Kids News

The Washington state Senate has passed a bill to ban one potentially cancer-causing flame retardant from kids' products but not another that is more widely used.

Renee Flax, the Director of Camper Placement, thinks this is the best option for parents when picking a camp for their children.

Holladay a On their 10th attempt, Vitalina and Harold Lazarus finally won the immigration lottery to come to the United States from Ukraine.

Initial tests detected blood on a comforter found in a storage unit in Washington state belonging to Josh Powell, the man who police say killed his two sons and himself, according to a document filed Friday.

Connecticut Audubon Society Director of Education Michelle Eckman said the group will add more programs for families to get kids interested in conservation issues.

FAIRFIELD: "Yes, what a GREAT mother! Her 16-year-old son now has police record that will follow him for the rest of his life because of a harmless plant.

Sinead O'Connor is calling for sufferers of post-traumatic stress disorder to be treated with kindness, because referring to them as "crazy" is "a term of abuse." hitmaker, who claims to have been a victim of child abuse, was diagnosed with the condition last year after doctors previously told her she was bipolar.

Venezuelan prosecutors say two women have been ordered to appear in court for allegedly posing children with assault rifles during a public event organized by an armed group that supports President Hugo Chavez.

A bus driver safely evacuated children from a school bus just before it caught fire.

Nine-year-old Ruby Garduno, right, holds a sign as students enter Miramonte Elementary School in Los Angeles on Thursday, Feb.

Authorities in West Michigan say they're looking for two young children whose father failed to drop them off with their mother as planned.

Researchers have been given the go-ahead to test stem cells from cord blood with the ultimate goal of reversing hearing loss in infants and toddlers whose inner ears have been damaged.

Illinois children are caught in a "budget crossfire," hit hard by state budget cuts and a recession that left one in five of them living in poverty and 33,000 students homeless in 2010, a children's advocacy organization said in a report released Thursday.

State child welfare officials are featuring a different black foster child who is available for adoption every day during black history month.

President Barack Obama shakes hands with Education Secretary Arne Duncan after speaking about No Child Left Behind, Thursday, Feb.

Michelle Obama busted out a few new moves Thursday to mark the second anniversary of her campaign against childhood obesity with a few new friends - 14,000 or so, it turns out.

TVs have toppled and killed four Chicago-area children in the past four months. / By Julia Eile, for USA TODAY CHICAGO - The deaths of four Chicago-area children since late October after TVs toppled on them are prompting calls for more safety measures and increased awareness.

Dedham mother's attempt to get sexually explicit books at Legacy Place's Urban Outfitters moved to an "adults only" section has won allies among town officials and child advocates.

Burton, executive producer and host of the program that ran on PBS for 26 years until 2009, is creating a mobile application through his site RRKidz , which he started in September.

Sinister allegations of abuse by at least two teachers in a Los Angeles school have forced awkward discussions as parents warn youngsters that people they trust - pastors, teachers, even relatives - might do things that could hurt them.