A 14-year-old girl is safe Thursday after detectives say she managed to contact some friends though Snapchat after being kidnapped.

A 17-year-old student was arrested Monday for allegedly posting a threatening video on social media toward his high school in Pembroke Pines. The male student from West Broward High School allegedly posted a video on Snapchat of him racking a semi-automatic handgun at Nexus Gun Range in Davie.

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‘Snapchat dysmorphia’ is a term now used for people who are fixated on looking like their filtered pictures; and willing to pay for procedures to achieve the look by taking the augmented reality of social media into the doctor’s office. Miami plastic surgeon Dr. Nirmal Nathan calls it all a growing trend.

Pasco County Sheriff’s Office arrest reports say two 16-year-old boys and a 15-year-old boy were taken into custody Tuesday after deputies say someone reported a Snapchat video of the boys holding pistols and racking the slides inside the store’s bathroom.

Pasco County deputies say Austin Altman picked her up from her house on Saturday and brought her back to his Spring Hill home, where he assaulted her.

A Tennessee teen who died by suicide last week was cyberbullied by classmates over his perceived sexuality prior to his death, according to the teen’s brother. Channing Smith, 16, a high school student in Coffee County, Tennessee, died by suicide between Sept. 22 and Sept. 23. Joshua Smith, Channing’s half-brother, said he discovered the cyberbullying after he was initially unable...

A Florida police officer is accused of possession and distribution of child pornography.

Garden Grove Unified School District officials Monday condemned a video that made the rounds on social media showing members of the Pacifica High School boys’ water polo team making a Nazi salute and singing a propaganda song.

Sheriff’s deputies have charged a 16-year-old Florida teen with killing a 17-year-old over $120 worth of marijuana.

Adam Sandler shocked a bunch of Atlantic City kids Friday when he showed up to play some hoops at a basketball court in the South Jersey beach town.

The new Snapchat filter that allows you to change your gender has gone viral over the last few weeks. Celebrities and other Snapchatters have taken to social media channels to share what they would look like if born as the opposite sex. Perhaps one of the best Snapchat gender swaps came when actress, singer, and producer Glenn Close posted a...

Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger was assaulted during a public appearance in South Africa on Saturday, but the 71-year-old appeared to quickly recover and say “I’m just glad the idiot didn’t interrupt my Snapchat.” Video shows the former California governor standing and filming children at a sporting event in Johannesburg when a man makes a flying kick into his back. Schwarzenegger stumbles...

A Hofstra University fraternity on Long Island, New York, has been temporarily suspended after video was shared on social media purportedly showing Alpha Epsilon Pi members forcing a dog to drink beer from a keg at an off-campus party, NBC News reports. In a five-second video that has been viewed almost 100,000 times on Twitter, a male can be seen...

Sheriff’s deputies rushed into a high school and arrested an 18-year-old student after photos posted on Snapchat showed him holding a gun with the caption “no school tomorrow?”

A New Jersey man who alarmed local schools by posting a Snapchat video of a gun with the caption “Maybe Tomorrow” has been arrested, prosecutors say.

The family of a 15-year-old girl is suing a South Florida charter school, alleging that it failed to protect the teen after police say she was sexually abused by a substitute teacher.

A picture of a gun posted on social media has sparked worries and an investigation into a possible threat aimed at a Miami-Dade school.

A woman and her boyfriend were deployed with the U.S. Army in South Korea when they conspired via Snapchat to kill her husband so she could claim the life insurance money, police in Michigan said. Berrian County Judge Sterling Schrock ruled Wednesday in a preliminary hearing that the murder trial of Kemia Hassel, 22, and Jeremy Cuellar, 24, will begin...