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In one five-year period, teens and preteens in the US may have lost about 200,000 years of life to unintentional drug overdoses, according to a new study. The study, published Monday in JAMA Pediatrics, may be one of the first to calculate lives lost to unintentional drug overdoses among young people. Researchers looked at overdose data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention between 2015 and 2019 to calculate the total number of years of life lost for 10- to 19-year-olds who died during that time. If the data is expanded to include people up to 24 years...

A 16-year-old, up-and-coming rapper charged with shooting an NYPD cop in the Bronx walked free on bond Thursday — and cops are fuming over it. Camrin Williams, who is also known by the rap name C Blu, posted his $250,000 bond after being locked up at a Brooklyn juvenile facility on gun and assault charges in the shooting of a 27-year-old cop in Belmont.

Two of the nation's top doctors said they refuse to give their own kids a COVID booster shot as vaccinated teenage boys have a low risk of hospitalization, but the likelihood of myocarditis, an inflammation of the heart, is higher. Dr. Monica Gandhi, an infectious-disease specialist at the University of California, and Dr. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and a member of the FDA's vaccine advisory committee, told journalist David Zweig in a piece published on Bari Weiss's Substack, Common Sense, that the benefits of a booster for teen males are outweighed...

Darcy Grace Hollinson was tragically just 17-years-old when she took her lifeThe parents of a loving 17-year-old teenager who tragically ended her life have warned that the 'true pandemic' isn't Covid-19, but mental health. Darcy Grace Hollinson was due to soon finish her A-levels at Plymouth High School for Girls when she was found unresponsive at her home in Tavistock on April 14, 2021, at around 9.15pm. An inquest at Exeter’s County Hall today, January 18, heard that despite resuscitation attempts she was unable to be revived following a suicide attempt. Darcy had been struggling with her mental health for...

DETROIT -- The federal government is moving forward with a plan to let teenagers drive big rigs from state to state in a test program. Currently, truckers who cross state lines must be at least 21 years old, but an apprenticeship program required by Congress to help ease supply chain backlogs would let 18-to-20-year-old truckers drive outside their home states. The pilot program, detailed Thursday in a proposed regulation from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, would screen the teens, barring any with driving-while-impaired violations or traffic tickets for causing a crash. But safety advocates say the program runs counter...

If Your Time is short There is a risk of myocarditis, an inflammation of the heart muscle, in young people from the vaccine. But it is rare, and symptoms of the condition are normally mild. The CDC and others say the benefits of the vaccine far outweigh the risks.The CDC said the only confirmed fatalities related to the COVID-19 vaccines are nine deaths from a blood clot disorder tied to the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. Deaths and other adverse events reported to the government’s VAERS database do not mean they are confirmed to have been caused by the vaccine.See...

A video posted to Facebook appears to show four teenage boys throwing things at an elderly woman and her dog. The incident occurred last Thursday near Goodpasture Loop in Eugene. We spoke this week to the man who made the videos. It’s still unknown what led up to the altercation captured on Ben Johnson of Eugene's dash cam. "I was on my way home from work and I pulled up to the intersection and I saw what looked like a bunch of kids just roughhousing," he said.

A second teenage suspect has been arrested and charged with murder related to a large brawl near downtown Atlanta in July that erupted into gunfire, injuring two teenagers and killing a third. Kentavius Dayquan Jeffries, 19, of Atlanta, was charged with murder, criminal attempt to commit murder, aggravated assault and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony, Atlanta police said in a news release Monday. He was served arrest warrants at the Fulton County Jail, where he is being held on unrelated charges related to a mid-October incident. The brawl took place just after 10 p.m. on...

At least three students were killed and eight others were injured after a 15-year-old boy opened fire inside Oxford High School in a Detroit suburb. Stories about bravery and heroics among teachers and students are beginning to surface. One video, which you can watch below, shows students locked inside a classroom — when suddenly someone knocks on the door. “Sheriff’s office,” the voice said. “It’s safe to come out.” Someone inside the classroom wisely told the officer they were not willing to take that risk. The “officer” then told students, “Okay, well open the door and look at my badge,...

An investigation is underway after several teen girls were captured on video attacking a group of students on a SEPTA train in Philadelphia. The incident occurred on a Broad Street Line train near SEPTA's Erie Station around 3:30 p.m. Wednesday. Video of the attack shows a group of teen girls repeatedly punching and screaming at another group of teens on the train. One of the attackers also punches, knocks over and repeatedly kicks a teen girl before slapping her with her shoe. NBC10 is not showing the video out of respect for the victims. The attackers in the video are...

Two 16-year-old Iowa schoolboys have been charged with murdering their Spanish teacher, after one of them bragged about it on social media, according to a criminal complaint. The body of Fairfield High School teacher Nohema Graber, 66, was found dumped in a park Tuesday hours after she was first reported missing, according to officials. Her body had been hidden “under a tarp, wheelbarrow and railroad ties” after she appeared to have been killed by “trauma to the head,” court records show. Officials have not speculated on a possible motive, or given details on what the teens allegedly discussed in the...

Authorities arrested two teenage boys after they were accused of plotting a Columbine-style school mass killing, WINK-TV reports. Police arrested 13-year-old Connor Pruett and 14-year-old Phillip Byrd after investigators discovered that the two were plotting to execute a mass killing at Harns Marsh Middle School in Lehigh Acres, Florida

The roar of the wind crescendos with the airplane engine as the runway recedes into a long, gray ribbon stretching behind 19-year-old Zara Rutherford. She was taking her first test flight in the aircraft she will pilot around the world. At the moment the wheels of the Shark Ultralight lift off the ground, a massive grin splits the teen's face nearly in half. She is right where she wants to be. Raised in a family of pilots, Rutherford, who is Belgian and British, started flying at a young age. “I went to school in Belgium and England and have been...

Nearly two in three age-eligible teenagers remain unvaccinated against COVID-19 as summer ends and the disease looms over its third consecutive school year. Spokespersons for the state departments of health and education said they did not know what percentage of students enrolled in public schools are vaccinated. However, looking at the total population (which would include homeschooled students), more than 62% remain unvaccinated. “As of today, there are 390,903 Ohioans age 12-18 who have started the vaccination process,” said Ohio Department of Health spokeswoman Alicia Shoults. “This represents 37.5% of that age group.” Despite plans to attend classes in close...

Murder charges have been filed against one of two teenage drivers in connection with a suspected street racing crash in Burbank earlier this month that killed three young people in another car not involved in the apparent speed contest, prosecutors announced Monday. Prosecutors are still mulling potential charges against the second driver, a 17-year-old who has not been named. The two are accused of engaging in an apparent street race that resulted in a series of crashes involving multiple vehicles in the area of Glenoaks Boulevard and Andover Drive on the night of Aug. 3, according to the Burbank Police...

CHICAGO (CBS) — Chicago Police on Monday night were warning anyone walking downtown or in the South Loop to stay alert after a series of attacks and robberies. Investigators have linked those attacks and robberies to a group of teens. They have happened to people who have simply been walking down State Street and Michigan Avenue between Balbo Avenue and the Chicago River. And it does not matter if you are alone or in a group. Police said the youngsters are attacking and stealing from people at all hours. On State Street near Van Buren Street, a woman waiting for...

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Cell phone video, text messages and photos are just some of the evidence in a murder case against two teens. Police say the parents of Sierra Halseth, 16, and Aaron Guerrero, 18, told them they couldn’t see each other anymore. The teens planned on running away together to California, and then Sierra’s father ended up murdered. Video evidence shows the teens talking about a murder. “Welcome back to our YouTube channel … Day 3 after murdering somebody …,” Guerrero says into the camera in a cell phone video. The I-Team reviewed dozens of photos considered as...

The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is pleading with parents to vaccinate their teenagers against the coronavirus. It comes as a new report from the federal health agency found that COVID-19-related hospitalizations in U.S. children between ages 12 and 17 rose by 116 percent in April. At the time, vaccines were not approved for youngsters under age 16, with Pfizer-BioNTech getting the official nod from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on May 10. The report found one out of three kids who were hospitalized required admission to intensive care units (ICUs) and nearly...

A Utah teen remains hospitalized with three blood clots in and near his brain that developed after he received the first dose of Pfizer’s COVID vaccine.

Police were called to the amusement park to break up large groups of teens fighting.