Kids News

Information provided by Three Rivers Park District . Preschool Drop-off: Kits & Cubs: Pond Life Monday, May 20, from 1-3 p.m., at Lowry Nature Center, in Carver Park Reserve, Victoria.

The Krim family suffered an unthinkable tragedy last year when their nanny stabbed two of their three children and left them in the bathtub.

Jenny Schweitzer, the education coordinator at the Morris Museum, recalls one student touring the new "Once Upon a Dime" exhibit and reasoning, "If I needed to save $10,000, I could do it in about a month, right?" "It's cute, but it's really hard to understand until you actually start earning money and paying bills," Schweitzer said.

President Barack Obama highlighted his recent jobs tour Saturday, emphasizing a need to focus on improving the economy rather than getting distracted by other issues in the nation's capital.

A YMCA camp in western Wisconsin has been cleaned after more than 50 children from a Minnesota school district were sickened with norovirus.

Lower decile school pupils as young as 9 are being shown the movies in class, in a desperate bid to boost their literacy levels.

The Wise County Department of Social Services this week partnered with Wendy's in Wise to celebrate National Foster Care Month.

A Jersey City man was shot Thursday night and the mother of his children and three other people have been charged, Jersey City police said.

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

A man in 60s walked into a Paris school and shot himself dead with a sawn-off shotgun in front of a dozen children.

About this sponsorship: In honor of the 60 th 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.

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

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.

An Indianapolis man was arrested today after leaving two children, one of whom was attached to a heart monitor, inside a hot car in front of a fast food joint on the city’s Northwestside.

Safe Kids Baltimore and the Raven's Torrey Smith have teamed up to teach children how to prevent injuries when they play outside.

The charity's helicopter is the first dedicated to youngsters aiming to slash the time it takes to get kids to specialist hospital units Swaddled in blankets and with giant ear protectors on his tiny head, critically ill Theo Mikova is flown to hospital by helicopter for life-saving surgery.

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

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.

When Carissa Lee O'Connell's husband Rick began preparing organic home lunches for his wife four months ago, the goal was to improve her severe nasal allergies.

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.