Amid rising summer temperatures, the Beijing city government is encouraging its workers to dress down in efforts to conserve energy. State media reported Friday that government staff has been given the OK to dress casually during internal meetings, so air conditioner usage can be kept to a minimum.

A high school senior is regreting his decision to wear a prom dress to his prom after being cited $249 for disorderly conduct, suspended for three days, and benched for his last track meet. According to a police report is was more then the dress that landed the 18-year-old into trouble. School district administrator Jim Gottinger claims senior Kerry Lofy was dancing provocatively in a sexual manner while donning the dress.

When you're a kid hanging out with mommy and daddy isn't always peaches and cream, but if you want to shop at the Pheasant Lane Mall on Friday or Saturday nights you're gonna have to take them along. Two weeks ago, in response to recent "disorderly and disruptive" acts, the security at Pheasant Lane Mall started passing out flyers detailing the Simon-owned mall's "general code of conduct," according to mall manager Ginny Szymanski. From 6 p. m. to 9:30 p. m. on Fridays and Saturdays, security guards stand outside two mall entrances to make sure anyone under 16 has someone over the age of 21 accompanying them. "That's when we approach them and give them a copy of the code of conduct and ask the parent to come in with them," Szymanski said. She said the code - which outlines 13 rules governing acceptable conduct and clothing, among other things - will be enforced by security. Szymanski said the mall rules have always been intact and posted, though the fliers were printed in response to the large amount of teenagers loitering, not shopping, on Friday and Saturday nights. If kids are found to be disrupting the mall's business, Szymanski said they will be escorted to the command center to call a parent to pick them up. "We're not out to punish anyone," she said. "We're just trying to better manage the shopping experience. " Shoppers interviewed by The Telegraph weren't too excited by the recent enforcement of the code. "I feel as though if I want to drop my kids off, I should. They're responsible," said Leann Newcomb of Lowell, Mass. , who was shopping Monday with her 15-year-old daughter, Ashley. Ashley felt the same. "I can come here and I can be fine without my mom," she said. This problem with kids' isn't happening at all New Hampshire malls. Scott Payrits, senior marketing manager at the Steeplegate Mall in Concord, said kids come to his mall to shop, not to be menaces. "We do not have any sort of problem with disruptive incidents, especially with kids," he said. "We have very good public safety. We don't have the need for a children-specific code of conduct. " One of the rules at Pheasant Lane prohibits dress "commonly recognized as gang-related. " Szymanski said they don't have a problem with gangs, it's the attire that the kids are wearing -- long chains, studded bracelets and necklaces that can be used as weapons -- that are the problem. Leann Newcomb questioned the code. "They sell that stuff," said Newcomb. "How are they going to tell the kids after they buy that stuff not to wear it? Isn't that a violation of your constitutional rights?"