Mar. 16, 2025
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A 13-year-old seventh-grade boy is hospitalized in “grave” condition after reportedly overdosing on fentanyl Thursday at Sports and Medical Sciences Academy in Hartford, Conn.
Two additional seventh-graders, who officials believe were exposed to the drug, were also hospitalized. One was released Thursday and the other is still under observation, according to theHartford Courant.
Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin offered sympathy to the family of the boy who collapsed in gym class Thursday morning and was unresponsive.
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Photo: WAFBA Louisiana middle schooler knows the importance of feeling good — and he’s making sure all of his fellow classmates have the chance to do just that.Eighth-grader Chase Neyland-Square is the mastermind of PAM’s Pantry at Port Allen Middle School, a special closet behind the school’s stage that offers a variety of donated clothes to students in need.“I know that everybody doesn’t have things and I’m fortunate to have things that other people don’t have,” he told local CBS affiliateWAFB.
Mar. 16, 2025
Da’vian Kimbrough.Photo:Sacramemento Republic FCA 13-year-old soccer player has just become perhaps the youngest professional athlete in American history, after he signed a contract with Sacramento Republic FC of the USL Championship league.Sacramentoannouncedthe signing of Da’vian Kimbrough, who is 13 years, 5 months, and 13 days old, on Tuesday.“Da’vian’s journey with Republic FC is just beginning,” Republic FC President and General Manager Todd Dunivant said. “He is a remarkable talent who has committed to his dream of becoming an elite player, from competing with players in older age groups and thriving at top competitions, to stepping on to the first team training grounds.
Mar. 16, 2025
Photo: SWNSA Jewish family threw their 13-year-old dog a “Bark Mitzvah” — complete with a dog-sized kippah and tiny Torah scroll.Ruth and Craig Ellenberg, 44 and 52, wanted to celebrate their pup Rambo coming of age in the same way his dog dad did, so the couple planned the pooch’s rite of passage for the 39th anniversary of Craig’s bar mitzvahThe Ellenbergs extended Rambo’s bar mitzvah over two days at their home in Livingston, New Jersey, as so many family members wished to attend to honor their Havanese pooch.
Mar. 16, 2025
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Red, white and blue candles curved into an S outside of the slain teens Staten Island, N.Y., apartment building over the weekend, after Syles Ular, 13, was stabbed in the chest on a city bus in what police described as a “possibly gang-related” incident Friday afternoon.
A 14-year-old boy – who has not been identified because of his age – has been arrested and charged with murder, manslaughter and criminal possession of a weapon in connection with the stabbing, police confirmed to PEOPLE.