Number of Navajo homicides tops some metro areas
(AP) — New FBI statistics show the vast Navajo Nation saw a sharp increase in the murder rate in 2013 and finished the year with 42 homicides, eclipsing major metropolitan areas with less space and far more people, like Seattle and Boston. About 180 …
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State Launches Teen Dating Violence Awareness Campaign
It's called “Love Shouldn't Hurt” and the reason behind the campaign is some new startling statistics of teen dating violence. The latest numbers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show about 9 percent of high school students …
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'Simultaneous use' of alcohol and marijuana more dangerous for teens than …
Teens that used alcohol and marijuana faced sobering statistics: roughly 50 to 90 percent were more likely to confess to unsafe driving than their peers who did not drink or smoke pot. “It's well known that both drinking and other drug use are linked …
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Big House, Big Mouth
“Things like education, lack of healthcare, mental- health issues, vocational skills, lack of housing, and substance abuse, we attack all those areas,” Bellotti says. “We assess and then we come up with a plan for programming.” While Hodgson offers …
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