This is the story in France right now, with the BBC reporting there are already 40 journalists in the tiny rural town of Villers-au-Tertre, near the Belgian border. The woman, a nurse in her 40s who has two daughters and grand-children, confessed to killing eight of her own babies between 1989 [...]

Someone's getting grounded. The daughter of a judicial candidate in Oklahoma has taken out an ad telling citizens "Do not vote for my Dad!" Ouch! Jan Schill, 31, and her husband paid for the quarter-page ad that included a picture of her family and a list of all the times her [...]

Believe me, if the player's mom wasn't there, this fight would have been EPIC! I presume Dad, and copious viewings of hockeyfights.com, taught the kid how to circle the skater, then drop the gloves, like a goon four times his age (and size). (Hat tip: Puck Daddy.)

A Salt Lake City mom is pregnant with two babies, only they're not twins. They don't even have the same due date. The expectant mom, Angie Cromar has two uteruses, a rare condition known as uterus didelphys. She got pregnant with one and then a couple of weeks later with [...]

The saying is that the two dominant emotions on Wall Street are fear and greed; for parents who trades in the futures of their children, the same can apply. It's not just sports. Look at the advertisements in any metro area child-focused magazine, and you'll see plenty of preschools, camps, tutors, [...]

I'm not knee-jerk about taking the opposite position when everyone else is decrying something as another brick in the wall that is the pussification of youth sports. And it's pretty easy to jump on a lawyer who sues over his son getting hit by a pitch, especially because he wasn't [...]

Here's a novel educational theory, espoused by an outgoing high-ranking official in British education:

Ms Atkins argued that poor teachers should not be sacked, as schools "need to reflect society".

She told The Sunday Times: "It's about learning how to identify [...]

As many of you probably know from visiting True/Slant over the past couple of months, the site recently was purchased by Forbes. Lots of changes are in store, one of them being that the services of many current T/S writers (myself included) will no longer be needed as of August 1. Since [...]

By all accounts, Darin McGahey of McDonough, Ga., was the kind of baseball coach you wanted for your child -- knowledgeable, patient, easygoing and selfless. Tragically, one last act of selflessness led to his death. McGahey drowned July 7 off Navarre Beach, Fla., while trying to save his 11-year-old son and [...]

Has it come to this? Should parents plan for LDLs along with the ABC's? The American Academy of Pediatrics has recommended that young children and teens with a family history of high cholesterol, premature hearth disease and diabetes be screened as young as 2. But a new study published in the [...]