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23 min ago | KNDO

Too few kids use fast-food calorie info

While some fast-food chains are required to provide calorie and other nutritional information to help customers make informed choices, kids who eat fast food at least twice a week are 50 percent less likely to use this information than kids who eat fast food less often, according to a new U.S. study.

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Related Topix: Kids, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Life, Food, Nutrition

23 min ago | EDGE

Defense Attorney: Charges Not Appropriate in Kaitlyn Hunt Case

Kaitlyn Hunt and her attorney held a press conference on Wednesday to address the continued media scrutiny of a case that has made its way around the world.

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Related Topix: Teenagers

1 hr ago | KIII

Latest deadly tornado tests Oklahoma town's mettle

Having lived most of her life in this Oklahoma City suburb, Barbara Bryen never feared twisters.

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Related Topix: Tornado, Natural Disasters, Oklahoma City, OK, Kids, US Military, US Air Force, Tinker Air Force Base

3 hrs ago | Philly.com

School kids need hour of exercise daily: Report

The prestigious Institute of Medicine is recommending that schools provide opportunities for at least 60 minutes of physical activity each day for students and that PE become a core subject.

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Related Topix: Kids, Adolescents and Pre-Teens, Life, Food, Nutrition, Education Etc.

3 hrs ago | KCRA-TV Sacramento

Inside a tornado-ravaged school

It was the end of the school day. The children at Plaza Towers Elementary School were stuffing their backpacks, looking forward to going home, playing with friends, eating snacks.

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3 hrs ago | KMBC-TV

2 kids dead in Minnesota gravel slide

A field trip turned tragic for a group of fourth-graders in Minnesota when gravel drenched by rain gave way, killing two children and injuring two others.

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7 hrs ago | KMIZ

Does Brad Pitt suffer from face blindness?

It seems that anytime Brad Pitt speaks, the world stops to listen, and his latest interview with Esquire has been no exception.

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Related Topix: Celebrities, Brad Pitt, Kids, Entertainment

8 hrs ago | KFVS12

June sentencing in Kan. for dad who bound kids

A June sentencing date has been scheduled for a suburban Chicago man who was arrested after 2 of his children were found bound and blindfolded in a Wal-Mart parking lot in eastern Kansas.

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Related Topix: Kids, Northlake, IL

9 hrs ago | Inside Bay Area

Union City third-grade teacher placed on unpaid leave after molestation charges

A third-grade teacher who faces dozens of child molestation charges for allegedly kissing and fondling female students has been placed on unpaid leave.

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Related Topix: Union City, CA, Education Etc., Adolescents and Pre-Teens

13 hrs ago | Patch.com

Best-Paying Summer Jobs

The following story was provided by AOLJobs.com By David Schepp Getting a summer job is a rite of passage for many young people.

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Wed May 22, 2013

Courier-Post

Okla. teens get video of deadly tornado overhead

Two Oklahoma teenagers used their cell phones from inside a storm shelter to capture video of a deadly tornado that passed through their neighborhood on Monday.

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Related Topix: Oklahoma, Oklahoma Government, Teenagers

KFVS12

More kids getting donor organs, but gaps persist

Over the last decade, the number of American children who die each year awaiting an organ donation dropped by more than half, new research reveals.

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Related Topix: Kids, University of Utah

This is Guernsey

Call for compulsory sex education

Sex and relationships education should be compulsory in secondary schools as ministers are failing to take action to protect children and women, a damning report has claimed.

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Related Topix: Adolescents and Pre-Teens, Human Sexuality

Vancouver Sun

Halifax parent irate over claims students at school had mouths taped shut

The father of a seven-year-old boy whose mouth was allegedly taped closed by an after-school monitor says school officials in Halifax reacted slowly and incompletely to the incident.

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Related Topix: Kids, Education Etc.

The Indianapolis Star

Doctors use 3-D printer to custom-design implant for baby

Doctors used a 3-D printer to create a tiny, bioresorbable scaffold like this one to implant in Kaiba Gionfriddo's windpipe to keep it from collapsing.

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KFAQ-AM Tulsa

2 infants among 10 kids killed in Oklahoma tornado

The Oklahoma medical examiner's office says two infants are among 24 people killed by the tornado that ripped across the Oklahoma City area this week.

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Athens Banner-Herald

2 infants among 10 kids killed in Oklahoma tornado

Two infants were among the 24 people killed by the tornado that ripped across the Oklahoma City area this week, the Oklahoma medical examiner's office said Wednesday.

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WTLV

Fla. ranked 42nd in nation in per-pupil spending

Florida's per-pupil spending is among the lowest in the nation according to data compiled by the U.S. Census.

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Related Topix: Adolescents and Pre-Teens

Central Ohio

Portland, Ore., rejects adding fluoride to drinking water

The mayor of Portland, Ore., has conceded defeat in an effort to add fluoride to the city's drinking water.

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The Miami Herald

6 kids among 7 injured in south China attack

A mentally ill man attacked six primary school students and a woman with a cleaver in the latest of a string of attacks on Chinese schoolchildren, authorities said Wednesday.

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Related Topix: Kids, World News, China,