When former Chicago Bear lineman William "The Refrigerator" Perry sold his Super Bowl ring, he figured it was gone for good, but thanks to a 10-year-old boy, Perry and his priceless piece of jewelry have been r...

An apple a day may keep the doctor away, but an Apple iGizmo will make teens very, very happy. When it comes to youth, Apple is the hottest brand there is right now. A new survey by Piper Jaffray found that mor...

Pushed by budget cuts and prodded by today's Internet-centric culture, many school districts are offering multitudes of online courses, and some require students to take as many as four such courses to graduate...

Well, it seemed like a good idea at the time. A massive food fight at a Sacramento-area middle school went off better (or perhaps worse) than organizers planned—and brought down the wrath of school admini...

Rutgers University paid $32,000 to bring "Jersey Shore" star Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi to campus—$2,000 more than it doled out for Nobel- and Pulitzer-prize-winning author Toni Morrison. During the question...

Youth who start smoking before they enter their teens are far more likely to smoke pot before they're out of them, according to a new Finnish-American study. The study found that kids who started smoking tobacc...

Paris? Pish. Lindsay? So 2008. The hottest young female stars these days are those who mind their manners—and stay out of the tabloids. Glamour magazine recently featured up-and-coming starlets Ashley Gre...

Teens who smoke cigarettes are more likely to make reckless decisions, according to research from the University of California, Los Angeles. Scientists found that teens who were addicted to nicotine had lower a...

Ecstacy use is on the rise among youth if trips to the emergency room are any indication. In 2008, more than 17,865 people visited the emergency room due to the drug—an increase of nearly 75 percent from ...

About 80 percent of colleges use Facebook and other social networking sites to recruit students, with many firing off friend requests to soon-to-be freshmen. In light of that, many education experts now say tha...