Kids News

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.

A new feature released Tuesday from children's app maker Kidaptive lets parents track the progress of what their children are learning inside the company's first story and game application.

Two children are dead and their mother has been charged with shooting them and her husband, who has life-threatening injuries, while they were in bed in their charged with two counts of murder, attempted murder and possession of a weapon during a violent crime, according to warrants.

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.

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.

Authorities say a woman has been charged with fatally shooting her two young children and wounding her husband in a home in northwestern South Carolina.