CASSIS, France — In the moment when her world shattered three years ago, Stephanie Mistre found her 15-year-old daughter, Marie, lifeless in the bedroom where she died by suicide. “I went from light to darkness in a fraction of a second,” Mistre said, describing the day in September 2021 that marked the start of her…
A Long Island teen has died after losing consciousness on the ice during a charity hockey game in honor of a fellow high school student who died in a car crash last year. Connor Kasin, a 17-year-old senior at Massapequa High School, suffered a “medical event” and passed out on the ice during an intermission…
A 16-year-old has died after being hit by a stray bullet last weekend on a St. Louis highway. Colin Brown was hit Saturday night while being driven home in his father’s car after playing a hockey game, CBS affiliate KMOV-TV reported. The high school junior died Wednesday in a hospital, police said. Police spokesman Mitch…
MELBOURNE, Australia — Wayne Holdsworth became an advocate for banning Australian children younger than 16 from social media because his son took his own life after falling victim to an online sextortion scam. Mac Holdsworth died last year at his Melbourne family home at the age of 17 after a 47-year-old Sydney man who purported…
By Oliver Salt Published: 14:46 EDT, 2 November 2024 | Updated: 14:59 EDT, 2 November 2024 A teenage soccer star has been identified as one of two people killed in a mass shooting at a Halloween celebration in Orlando on Friday. Timothy Schmidt Jr., 19, was enjoying a night out with some friends outside ‘The…
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — In the final moments before he took his own life, 14-year-old Sewell Setzer III took out his phone and messaged the chatbot that had become his closest friend. For months, Sewell had become increasingly isolated from his real life as he engaged in highly sexualized conversations with the bot, according to a…
LONDON — Worried about your teen’s Instagram use? Faced with growing pressure to do more to stop online harm, the social media platform has rolled out a major new update to protect young people and give parents more control. With many teens spending almost all of their time online, parents are concerned that social media…
Instagram is making teen accounts mandatory for those under 18 as it tries to make the platform safer for children amid a growing backlash against how social media affects young people’s lives. Beginning Tuesday in the U.S., U.K., Canada and Australia, anyone under under 18 who signs up for Instagram will be placed into teen…
Tyler Baltierra and his wife Catelynn Lowell have been making waves on social media recently. The Teen Mom stars have been bashing the adoptive parents of their oldest daughter, Carly, claiming that they’ve cut off contact with Cate and Tyler. However, fans think that Carly’s adoptive parents, Brandon and Teresa, may have had a good reason for…
What are you getting out of it? That’s the first question you should ask yourself if you’re a parent of a teenager who plays for a club or travel sports team and your kid wants to play that sport in college. You’re likely paying thousands of dollars per year. Maybe even $10,000. Or, in this…
