Dec. 24—OHKAY OWINGEH — Iryen Montoya, 9, supplied the day’s “special question”: What’s your favorite doughnut? A group of students and school officials sat on a rug in Ohkay Owingeh Community School’s Tewa instruction room one morning earlier this month, answering Iryen’s special question and those on a well-used check-in list asking students their names, […]
The Save Ukraine team has managed to evacuate three more Ukrainian children from the temporarily Russian-occupied territories. Source: Mykola Kuleba, Founder of Save Ukraine Quote from Kuleba: “We’ve completed the 14th rescue mission, bringing back 14 children, including 7 children deprived of parental care (the team has liberated 226 children since the beginning of the […]
An abbey has broken from its traditional Christmas crib scene to highlight the suffering of children in Gaza and Israel. Bricks signifying rubble have been placed inside and around the crib at Tewkesbury Abbey. Rev Canon Nick Davies, vicar of Tewkesbury, said: “It seemed right to remember those affected by the conflict as we pray […]
Two people have been arrested in connection with an investigation into the sexual exploitation of children. On Dec. 15, the Muscogee County Sheriff’s Office Special Operation Unit began their investigation and discovered that a woman named Chanda Smith of Columbus, Ga. was asking for money from a man, later identified as Craig Livingston of Cortland, […]
Residents of the Gaza Strip have reported deprivation in the face of the UN’s warning that hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are facing starvation. A desperate father told dpa on Saturday that the contents of the food parcels from The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) were […]
A Sandy Springs Fire Department Section Chief was arrested and charged following what city officials say was a possible domestic dispute on Thursday. According to officials, Training Section Chief Jason Taylor was arrested at his home for domestic violence after officers from the Sandy Springs Police Department were called to the house. Taylor was booked […]
A South Carolina man is facing charges after being accused of biting a 2-year-old, resulting in injuries. The man, identified as 23-year-old Jesse Phillip Brassell, was charged with cruelty to children, the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division(SLED) announced on Tuesday. He was sent to the Colleton County Detention Center. Brassell told investigators that he bit […]
Even when they were homeless, Rebecca Adamson and Chris Watkins have done their best for their children. Once they moved into an apartment, they reached out to buy-nothing groups to furnish it. Their beds were gently used and got them through, but it’s not what the family needed. Adamson, 31, has arthritis in her lower […]
Dec. 21—A Santa Fe middle school teacher is one of two men arrested this week on charges of seeking sexually explicit materials depicting children following an online operation conducted by undercover city police officers. Pablo Angeles-Guaderrama, 34, was booked in the Santa Fe County jail Thursday morning on two counts of criminal solicitation to commit […]
India’s top drug controller has banned an anti-cold drug combination for use in children below the age of four. The ban comes after a spate of child deaths in The Gambia and Uzbekistan were linked to Indian-made cough syrups last year. In India, at least 12 children died between 2019 and 2020 allegedly after consuming […]
The sale of vapes and e-cigarettes to children will be banned in Ireland. The ban will cover the sale of nicotine inhaling products to those under the age of 18 from Friday. From then, it will be an offence to sell a nicotine inhaling product to a child, with a fine of up to €4,000 […]
A man confessed to shooting the mother of his three kids outside a Broward home in front of their 4-year-old and 1-year-old, police say. Derrick Feliciano Bargman-Williams was arrested Wednesday. The 28-year-old faces a murder charge after being accused of gunning down a woman who investigators identified as Jessica Frankel Singleton, 25. Around 8:20 a.m., […]