Tag: children
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The president jailed 1% of El Salvador’s population. Their children are paying the consequences
El Salvador’s social services agency says more than 40,000 children have had one parent or both detained in President Nayib Bukele’s nearly two-year war on gangs
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More Republicans back spending on child care, saying it’s an economic issue
More Republican lawmakers in states around the U.S. are getting behind the idea of using taxpayer money to subsidize child care
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UN experts take Russia to task over deported Ukrainian children and a ‘military agenda’ in schools
A panel of U.N.-backed experts that focuses on children’s human rights is calling on Russia to prevent efforts to rewrite school curricula and textbooks to reflect the government’s “political and military agenda” including in Ukraine
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Cough? Sore throat? More schools suggest mildly sick kids attend anyway
Schools are confronting soaring absence rates
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Diapers and baby formula are hard to find in Gaza, leaving parents desperate
The war in Gaza has sparked a humanitarian catastrophe that has prompted shortages of the most basic necessities
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A record number of Americans can’t afford their rent. Lawmakers are scrambling to help
A new Harvard University study found that half of U.S. renters are paying nearly a third of their income on rent
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Pikes Peak Children’s Museum is without a home
The Pikes Peak Children’s Museum, a nonprofit run in Colorado Springs since 2005, is homeless once again. The museum operated at 2565 Airport Road, a storefront in a strip mall in the city’s southeast quadrant, until late July when the organization’s lease expired, entered 2024 without a brick-and-mortar location. The president of the Pikes Peak…
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Colorado Springs mother suspected of children’s murder embroiled in contentious divorce
A Colorado Springs mother suspected of murdering her two young children in December has been embroiled in a long and contentious divorce. Kimberlee Singler, 35, accused her former husband Kevin Wentz of abuse and intimidation in court filings. He denied all the allegations of domestic violence and abuse in a formal statement on Wednesday that…
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Man accused of sexual exploitation arrested after search near Briargate
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado Springs police arrested a man they allege committed crimes related to the sexual exploitation of children Thursday morning. Investigators with Colorado Springs police’s Internet Crimes Against Children unit were executing a search warrant in the 7800 block of Curlew Court at around 8:20 p.m.…
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Man accused of sexual exploitation arrested after search near Briargate
Colorado Springs police arrested a man they allege committed crimes related to the sexual exploitation of children Thursday morning. Investigators with Colorado Springs police’s Internet Crimes Against Children unit were executing a search warrant in the 7800 block of Curlew Court at around 8:20 p.m. Thursday when they found evidence that prompted them to arrest…