Arrest warrants have been issued for another nine people associated with a fire at a day-care center in northwestern Mexico in June that killed 48 children, the state-run Notimex news agency said Saturday.
Anger is growing in Mexico over a fire at a government-run day care center that claimed its 46th child this weekend.
Another child has died from last week's fire at a day care center in northwestern Mexico, bringing the death toll to 45, the state-run Notimex news agency said.
Mexico's Institute of Social Security, which oversaw the day-care facility where 44 children died in a fire last week, removed its director in the state where the tragedy occurred, the state-run news agency Notimex reported.
Two of the owners of the day-care center that burned Friday, killing 44 children, have resigned jobs they had with the government, they told reporters Tuesday.
A fire that claimed the lives of 44 children at a day-care center in Hermosillo, Mexico, started Friday in an air-conditioning unit in an adjacent warehouse, the attorney general of Sonora said Monday.
Thirty-one children were killed and more than 100 others were injured Friday when their day-care center caught fire in the northwestern state of Sonora, a spokesman for the state's governor said.
Two children and one adult were killed Friday after a man with a painted face launched a knife attack at a children's daycare center in Belgium.
It's naptime in the manger. The rosy porcelain baby is sleeping quietly beside his mother, who dozes on her back on the barn floor, despite her permanent bent-kneed posture and a broken-off right hand.
A new government report says the cost of raising a child has soared to $204,000. But even scarier is what that figure leaves out
Arrest warrants have been issued for another nine people associated with a fire at a day-care center in northwestern Mexico in June that killed 48 children, the state-run Notimex news agency said Saturday.
Anger is growing in Mexico over a fire at a government-run day care center that claimed its 46th child this weekend.
Another child has died from last week's fire at a day care center in northwestern Mexico, bringing the death toll to 45, the state-run Notimex news agency said.
Mexico's Institute of Social Security, which oversaw the day-care facility where 44 children died in a fire last week, removed its director in the state where the tragedy occurred, the state-run news agency Notimex reported.
Two of the owners of the day-care center that burned Friday, killing 44 children, have resigned jobs they had with the government, they told reporters Tuesday.
A fire that claimed the lives of 44 children at a day-care center in Hermosillo, Mexico, started Friday in an air-conditioning unit in an adjacent warehouse, the attorney general of Sonora said Monday.
Thirty-one children were killed and more than 100 others were injured Friday when their day-care center caught fire in the northwestern state of Sonora, a spokesman for the state's governor said.
Two children and one adult were killed Friday after a man with a painted face launched a knife attack at a children's daycare center in Belgium.
It's naptime in the manger. The rosy porcelain baby is sleeping quietly beside his mother, who dozes on her back on the barn floor, despite her permanent bent-kneed posture and a broken-off right hand.
A new government report says the cost of raising a child has soared to $204,000. But even scarier is what that figure leaves out
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Being a Mom is a full-time job. For working mothers, the job is a mix of meetings and daycare, client lunches and PB&J lunches, hand-shaking and kiss-blowing.
Like many working moms, I sometimes fantasize about quitting my job to spend all day every day doing art projects and play dates with my soon-to-be three-year-old twin daughters, Fiona and Isabel.
Dear Armchair Millionaire: I'm going to graduate from college in June and I've received a couple of different job offers, each with very different benefit packages. What should I be looking for?
So your employee benefits for 2005 are set in stone now. For most people, there is no going back on those choices, but you can still milk your benefits for everything they are worth.
Bernard Kerik, the would-be Homeland Security chief, is only the most recent in a long line of candidates for high office to be doomed by the so-called nanny tax.
NAPLES, Italy (Reuters) - Christmas has never tasted this good. Thirty-two pastry chefs in the southern Italian city of Naples unveiled on Saturday what they say is the biggest ever nativity scene made entirely of chocolate.
In a deal that reunites former junk bond king Michael Milken with one of the properties of his Drexel Burnham Lambert days, two of the nation's leading child-care center operators have agreed to merge in a transaction valued at $550 million in cash.
Flex-spending accounts allow employees to set aside pre-tax dollars to meet health care costs. But as anyone with one of these accounts knows, whatever you don't use, you lose!
Kristen Breitweiser, like her husband ron, voted for George W. Bush in 2000. Far from being any kind of activist, she didn't know her Congressman's name before Sept. 11, 2001, the day her husband died on the 92th floor of the World Trade Center's Tower 2.
So, you and your husband have done the math and found that you can afford to stay home for a few years to run Kids, Inc.
James DeLaGarza made his money the old fashioned way. He earned it.
Dear Armchair Millionaire: Our first baby is due in February and my wife and I are frantically preparing in every way we can. What should we be doing financially?
The joys of parenthood may be without number, but so, too, are its complexities.
Sen. John Kerry on Thursday officially accepted the Democratic Party's nomination for president amid the predictable pomp and circumstance of the national convention. With less than 100 days remaining until the November election and most polls indicating a statistical dead heat between President Bush and Kerry, next up on the challenger's agenda is to figure out a way to mobilize the relatively small number of undecided voters in his favor.
Between massages, yoga classes, daycare, hotels and gourmet meals...pets (yes pets!) are more pampered than ever.
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Teeming populations have long been synonymous with Asia. But in Hong Kong, schools and nurseries are closing because there aren't enough children to fill classes. And governments from South Korea to Singapore are trying to encourage women to have more children.
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Television's Captain Kangaroo, Bob Keeshan, died Friday morning in Vermont, a family friend told CNN. He was 76.
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