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41 min ago | The Kansas City Star

Study: California isn't using tobacco money for smoking prevention programs

With California voters poised to vote next week on a tobacco tax hike, a new federal study concludes that the state has used relatively little of the billions of dollars in tobacco money it already takes in to prevent kids from smoking or to help smokers quit.Between 1998 and 2010, just 6 percent of the money collected from a massive lawsuit ... (more)

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Related Topix: Smoking, Medicine, Health, Kids, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Stem Cell Research, Science / Technology

4 hrs ago | Sunherald.com

Fighting US's worst teen pregnancy rate in Miss.

In this May 2, 2012 photograph taken in Marks, Miss., Shalendrick Tribble, 19, shows off a tattoo of her son's name in a classroom at Madison S. Palmer High School in Marks.

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Related Topix: Parenting, Motherhood, Tougaloo College, Mississippi Government, Mississippi, Wellesley College

9 hrs ago | KABC-AM Los Angeles

Parents Delay Retiring to Pay Kids' Student Loan Debts

After years of hard work, saving up and an Air Force pension, Terry and Edward Fackler of Everett, Wash., thought they had retirement covered.

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Related Topix: Kids, Pension, Everett, WA, Economics News, Bankruptcy

13 hrs ago | Evening Sun

Lancaster County woman facing charges of taking kids from Ohio

A central Pennsylvania woman is behind bars and facing charges of abducting her three children from a guardian's home in Ohio.

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Related Topix: Lancaster County, PA, Kids, Lewistown, PA

16 hrs ago | National Public Radio

Listening To Parents Key To Financial Responsibility

As an increasing number of Americans live into their 80s and 90s, many families are struggling to find ways to make retirement dollars - that were once supposed to support seniors for years - now stretch over decades.

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Related Topix: Elderly (Senior Citizen), University of Arizona, Kids

Mon May 28, 2012

The Modesto Bee

First lady's book: On growing seeds, healthy kids

From the beginning, Michelle Obama's kitchen garden has been an overachiever, churning out more peppers, parsley and eggplant than expected, and generating interest that - yes, really - crosses oceans.

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Related Topix: Home Gardening, Home, Kids, Michelle Obama, 2012 Presidential Election, US Politics, US News, Life, Food, Vegetables

Prince George Citizen

Children believed abducted by father almost 4 years ago found in Mexico

Emily Cablek has been reunited with her two children almost four years after they were taken from her, moved around Mexico and kept hidden from public view, authorities said Monday.

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Related Topix: Non-Profit, Kids

TurnTo23.com

Friendships Influence Kids' Activity Levels

While children do not make or break friendships based on physical activity, a new study suggests their social network of friends can greatly influence how much they move.

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Related Topix: Kids, Pediatrics, Medicine

WINK-TV Fort Myers

Are foster kids helped, harmed by open hearings

A California judge's decision to open a county's child welfare hearings earlier this year has energized a debate among advocates in other states about whether greater transparency helps or harms the young victims appearing in family court.

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Related Topix: Kids, Los Angeles County, CA, Criminal Defense Law, Law

KTHV-TV Little Rock

Are foster kids helped, harmed by open hearings?

A California judge's decision to open a county's child welfare hearings earlier this year has energized a national debate about whether greater transparency helps or harms young victims.

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Related Topix: Kids, California, KY

KCAU

Free dental care offered to Neb. Panhandle kids

Faculty and staff from the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Dentistry are offering free dental care to children in the Panhandle on Friday and Saturday.

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Related Topix: Kids, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Nebraska Government, Nebraska, Fillings, Health

WPTZ-TV Plattsburgh

Senator asks airlines to drop seat fee for kids and families

A senator from New York is taking issue with airlines that are charging extra if people traveling together want to sit together.

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Related Topix: Kids, US Senate, US Politics, Charles Schumer, Democrat, US News

Sun May 27, 2012

WAPT-TV Jackson

A creative life is a healthy life

There are many conversations taking place right now about creativity -- how our future depends on it, how our kids are losing it, how most schools are killing it, and how parents ought to be nurturing and encouraging it.

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Related Topix: Kids

Polk County Democrat

Colorado is latest to rein in zero-tolerance school policies

On May 2, D'Avonte Meadows, a 6-year-old with an infectious grin and rambunctious streak, was suspended for three days from Sable Elementary in suburban Denver for crooning " Sexy and I Know It" to a girl in lunch line.

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Related Topix: Colorado, Kids, Violent Crime, Education Etc.

WBUR-AM Boston

Mass. Emergency Workers Learn To Recognize Autism

WRENTHAM, Mass. - Norwood Police Lt. Martin Baker begins his training session with a startling new government statistic: 1 in 88 children in the United States has autism or a related disorder.

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Related Topix: Wrentham, MA, Teenagers

WAPI-AM Birmingham

Over-the-Counter Lice Treatment No Longer Effective?

Last week, a Kuna, Idaho, elementary school closed for two days after 60 students and nine staff members were diagnosed with head lice.

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Related Topix: Lice, Medicine, Health, Kuna, ID, Kids

Sunday Mail

Gunman arrested, two dead in shooting rampage

A police officer attends a reconstruction of the shooting from a roof after a shooting targeting restaurants packed with teenagers.

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Related Topix: Teenagers, Europe, Finland, World News,

4029TV.com

Music: It's In Your Head, Changing Your Brain

Michael Jackson was on to something when he sang that "A-B-C" is "simple as 'Do Re Mi.'" Music helps kids remember basic facts such as the order of letters in the alphabet, partly because songs tap into fundamental systems in our brains that are sensitive to melody and beat.

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Related Topix: Kids, Johns Hopkins University, Canada,

The Campbell Reporter

Disneyland-bound teens clean, but bus driver arrested in drug sweep

A police officer who had been asked to check for drugs on a bus full of Utah teenagers headed to Disneyland ended up arresting the driver, authorities said Friday.

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Related Topix: Teenagers, Cedar City, UT, South Jordan, UT

Sat May 26, 2012

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Police: Wash. couple provided meth, pot to teens

Police say a Washington couple have been arrested after acknowledging they provided methamphetamine and marijuana to teenagers in their care.

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Related Topix: Drugs, Teenagers, Moxee, WA, Yakima, WA

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