As they considered a damning report on crime statistics yesterday, Metro's board of directors had another brainstorm: cutting back on public school students' ability to ride the Metro on nights and weekends using new student transit passes. The city currently hands out about 16,000 transit subsidies to D.C. public school students during the school year, but given recent problems with teenagers fighting on trains and platforms and committing crimes -- the Examiner reports that Metro police arrested 507 juveniles in 2010, about one-quarter of all arrests made last year -- city officials are looking to exert a little more control over the privilege, and keeping better tabs on troublemakers. more ›

Another teenager, another random shooting, another death. In a story which will likely remind many of the Joseph Alonzo Sharps slaying, Fox5/WTTG has the disturbing details on the shooting of two teenagers in Petworth on Sunday which killed 16-year-old Bryant Morillo. more ›

Is Bloomingdale suffering a scourge of teenagers? more ›

A 16-year-old girl was stabbed last night at 1024 Kenyon Street NW at about 11 p.m., WJLA reports, and the attack stemmed from a feud between two "girl gangs" who were upset about something one of them posted on a MySpace page, according to D.C. Council member Jim Graham. The victim, Graham says, is thankfully expected to recover. The incident is sure to prompt several infuriating "Are Your Children Safe on MySpace??!!!" stories on the local news stations tonight, as there's nothing broadcasters love more than blaming the medium of the Internet for bad behavior. It would certainly be refreshing to see a report on this story based on the facts: teenage girls are often mean to each other, with or without social networking web sites. more ›