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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Recovering missing children, on Tuesday, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation director said dozens of children have been located as part of the Memphis Safe Task Force, with the ...

California Governor Gavin Newsom on Sunday signed Assembly Bill 495, a measure allowing a broader range of relatives to act as caregivers for children if their parents are deported—a move that has ...

The mother and aunt of a 12-year-old girl whose remains were found last week in an advanced state of decomposition in a storage bin outside of an abandoned home in New Britain were arrested Sunday ...

Thousands of child care seats could disappear as Indiana slashes provider reimbursements and halts new voucher enrollments through 2025. Providers warn of closures and staff losses, with some already ...

Federal and local authorities rescued more than 30 missing children and uncovered multiple trafficking operations targeting vulnerable youth during a coordinated crackdown across Texas. The effort, ...

Courtney Stodden slammed child marriage as “America’s dirty little secret” as she revealed she was the “breadwinner” in her marriage at just 16 years old. Stodden, who told the story of her marriage ...

A Bay Area man will spend the rest of life behind bars after being found guilty of murdering his ex-girlfriend in front of her young children. On the night of April 3, 2017, Rashanda Franklin, 29, ...

Diane Keaton welcomed two children in her 50s and raised them as a single mother before her death — but never chose to marry. “Motherhood was not an urge I couldn’t resist,” she once explained to ...

It started with an unsubstantiated warning that taking Tylenol during pregnancy could raise a child’s risk of autism. But the message from President Donald Trump and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy ...