Takoma Park, Md. has given its 16- and 17-year-olds what every teen wants: The right to vote in local elections!
The D.C. Department of Health is amping up its vigilance of a health scourge it says is wreaking havoc on the city’s youth.
Rep. John Mica thinks D.C. is like a bunch of teenagers for wanting control over its own finances.
The young crowd at Ty Segall’s show at the Black Cat regularly lost their mind and their footing.
Even though they know better, as many as 43 percent of teen drivers surveyed admit they send and read text messages while operating their vehicles, according to a new report commissioned by AT&T.
People in a Northeast D.C. neighborhood are worried that the construction of a memorial to the victims of the June 2009 Metrorail accident that killed nine would increase the frequency of teenagers having outdoor sex in the area.
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.
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.
Photo by Command Z Is Bloomingdale suffering a scourge of teenagers? Yesterday, a Pepco worker who was shot in the neck after an altercation with local youths was released from the hospital, having suffered only a minor injury after the daring 7 p.m. shooting. As the Washington Post reported yesterday, the 52-year-old Pepco worker — whose name has not been released, since he is a witness in the case — argued with a group of…
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…