A California junior high school's new dress code bans girls from wearing leggings, which some parents call unfair and sexist.
Mike Tyson is appearing in a "Fifty Shades of Grey" scene during the spoof, "Scary Movie 5."
Two Chicago public schools are considering amending a school code to allow random drug testing among students involved in after school activities.
Rich Chinese send their young children to special training programs to help them learn how to manage money.
ADHD diagnoses among children have been rising over the past decade, and it's unclear what's behind the trend.
Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani girl who was shot in the head, plans to pen her life story.
Miranda Lambert is accused of threatening bodily harm to a woman whose property is a few doors from the singer's.
Debbie Gratz, a California preschool teacher, was arrested Friday after being caught putting crushed-up sleeping pills into her toddlers' sippy cups.
A sixth-grader at Taylor School District in Taylor, Mich., brought a backpack full of money to school, reportedly amounting to $20K in cash, which she then gave away to other students.
It looks like Shia LaBeouf will not be making a debut on Broadway anytime soon. The “Transformers” star announced on Wednesday that he was quitting an upcoming Broadway production of “Orphans,” directed by Daniel Sullivan and also starring Alec Baldwin. LeBeouf is reportedly quitting over “creative differences.”
The University of Colorado at Colorado Springs Department of Public Safety has updated a statement advising female college students to consider a variety of unusual actions if they are attacked, including vomiting, urinating and claiming that they are menstruating.
Residents of Chelyabinsk are listing meteorite pieces that broke off and landed in the city for sale online.
Robert Pimentel has been charged with eight counts of continuous sexual abuse and seven counts of lewd acts.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said it is in search of a pet grizzly cub that escaped from its home.
The Louisiana Science Education Act specifically names evolution among the topics singled out for supplemental critiques, along with global warming and cloning.
The finback whale that beached itself in Queens on Wednesday is not expected to survive.
A Los Angeles jury awarded a California boy $6.9 million in damages stemming from a sexual abuse case.
The Confederate flag was once part of the tradition at Hays High School in Buda, Texas. That tradition will be no more after the Hays School District voted to ban the Civil War imagery from school property in a 5-2 vote on Monday.
Canadian parents are upset that the Amanda Todd anti-bullying video is being shown in classrooms.
Students from the East Asian and certain European countries outdo those from the other parts of the world in mathematics, science and reading comprehension, according to a set of global studies.
This article will help you get acquainted with Founders Day, which celebrates an important milestone in black history.
A sizable school grant is expected to be awarded to a group of student atheists, reflecting a shift in cultural attitudes toward nonbelievers.
The United States was ranked 17th in an assessment of the education systems of 50 countries.
About 58,000 of New York City's 1.1 million students did not go back to school on Monday, either because their schools were too damaged to be used, or in some cases, because they've been playing host to storm evacuees.
Yoselyn Ortega, the NYC nanny charged with murdering two children in her care, told police she resented her employers.
An unofficial ritual turned into a brawl at the Air Force Academy. The brawl occurred on October 25 and left 27 cadets injured.
Halloween and hurricanes are a frightening combination, and it appears the Frankenstorm might just wash away everyone’s trick-or-treating in the U.S. Northeast.
China has been rocked by two separate teacher abuse incidents. In one case, a teacher was caught on camera abusing her kindergarten students over a ten-minute time span, the second case involved a teacher posting photos online of her abusing her students, including one photo where she is pulling a student by his ears off the ground.
Brian Jones, a former Florida A&M University band member charged with the hazing death of band member Robert Champion was sentenced to two years of probation and six months of community control on Monday.
Antoni Dobrowolski, the oldest known survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp during the Holocaust, died in Poland on Sunday. He was 108.