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Most high school seniors are excitedly preparing to put on their cap and gown and looking forward to the future right now.

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Police say a mother found drowned in a southern Indiana creek along with her two children killed them before committing suicide.

Lillian Hill's Head Start classroom at Camelot Elementary School is bustling and filled with kids the Friday before Mother's Day.

BEST Album winners Alt-J hope to take more care of their Ivors trophy than they did over last year's Mercury Prize.

A school bus carrying severely disabled students home from a trip to the zoo rolled over Thursday on a highway near Indianapolis, injuring a dozen people, including five children, state police said.

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

For years, numerous Jamaican fraudsters have conned mostly elderly Americans out of their retirement savings by promising that they've won millions in an international lottery but they need to wire a payment to cover taxes.

Her father, Francis Ford Coppola, was there to premiere a work-in-progress cut of a film he had spent years wrestling with: "Apocalypse Now." "I have nice memories of Cannes," Coppola said in an interview Thursday on the roof of the Palais, the festival center.

Shakira has confirmed that she won't be returning as a coach on "The Voice" next season.

The highest number of backpacks of food handed out to needy school children was 7,158 during a week in February, said Larry Gunkel, a Food Bank official running the program.

Some Lower East Side residents are angry that a garden where their kids play is being turned into a construction site.

About this sponsorship: In honor of the 60th anniversary of Sir Edmund Hillary ' s historic ascent of Mount Everest, Patch and Grape-Nuts are teaming up to highlight those who inspire people around them to climb their own mountains.

A May 15 article in The Telegraph made waves by reporting that the head teacher at a London Catholic School called in gay rights group Stonewall to educate on the need to avoid homophobic bullying after a five-year-old boy called another student's shoes "gay." Now it turns out that the incident never happened.

A prosecutor of a man charged with setting a southern Illinois house fire that killed four children says authorities believe they know the motivations behind the blaze, but he won't reveal that immediately.

Robo Hamsters are very active and always on the move they enjoy hanging out together and scampering around non-stop exploring the fun stuff in their habitats! They are very difficult to hold probably wouldn't do well with children, but they do not typically bite and are quite friendly.

Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said 'we need to have a very fundamental look at the way A and E departments work' Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said changes to the way GPs provide out-of-hours care have had a "huge impact" on accident and emergency services as a group of NHS trusts warned casualty departments could collapse in six months' time as a ... (more)

A mother of six whose infant son starved to death at a homeless shelter was convicted of involuntary manslaughter on Tuesday.

A woman charged with shooting and killing her two young children and seriously wounding her husband at their northwestern South Carolina home told a nurse at the hospital she wanted to kill herself, but just couldn't do it, according to arrest warrants.

A 75-year-old resident of a New Jersey senior citizen housing complex is suspected of running a prostitution ring that employed some elderly residents as sex workers, NBC 4 New York has learned.