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Police in Pasadena, California, issued an Amber Alert for missing 3-year-old Dylan Kurihara. He was last seen with his father on Saturday, but his father "does not recall being with the child due to his level of intoxication," police said.

The Obama administration said insurers could charge more for children with medical issues, if states allowed it.

New York GOP gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino criticized gays, saying he didn't want children thinking "homosexuality is an equally valid or successful option."

My company, Brazen Careerist, is moving from Madison, WI, to Washington, DC, where our new CEO lives.

Running the company has been absolute hell. Not that I didn’t know it would be hell. It’s my third startup.

A new government study adds to the evidence that thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative until recently found in many vaccines, does not increase children's risk of autism.

Protect your kids regardless of state law, experts say.

Two school buses loaded with children from a band camp collided with a tractor trailer on a Missouri highway today, killing at least two people and injuring as many as 50 others. Dozens are injured and two are dead after two buses and a tractor collide. Pictures from the scene show two large yellow school buses with front end damage and one of the buses rammed on top of the tractor trailer cab. An SUV is wedged underneath one of the buses.

More than 70,000 children and teens go to the emergency room each year for injuries and complications from medical devices, and contact lenses ...

A man convicted of murdering five children in 1992 in Cincinnati, Ohio, is scheduled to be executed at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, Tuesday morning.

Are the toys in your child's Happy Meal making him fat? The Center for Science in the Public Interest says they are. The Washington-based consumer advocacy group threatened to file a lawsuit against McDonald's Tuesday, charging that the fast food chain "unfairly and deceptively" markets the toys to children.