Forget Debate Club, or possibly Girl Scouts or even student government, apparently a group of sophomore girls in Gloucester, Mass., decided to get pregnant for the fun of it. These are girls with too much free time, or families who taught them all the wrong things. We believe the latter. The 17 girls, according to an Associate Press story, frequented the school health clinic. They took pregnancy tests and passed out high-fives when they came back positive. They appeared gloomy when the tests were negative. ...more

June 22, 2008

SEBRING — The yearly infant mortality rate for Highlands County nearly doubled from 2003 to 2006, according to data from the Florida Department of Health. In 2006, more than half of those deaths came from parents living in Avon Park, and more than half the deaths in the whole county involved blacks. The stated-funded Healthy Start Coalition of Hardee, Highlands and Polk Counties, a pregnancy and infant care program, also noted a trend where more infants were killed by accidental suffocations instead of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). ...more

May 19, 2008