Obama welcomes rocket launchers, kids and robots to White House Science Fair

You can almost imagine the conversation at the White House dinner table last night. Sasha: “What did you do at work today, Dad?” President Obama: “I fired a marshmallow cannon in the State Dining Room.” The conversation may not have actually happened, but the firing of the marshmallow cannon absolutely did. Read full article >>

Houston, Texas School School Shooting Injures High School Student

HOUSTON -- A school official says an 18-year-old brought a gun inside a Houston high school and shot another student in the leg despite metal detectors on the campus.

The great Asian gold theft crisis

With its value at a record high, gold has never been more attractive to thieves. Now burglars with metal detectors are targeting the homes of British Asian families for their collections of high-quality 'Indian gold' jewellery Two small faces pull the curtain back in a side room and peer round to see who is at the door. After they run back inside, their mother, Mrs Rashid, unlocks the front door ...

Local experts: Tossing kids out isn't the answer

Educators and child experts agree that repeated student suspensions for minor infractions such as smoking or back talking under "zero tolerance" policies is setting kids up to fail if no educational safety nets are in place in school districts.

Joan Gelman: Judy Clark Is An Inmate. She's Also One Of My Best Friends

She was an inmate. I was a suburbanite. We were never supposed to be friends.