Britain used to ship convicts to Australia. Now it is about to send overweight youths. New reality television series "Fat Teens Can't Hunt" -- a kind of "Survivor" meets "The Biggest Loser" -- will see 10 overweight British teenagers sent to Australia's outback to live and eat with remote Aboriginal communities. picked by AutumnLotus 3 years ago

Two Boise teens were given an embarrassing lesson when they were caught on camera Friday stealing Prada sunglasses from the Sunglass Hut at the Boise Towne Square mall. picked by muppet 2 years ago

Two teens could face murder charges after one of them threw a metal tent pole at their father's head, fatally injuring him. picked by Proverb 2 years ago

One of the five teens beat the man with a bat and others punched him, police said. The man was treated at a hospital for injuries that were not life-threatening, and was released that night. picked by kakana 5 months ago

Eight teens are expelled after school officials say they had sex on a field trip picked by loomisg 2 years ago

A federal task force recommendation that all adolescents between 12 and 18 be screened for depression is causing controversy among parents and pediatricians.
Critics fear the amount of antidepressant drugs prescribed to teens will rise massively, although the Task Force stressed that screening makes sense when specialized care such as therapy is available, instead of a drug approach picked by bingo 6 months ago

A mother is accused of providing alcohol to young teens at a party in Missouri and offering $10 to whomever could chug a glass of vodka the fastest.

Two girls were hospitalized. picked by suebe 8 months ago

Two O'Fallon, Mo., teens face third-degree assault and property damage charges for allegedly slinging a bag of feces that coated a pregnant woman in poop. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

A Baltimore judge ordered nine teens charged with beating a woman aboard a bus to stay in their homes.

*Wish I could post a picture of what they did to the woman. picked by dollyllama 2 years ago

Three white teens were charged Friday in what officials said was an epithet-filled fatal beating of an illegal Mexican immigrant in a small northeast Pennsylvania coal town. picked by deEPCHIll 1 year ago

A crude oil storage tank exploded as two teens were jumping on it, hurling the youths 150 yards to their deaths, deputies said Monday. picked by kxmk 2 years ago

Fueled by caffeine teens are up late at night, and they aren’t just focusing on homework. Web surfing, text messaging and gaming are keeping them up for hours into the night, according to a recent study.

Anyone surprised? picked by Bingo 4 months ago

Toronto teens are having sex and they want to talk about it. Just not in the way adults want them to.

Instead of just focusing on the biology and dangers of sex, teens want to learn about basic things like healthy relationships: How do I tell a boy I like him? How do I know if I am ready to have sex? picked by bingo 6 months ago

"Totally unprovoked. We didn't know the guy," a third teen who was pushed but did not fall off the platform told CBC News. One of the teens, 14, was able to crawl under the platform, and pulled his friend, 15, along with him, out of the way of the approaching train. picked by equinox 9 months ago

It has long been assumed that the behavior of teenagers, driving too fast, engaging in unprotected sex, dabbling in illicit drugs, is due in part to their disregard for mortality. Teens usually operate under the presumption that they know it all and will live forever.

Or, do they? picked by bingo 5 months ago

Some doctors said the numbers might be a reflection of both abstinence-only sex education and teens' own sense of invulnerability.

Only about half of the girls in the study acknowledged having sex. Some teens define sex as only intercourse, yet other types of intimate behavior including oral sex can spread some diseases. picked by 2manyusernames 2 years ago

Teens who start having sex significantly earlier than their peers also show higher rates of delinquency in later years, new research shows. picked by Neiako 3 years ago

Update to this story.
Two thrill-seeking teenagers stabbed an adult acquaintance, took a blowtorch to his corpse and threw his severed head into a river, prosecutors said Monday as they charged the pair. picked by dollyllama 2 years ago

A former suburban prosecutor and PTA president had sex with two underage boys, joined many other teens in booze and pot parties and kept it all a secret from her police chief husband, officials said Tuesday. picked by muppet 2 years ago

Three people including two teenagers in the coastal town of Newport are accused of “sexting” and it could put them behind bars.

(a lot of the other cases that have been popping up are debatable, but these people absolutely deserve jail time) picked by muppet 8 months ago