Amanda Vogt

Authorities announced Monday afternoon that they had found unharmed an elderly man with diminished mental capacity who less than 24 hours earlier had wandered away from the Lake Bluff Health...

Three years ago, when students in Cindy Reinitz's Nature Studies class at Minnesota New Country School visited a nearby wildlife refuge, they noticed that many of the frogs they saw...

Was it just last year that KidNews closed the book on our pet Sea Monkey project? (They died.) Still, it was more successful than our ant farm. (The ants died...

Often when we think about preserving our planet, we think of faraway rain forests or of pandas we've never seen. Truth is, when we talk of the environment, it's easy...

We nabbed recipes from the Peeps people to see what beautiful creations we could concoct. The results were, uh, varied. TAKE A PEEK FRAMED Making a Peeps frame while watching...

How did a 1960s TV series spawn a feature film 30 years later? By becoming a cult classic. "Lost in Space" (PG-13), out Friday, is based on the TV series...

Can you imagine what it's like to be Michael Jordan, Jackie Robinson or Janet Jackson? Michael Jordan, 14, Jackie Robinson, 10, and Janet Jackson, 9, can. They're not famous like...

The second annual Chanel and Seventeen Colour of the Year contest has produced two awesome new Chanel nail colors to suit your mood, rain or shine. In fact, the colors...

Li'l Penny Hardaway has written a book. You know, Li'l Penny, the in-your-face puppet that stars with Orlando Magic basketball star Anfernee "Penny" Hardaway in Nike commercials. Sure, the commercials...

From the opening scene of "Anastasia" (G), you'll be entranced. The computer-generated animation creates a dazzling fairy-tale world. When snow falls gently in St. Petersburg, Russia, you'll feel you could...