Youth News

Residents have until July 25 to purchase commemorative bricks to help raise money for the restoration of the Marion Tavern at Grand View Farm.

Published: Saturday, July 4, 2009 at 11:39 a.m. Last Modified: Saturday, July 4, 2009 at 11:39 a.m. It had been about 13 years since Tommy Pinkard last saw the young man who interrupted his lunch at a Gadsden pizzeria, but Pinkard still recognized him as a former student in a state program that helps keep at-risk youth out of juvenile detention.

Pittsburgh City Council tentatively voted today to spend $500,000 to open a curfew center for the first time in five years, despite the fact that a fiscal plan passed yesterday apparently limits it to one year of funding.

Rewriting their story. Teenage offenders are changing their lives one wall at a time.

A youth choir from a Texas church the Southern Baptist Convention cut ties with because it didn't adhere to the denomination's stance on homosexuals has been told they aren't welcome to participate in a Kentucky Baptist mission program.

On the heels of China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology delaying the mandatory installation of the Green Dam Youth Escort Web-filtering software on new computers, one consumer group is calling for China to abandon the Green Dam initiative altogether.

A decades-old program that helps troubled Alabama youth stay out of juvenile detention has been spared for now, but advocates and directors say its financial woes are far from over.

Batshaw Youth and Family Centres in Montreal has put out an urgent call for new foster parents.

She can't wait to start classes at Northwestern University, where she will double-major in International Studies and Japanese Culture.

A year ago, local electrical contractor A.J. Martinez won himself a Harley Davidson Sportster at Freedom Fiesta.

POLICE are sounding the alarm this week over an apparent rise in participation in the sex trade among North Vancouver teens, many of whom are advertising on Craigslist.

The Oregon House voted Friday on a second try to phase in a new tough-on-crime law and use the savings to offset spending cuts in public-safety agencies.

A preliminary agreement has been reached in a federal lawsuit that claims youth were abused at a south Mississippi juvenile detention center and forced to live in squalid conditions.

I think about you all day long you are always on my mind I yearn to just touch you and watch as spark fly as our chemistry combines Every since I first laid eyes on you I haven't stood a chance each time we are together my heart skips to a sweet lovers dance As we kiss forever with passion on our lips the sands of time seem to simply stand still as ...

Scores of Bawku youth on Wednesday besieged Parliament demanding an end to what they call wanton persecutions by the security agencies in Bawku.

The number of juveniles detained each day at the Hennepin County Juvenile Detention Center dropped 33 percent over the past three years, according to state courts.

African-American children in Maryland are being arrested at a rate nearly three times higher than their white counterparts, a gap that continues to widen because of law enforcement practices and failures of school personnel to distinguish between delinquent behavior and children simply acting out, according to a report released Tuesday by a ...

Alternative rockers Dinosaur Jr. having been jamming out together since 1984 and are releasing their ninth studio album this summer.

Before deciding on the new comment policy announced at the end of this post, I was initially hesitant to blog about the minor kerfuffle last week when the Texas Civil Rights Project criticized the Attorney General for failing to yet take to court the West Texas sex-abuse cases that spawned the Youth Commission's recent troubles.

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