On Friday morning, 16 year-old Maren Sanchez was stabbed her school stairwell. Her family said she had "a bright life full of hopes and dreams". The police believe the motive is that Maren declined when a boy asked her to go to prom. The boy was n
Read more…John XXIII and John Paul II were canonized (officially declare a dead person to be a saint) Sunday by Pope Francis in an unprecedented ceremony witnessed by huge crowds gathered in St. Peter's Square in Vatican City.
Millions more around the world wat
Read more…Nevada Rancher Cliven Bundy made the remark that he wondered if black people had it better off when they were in slavery. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid D-Nevada called Bundy and his followers "domestic terrorist wanna-bes". On the other hand, Sen
Read more…A man in Ukraine, formerly known as Aleksey Shechenko, has changed his name to Darth Vader. His reasoning behind the change is that 3 percent of the Ukraine population voted for Darth Vader as a protest vote in the previous presidential election. Alt
Read more…In Nashville, Tennessee a Police Officer was fired after a newspaper showed pictures of him choking a 21 year old hand cuffed college student. The Officer, Frank Phillips, was caught choking a college student until he lost consciousness. A British N
Read more…Most of what I do in my classes is based on feedback from students over the years. I truly appreciate student's opinions, both positive and negative, and actually use them to make myself a better teacher and my classroom a better place to learn.
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Read more…On Saturday, April 19th, the Sheridan family put a toy duck on their deceased 14 month old child's grave. 4 hours later, it was gone. Police had previously installed a security camera since this wasn't the first time this had happened. The tape showe
Read more…Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling is being accused of making racist comments. TMZ acquired these comments in an audio recording. After hearing the comments, the NBA is going to conduct a "full investigation". The NBA players union is also
Read more…A man climbed a crane that is 150 feet tall in Beijing about a week ago. The police do not know much about him, and they have been unsuccessful in convincing him to come down. He has made no threats or demands, and the police do not want to try to fo
Read more…In 2011 Julie Schenecker was arrested for shooting both of her teenage kids. "Schenecker, a 53-year-old former military intelligence officer and interrogator, is charged with two counts of first-degree murder. She faces life in prison if convicted."
Read more…A new private school in Chicago is to be named after Barack Obama. The school will be named Barack Obama College Preparatory High School and will be open in 2017. Barack Obama College Preparatory High School is expected to have a little under 300 stu
Read more…Recently flight 370 went down. The people still missing could still be in the plane in the ocean. They probably all had cell phones. Researchers did an experiment by taking a cell phone and putting it in salt water, like the ocean, and recovered the
Read more…"I did not really realize I was getting life until the date of sentencing. When my attorney told me, I told him that I wanted to take back my guilty plea... they denied me."
Timothy Tyler says his life ended when he was 23 years old. That was two deca
Read more…Multiple tornadoes have torn across the midwest leaving 18 dead and over a hundred million damages. It tore through the midwest and such towns such as mayflower, the Arkansas state capital.
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Read more…Two Programs Provide Experience in Leadership, Policymaking
The State of Iowa Youth Advisory Council (SIYAC) and the Iowa Youth Congress (IYC) are currently accepting applications for their 2014-2015 ter
Read more…The prime minister of South Korea, Chung Hong-won, resigned after the ferry that sunk. The ferry left over 300 people missing or dead, mostly teenagers. The government was accused of not doing enough work to rescue the people of the sunken ship but t
Read more…On Tuesday April 29th a private company declared that it has found what it thinks to be the wreckage of a plane in the ocean, but the leaders of the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 are dismissing the claim.The reasons for
Read more…Elsa is a pit bull that has suffered from abuse and a seizure when she was 1. Her hind legs are now paralyzed. She went from foster home to foster home until she met Kelly Dann. Dann registered Elsa to be a therapy dog. Elsa visits people in hospital
Read more…Last Sunday, Rubin ‘Hurricane’ Carter past away due to “complications” in his prostate cancer. Rubin was originally a boxer seeking to win championships, until the 1960’s where he was wrongly convicted of triple murder, and spent 19 y
Read more…The moon will turn to blood as it aligns with Earth and sun. Within the next year and a half there will be 4 blood moons. The dates for these are April 15, 2014; October 8, 2014; April 4, 2015, and September 28, 2015. There are also many conspiracy w
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