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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)

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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