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18 min ago | Surreycomet.co.uk

Moshi Monsters visit Sutton kids

Moshi Monsters is a children's website where kids can choose six virtual pet monsters to play games and puzzles with.

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Related Topix: Kids

4 hrs ago | WGAL-TV Lancaster

Poor hit hardest by Washington budget cuts

Forced federal spending cuts intended to be equal and across-the-board have lately fallen harder on the nation's poor, sick and elderly.

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Related Topix: Elderly (Senior Citizen), Kansas City, KS, University of Wisconsin Madison, Autos

5 hrs ago | Seattle Times

Wash. kids play with dead bats, get rabies shots

The Grant County Health District says some Moses Lake, Wash., children are getting precautionary rabies shots after they were found playing with several dead bats.

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Related Topix: Kids, Grant County, WA, Moses Lake, WA

Thu May 23, 2013

KIMA

Kids, teachers from devastated Okla. school reunite

Students from a suburban Oklahoma City elementary school destroyed by this week's tornado reunited with their teachers Thursday and collected whatever could be salvaged from the ruins.

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Related Topix: Kids, Moore, OK, Weather, Norman, OK

Andover Advertiser

Warning over child access to porn

The Children's Commissioner says age restrictions apply at the cinema but society allows access to far more troubling imagery via the internet Children who access pornography are more likely to have sex at a younger age and engage in "risky behaviours", a report by the Office of the Children's Commissioner has warned.

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Related Topix: Human Sexuality, Adolescents and Pre-Teens

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

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

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

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.

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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Related Topix: Kids

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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Related Topix: Kids

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

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

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

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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Related Topix: Teenagers

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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Related Topix: Kids