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The nightmare began with a party: three teenage girls with a webcam, visiting an Internet chatroom and yielding to requests to flash their breasts. A week later, one of the girls, a 17-year-old from Indiana, started getting threatening e-mails.

A pair of studies suggests that the common painkiller acetaminophen -- better known as Tylenol in the U.S. -- may be fueling a worldwide increase in asthma.

Nearly 11 years ago my wife and I entered the world of grief when we lost our teenage son.

Protect your kids regardless of state law, experts say.

The latest form of identity theft doesn't depend on stealing your Social Security number. Now thieves are targeting your kid's number long before the little one has a bank account.

A woman has been accused of stabbing her nieces while baby-sitting them at their home across the street from Martha Stewart's residence in an upscale New York community.

Having a sister protects young teens "from feeling lonely, unloved, guilty, self-conscious and fearful," says a new study in the Journal of ...

A new study found students with better teachers learned more in kindergarten — and earned more as young adults.

The Daily Beast examined the data for kids meals from dozens of national chain restaurants across the four categories available for each eatery: calories, saturated fat, sodium, and carbohydrates. Each meal was ranked within each nutritional category, then the ranking each meal received for each nutritional category was totaled to determine the final ranking.

The Irving, Tex. mother who strangled her two children earlier this week told a 911 operator she did so because they were both autistic and she wanted normal children, myFOXdfw.com reported Wednesday.