More than 2 years after a Houston jury convicted AJ Armstrong of killing his parents in 2016, his attorneys will try to prove ...

Preteens yearn for independence — and many parents want to loosen the reins — but that requires giving them some way to check in and say, “I made it to school,” or “I’m going to Frannie’s house this ...

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Rodrigo Paz, a centrist senator who was never a nationally prominent figure until now, won Bolivia’s ...

Nature vs. nurture... It’s the age-old debate, especially when considering the heinous crimes of adults. But what about when the perpetrators are children? Accidents aside, just how twisted does a ...

Superintendents in four Connecticut districts that implemented cell phone bans over the past few years are seeing improvements in a number of areas. State Rep. Jennifer Leeper D-Fairfield, co-chair of ...

Kara Alaimo is a professor of communication at Fairleigh Dickinson University. Her book “Over the Influence: Why Social Media Is Toxic for Women and Girls — And How We Can Take It Back” was published ...

Melanie Sepulveda, a Staten Island teacher, had her doubts about the new “bell-to-bell” cell phone ban in New York schools. In the past, she watched students drift through the hallways at I.S. 27 ...

Savannah Guthrie wants her kids to soak up every second of their childhood. That's why the Today host and her husband Michael Feldman have not given daughter Vale, 11, and son Charley, 8, their own ...

Walk into nearly any American school this fall and you’ll see a striking trend: phones are gone. Locked pouches. Classroom baskets. Outright bans. Three out of four U.S. public schools now prohibit ...

A 70-year-old Southfield man is headed to prison for molesting two children in his family. At a sentencing hearing Monday in Oakland County Circuit Court, Judge Daniel O’Brien ordered Lawrence Miles ...