The Willard PAL Program started as a concept by longtime Police Chief Tom McClain to keep kids engaged after they graduated from the DARE Program. In the past 15 years, it’s expanded enough to impact ...

Merrillville police Sgt. John Kralik doesn't mind his students calling him Officer Friendly. It's an easy nickname for the younger students to remember, and Kralik, a Drug Abuse Resistance Education ...

The Pima County Sheriff's Department is taking a new approach to keeping kids out of trouble, and the first step is getting rid of the nationally known DARE program. Getting rid of the decades-old ...

The Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.) graduation ceremony for the fifth grade students at Whitewood Elementary School was held last week. The 22 fifth-graders were taught by Whitewood Police ...

When the Cape Girardeau patrolman Jeff Bonham learned the Missouri State Highway Patrol would no longer supply materials to the city's Drug and Alcohol Resistance Education, or DARE, program, he put ...

Silas Hutzenbuehler loves a good book, and this summer he expects to turn the last page in “Hamstersaurus Rex.” The mysterious tale of an extraordinary rodent runs 23 chapters, and Silas, 9, has been ...

This summer, the La Crosse Public Library is hoping to not only get books into children’s hands, but to get their bodies moving and the experiences flowing. During the annual Summer Library Carnival ...