Children & Families

Reporter Sara Tiano examines why numbers are lower in California — and how the state has “wrapped around” families to try to keep them intact.

Bay Area teens are helping to run South Asian mental health orgs Taarika and Rcoz, turning peer support into a tool against generational stigma.

MLK50 relied on a list originally compiled by Ed Miller Jr., a Tennessee attorney who reviewed every first-degree murder conviction in Tennessee between 1977 and 2017.

Prosecutors seemed to be targeting people who “can’t fight for their lives because they don’t have money for lawyers,” Shawn’a Hatcher said. “It’s dead wrong.”

“Prosecutors are going to fight you any time you try to take a tool out of their toolbelt,” a former prosecutor said.

The average Tennessee child convicted of felony murder was 16 at the time of the offense, MLK50 found. Some were as young as 12 when charged.

Agentes de ICE dispararon 7 veces a Carlos Mendoza, inmigrante salvadoreño, durante un control de tráfico en Patterson, CA. Ahora está detenido enfrentando cargos, mientras su pareja e hija pequeña enfrentan su ausencia.

With PE cuts and shrinking recess in many schools, why are we now testing kids on skills we never really taught them?

Shawn didn’t kill anyone. He’s serving life plus 15 years for felony murder.