Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It takes years for kids to figure out how to spit — but it's an important skill. (Photo: Getty; illustrated by Nathalie Cruz) ...

BROOKSVILLE, Fla. — When Tim Peters started banging on a neighbor’s door and shouting about religion just before sunrise with a beer bottle in his hand, someone called the county sheriff. Neither the ...

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Do you know of someone who uses spit tobacco and has talked about quitting? If so, the Great American Spit Out on Feb. 23 provides an opportunity to quit for a day or, hopefully, quit for good. Let's ...

"Don't Spit! It is indecent. It is dangerous. It is against the law. It Spreads Disease." In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, public admonishments like this one from the Anti-Tuberculosis ...

Shortly before Daniel Prude lost consciousness while police in Rochester, New York, held him down, one of the officers had pulled a white hood from his pocket and slipped it over Prude’s head. The ...

There will no doubt come a time when your child spits more than you'd like (especially when their target is a sibling and not, say, the bathroom sink). But parents of young children may not realize ...