From The New York Times: Playground controversies usually involve bickering parents, unruly dogs or bullies. One exception is at the Tompkins Houses, a city housing project in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, where an orange jungle gym adorned with the word “Jail,” a cell door and prison bars has, six years after its installation, set off outrage in […]

From HuffingtonPost.com: Zumante Lucero, a 9 year-old Denver boy with asthma, died in July after a severe attack.

From CNN.com: Washington (CNN) — The United States will work with the Haitian government and with international and private aid groups to protect Haitian children who might be at risk because they were orphaned or separated from their parents by the earthquake, the State Department said Thursday.

From HuffingtonPost.com: James Pastman was arrested this morning in Chicago’s Far North Side after police found that he had been growing marijuana in his home.