Talk about red tape: Colorado's Department of Human Services last year proposed regulating child care businesses down to the number of crayons per box and the color of dolls kids can play with.

Each year the Jacob Burns Film Center in Pleasantville hosts award winning filmmakers such as Steven Spielberg and Ron Howard as guests to their various special events.

A unidentified child is fed at a hospital where children receive treatment for malnutrition in the border town of Dadaab, Kenya, Saturday, July 23, 2011.

I Am Valuable I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.

FILE - In this Wednesday, April 9, 2008 file photo, Debbie Coluter, a certified nursing assistant, holds the hand of an elderly inmate with Alzheimer's disease, as she helps him to his cell at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville, Calif." rel="story-images"> AP Photo - FILE - In this Wednesday, April 9, 2008 file photo, Debbie Coluter, a ... (more)

Former Bachelorette Jen Schefft is expecting baby No. 2 with husband Joe Waterman, Us Weekly reports.

State Board of Education members have pressed the Texas education commissioner about whether high-stakes standardized testing is warping classroom teaching to ensure students spend more time preparing for the exams then actual learning.

"We'd actually like to [get married]" Pitt tells The Hollywood Reporter , "and it seems to mean more and more to our kids." Pitt, 48, and Jolie, 36, have said in the past that they would only tie the knot when same-sex marriages were legalized.

ENID, Okla. &#8212 The parents of two teenagers who were severely injured in a grain elevator accident have filed negligence lawsuits against the business where the boys worked.

Thousands of teenagers are still failing to get good GCSE results after being let down by under-performing schools, new league tables suggest.

Men more than women are at higher risk of developing mild memory loss, according to a new study published in the journal Neurology .

President Barack Obama on Wednesday launched a three-day visit to five battleground states in the November election by pressing State of the Union themes of core American values and having the wealthy pay more taxes.

PFCs are commonly used in a wide range of household products including nonstick cookware, carpets, upholstery and food packaging such as microwave popcorn bags.

The child sexual abuse scandal at Penn State University has prompted state lawmakers across the nation to take another look at laws designed to protect children and punish child predators.

Students: Get ready for pizza with whole-grain crust and bigger portions of fruits and vegetables on your school lunch tray.

The first major nutritional overhaul of school meals in more than 15 years means most offerings, including popular pizza, will come with less sodium and more whole grains, with a wider selection of fruits and vegetables on the side, first lady Michelle Obama and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced during a visit Wednesday with elementary ... (more)

While snacks that included canned or frozen vegetables were on the pricey side, snacks including fresh vegetables were not.

Uma Thurman is to sit on the jury of the New York International Children's Film Festival for the second year running.

America's public school teachers are seeing their generations-old tenure protections weakened as states seek flexibility to fire teachers who aren't performing.

Long-term care patients who spent a few hours in an emergency facility were more likely to get sick in two to seven days after returning to their nursing homes.