A middle school in Southern California is spending $10,000 a year to teach Advanced Placement Spanish to 35 of its 650 students -- and all but one of them are already fluent in Spanish.Thirty-four of the kids i...

A federal appeals court on Friday struck down a California law that sought to ban the sale or rental of violent video games to minors. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the 2005 law violates min...

Social networking Web sites are causing alarming changes in the brains of young users, an eminent scientist has warned. Sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Bebo are said to shorten attention spans, encourage in...

Jennifer Bliss was no fledgling lawyer when she moved back in with her parents. At 39, she had burned through her retirement funds after losing her law-firm job in July 2007. She gave the bank the keys to the h...

An L.A. exhibit of religious album covers from the 1950s, '60s and '70s reflects the post-World War II era of hula hoops and Cold War anxiety, when men still wore starched white shirts to church.In the 1960s, a...

The Consumer Wellness Center, led by Executive Director Mike Adams (editor of NaturalNews), has announced its fourth grant in its Nutrition Grant Program. The Consumer Wellness Center (CWC) is a 501(c)3 non-pro...

Are you "blessed" with a strong-willed child? Are you amazed that anyone could use the words "blessed" and "strong-willed" in the same sentence? If the answer to both of those questions is yes, I completely und...

Compared to getting in shape, getting out of debt or other similar resolutions, one of the biggest goals a married couple can set in a new year is starting their family. Even though current financial challenges...

Parents should avoid trying to convince their teenage children of the difference between right and wrong when talking to them about sex, a new government leaflet is to advise.Instead, any discussion of values s...

Last fall, a group of over 100 college presidents - including the heads of Dartmouth, Virginia Tech and Duke - signed a declaration stating that the 21-year-old drinking age is not working, and fireworks went o...