Then, as now, much of the news about kids was troubling-random killings, unsafe schoolyards, bizarre family killings in once placid suburbs.
Homelessness is a cruel fact of present-day American life.
But these words have a special poignancy because they come from a teenage girl. In Chicago, many teens move between the shortlived safety of shelters and the dangers of streets. I hope I make it to be old. Camilla Carroll reports. When grunge-rock star Kurt Cobain shot himself, the outpouring of grief from teens and young adults surprised a lot of people.