A 13-year-old Long Beach girl was arrested last week after she allegedly took part in a viral social media prank called the ...

Brenda Elizondo is an audience engagement fellow at the Los Angeles Times. She was previously a video content creator and reporter for L.A. Times Food and De Los, the Latinidad section. She received ...

The 13-year-old is accused by the school district of damaging the laptop as part of the “Chromebook Challenge,” a TikTok ...

The prank involves jamming pins, paperclips or other items into laptop charging ports to spark a fire or send smoke wafting ...

The viral TikTok trend called the "Chromebook challenge" encourages students to try and make their school-issued Chromebooks ...

Some students have been suspended and even criminally charged, as some of the computers catch fire or damage the surroundings.

School districts throughout the country are warning students against attempting a dangerous TikTok trend that could cause ...

A 13-year-old Long Beach student was arrested after inserting a foreign object into a school-issued Chromebook, damaging the computer, officials said The stunt was part of an online media ...

A Long Beach middle school student has been arrested for allegedly destroying a Chromebook computer, leading to a fire that caused an evacuation of Perry Lindsey Academy, authorities said.

A Long Beach student was arrested on suspicion of participating in a nationwide social media challenge that encourages students to jam lead or metal into the ports of their Chromebook laptop computers ...