44-year-old Patricia Krentcil was arrested and charged with child endangerment after her 5-year-old daughter was spotted at school with a sunburn. Apparently the little girl told classmates she "went tanning with Mommy." But Krentcil insists that the kid wasn't in the tanning booth:

Oh, tanning bed. Oh, tanning bed. No, that is not the start to some dumb Jersey Shore Christmas song parody; it's a lament about the reason all the young people are getting cancer. A new study from the Mayo Clinic has found there's been a scary increase in the prevalence of skin cancer in young adults, ages 18 to 39.…

Jonathan Willink was booked yesterday on four misdemeanor charges for secretly recording women at Anytime Fitness in Monroe, Louisiana. When asked, Willink admitted to cops he'd recently purchased a small, contained video recorder. He allegedly hid the camera, on four separate occasions, in a tanning bed room at the…

Researchers investigating indoor tanning habits found that of 227 female students surveyed, almost 40% had gone tanning for the first time with their mothers. The family that soaks up UV rays together stays together?

• In the wake of the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy filing and the Merrill Lynch buyout, the Dow dropped 504 points, or 4.4%. By the way, unless you've got more than $100,000 in one of them or money in the market you're going to need soon (or are reliant on Merrill, Lehman or AIG for your employment), you're probably going…