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Thursday, February 21st, 2013
A 17-year-old boy who was skiing in Sante Fe, N.M. found himself dangling from his ski lift when he fell off it, sending him 45 feet onto snow covered, rough terrain. The accident occurred sometime earlier this month. The teen was reportedly trying to throw a snowball at this friends lift when he slipped and ... read more »
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Tuesday, February 12th, 2013
A 16-year-old girl in Harris County, TX, has filed a lawsuit against her parents, alleging that they are trying to force her to have an abortion she does not want. The teen, who is approximately 8 weeks pregnant, claims that her parents are using verbal and physical threats to try to force her to have ... read more »
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Tuesday, August 28th, 2012
The son of an employee at at Momma’s Place Christian Academy has been accused of sexually and physically abusing four preschool-aged children while “helping out” at the Pinson, Alabama, day care. According to the day care owners, he was not employed by the day care. Chief Deputy Randy Christian of the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office ... read more »
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Sunday, June 10th, 2012
The original Teen Mom cast returns June 12 for their final time with MTV viewers, and fans will be treated to one of the most dramatic seasons yet. While the original Teen Mom’s bad girl Amber Portwood has had run-ins with the law, the other three young ladies have dealt with financial hardships, breakups and, ... read more »
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Monday, May 21st, 2012
A new study published in the May 21 issue of the journal Pediatrics suggests that the percentage of U.S. teens with diabetes is rising. The study found that the percentage of adolescents (12 to 19) with diabetes or prediabetes increased from 9 percent to 23 percent between 1999 and 2008. Prediabetes, like diabetes, is a ... read more »
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Monday, April 30th, 2012
A teenager is getting the hero treatment from his Vancouver, Wash. community after he saved a toddler from a two-story fall on Sunday. The local sheriff’s department said the 18-month-old boy was supposed to be napping along with a 2-year-old boy when the children wondered through a damaged screen door in their apartment. The screen ... read more »
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Friday, March 9th, 2012
A Detroit teenager could spend the rest of his life behind bars if he is convicted for the murder of his own mother. Joshua Smith, 14, was ordered to stand trial as an adult yesterday for allegedly shooting his mother, Tamiko Robinson, 36, to death in their Detroit home on Feb. 27. He faces first-degree ... read more »
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Monday, March 5th, 2012
Lyle Topa won’t be behind the wheel of a car any time soon. After wrecking his car into a tree last October, the 17-year-old Rhode Island native was sentenced to the most severe driving penalty his state could impose: a lifetime ban from having a driver’s license. The ruling came down from Chief Magistrate William ... read more »
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Friday, October 21st, 2011
Hailed as the largest scale study of its kind — a Danish study involving over 350,000 participants found no difference in cancer rates between the group who used their cell phones constantly compared to those who didn’t use cell phones at all. Although the study followed it’s participants for an average of 10 years, some ... read more »
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Monday, October 3rd, 2011
A teenager has slipped into a coma after an accident that occurred after allegedly being told by a producer for Anderson Cooper’s daytime TV show to record his actions for an episode about the “teenage mind.” Reports indicate that the teenage boy was asked to “film the crazy stuff you do” in preparation for the ... read more »
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Friday, September 16th, 2011
A few weeks ago, 17-year-old John Granat’s parents threw away the marijuana he was growing at their home, prompting him to tell friends that he wanted to kill his parents. Two weeks later, they were dead, bludgeoned to death in their bedroom. Judge Peter Felice ordered Granat held without bond in court on Tuesday ... read more »
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Friday, June 10th, 2011
An Indiana teen could be facing 8 years behind bars after his senior prank went wrong. Tyell Morton planned on sneaking a blow up doll into the girls bathroom as a joke, but he was spotted by security as he entered the building. Wearing a hooded top and latex gloves, Morton was seen to enter ... read more »
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Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
Perhaps this budding teen Sofia Coppola hasn’t heard of a thing called “props” or “special effects”: A schoolgirl movie maker filmed herself as she tried to murder her parents in their living room, a jury heard today… In the video, the girl first filmed herself as she sat in her bedroom dressed in a silk ... read more »
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