Lego wants to build a new world of children’s play, and it’s starting by tackling the age-old issue of gender bias in toys. The plastic-brick toy giant recently commissioned a sprawling survey on attitudes toward childhood recreation and future careers for boys versus girls, and even in today’s ever-more progressive…

Screenshot of Mariana Zaffaroni and her grandmother Ester Gatti de Islas, on Youtube/Canal 5 Uruguay. A new book by Uruguayan author Tessa Bridal traces the stories of the women who search for their missing loved ones during a painful time in the country’s history: its military dictatorship from 1973 to 1985. When…

On Saturday, the Joaquin County Sheriffs office has tracked a murder suspect to a home in Bay Point in Contra Costa County. Since approximately 10:45 am, San Joaquin County Sheriffs Office and Contra Costa County Sheriff Deputies have been working on a surrender for D’Angelo Webb. Webb is wanted in…

Last month, the disappearance of the twenty-two-year-old Gabby Petito became a sensation, attracting play-by-play coverage in the news and avid amateur sleuthing on social media. At the same time, the national fascination with Petito’s case sparked a debate about the nature of the fascination itself. The photos of Petito that…

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the US had a high rate of pediatric vaccination. The COVID-19 outbreak disrupted regularly scheduled healthcare visits, at which children would typically receive at specific intervals throughout infancy, childhood, and adolescence. Early in the pandemic, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the…

By Elisabeth Waldon | on October 06, 2021 A Cheboygan woman was sentenced to up to 10 years in prison after she led police from several agencies on a chase in the Howard City and Lakeview area, during which multiple patrol and civilian vehicles were damaged and a sheriff’s deputy…

The recent surge in stories about young men abandoning higher education — college women outnumber men 3 to 2 — may have surprised a few headline writers, but the graffiti about the decline of men and boys has been on the wall for decades. We’re merely seeing the culmination of…

Five years ago, the bones of an unidentified female child known simply as the “Madisonville Jane Doe” were found in a suitcase near an interstate in Madisonville, Texas. Investigators are asking Arizonans for help identifying the child because evidence found after 2016 suggests that the unnamed child might have ties to areas of southeast…

Problems that arose at a Connecticut weight-loss camp before it closed in July included missing campers and falsified documents, newly released investigative records indicate. After weeks of investigations, a witness list 34 people deep, and pages upon pages of interviews and inspection notes, a fuller picture of the goings-on at…

NEWS TO KNOWOur daily roundup of headlines from Virginia and elsewhere. “A child under the age of 10 died in eastern Virginia on Wednesday from COVID-19, the second fatal juvenile case this week in the region, health officials confirmed.”—Associated Press Hospitals in the Fredericksburg area are the latest to announce…