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An Oklahoma school bus dashcam captured a rollover crash that grazed the bus' bumper.

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Garth Brooks kicks off a string of shows at Kansas City's Sprint Center Friday

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Large fight erupt at high school, leaving teacher knocked unconscious

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PHILADELPHIA, PA ( WPHL) -- A fight erupts in a local school that injured eight teachers, one of them knocked unconscious.

Police said the fight involved four girls. The cause of the fight was something on Facebook.

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At one point, a substitute teacher was knocked unconscious as she was trying to break up the fight.

Eight teachers injured and four of them were sent to the hospital. One had a dislocated shoulder and two had concussions. All teachers have since been released.

The four students involved were arrested. One of them faces four counts of aggravated assault and conspiracy.

Many have said that fights at this school are an ongoing issue at this school.
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Teacher union representatives have said that concerns for safety over fights have been ignored by the superintendent.

In a statement, the superintendent said that fighting will not be tolerated and additional security personnel will be on site for the rest of this week into the next week.

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European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has told a conference in Italy on the EU that "English is losing importance in Europe".

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European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has told a conference on the EU that "English is losing importance in Europe".

He was speaking in Florence, Italy, amid tensions with the UK government over looming Brexit negotiations.

"Slowly but surely English is losing importance in Europe and also because France has an election," he said, explaining his choice of French.

He called the UK decision to leave the EU "a tragedy".

Laughter and applause greeted his comment about the English language, and he could be seen smiling wryly.

"We will negotiate fairly with our British friends, but let's not forget that it is not the EU that is abandoning the UK - it is the UK that's abandoning the EU, and that makes a difference," he said.

UK Prime Minister Theresa May has accused some EU officials of trying to influence the UK's 8 June parliamentary election.

The Commission's chief Brexit negotiator, French ex-commissioner Michel Barnier, is to give a speech on Brexit in a few hours' time.

EU leaders say the UK cannot simply "cherry-pick" membership terms that it wishes to keep. A Brexit deal cannot be better than full EU membership, they stress.

The EU conference is called State of the Union, at Florence's European University Institute (EUI).

France holds the decisive second round of its presidential election on Sunday. Top EU officials say they want liberal independent Emmanuel Macron to beat his nationalist rival, Marine Le Pen.

That difficult dinner

The atmosphere between Mrs May's government and the Commission soured after Germany's Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung published an account of her dinner with Mr Juncker in London last week.

Mr Juncker reportedly said he was leaving "10 times more sceptical than I was before". Mrs May hit back later, calling the reported remarks "Brussels gossip".

Mrs May has made it clear that she does not want leaks about the Brexit negotiations, but many doubt that such secrecy is achievable when Brexit issues affect the interests of 27 other EU countries.

Among the many potential sticking points are the size of the UK's departure bill. UK Brexit Secretary David Davis accused the European Commission of "trying to bully the British people".

A "line was crossed", he said, when stories suggested the UK could face a €100bn (£85bn; $110bn) bill from the EU.

European Council President Donald Tusk has warned that "the stakes are too high to let our emotions get out of hand".

The negotiations are expected to start soon after the UK's 8 June election.

The EU wants to sort out the UK's bill and other key aspects of Brexit before any talks on future relations but the UK government is anxious to start negotiating trade terms.

Mrs May hopes the snap election will boost the Conservatives' mandate for Brexit by increasing their parliamentary majority.

In his speech, Mr Juncker stressed that "Europe is more than just money, just a market" - distancing himself from the Eurosceptic view of the EU as little more than a trade bloc.

"There's not enough solidarity in Europe... Italy from the first day of the migration crisis has done everything it can - it is saving the honour of Europe," he said, drawing strong applause from the Florence audience.

Brexit timetable:

7 May - French voters decide between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen as their next president

8 June - UK parliamentary election - Brexit talks to start soon after the vote

24 September - German parliamentary election, with Mrs Merkel seeking a fourth term

29 March 2019 - Deadline for ending talks on UK exit terms (any extension requires agreement of all member states)

May or June 2019 - European Parliament election (without UK)

Ratification - Any Brexit deal requires approval by European Council majority (20 out of 27 states) and by European Parliament; a trade deal requires EU-wide parliamentary approval

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European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has told a conference on the EU that "English is losing importance in Europe". He was speaking in Florence, Italy, amid tensions with the UK government over looming Brexit negotiations. "Slowly but surely English is losing importance in Europe and also because France has an election," he said, explaining his choice of French.

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US employers add strong 211,000 jobs; unemployment 4.4 pct.

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After a hiring slowdown in March, the U.S. job market is thought to have resumed solid growth in April, a trend that would help underpin an economic rebound after a weak start to the year.

Employers probably added 185,000 jobs last month, according to a survey by FactSet, a data provider. That would be nearly double the 98,000 jobs added in March - a slump that economists attributed largely to a snowstorm that struck some areas of the country just as the government was collecting its hiring data.

The unemployment rate is predicted to have ticked up to 4.6 percent from 4.5 percent in March, the lowest in a decade.

The April jobs report will be released Friday at 8:30 a.m. Eastern time.

Stronger hiring would help assuage concerns that the economy is stumbling, nearly eight years into its recovery from the Great Recession. Growth slowed to an annual rate of just 0.7 percent in the January-March quarter, the government has estimated, from a 2.1 percent rate in the previous quarter.

Consumers, despite registering strong confidence, barely increased their spending last quarter. The 0.3 percent annualized rise in their spending in the January-March period was the smallest quarterly gain in more than seven years.

Car sales have also hit a rut, potentially hurting auto factories and their parts suppliers. Auto purchases fell in April for a fourth straight month - the first time that has happened since the recession.

Still, some positive signs suggest that growth is rebounding in the current April-June quarter, with some economists forecasting that it could top a 3 percent annual rate. Last quarter, consumers spent less in part because of low utility bills during an unseasonably warm winter. That's likely to prove a temporary restraint.

And the housing market is reaching new heights as home sales and construction march upward even though a limited number of properties are for sale. Sales of existing homes jumped in March to their highest level in more than a decade.

Here are five things to look for in Friday's jobs report:

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HOW FAST IS PAY RISING?

Average hourly pay rose 2.7 percent in March compared with a year earlier, above the anemic levels of about 2 percent for the first few years of the recovery from the recession. Yet while improving, the increase remains below the roughly 3.5 percent annual pay gains typical of a healthy economy. Inflation has also picked up, eroding even that limited income growth. With the unemployment rate low, companies may have to pay more to attract and keep employees.

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WILL MORE PEOPLE LOOK FOR WORK?

One trend that could hold back pay gains would be a flood of job-seekers coming off the sidelines and looking for work. That would give businesses more potential employees to hire, thereby reducing their need to pay more. And in the past three months, that may be what has happened: The proportion of Americans either working or looking for work has increased to 63 percent from 62.7 percent. Perhaps not coincidentally, wage gains have slipped a bit, from an annual pace of 2.9 percent in December to 2.7 percent last month.

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WILL RETAIL BLEEDING CONTINUE?

Retail store chains, such as Sears and Macy's, have been slashing jobs in the face of ferocious competition from Amazon.com and other e-commerce companies. That's transformed retail to a job-losing industry: It has shed an average of 5,000 jobs a month for the past six months. That's a sharp change from its historical pattern of adding about 15,000 to 20,000 jobs a month. Many traditional retailers are rapidly building up their own online storefronts and expanding their warehousing and logistics divisions. But those functions are less labor-intensive and are unlikely to fully offset the job losses at physical stores.

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WEATHER BOUNCE-BACK

Retail may get a bounce in April from improved weather, which followed some severe snowstorms in March. If so, it won't be the only industry to benefit. Construction, restaurants and hotels also absorbed hits in March because of harsh weather in much of the Northeast and Midwest. Goldman Sachs estimates that the swing could add 25,000 to 40,000 jobs to April's totals.

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HOW WILL MANUFACTURING FARE?

Factories have mostly recovered over the past six months from nearly two years of struggle. Plummeting oil prices had caused drilling firms to slash orders for steel pipe, machinery and other equipment. And weak growth overseas, plus a strong dollar, depressed exports. But oil and gas prices stabilized last fall. Growth is picking up in Europe and Japan and has stabilized in China. All that has helped lift factory output. And manufacturers have added 49,000 jobs so far this year, a big improvement after the industry had shed 16,000 jobs last year.

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After a hiring slowdown in March, the U.S. job market is thought to have resumed solid growth in April, a trend that would help underpin an economic rebound after a weak start to the year. Employers probably added 185,000 jobs last month, according to a survey by FactSet, a data provider....

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North Korea has accused US and South Korean agents of plotting to kill its Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un.

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North Korea has accused US and South Korean agents of plotting to kill its Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un.

A North Korean referred to only as "Kim" was paid to carry out an attack with biochemical substances, the ministry of state security said.

The plot was foiled, it said, but gave no details on the fate of "Kim". The CIA declined to comment and South Korea has issued no statement so far.

The North's claim comes amid continued high tension on the Korean peninsula.

US President Donald Trump has promised to "solve" North Korea and stop it developing nuclear weapons.
Full text of North's allegation
An unconvincing case: Stephen Evans, BBC News, Seoul

The statement should be treated with scepticism. The regime has a track record of false information. It would be surprising if American or South Korean intelligence agencies didn't try to have agents in North Korea but the specific allegations about an assassination plot raise many questions.

Why hasn't a suspect been produced? Why does the KCNA statement cite poisoning at one moment and a bombing the next? How would anyone get access to Kim Jong-un, a man perpetually surrounded by squads of protectors and whose movements are secret?

Journalists who go to Pyongyang have cell-phones taken off them whenever they go to events where he might be, presumably to prevent tracking - so how would an ordinary citizen get more access?

Plots to kill Kim Jong-un may have been hatched but a bald statement by the media controlled by a vicious regime does not add up to convincing evidence.

'Human scum'

The ministry of state security statement, carried by state news agency KCNA, said the CIA and South Korean intelligence services had "hatched a vicious plot to hurt the supreme leadership of the DPRK".

It did not mention Kim Jong-un by name, but he is widely referred to as the supreme leader.

The ministry said a plot had been hatched to use "bomb terrorism" to target the supreme leadership at a military parade or at an event at the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun, the mausoleum of Kim Il-sung, the country's founding leader.

It said "Kim" had been told that the best method was the use of "biochemical substances including radioactive substance and nano poisonous substance" whose results would "appear after six or 12 months".

Killing Kim? How the 'plot' unfolded

June 2014: A North Korean working at a timber firm in the Khabarovsk territory of far-eastern Russia is "corrupted and bribed" by CIA and South Korean intelligence agents. The man - "Kim" - is given cash and a "satellite transmitter-receiver" and returns to Pyongyang

January, May, August, September 2016: "Kim" is in satellite contact with South Korean agents on handling biochemical agents and on the possible sites of an assassination attempt

March and April 2017: "Kim" meets a South Korean agent in the city of Dandong in China and is given a new transmitter and more cash. Further communications take place in April. The last date that appears in the North Korean statement is "early May", when "Kim" is supposed to receive "necessary equipment" via a "liaison centre" he has set up with his funding. No details are given on "Kim's" apprehension or fate
Source: Ministry of state security statement via KCNA Full text of North's allegation
"Only the CIA can produce such substance", it said, adding that South Korea had borne the funding.

The ministry alleged that the North Korean man had been "turned" by the CIA and the South Korean intelligence service while working in Russia in 2014.

The ministry refers to two payments to "Kim" of $20,000 (£15,500) and a further two of $100,000 for "bribery" and obtaining equipment. It refers to another of $50,000 but it is unclear if this is additional.

On his return to Pyongyang, it says, he was instructed to provide detailed information about a frequently used event ground and to assess possible methods of attack.
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The ministry statement gave no details of how the alleged plan had been uncovered or about the fate of "Kim", whom it described as "human scum".

The ministry said the "intelligence and plot-breeding organisations of the US imperialists and the puppet clique", referring to the South, would be swept away.

Earlier this year, Kim Jong-un's half brother, Kim Jong-nam, was killed with the banned nerve agent VX at Kuala Lumpur international airport. South Korea and Malaysia say it was an assassination carried out by the North.

'Major, major conflict'

A war of words between the West and nuclear-armed North Korea has escalated in recent weeks, with Pyongyang threatening to carry out a sixth nuclear test.

On Saturday, North Korea conducted its second failed ballistic missile test in two weeks.

The US has sent a warship to the region and installed a controversial anti-missile defence system in South Korea.

President Trump has warned of "major, major conflict" with North Korea.

But he also said this week he would be willing to meet Kim Jong-un, in the right circumstances. The White House quickly clarified that conditions were "clearly not there right now" and said the North should "end its provocative behaviour immediately".

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Delta Air Lines is offering refunds and compensation to a California family that says they were forced off a plane and threatened with jail after refusing to give up one of their seats on a crowded flight.

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OVERLAND PARK, Kan. -- Police are looking for a shooter who drove through an Overland Park neighborhood and shot up a house on Thursday night. The shooting happened around 6 p.m. near East 87th Terrace and Grandview.

Investigators say a driver drove down 87th Terrace and fired almost a dozen shots into a house, shattering a front glass door. Police say the shooter then sped off in a Silver Chevrolet Malibu with dark tinted windows.

One man was inside the house, but wasn't hurt.

Police were on the scene for several hours looking for possible evidence, if you know anything that will help them arrest the shooter, call the TIPS Hotline at (816) 474-TIPS.

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OVERLAND PARK, Kan. -- Police are looking for a shooter who drove through an Overland Park neighborhood and shot up a house on Thursday night. The shooting happened around 6 p.m. near East 87th Terrace and Grandview. Investigators say a driver drove down 87th Terrace and fired almost a dozen shots into a house, shattering a front glass door.

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Delta 'sorry' for booting family off a plane over seating mix-up

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Delta is apologizing for kicking a family with two young children off a flight after the customers already boarded.

The incident occurred on April 23, but footage of the ordeal was just posted to YouTube on May 3 by Brian Schear, the customer who can be seen arguing with a flight attendant during an eight-minute exchange.

At issue was a seat the man's infant son was in. That seat was booked under the name of Schear's older son, who took an earlier flight.

The family members who were on board the flight -- Schear, his wife and their one- and two-year-old children -- were eventually escorted off the aircraft and flew to their destination on a later flight with a different airline.

"We are sorry for the unfortunate experience our customers had with Delta, and we've reached out to them to refund their travel and provide additional compensation," the airline said in a statement issued Thursday. "Delta's goal is to always work with customers in an attempt to find solutions to their travel issues. That did not happen in this case and we apologize."

Related: United Airlines reaches settlement with passenger who was dragged off plane

Schear can be heard in the video repeatedly saying that he paid for the seat in which his infant son was sitting. He said it "isn't right" that the airline was asking him to give it up.

He said he bought his older son a seat on a different flight so that his infant son could sit in a car seat instead of his mother's lap during the overnight trip. "He can't sleep unless he's in his car seat," the father is heard saying.

An official can be heard telling the man that it's federal policy that whoever occupies a seat on an aircraft must be the person whose name is booked for that seat. The official also tells the man he will "go to jail" if he doesn't cooperate.

Delta says the flight was not overbooked, but there were passengers waiting to fly standby, which is why they were trying to make room on the flight.

The incident occurred on Delta flight 2222, which is an overnight trip from Hawaii to Los Angeles.

Related: Delta's meltdown: What went wrong

Footage of the ordeal has racked up nearly 900,000 views on YouTube since it was posted Wednesday.

Disastrous airline travel stories have made headlines numerous times in recent weeks.

On April 9, a man was dragged, bloodied and screaming, from a United Airlines flight after he refused to give up his seat for crew members. The victim, Dr. David Dao, reached a settlement with United last week.

And American Airlines is investigating after footage of a crying mother on an April 21 flight surfaced on social media. It shows the mom in tears during a confrontation between her and a flight attendant.

CNNMoney (New York) First published May 4, 2017: 7:26 PM ET

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Two people were killed Friday when a cargo plane crashed in Charleston, West Virginia.

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A US soldier has been killed in Somalia during operations against al-Shabab militants, the American military says.Two other US servicemen were injured in Thursday's incident, about 40 miles (64km) west of the capital Mogadishu, near the town of Barii.

American forces were on an "advise and assist" mission with the Somali National Army, the US military said.President Donald Trump has expanded military action against the al-Qaeda affiliate in the Horn of Africa nation.

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A US soldier has been killed in Somalia during operations against al-Shabab militants, the American military says.

Two other US servicemen were injured in Thursday's incident, about 40 miles (64km) west of the capital Mogadishu, near the town of Barii.

American forces were on an "advise and assist" mission with the Somali National Army, the US military said.

President Donald Trump has expanded military action against the al-Qaeda affiliate in the Horn of Africa nation.
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"On 4 May, one US service member was killed during an operation against al-Shabab near Barii," US Africa Command said in a statement on Friday.

"US forces were conducting an advise and assist mission alongside members of the Somali National Army," it added.

US Africa Command spokeswoman Robyn Mack said that the American soldier was struck by small arms fire.

She added that another two soldiers were wounded in the same incident and "they are both receiving proper medical attention".

In Thursday's mission, US troops were hunting an al-Shabab commander near the Shabelle river, Reuters news agency reports.

American presidents have been wary of intervention in Somalia since 18 special forces died fighting militias in Mogadishu in 1993, a battle dramatised in the film Black Hawk Down.

But in March, Mr Trump approved a Pentagon plan to escalate operations against al-Shabab, including additional air strikes.

Last month, dozens of American soldiers were deployed to Mogadishu to train and equip Somali and African Union troops.

It was the first time regular US troops had been sent to Somalia since 1994, though some counter-terrorism advisers were already there.

BBC Africa Security correspondent Tomi Oladipo says the soldier killed on Thursday would not be one of the soldiers recently sent to Somalia.

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A US soldier has been killed in Somalia during operations against al-Shabab militants, the American military says. Two other US servicemen were injured in Thursday's incident, about 40 miles (64km) west of the capital Mogadishu, near the town of Barii. American forces were on an "advise and assist" mission with the Somali National Army, the US military said.

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Former NBA player Doug Overton said his arrest earlier this week for indecent exposure was the unintended consequence of relieving himself alongside a trail in suburban Philadelphia.

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Chicago Approves Plan To Block Trump’s Name on His Tower With Giant, Flying Pigs.

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The percentage of younger children and teens hospitalized for suicidal thoughts or actions in the United States doubled over nearly a decade, according to new research that will be presented Sunday at the 2017 Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting.

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A steady increase in admissions due to suicidality and serious self-harm occurred at 32 children's hospitals across the nation from 2008 through 2015, the researchers found. The children studied were between the ages of 5 and 17, and although all age groups showed increases, the largest uptick was seen among teen girls.

"We noticed over the last two, three years that an increasing number of our hospital beds are not being used for kids with pneumonia or diabetes; they were being used for kids awaiting placement because they were suicidal," said Dr. Gregory Plemmons, presenter of the study and an associate professor of pediatrics at Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt University.

Sensing a trend, Plemmons and his colleagues conducted the research to see what was happening across the country, he said. "And it confirmed what we were feeling: that the rates have doubled over the last decade."

Peaks in fall and spring

Plemmons looked at administrative data from 32 children's hospitals to identify the total number of emergency department and inpatient visits over eight years ending in 2015. He found 118,363 children between the ages of 5 and 17 with a discharge diagnosis of suicidality or serious self-harm.

"We didn't look at completed suicides, and we didn't look at actual numbers of total suicides. All we actually could look at were those kids that were admitted to a children's hospital with a diagnosis of suicide ideation or a suicide attempt," Plemmons said.

Slightly more than half, 59,631 children, were between the ages 15 and 17, and nearly 37% were between 12 and 14. Children 5 through 11 -- a total of 15,050 kids -- represented nearly 13% of the total.

Increasing suicide rates among children mirror adult numbers, Plemmons said. Children's numbers more than doubled over the study period, increasing from 0.67% of children admitted to hospitals in 2008 to 1.79% in 2015. Annually, the 15-to-17 age group averaged an increase of 0.27%, the 12-to-14 age group averaged 0.25%, and the-5 to-11 age group averaged 0.02%.

In 2008, about 60% of all children and teens hospitalized as a result of suicidal thoughts or attempts were girls, and, by 2015, that number had increased to 66%, said Plemmons. While he did not break down age groups, he said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that suicides had tripled in girls, ages 10 through 14, between 1999 and 2014.

"Females are more likely to attempt, but males in general are more likely to succeed," said Plemmons.

Plemmons noted one "really interesting" finding he has not seen elsewhere.

"When we looked at the number of kids awaiting placement or admitted at one time, month by month, there is a huge difference in the months," he said. "Certainly, the month of the year that is the lowest for suicidal thoughts and ideation is July. And we see those numbers creep back up right when school starts."

Peaks can be seen in the fall and the spring, with a lull in the summer.

The reason children think about or attempt suicide is the "million-dollar question," Plemmons said. "Family history of depression or suicide, family violence, child abuse, gay and lesbian youth, history of bullying -- those are all risk factors that have been reported. We didn't look at any of those specific factors in our study."

School drives a lot of this behavior, he said, and he wonders whether it might represent the overall influence of "social media and socialization in general. ... We know that school's a stress just like a job is a stress, so it may just be that removal of that situation allows some kids to cope a little bit better."

One of the predominant theories behind teen suicide is cyberbullying, Plemmons said. "It's anonymous today, I think that's a big difference. Years ago, you knew who (the bullies) were."

Additionally, girls are entering puberty about a year earlier "than they historically have, and puberty in itself is a risk factor for suicide."

A lack of coping skills?

Avital K. Cohen, a licensed psychologist who was not involved in the research, believes that a variety of factors contribute to the rising trend seen in this study.

"Our expectations of children have changed pretty significantly in the last several decades," Cohen said, although she doesn't have research to support her opinion.

"Many parents try to protect their children from experiencing failure when they are young; thus, when they experience it later in life, they may not have developed the resources and/or coping skills they need to manage it," she said. A bigger emotional response is triggered, which "might contribute to increases in suicidal expression."

She also believes that social media contributes to an increase in anxiety and depression, and cyberbullying is a phenomenon "that I don't know that any of us fully understand." It's unclear what the long-term implications might be when kids have grown up in a world of social media that begins when their parents post pictures and videos of them as infants and toddlers, she said.

David Palmiter, a professor of psychology at Marywood University in Scranton, Pennsylvania, said "there's kind of a deeper issue here that most of the kids that need mental health care don't get it."

"Approximately 20% to a third of the kids who need care get it, but the large share don't," said Palmiter, who also was not involved in the research. "And those who do get care, usually they have had to suffer for a few years before they get it, and often, the care is not necessarily evidence-based."

Even though the percentage of suicidal kids may be "alarming," the study doesn't prove that rates of suicidality are on the rise, Palmiter said. "To do that, you need more research."

Still, he believes the research is important in that it suggests that efforts to educate the public about identifying problems are paying off, with parents and teachers recognizing kids who need help.

"If anything, parents have to get better at recognizing the symptoms of depression, the lack of joy, the concentration problems, the isolating behaviors that occur," Palmiter said.

"Historically, we've wrongfully thought that suicidality becomes an issue in adolescence, and we haven't really looked at younger children so much," he said. "And we now know that's not right. You can have kids under the age of 12, under the age of 10, thinking about attempting or even completing suicide."

The youngest suicides

Carl Tishler, an adjunct associate professor of psychology and psychiatry at The Ohio State University, said that when it comes to suicidality, there are significant differences between teens and those younger than 11.

"The younger the child, typically, the more disturbed the child is," said Tishler, who did not participate in the research. "With these little kids, a lot of times, they come into the emergency room, and it looks like an accident."

Children under 6 who complete or attempt suicide are "pretty damaged kids," he said, explaining that the "one thing that jumps out" in case studies of these young children is how "they've been dramatically exposed to domestic violence."

"They will do things like jump out of window; they will jump off a balcony; they will run into traffic. One of the cases actually was a little kid who dressed up and was playing Superboy or Superman and managed to hang himself on a window cord." Among children between 7 and 11, hangings or suffocations are more likely, he said.

"When you look at it on the outside, it looks like a normal child playing and jumped off his bed and he hurt himself," he said. Dig a little deeper, and "you find out the kid's father died of suicide" or that some other serious family trauma occurred. "It was definitely a suicide attempt, and the kid wasn't able to verbalize that they wanted to die."

"Some of these little kids will verbalize they want to die, that they don't want to live anymore, or they want to go to sleep and not wake up and stuff like that," he said.

Health care providers staffing emergency departments are more sophisticated now, Tishler said, so they are asking questions and looking for chidlren who are attempting suicide.

"You just don't know. You have to be pretty tuned in to what you're dealing with and not say, 'Oh, a child under age 6 doesn't understand the permanence of death,' " he said, paraphrasing an "old theory" that children never attempt suicide.

Tishler also said that with "an estimated 12 to 15 million children on psychotropic medications," any time doses begin or get increased or decreased, "it may cause a change in emotional state which may reduce impulse control." This could contribute to suicidal urges.

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'alarming' rise in children hospitalized with suicidal thoughts or actions  - cnn.com

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'Alarming' rise in children hospitalized with suicidal thoughts or actions

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A steady increase in admissions due to suicidality and serious self-harm occurred at 32 children's hospitals across the nation from 2008 through 2015, the researchers found. The children studied were between the ages of 5 and 17, and although all age groups showed increases, the largest uptick was seen among teen girls.

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Mr. Kohl- A woman eats $7,000 dollars swallowing rolls of $100 dollar bills after a fight with her husband.

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Mr. Kohl- A woman eats $7,000 dollars swallowing rolls of $100 dollar bills after a fight with her husband.

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Woman Eats $7,000 During Fight with Hubby

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Here's a strange one. A woman from Colombia reportedly swallowed at least $7,000 U.S. dollars in a desperate act to keep the cash during dispute with her husband.