Kids News

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.

Some brought thank you cards. First-grader Crisily Dixon was eager to see a gym teacher and for a chance to say goodbye for the school year.

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

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.

THURSDAY, May 23 -- 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.

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.

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

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 be designated a core subject.

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.

Two girls stand in rubble in Moore, Oklahoma. Melissa Brymer says parents can help kids by being honest and listening.

"It began with a rat. There was also a glasses-wearing elderly iguana, a grumpy fish who could spell, a ghost in the clock tower, a secret message in the library, and a twisted evil that lived on the fourth floor of our school.

In unofficial results posted in Tuesday night's election, Beaverton School District voters supported a five-year, $15 million local-option levy with 27,510 votes, or nearly 57 percent, to 21,053 votes, or 43 percent, opposing funding Measure 34-204. Approval of the levy means local schools will be able to move forward with the first year of adding ... (more)

Urban elementary school children with poorly controlled asthma are likely to experience sleep problems and suffer academically, new research indicates.

WEDNESDAY, May 22 -- 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.

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.

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.

Thousands of children in private daycare centres in Quebec are affected by a one-day walkout by daycare workers Wednesday to protest proposed provincial funding cuts.

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.

A protester with a banner that reads "public water deserves a public vote" interrupts a City Council vote on whether to add fluoride to city water in Portland, Ore., Sept.

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.