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Disturbing video shows two young brothers, aged 12 and seven, stab a 59-year-old woman in her garage then flee on their bikes in Harris County, Texas. The Harris County Sheriff's Office said the unnamed woman, who has a mental illness, got into an argument with the boys around 2:00 p.m. on Saturday outside of her home on April Valley Court. The children initially rode off on their bikes, then surveillance camera footage from a neighbors house captured them returning about 12 minutes later, reported Click2Houston. Video showed the shorter boy wearing blue gloves and a white shirt and the taller...

INDIANAPOLIS (WTHR) — A disturbing trend of food tampering in stores has hit central Indiana with a video showing two teens spitting into soda bottles. Brittney Edwards posted the video to her Facebook page after she said a girl her daughter follows on Instagram posted it. Edwards said her daughter goes to school with one of the girls in the video. The video has been shared more than 50 times and viewed by more than 2,000. Dozens of people have commented on it. Some call it disturbing, even stomach-turning. The video shows two teens taking soda bottles from a store...

Most have no jobs to go to or exams they might pass. They know no family role models, for most live in homes in which the father is unemployed, or from which he has decamped They are illiterate and innumerate, beyond maybe some dexterity with computer games and BlackBerries. They are essentially wild beasts. I use that phrase advisedly, because it seems appropriate to young people bereft of the discipline that might make them employable; of the conscience that distinguishes between right and wrong. They respond only to instinctive animal impulses — to eat and drink, have sex, seize or...

On Saturday, St. Paul police say 50 kids swarmed a Holiday store on Wabasha, a so-called mob theft or mob robbery. They stormed in together, their numbers overwhelming and just started stealing.

THOMPSON FALLS - An alleged “choking game” incident in an unsupervised locker room at Thompson Falls Junior High School seriously injured one student and is being investigated as a possible assault, school officials acknowledged this week. It also has caused an uproar among some parents who say other youths have been threatened, bullied and physically abused at or near the school in recent months.

SAN PABLO, Calif. -- A 12-year-old boy has been charged with felony forced oral copulation in the assault of a 14-year-old girl, police said Monday. The boy, whose name was not released because he is a juvenile, was among four boys who allegedly tackled the girl Thursday on the playground at Helms Middle School, said San Pablo police Sgt. Mark Foisie. The three boys allegedly held the girl down as the 12-year-old assaulted her, Foisie said. The other suspects, two 13-year-olds and a 14-year-old, were released pending further investigation. All four are students at the school, police said.