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Where Texas parents and students with mental health concerns can turn for help Share: Share: Some already grappled with mental health challenges. Others experienced them for the first time. Pediatric psychiatric hospitals, such as Cook Children's Medical Center in Fort Worth, report admitting more young people after suicide attempts this fall than ever before. But families seeking treatment struggle to navigate the complicated health care system. "Many of our families are unable to access the services they need for ongoing treatment," Kia Carter, the center's co-medical director of psychiatry...

Then she noticed the bruises on his arms and face. The waitress, Flavaine Carvalho, concocted a plan. She wrote "Do you need help?" on a piece of paper and held it up to the boy from where his parents couldn't see from their booth at Mrs. Potato Restaurant. She told police it took three tries before the boy signaled "yes." Carvalho called police. Now she's being credited as helping to save the boy from what police called a "dangerous abuse" situation. "This could have been a homicide situation if she had not intervened," Orlando Police Chief Orlando Rolon told The owner of the restaurant, Ra...

Then she noticed the bruises on his arms and face. The waitress, Flavaine Carvalho, concocted a plan. She wrote "Do you need help?" on a piece of paper and held it up to the boy from where his parents couldn't see from their booth at Mrs. Potato Restaurant. She told police it took three tries before the boy signaled "yes." Carvalho called police. Now she's being credited as helping to save the boy from what police called a "dangerous abuse" situation. "This could have been a homicide situation if she had not intervened," Orlando Police Chief Orlando Rolon told The owner of the restaurant, Ra...

The devices are from an Italian company and are called the Tata Pad and the Tata Band. It is a smart car seat alarm that senses when a child has been left in a car seat. The technology links with a parent's smart phone and sends alerts if a child is detected after the car stops, but the device does not stop there. "It will notify the parents and it has an escalating sequence of notifications if you do not respond with the three minutes, then four minutes, then seven minutes emergency officials are called," said Mashable transportation reporter Sasha Lekach.

Terri Watkins thought someone was pulling her leg when she learned about her winnings last week. "I thought that it was a scam. I was a little upset actually!" she said, laughing. "I thought that it was not real, couldn't be real. It's still something that I really don't believe, I'm still in some shock here." Watkins' entry was chosen from over 513,000 entries in the final $300,000,000 Supreme Riches second-chance drawing on Wednesday. "I'm a nurse and I work in the COVID-19 unit at a long-term care facility," said Watkins. "Just seeing some of the things that I've had to see, I am very than...