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Three small-town eighth-graders were suspended for not standing at the start of the school day Thursday for the Pledge of Allegiance. "My son wasn't being defiant against America," said Kim Dahl, mother of one of the students, Brandt, who attends Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton Junior High School in western Minnesota. Brandt told the Fargo Forum that Thursday's one-day in-school suspension, "was kind of dumb because I didn't do anything wrong. It should be the people's choice." Kim Dahl said the "punishment didn't fit the crime. If they wanted to know why he didn't stand, they should've made him write a paper." She said...

A new state law now requires teens to have a provisional license for a year before anyone under 20-years old can hop in their car. Teenagers have found their way around this rule, like they have other laws. Hiding in the trunk of cars, or what some teens have called 'trunking'. So now firefighters are being trained to look out for this any accident from a fender bender, to a mulit-car pile up. Firefighters are checking the trunk. Not all teens are taking the backseat, but for those who do, whether it's a weekend party or just out of a...

<p>One in three U.S. high school students say the press ought to be more restricted, and even more say the government should approve newspaper stories before readers see them, according to a survey being released today.</p> <p>The survey of 112,003 students finds that 36% believe newspapers should get "government approval" of stories before publishing; 51% say they should be able to publish freely; 13% have no opinion.</p>

Boy recovering after bizarre stunt12:51 PM CDT on Friday, April 16, 2004By BRIAN ANDERSON / DallasNews.com A 12-year-old Granbury boy who was struck by a car while two friends watched through the lens of a video camera was continuing to recuperate in a Fort Worth hospital. Police said they are still unsure as to why the boy was reclined with a pillow in the middle of a dark street about 10:25 p.m. Saturday. “We have no idea what gave them the idea to do it,” Mitch Galvan, a detective with the Granbury Police Department, said Friday. Galvan said no evidence...

SALT LAKE CITY -- A Wyoming federal judge has refused to dismiss a lawsuit brought by a Utah teenager who was severely burned when he and two others jumped into a thermal pool in Yellowstone National Park. Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas Roberts had asked the U.S. District Court in Cheyenne to reject Lance Buchi's (pictured, above) complaint, which alleges that the federal government failed to adequately warn of dangers posed by thermal pools in the park. Roberts had argued that the decision to provide no warning signs in the area of Cavern Springs -- where water temperatures can reach 170...