Insurance Program Spurs Dialogue with Teens
When a teenager starts driving, it can be a rocky road for both parents and their new teen drivers. But a major insurance company recently introduced a new concept that can make this transition easier. And it's not just a new insurance policy, either. Instead, the new program, called Teensurance, is a combination of technology and services that is designed to create a safer environment for young drivers, while offering new levels of peace of mind for parents. By providing educational tools, the program allows parents to have a different kind of conversation with their teens about driving and the responsibilities that come with a driver's license.

Jane Fonda: Teen pregnancy remains problem
Sixty-two times each day, a teen girl somewhere in Georgia learns she is pregnant. That's 62 lives, changed forever. In far too many cases, these lives become much more difficult, thanks to the huge challenges of being a mother too soon.

Police say man lured teen for sex
A 26-year-old Gwinnett County man faces child molestation charges for allegedly posing as a woman on the social networking site MySpace to lure a teenager to a vacant home with a Bethlehem address and molest him.

Immigrant teen sentenced in death of pedestrian
A Clarke County judge sentenced a teenage illegal immigrant to eight years in prison for hitting and killing a woman while driving drunk along Commerce Road last summer.

Things Parents Can Do To Keep Their Teen Driver Safe
Traffic accidents are the number one cause of death among teenagers. That's a chilling fact to hear as your children approach driving age, but the positive news is there are steps you can take to minimize your child's risk in an automobile. Like everything worthwhile, the steps take some effort, but we're certain your children's safety is well worth that effort. In its campaign to aid teen safety the AAA has assembled 10 tips to making your teen a safer driver, which we are happy to share here:

Saving Teens Also Saves Others
One big step in improving teen driver safety came in the form of so-called graduated driver licensing laws (GDLs) that ease teens into their responsibilities behind the wheel. While graduated driver licensing laws nationwide are estimated to have saved hundreds of lives by reducing the number of teen driver crashes, a new analysis of teen crash data by the Automobile Club of Southern California and the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety shows that such efforts also resulted in 540 fewer deaths of others in teen driver crashes.