called the theory a “fanciful defense for […]
COLUMBIA, S.C.—A 14-year-old suspect has been arrested in connection with a weekend shooting over a yearslong squabble that left three teenagers dead and another injured in the capital city of South Carolina, officials said Tuesday. The youth joins two 17-year-old suspects, all charged with three counts of murder and one of attempted murder, according to […]
Chances are you’ve heard of the “one-chip challenge”—the consumption of a single tortilla chip dusted with the two hottest peppers known to man, and refraining from eating or drinking afterward for as long as possible. Hershey subsidiary and tortilla chip maker Paqui has now pulled the product from store shelves following the death of a […]
GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz.—A 13-year-old North Dakota boy has survived a fall of nearly 100 feet at the North Rim of the Grand Canyon during a family trip. Authorities said it took emergency crews two hours to rescue Wyatt Kauffman after he slipped on a cliff Tuesday and plunged nearly 100 feet at the […]
DENVER—An 18-year-old from suburban Denver who allegedly planned to go to Iraq to fight for the ISIS terrorist group was arrested last week as he tried to board a flight to Turkey. Davin Daniel Meyer of Castle Rock, who was arrested Friday, has been charged with attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign […]
