Prom Season: How Much Are You Spending?
Digital Vision/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — A new survey by Visa finds that high school students and their parents are spending more on the prom this year.The average family will shell out $1,078 for their kids’ red carpet event this year, up from last year…
Surgeon General: 1 in 4 High School Seniors Smokes
iStockPhoto/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — Despite decades of anti-smoking education, one in four U.S. high school seniors still smokes. And three in four high school smokers continue to smoke as adults, according to a new report from the U.S. Surgeon Gener…
Obama to Speak at Joplin High School Graduation
JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — President Obama will deliver the commencement address at the first high school graduation in Joplin, Mo., since a tornado nearly obliterated the town one year ago, killing 160 people.Obama will travel to the s…
Shot Fired at Arizona High School Baseball Game
Zoonar/Thinkstock(TUCSON, Ariz.) — An Arizona high school is on lockdown Thursday after a report of a shooting at a baseball game, ABC affiliate KGUN reported.There was no indication that anyone had been injured.District Superintendent Dr. Richard Run…
Ohio School Shooting Suspect Charged With Murder
Jeff Swensen/Getty Images(CHARDON, Ohio) — Suspected Ohio school shooter T.J. Lane was officially charged Thursday with three counts of aggravated murder, two counts of attempted aggravated murder and one count of felonious assault.Five high school st…
Ohio High School Shooting: One Dead, Four Injured
iStockphoto/Thinkstock(CHARDON, Ohio) — A high school in Ohio was locked down early Monday morning after a lone gunman opened fire, killing one student and leaving four others with injuries.Authorities were called to Chardon High School — about 35 mi…
Police: Teens Planned to Bomb School, Steal Plane
George Doyle/Stockbyte(ROY, Utah) — School resumed as normal Thursday at Roy High School in Roy, Utah, only one day after police arrested two students who were allegedly planning to bomb their school assembly and make their getaway in a stolen plane.D…
Colorado Student Banned from Yearbook over Racy Photo
iStockphoto/Thinkstock(DURANGO, Colo.) — A Colorado teenager whose yearbook picture was rejected for being too revealing is vowing to fight the ban with her high school’s administration, but the editors of the yearbook insist it was their decisi…