Let The Games Begin
NicoleN, Staff Reporter
December 11, 2017
Filed under In The World, News, Showcase
As the 2018 Winter Olympics approach, the world anxiously awaits to see what conflict could arise between North Korea and the United States and how this would affect the international sporting event. Between tweets from President Trump, missile threats and warnings from North Korea, the possibility of...
Time’s Person of the Year (2017)
TeresaH, Online Editor
December 8, 2017
Filed under In The World, News
Time Magazine has chosen its pick for the annual Person of the Year award: "The Silence Breakers", who represent those who reported sexual harassment, specifically against notable figures such as celebrities and office holders. The majority of the "Silence Breakers" are women, but several men have come...
Shanghai Reserve Roastery
BrandonC, Staff Reporter
December 6, 2017
Filed under In The World, News, Showcase
Starbucks has announced its large-scale plan of opening a 30,000 square foot establishment in China, specifically Shanghai with the assistance of Chinese technology company, Alibaba Group. This would be their biggest Roastery in existence; however, there is more to the Shanghai Roastery than meets the...
Oil Spill in South Dakota
KaeT, Social Media Editor
November 17, 2017
Filed under In The World, News, Showcase
Just yesterday, caused by unknown circumstances so far, a leak was discovered in the Keystone pipelines in South Dakota. An estimate of 210,000 gallons, or about 5,000 barrels, of oil had spilled before it was found. Thankfully, none of the spill has reached nearby lakes or ponds. Coincidentally,...
Blizzcon 2017
DaphneT, Staff Reporter
November 7, 2017
Filed under In The World, News, Showcase
On November 3rd and 4th, 2017, Blizzard Entertainment, the video game developers behind such games as Hearthstone, Overwatch, and World of Warcraft, held their 11th annual convention, Blizzcon, at Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California. The convention with a series of announcements and trail...
Things Get Even Stranger
KaylaP, Co-Copy Editor
November 1, 2017
Filed under In The World, News
With the release of season 2, the cast of the Netflix original show, Stranger Things, has gotten more attention placed on them. However, not all of the buzz is good. Actor Charlie Heaton, who portrays the able older brother Jonathan Byers in the show, has been surrounded by negative and surprising medi...
Oh So Spectacularly ‘Suite’
MaddieA, Staff Reporter
October 23, 2017
Filed under In The World, News
A cruise ship called Symphony of the Seas, by the Royal Caribbean Cruises, has been in the process of becoming the largest known boat. It is scheduled to be ready to ride the waves in March of this upcoming year, three weeks earlier than previously surmised for April. The first sail will be for five...
Massacre in Las Vegas
VictoriaC, Staff Reporter
October 10, 2017
Filed under In The World, News, Showcase
On the evening of October 1st, 2017 the Route 91 Harvest music festival was taking place outdoors on the Las Vegas Strip. At end of the night during country singer Jason Aldean's closing performance, gunshots were fired from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel killing 58 people, and leaving app...
Devastation of Hurricane Maria
KaeT, Social Media Editor
September 26, 2017
Filed under In The World, News, Showcase
Hurricane Maria started as a category one storm that quickly amped up until it made its most devastating landfall in Puerto Rico as a whopping category four at 155 miles per hour. The deadly storm has cut off nearly all power and communication with the outside world. The situation escalated on Friday...
On This Day in 1957
TeresaH, Online Editor
September 25, 2017
Filed under In The World, News, Showcase
Today, 60 years ago, the Little Rock Nine entered a newly desegregated high school in Little Rock, Arkansas. Just five days before, Supreme Court case Brown vs Board of Education was passed and it ruled that racial segregation in schools was unconstitutional. In 1957, there were 517 African American...
Earthquake Strikes Mexico City
AlyssaT, Staff Reporter
September 22, 2017
Filed under In The World, News, Showcase
On September 19, 2017, a massive earthquake struck Mexico City. The death toll reached 273 with people frantically digging through the debris to find any survivors. Much to devastated parents’ nightmares, rescue teams found dead bodies of primary school children that had been completely collapse...
Charlottesville
TeresaH, Online Editor
August 13, 2017
Filed under In The World, News, Showcase
SATURDAY, AUGUST 12--Charlottesville, Virginia On Friday, August 11, Jason Kessler (a white supremacist blogger) planned a "Unite the Right" rally to protest against the removal of the statue of Confederate General Robert E Lee. Hundreds joined in to what was called as one of the largest white...
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