Computerized playground to open in Utah city

The traditional playground is getting a modern makeover.

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Moms with kids find hanging man in OH playground

Police say two women bringing young children to an Ohio park found the body of man hanging from playground equipment.

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Woman indicted in death of son in Albuquerque park

A mother accused of suffocating her 3-year-old son and burying him in an Albuquerque playground was indicted Monday on murder and child abuse charges.

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Government rethinking playground risks

For years, the Environmental Protection Agency has endorsed the recycling of ground-up tires to cushion the surfaces of children's playgrounds and sports fields — the same material used for the Obama family's new White House playground.

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Lawyer: Mom tried to surrender before son's death

The lawyer of a mother accused of suffocating her 3-year-old son says her client tried to surrender to police on an unrelated charge only hours before the boy was killed.

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NM mom charged in son's death faces life in prison

A single mother accused of suffocating her 3-year-old son and burying him in a playground will face life in prison if convicted of first-degree murder, prosecutors said Friday.

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Israeli kids get rocket-proofed indoor playground

Brightly painted walls surround a mini-soccer field, video games, a climbing wall and play areas. The converted warehouse also has a new thick concrete roof, a half dozen shelters and an alert system to give a 15-second warning of incoming rockets.

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Tidbits: Wahlberg disses Clooney's 'Ocean's' films

Long before Matt Damon took on the role of second-generation grifter Linus Caldwell in “Ocean’s Eleven,” Mark Wahlberg had a shot at the part and turned it down. Looking back at it, Mark doesn’t regret his decision to skip what turned out to be a blockbuster franchise. In fact, he told Zoo magazine, he’s better off not having to pretend he enjoyed working on the films.

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10-year-old admits assault in Pa. school playground attack

A 10-year-old girl admitted in juvenile court that she assaulted a classmate by pulling her off a set of monkey bars and stomping on her, breaking the victim's hip.

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Girls Charged in Attack May Be Expelled

The city's school superintendent is recommending the board expel two girls accused of brutally attacking a 10-year-old girl on an elementary school playground.

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Arlington Bills Itself Texas' Playground

With two amusement parks, the Texas Rangers' recently built baseball stadium and the Dallas Cowboys' $1 billion football stadium on its way, Arlington is transforming itself from an aging suburb to the Lone Star State's playground.

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Chemical on Playground Burns Boy, Age 2

A 2-year-old boy was severely burned Saturday after he went down the slide at an elementary school playground. Someone had broken into the school, stolen several bottles of industrial-strength drain cleaner and splashed it all over the playground equipment, authorities said.

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Teen Arrested After Fatal NYC Fight

A 13-year-old boy was charged with manslaughter for allegedly attacking another boy on a school playground who later died of his injuries, police said.

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Not It! Mass. Elementary School Bans Tag

Tag, you're out! Officials at an elementary school south of Boston have banned kids from playing tag, touch football and any other unsupervised chase game during recess for fear they'll get hurt and hold the school liable.

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Man Beaten in Playground-Porn Incident

About a dozen residents of a Dallas neighborhood beat a man after reports that he had been showing pornographic pictures to children on a playground, police said.

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Around the world millions of children are not getting a proper education because illness or disability prevent them going to school. In the third report in the BBC's Hunger to Learn series, Will Ross meets children in Tanzania who are overcoming visual impairment to learn.

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A Muskogee teen was arrested Tuesday after driving his car crashed through a preschool's gate and into the playground. No children were outside the Kids Zone Child Development Center, 501 N. York St. at the time. There were no injuries.

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Parents have been ordered to stop swearing in a school playground or face legal action for bad language.

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A strongly worded report on child obesity released on Tuesday recommends that state and local governments tax junk food and soft drinks, give tax breaks to grocery stores that open in blighted neighborhoods and build bike trails.

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Industrial designer Andre Harley has designed a new concept carousel that will harvest the rotating energy and solar power to illuminate energy saving lamps to keep your kids playing even after sunset.

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Swedish police suspect that a three-year-old girl was abducted and raped after disappearing from a playground in Sandviken in central Sweden last week.

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Once they sang about oranges and lemons, rowing boats down the stream and at their most daring, k-iss-i-n-g. But the children's ditties and rhymes echoing around playgrounds these days have a rather racier tone.

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You may be wondering how, right? By 'punking' one of the greatest players in the game, Kobe Bryant, with a well known playground move. Chauncey Billups when inbounding, noticed that Kobe Bryant had his back to him.

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A 23-year-old woman suffocated her son and then buried his body beneath the sand of a playground, police in Albuquerque, New Mexico, said Thursday.Police arrested Tiffany Toribio about 4 a.m., just hours after they said they wanted to speak to her about her missing 3-year-old son …

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ALBUQUERQUE - Albuquerque police Wednesday released detailed photographs of the clothing worn by a 4-year-old boy whose body was found buried in a city park last week.

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Stunned witnesses looked on in disbelief on Wednesday as a brown bear chased and attacked an elk by a children's playground in Hede in northern Sweden.

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This video gives the viewer an idea of what its like for children tolive under constant threat of unexpected missile attack (they have a mere 15 seconds after the alarm sounds to run for shelter).

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"Dear Mr. Claudet," the letter from the 7-year-old girl began. She described in four sentences problems at Southdown West Park, the small greenspace by her home. The plastic slide needed to be more slippery, she wrote, and an electrical panel near the tennis court was "dangerus."

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Excerpt: A photo of a child snapped at a Florida mall has some believing that missing Orlando toddler Caylee Anthony is still alive.

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A 10-year-old boy was reported to police for getting into a fight with an 8-year-old during recess at a school in Jönköping in central Sweden.

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Dreams

They say Gus the polar bear suffers from a neurosis that prods him to relentlessly swim lap after lap in the squeaky clean pool, the water that will never take him home. His frantic paddling a display of power and fluidity jostled by the contempt of a cage. Though raised in  …

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"The latest in a series of wicked acts of vandalism - one aimed to harm toddlers at play outside a synagogue - has rallied neighbors in the city's Mount Airy section to step forward.

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A five-year-old kid from Minnesota has patented a way of swinging on a child's swing. The US Patent Office issued patent 6,368,227 on 9 April, 2002 to Steven Olson of St Paul, Minnesota for a "method of swinging on a swing". Olson's father Peter is a patent attorney.

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The woman said she took her eyes off her daughter and 5-year-old son for about three minutes. "I walked to my truck to get a cigarette and lit it up and when I came back my daughter was standing next to some transient sitting on the bench," the girl's mother said.

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A playground designed specifically for pensioners has opened in a park in north Manchester. The Older People's Play Area on the Dam Head Estate in Blackley, is kitted out with equipment to strengthen hips, tone legs and train the upper body.

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Three eastern Iowa boys face arson charges in a fire at that caused over $80,000 to an elementary school and some playground equipment in Center Point.

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This is indeed odd: it is possible that natural phenomena may be the explanation, as well as fraud, but this is definitely something that demands further study. The swing does appear to move when there is no justification for it to do so.

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Evidence of witchcraft - or merely a brisk wind? Whatever may be the explanation, an out-of-control playground swing has got families and police in Argentina spooked.

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Nearly half of primary school children in Wales have been bullied in the playground - the highest in the UK, according to research. Learning Through Landscapes, a school grounds charity, believes boredom is behind the bullying.

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I think this is a good start for these two. Kyle Meredith and Mateusz Dybala are both 16. County State's Attorney Scott Shellenberger says they will be charged with first-degree assault.

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