Malls Nationwide Setting Curfews for Teens
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It's 10 o'clock on a Friday night and all 15-year-old Sylvia Fallon wants to do is hang out with her friends at the mall. But she'll have to dodge security: Easton Town Center, like many shopping centers across the country, has a curfew for unchaperoned teens. Here, the witching hour is 9:30 p.m. At other malls, the curfew is as early as 6.
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Parents can expect a withering look or an impatient wince if they remind their teenager to change out of pyjamas before heading off to school these days.
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MySpace.com is planning new restrictions on how adults may contact its younger users in response to growing concerns about the safety of teenagers who frequent the popular online social networking site.
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By LINDSEY TANNER CHICAGO - The telltale signs are ominous: teens holing up in their rooms, ignoring friends, family, even food and a shower, while grades plummet and belligerence soars. The culprit isn't alcohol or drugs.
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Parents can expect a withering look or an impatient wince if they remind their teenager to change out of pajamas before heading off to school these days.
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A 14 year-old boy is to legally challenge  new measures allowing police and councils to impose curfews against those under 16.
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Adolescents' retail tastes are bringing Too solid same-store sales.
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By John Diedrich, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel  Sep. 6--Milwaukee police handed out 231 tickets for curfew violations over the Labor Day weekend, including 11 to parents, and found a robbery suspect during the stepped-up curfew effort, said Anne E. Schwartz, police spokeswoman.
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Terrorism experts say radical groups are targeting teenagers as young as 14.
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Teen retailers reported sharply higher   sales in August after kids flocked to stores ahead of the new   school year, but adult retailers fared worse as a slowing   housing market and higher energy prices crimped spending.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio -- It's 10 on a Friday night, and all 15-year-old Sylvia Fallon wants is to hang out with her friends at the mall.
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Parents may often shop at the same stores as their children these days, but few shop anything like their kids do. Teens and twentysomethings are twice as likely as their elders to use mobile devices for tasks other than talking. And they are far more likely to opt in for text promotions, mobile coupons and mobile search services.
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By Ellen Gedalius, Tampa Tribune, Fla.  Feb. 22--TAMPA -- With little discussion, the Hillsborough County Commission on Wednesday moved forward with a plan to create child protection zones that would be off-limits to sexual predators.
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Blog: Coca-Cola targets teens with cell phone social network, parents guard your pocketbook.
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Six days a week, teens crowd the Blue Screen Gaming cybercafe to hunt each other down with assault rifles inside virtual computer worlds. In these video game halls, nobody gets hurt. But real-life violence has flared around some of these businesses, prompting municipal crackdowns.
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City officials are move up a nighttime curfew as they try to overcome a spike in crime that's been marked by a rise in juvenile arrests.
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There are lots of noises that fill downtowns and shopping malls on a given day: garbage trucks, honks, sirens, schoolchildren. Each registers at a certain level on a personal annoyance meter.