According to Nationwide Children’s Hospital researchers, 63,000 children under the age of six experienced out-of-hospital medication errors annually between 2002 and 2012. One child is affected every eight minutes, usually by a well-meaning parent or caregiver unintentionally committing a medication error. The most common medication mistakes in children under the age of six occur in […]
When kids say “the darnedest things,” it’s often in response to something they heard or saw. This sponge-like learning starts at birth, as infants begin to decipher the social world surrounding them long before they can speak. Now researchers at the University of Washington have found that children as young as 15 months can detect […]
Alaska State Troopers arrested a North Pole woman after she was stopped for doing 95 in a 65 mph zone on the Richardson Highway on Saturday. Alaska State Troopers observed a gray Jeep Grand Cherokee speeding on the Richardson Highway near mile 271 at 8:52 pm on Saturday night. As a result, they pulled over […]
The Alaska State Troopers in Fairbanks received a call concerning a suspicious male hanging around the McPeak’s store in North Pole on Thursday. The caller reported that the man was harassing children at that location. Troopers responded to the area, but the man was no longer there. The officer located and interviewed the children near […]