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KDHE Dismisses Suspension Order Against Day Care Home in Salina

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) has dismissed an Emergency Order of Suspension issued on August 13 against Miranda’s House Day Care Home, a registered day care home operated by Lisa Raelyn Hartman at 1009 N. 12 th St. in Salina.

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China issues guidelines to ban old school buses

China has banned old school buses to combat rising death toll among the nation's school children.

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OnStar Extends Partnership with National Center for Missing & Exploited Children

OnStar announced that its partnership with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children® (NCMEC) will be expanded to provide geographically targeted AMBER Alert messages to OnStar subscribers. In addition to this technological advancement, OnStar will contribute $300,000 to NCMEC to support Team Adam, a dedicated group of retired law enforcement officials with expertise in missing children cases.

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Safe Kids Buckle Up celebrates 10 years of community programs

In celebration of a decade of checking car seats and holding safety events through the Safe Kids Buckle Up program, Safe Kids Coalitions in Kansas are holding 11 special events to help educate families how to stay safer in and around vehicles. The national 10-year celebration will include 100 events across the country during the coming week.

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Feel the Love Demonstrated - Arrest Warrants in Summer Camp

San Antonio based summer camp Love Demonstrated Ministries used to be such a fun place until recently.

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Promoting Child Safety with Computers

Computer technology that provides parents with customized safety information can be an effective way to help their children avoid injury, according to a study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center.

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PG-13 Films Not Safe for Kids

PG-13 films have lots of "happy violence," say UCLA researchers. Borrowing from the late communications theorist George Gerbner, happy violence is that which is "cool, swift and painless." PG-13 films don't consider the consequences of violent acts, such as injury, death and the shattered lives of the people involved.

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Few families report safe firearm storage

Few families store their firearms safely, according to a pediatric researcher at Brenner Children's Hospital, part of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. Robert H. DuRant, Ph.D., and his colleagues' research study results are published in the June issue of Pediatrics.

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Father, 19, microwaved 2-month-old baby

A 19 years old father from Arkansas literally microwaved baby daughter who is only two months old.

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Manila Hostage-taker demands free education for day-care center children

One of the suspects who hostaged at least 32 school-children and two teachers aboard a tourist bus in front of the Bonifacio Shrine near Manila City Hall on Wednesday morning, demanded free education for day-care center children.

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Schoolchildren's bus hijacked in Manila

A tourist bus with 32 school children and two teachers were hijacked by two armed men in front of the Bonifacio Shrine near Manila City Hall.

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One-Parent Households Double Risk of Childhood Sexual Abuse

Adult men who grew up in one-parent households are more likely to have been abused as children, according to a study conducted at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. William C. Holmes, MD, MSCE, Assistant Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania, and at the Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion at the Philadelphia VA Medical Center, reports his findings in the March 13th issue of the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.

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