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Kids’ meal orders decline as more healthful choices increase

<p class="krtHeadline">KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kids used to walk into a restaurant and be happy with chicken nuggets, fries, and a flimsy dinosaur toy.</p><p class="krtText">After beefing up restaurant sales for decades, a new report shows sales of kids ...

Author turns literary classics into tales for kids

<p class="krtHeadline">LEXINGTON, Ky. — Lisa Samson is not in the stratosphere of J.K. Rowling — yet.</p><p class="krtText">But the Lexington-based children’s author, who writes under the name L.L. Samson, is in the midst of writing a wonderfully ...

Stock baby’s book shelf

<p class="krtHeadline">Parents share their favorite books to read to baby. These are must-haves for the nursery!</p><p class="krtText"><strong>“The Very Hungry Caterpillar” by Eric ...

1972 law gave girls the ball

There's an important birthday this week: Title IX turns 40 years old on Saturday.Title IX is the law that requires schools that receive money from the federal government to give their female students opportunities equal to those of their male students. That includes school sports.Title IX has ...

Arctic movie is pretty cool

How do you give viewers a sense of living in one of the coldest places on Earth in the midst of a steamy summer? Try "To the Arctic," a new Imax film about the creatures that depend on ice and freezing temperatures to survive.Over the course of four years, a crew spent eight months in three ...

Washington girl turns her room into a museum

Sitting on her flowered bedspread at home in Northwest Washington, 8-year-old Macie McGraw cradles a pristine white beaver skull in her hands. She found it while hiking in Great Falls, Md., two years ago. After her family had the skull cleaned by a professional, it went on display in the ...