Teenagers

A former teacher plead guilty to sexually assaulting half a dozen of her male students in Essex County, New Jersey, Thursday. 

A group of high school wrestlers put their muscles to work Saturday to help a driver stuck in the snow near Flint, Michigan. 

Two teenagers have been charged after they allegedly posted an X-rated video on an interstate billboard in Michigan September 28. 

A man was reportedly beaten, dragged from his car and robbed by four suspects outside a gas station in Modesto, California, Thursday.

A group of teenage boys recently made a very special friend at their school’s gym in Hastings, Minnesota. 

Groups of teenagers in Georgetown, Texas, are donating their own money to nonprofit organizations to do good to those around them.

An Indiana teen’s quick actions saved his next-door neighbors from a house fire that could have been worse if he did not intervene sooner.

Crowdfunding site GoFundMe shows more than 26,000 girls and women are seeking financial assistance to have “top surgery” — or an elective double mastectomy — in order to appear more masculine.

A “large disturbance” broke out among hundreds of teenagers gathering at a Queens, New York, mall on Friday afternoon, with police saying many of the teens were acting in a disorderly fashion.

A high school senior in Zimmerman, Minnesota, recently made a touching tribute to her best friend who passed away last year. 

A young student is being praised for helping save a homeless man stuck inside a manhole Wednesday in Corpus Christi, Texas. 

Two 13-year-old boys who pled guilty to raping a 15-year-old girl in Clarksville, Tennessee, were sentenced to just six months probation.

Two Texas high school football teams made sure the national anthem was sung at a game on Friday when none of the marching bands could be there to play it. 

Two teenagers were arrested on Thursday after being accused of fatally dropping a log on a woman’s head at an Ohio state park last month.

Four teenage boys allegedly restrained a 12-year-old girl and tried to sexually assault her in Chicago’s Northwest Side on September 23, according to reports. 

A U.S. Marine tackled two teenage boys to the ground as they fought each other on Wednesday in Stockton, California. 

A study published on Monday revealed that social media usage — more so than any other type of digital screen time — is linked to teen depression. The research team investigated the connection between depression in adolescents and their exposure to various types of screen time over a four-year time period. According to the researchers, video games makes teens “more happy.”

A mob of teenagers severely damaged at least four police cars late Sunday night at a gathering in Philadelphia.

A 17-year-old boy was left with horrific injuries, including a broken jaw and several missing teeth, after an e-cigarette exploded in his face, according to a recent report.

83 percent of high school students reportedly own an Apple iPhone.

In New Jersey we find a story about a pack of 13-year-old boys that will renew your faith in man.

A new report from TechCrunch reveals that a controversial Facebook research program was spying on more teens than the company initially admitted.

Measles outbreaks have caused a renewed interest in vaccinations, including among teens whose family opposed them when they were children.

Adam Mosseri, the head of Facebook-owned Instagram, admitted in an article for the Telegraph, Monday, that Instagram has failed to protect its users from posts which promote self-harm and even suicide.

Facebook has reportedly been paying teenagers to install a “Facebook Research” VPN, which allows the social network company to “suck in all of a user’s phone and web activity,” while skirting Apple’s developer rules. 

An internal note from Facebook shows the company using a viral polling app as a “psychological trick” to attract teenagers to the platform.

A data breach at TeenSafe, a service which allows parents to monitor their children’s texts, phone calls, location, and web history, has exposed the data of thousands of teenagers and their parents.

Research by University of Maryland sociologist Dana R. Fisher has revealed that about than 10% of the participants in the main “March for Our Lives” anti-gun protest in Washington, DC, on Saturday were under 18 years old.

The number of teenagers having sex during their high school years has dropped over the last two years and been in decline for a decade, according to a report.

According to a report from the Economist published last week, anxiety and depression rates in teenagers have skyrocketed over the past two decades.