When Scott Lee Cohen dropped out of the Illinois lieutenant governor race on Super Bowl Sunday, he cried at his press conference. So did his 11-year-old son. On camera.

Cohen, the Democratic candidate who owns a pawnshop in Chicago, withdrew amid allegations of domestic abuse by a girlfriend (who is a former prostitute), steroid abuse and "forcing himself on his ex-wife," according to the Chicago Sun-Times. Allegedly.

Here is a video of the emotional press conference at Chicago's Hop Haus tavern. The boy on the left is his 11-year-old son, Jacob, one of Cohen's four children.

Carrie Underwood will appear on "Sesame Street" -- as a worm.

But that's not a bad thing. See, the "American Idol" winner and country music superstar has a muppet of her very own: Carrie Underworm. Underwood performed "Worm Anthem," an original song for the kids show, in which she sings about being "proud to be a worm."

Here is a video preview, in which Carrie Underworm is introduced by none other than NASCAR superstar Jeff Gordon.

Ads that proclaim "Black Children Are An Endangered Species" are raising eyebrows in Atlanta.

The 65 billboards, one of which is pictured above, are simple -- just that phrase, a large photo of a child's face, and the Web site, TooManyAborted.com.

A high school senior was unable to take the last exam she needed to graduate -- because she was homeless.

However, ParentDish has learned that the 17-year-old will be able to start college next month, although she will still have to take the exam in June to get her high school Regents diploma.

The Bracero family was evicted from their home last week and went to an intake center to try and find a place to stay, according to a report in the New York Daily News. Rosa Bracero, 17, told the center's staff she had to go take her English Regents exam, a standardized test administered in a few states, in order to graduate from Brooklyn's High School for Civil Rights. She was informed that if she left, her family would be denied shelter. So Rosa stayed, missing the exam.

"Given that the State does not allow make-up Regents exams, we will continue to work with this student so that she can take the exam and go to college," wrote Danny Kanner, spokesperson for the New York City Department of Education, in an email to ParentDish on Friday.

Hopping on the helpful bandwagon, Jonathan Burman of the New York State Education Department sent ParentDish a statement as well.

"Working together with the high school's principal, the City's central administration, and Lincoln Technical Institute, we achieved a favorable solution: Lincoln Tech, the college Rosa wants to attend, has accepted her and will permit her to begin taking classes on February 16th," wrote Burman. "She will be able to take the Regents exam in June and will graduate at that time."

Remember candy cigarettes? You can still buy them, and odds are some kids still enjoy them, but they don't actually contain any tobacco; powdered sugar meant to look like smoke is as close as they come to real cigarettes.

Now the Food and Drug Administration is worried that kids will like dissolvable tobacco, which can be found in products that somewhat resemble breath mints, but contain tobacco and nicotine.

The Associated Press reports that Dr. Lawrence Deyton, director of the FDA's Center for Tobacco Products (CTP) sent a letter on Feb. 1 to R.J. Reynolds expressing concern "that children and adolescents may find dissolvable tobacco products particularly appealing, given the brightly colored packaging, candy-like appearance and easily concealable size of many of these products."

Pete Townshend had a tough time with the rough boys of the media during a press conference on February 4. A reporter wanted to know how the sexagenarian superstar felt about the groups that have issued a "Sex Offender Advisory" in honor of his visit to the Sunshine State.

Many news outlets are reporting that Noah Cyrus and her friend Emily Grace Reaves are collaborating on what Perez Hilton called a kiddie lingerie collection. We did our own investigation, and found out the truth. Noah Cyrus is not designing lingerie.

So what happened? Is this another Internet meme gone wild, like last year's phony news about the deaths of actors Harrison Ford and Jeff Goldblum?

Not exactly. There is a clothing line, from Ooh! La, La! Couture, but it is not lingerie and was not designed by Noah Cyrus, 9-year-old sister of Miley. The line is named after Noah's friend, sometime Disney actress Emily Grave Reaves, who is also 9 years old.

This tot-centric tale appears to have initiated with a post titled "Noah Cyrus & BFF Launch Kiddie Lingerie Collection" that was published on Perez Hilton's fashion blog CocoPerez.com. Numerous outlets ran with the story, with headlines such as "Achy, breaky, gross" (Metro), "Miley Cyrus' Sis, 9, Launches Kiddie Lingerie Line" (Us Magazine), and "Now Miley Cyrus's nine-year-old sister launches risqué clothing line for pre-teens" (Daily Mail), which does not use the word "lingerie" but did incorrectly report that Noah Cyrus was involved with the clothes in a way other than just wearing them.

When the kids are fighting, have you ever wanted to just lock them in a room for a while to see which one is left standing? But while none of us would ever actually go to such an extreme, a Queens, N.Y., teacher and an aide have been accused of doing something very similar in their fourth grade classroom.

The New York Daily News reports that teacher Joseph Gullotta, 29, and teacher's aide Abraham Fox, 43, of Public School 65, have been charged with child endangerment by the Queens District Attorney's office. They are accused of telling two students, ages 9 and 10, to settle their differences by wrestling. In class.

According to the Daily News, the other kids in the Ozone Park, Queens, classroom were instructed to give the two fighters enough room to beat the stuffing out of each other, after another student was told to shut the door.

One member of Gullotta and Fox's fourth-grade arena told the Daily News that he and his fellow classmates were "laughing," and added that the pint-size pugilists "were fighting over some pencils, and they were bleeding."