LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By: Josiah Robinson Teens in Gardendale, Alabama must obtain a business license to cut grass for cash this summer. According to ABC 33/40, the licensure requirement is a result of pressure from officials and other lawn services. The required business license is $110, a significant entry cost for teens. Mowing lawns…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kody Fairfield A New Jersey teen pleaded guilty Monday to a plot allegedly inspired by the Islamic State group to kill Pope Francis during his 2015 visit to the United States, reports Yahoo. According to the report, Department of Justice (DOJ) officials said 15 year old Santos Colon, sought to recruit a…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Amber Randall A transgender woman is accused of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl and then trying to buy her silence with McDonald’s, according to a Monday court testimony. Dawn Love, a 57-year-old man who transitioned to a woman, allegedly fondled the young girl in 2014 during a car ride…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Amber Randall A young adult book dealing with the Black Lives Matter movement led the New York Times bestseller list Friday. The Hate U Give, written by Angie Thomas, led the bestsellers list for young adult hardcover books, reports the International Business Times. The book features 16-year-old Starr Carter who…
By Amber Randall A teenager busted for driving while intoxicated escaped police in a stolen cop cruiser New Year’s Day. New York City police arrested Dekota Locklear, 18, after he stopped at a drunk driving checkpoint with a 13-year-old passenger in the car, reports the New York Daily News. Locklear had a 0.09 alcohol blood…
by Amber Randall A white high school student dressed as a thief for his school’s “Culture Day” because “white people steal everyone else’s culture.” Josh Welch, a 17 year-old from Maryland, said he dressed up as a thief to demonstrate how white people take from other people’s culture,reports The Grio. Welch thought of the idea while…
by Craig Boudreau A new study published in the journal Tobacco Control has shown that teens who vape don’t use nicotine by a 3 to 1 margin, EurekAlert reported Thursday. The study used data compiled by Monitoring The Future, a project designed to assess “behavior of young people,” and surveyed nearly 15,000 students from 12th, 10th and 8th…
JP Carroll A teenager punched Spain’s conservative prime minister in the head Wednesday at a campaign event, later telling police he did it because the president “earns two salaries.” The 17-year-old man identified as Andrés V. F. approached Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy as he was walking through a crowd of people at the campaign event….
PETERSBURG, VA– When 19-year-old Devin Thomas saw his neighbors being arrested outside of his apartment complex, he decided to record it on his cell phone. Police approached him, ordering Thomas to go inside. Another Petersburg officer asks Thomas how old he is. Upon hearing that he’s nineteen, Thomas was charged by the officer and the…
BRIGHTON, CO–Colin Andersen, 19, was kicking back with friends in a parking lot near a playground when his group was approached by the police. Andersen’s friend was given a ticket for skateboarding, and the group was asked to leave the area. Andersen became agitated at that point. “[T]hey were asking all of us to leave…