Updated: 3:27 PM Teens and parents got a special presentation Friday to keep them safe and teach the importance of good decisions behind the wheel.

Posted: 5:05 PM A Ripley woman faces a court hearing next week after police found her children living in filthy conditions.

Updated: 2:21 PM Commercials promoting sugary breakfast cereals could be put on a strict diet under government guidelines urging food companies to limit marketing of unhealthy products to children.

Updated: 11:35 AM Researchers in San Diego say a simple checklist could someday let doctors and parents know if a young child shows signs of autism.

Posted: 11:32 AM The Virginia Board of Education has approved a set of revised guidelines that school divisions can use to evaluate teacher performance.

Posted: 12:40 PM A new report says one in four children in the United States is being raised by a single parent, a percentage is higher than in other developed countries.

Posted: 12:18 PM West Virginia University is getting $4.7 million to fight childhood obesity.

Posted: 12:16 PM A scholarship program founded by the late U.S. Sen. Robert C. Byrd in 1985 has lost its federal funding and will be phased out.

Posted: 12:14 PM New standards for math, English and language arts courses are being developed for West Virginia's public schools.

Posted: 12:01 PM West Virginia education leaders are touting strides made in programs for the state's youngest public schoolchildren.

Posted: 4:55 PM The Obama administration is asking the Supreme Court to reinstate a policy that allows federal regulators to fine broadcasters for showing nudity and airing curse words when young children may be watching television.

Updated: 5:37 PM West Virginia University is giving children a chance to learn where their food comes from with Kiddie Days at its Animal Sciences Farm.

Updated: 3:47 PM James Madison University will be hosting its fourth Annual Children's Global Nonviolence Summer Camp this August.

Updated: 6:38 PM North Carolina officials are considering withdrawing more than 100 youth from treatment centers for troubled kids in Virginia after the company that owns them failed to report a boy's sexual abuse claim.

Updated: 3:42 PM Some lucky first graders saw the world in a whole new light Thursday after Farm Fun Day at Fulks Run Elementary School.

Updated: 10:44 PM An anti-gang community group in Augusta County is changing its name but not its focus.

Updated: 10:45 PM Prescription drug abuse continues to be a growing problem around the nation, including in the Valley.

Updated: 6:03 PM Virginia's social services board has rejected proposed regulations that would have prohibited adoption agencies from discriminating against prospective parents because they're gay.

Posted: 2:42 PM Gov. Bob McDonnell has invited 57 school divisions that may have difficulty attracting, retaining and rewarding experienced, fully licensed teachers to participate in his Virginia Performance-Pay Incentives initiative for hard-to-staff schools.

Updated: 12:15 PM A study of nearly 32,000 high school students suggests that suicide attempts by gay teens, and even straight teens, are more common in politically conservative areas where schools don't have programs to support them.

Posted: 12:19 PM The federal government has approved new mandatory safety standards for toddler beds.

Updated: 7:37 PM More than 1,500 high school students from West Virginia, Ohio and Kentucky will participate in a weekend academic competition at Marshall University.

Updated: 7:56 PM A West Virginia mother is asking the full 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to reverse a decision that rejected her lawsuit challenging the state's child immunization law.

Posted: 4:17 PM Thousands of children are in need of a permanent home in Virginia, and nearly 200 of them are in Harrisonburg and Rockingham County.

Posted: 3:16 PM The Virginia Department of Health is looking for organizations that can serve meals to children during the summer months.