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The latest Nation’s Report Card is painting a dismal picture of math and reading achievement among American fourth and eighth graders despite a few bright spots. Students in the nation’s capital, which faced multiple scandals in its public school system last year, made significant gains in both reading and math this year, according to the National Assessment of Education Progress....

Police have arrested a school bus driver from Stratford who is accused of being in possession of child pornography.

News that a missing Aurora boy may have been found more than seven years after he disappeared at the age of 6 sent shockwaves throughout the country.

A coalition of sexual exploitation survivors and advocacy groups are calling on the NFL to ban Robert Kraft from team ownership since he was charged last month with soliciting prostitution. The group sent a letter to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell saying that Kraft should, at a minimum, be suspended six games, and should be banned from owning a team if...

Even your lifespan can be local. Researchers have long said that health disparities are heavily influenced by where you live. New data from the National Center for Health Statistics show just how much your neighborhood can impact the length of your life. In recent years, the U.S. has seen overall life expectancy decrease, from 78.7 years in 2015 to 78.6...

A tip that a Wisconsin girl, who is the subject of an Amber Alert after her parents were found dead in their home this week, may have been seen in Florida is “not credible,” according to the Barron County Sheriff’s Department, which is leading the search for the missing teen.

Authorities searched Monday for a 13-year-old girl they believe is in danger after her parents were found dead in their western Wisconsin home. Deputies went to the home in Barron after dispatchers received a 911 call from an unknown person at around 1 a.m. Monday, Barron County Sheriff Chris Fitzgerald said. He said they found the bodies of Jayme Closs’...

Back-to-school shopping isn’t getting more expensive for once, according to new survey. The cost of classroom supplies dropped across every grade level ahead of the 2018-19 school year, according to the latest Huntington Backpack Index. While some costs fell, college preparatory material costs increased 10 percent.

It may seem like a contradiction, but more adults in the U.S. say they are exercising at the same time more of them are becoming obese. About 24 percent of adults last year said they exercise enough each week to meet government recommendations for both muscle strengthening and aerobic exercise, according to a large annual health survey. That was up...

Fewer U.S. teens are smoking, having sex and doing drugs these days. Oh, and they’re drinking less milk, too. Less than one-third of high school students drink a glass of milk a day, according to a large government survey released Thursday. About two decades ago, it was nearly half. Last year’s survey asked about 100 questions on a wide range...

A woman who kidnapped a newborn from a Florida hospital two decades ago and raised the child as her own was sentenced Friday to 18 years for kidnapping.

Deaths from school bus crashes like the tragedy in New Jersey on Thursday are rare, accounting for less than one percent of the country’s yearly motor vehicle fatalities, according to the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration. School buses are the most regulated vehicles on the road, and students are 70 times more likely to get to school safely aboard a...

Summer thunderstorms in North America will likely be larger, wetter and more frequent in a warmer world, dumping 80 percent more rain in some areas and worsening flooding, a new study says. Future storms will also be wilder, soaking entire cities and huge portions of states, according to a federally-funded study released Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change. The...

Students who attended for-profit colleges were twice as likely or more to default on their loans than students who attended public schools, according to a federal study published Thursday. The report by the National Center of Education Statistics looks at students who began their undergraduate education in 2003 and defaulted on at least one loan over the next 12 years....

What day is it? It’s Oct. 3, also known as ‘Mean Girls’ Day, and the cast of the hit comedy film is marking the occasion by banding together to help victims of the Las Vegas shooting. The actors of ‘Mean Girls,’ the endlessly quoted 2004 movie starring Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams and Amanda Seyfried, have started a GoFundMe campaign to...

Suicide among teen girls between the ages of 15 and 19 has hit a 40-year high, according to new data released by the National Center for Health Statistics.

Donal Logue’s teen daughter Jade Logue, who went missing almost two weeks ago in Brooklyn, New York, is safe and finally at home....
The Gotham actor’s rep told E! News, “Jade is now safely back home with her family” on Saturday....
“Donal is incredibly thankful for everyone’s support, and especially to the NYPD, FBI and Team Adam NCMEC for her safe return,”...

“Gotham” actor Donal Logue and his ex-wife have sent more pleas on social media to help find their 16-year-old daughter, who has been missing for a week. The latest post came from Kasey Smith, Logue’s ex-wife, on Sunday night. In a video message on Twitter, she called for anyone with information about Jade Logue to contact her or the police....

President Donald Trump announced on Thursday that the United States will withdraw from the Paris Agreement, which aims to curb greenhouse gas emissions in an effort to combat climate chance. The move set off a wave of outrage from environmental groups, international allies and business leaders, while garnering support from conservatives. But what does it mean for the planet? NBC...

New government statistics show that 25 percent of men have the strain of HPV (human papillomavirus or human wart virus) that causes cancer, NBC News reported. Twenty percent of women have the same strain as well, and 45 percent of men have some kind of genital HPV, according to new data from the National Center for Health Statistics. People under...