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n Sunday, eight-year-old Ashwath Kaushik from Singapore smashed the record to become the youngest player ever to defeat a grandmaster in classical chess.
(TarjeiJS, Chess.com, February 20, 2024)
Police in Senatobia, Mississippi, arrested a third grader who urinated outside his mother’s car in August. The child’s mother, Latonya Eason, was in a meeting in a nearby building when an officer came inside and told her that he’d seen her son relieving himself. Eason told HuffPost she then went outside to ask her son why he’d done that, and his sister replied that a bathroom hadn’t been available.
(Phillip Jackson, Huffpost, December 14, 2023)
Eric English, who is from Fredericton, Canada, but has since moved to Scottsdale, Arizona, has a strong social media following, a stream of sponsorship deals, and his own website where gym goers can view his successful fitness plan.
( Ellen Coughlan, Daily Mail, October 24, 2023)
Louis Lappe hit a walk-off homer and California beat Curacao 6-5 in the Little League World Series championship on Sunday, despite giving up a four-run lead.
(SETH ENGLE, , August 27, 2023)
Salvador Rios, 14, took his own life on August 15 after a social media post allegedly launched a homophobic attack and shared private information about him.
Hope Sloop, Daily Mail, August 27, 2023)
Pople often get frightened at the smallest things and call the police, and this is precisely what happened to an 11-year-old child- who later turned out to be a genius. This child, Seth, saw his neighbors calling the police and never lost his cool.
(Mayukh Saha , MSN, July 14, 2023)
A young black boy has made an impassioned speech about racism at an Oregon city council meeting after he experienced discrimination at school. Gavin Alston, 10, bravely spoke up in the room full of adults and told council members how unfair it was that kids called him a 'monkey' and the N-word in his fourth grade class.
(Claudia Aoraha, Daily Mail, June 16, 2023)
A 13-year-old in Ohio has died after “he took a bunch of Benadryl,” trying a dangerous TikTok challenge that’s circulating online, according to a CNN affiliate and a GoFundMe account from his family.
(Michelle Watson and Carma Hassan, CNN, April 19, 2023)
A North Carolina teacher stepped down after a sixth-grade student sent his mother a selfie showing him with tape covering his mouth because he was being too chatty in class — and his shocked parent is now seeking answers over the incident that left her child feeling “humiliated.”
(David Propper, New York Post, March 23, 2023)
Duangpetch Promthep, one of the 12 boys who was rescued from a Thai cave in 2018, has died in the UK. The 17-year-old was found unconscious in his dorm in Leicestershire on Sunday and taken to hospital, where he died on Tuesday, the BBC has been told.
(Jonathan Head and Kelly Ng, BBC News, February 15, 2023)
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A 13-year-old boy in France named Lucas died by suicide last Saturday, January 7 after facing anti-LGBTQ+ bullying at school. People close to his family say that the school did little to stop the bullying.
(Alex Bollinger, LGBTQ Nation, January 12, 2023 )
You’re a mean one, Ms. Grinch!
( Melissa Klein and Susan Edelman, New York Post, December 17, 2022 )
A fourth grade student was charged with two felony counts, accused of taking a firearm to school in August, an Arizona prosecutor's office announced Monday.
(Doha Madani, NBC, November 7, 2022 )


The 12-year-old suffered a fractured skull and brain bleeding as a result of the Aug. 15 fall in Williamsport. He’s had three operations and battled a staph infection, the family’s lawyer, Ken Fulginiti, told WKBN 27 on Tuesday. “He’s not doing well,” Fulginiti said. “The more recent development, after a third craniotomy, is seizures. It’s been a long road.”
(Michael Blinn, New York Post, September 20, 2022 )
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The young boy who took his own life as he started school in North Carolina on Tuesday has been identified, as his heartbroken mother revealed he had been bullied for years and urged her fellow parents to teach their children to be kind.
( Melissa Koenig, Daily Mail, September 8, 2022 )