On USA Today a police officer was killed on her very first shift in Virginia. “An Army sergeant killed his wife following a day-long domestic dispute and then fatally shot a responding police officer working her first shift on the job, police said Sunday. Sgt. Ronald Hamilton, 32, faced two counts of murder, two counts of assault and weapons offenses after the shooting spree Saturday that also left two other officers wounded. Officer Ashley Guindon, 28, had joined the force in ceremonies Friday, Prince William County Police Chief Steve Hudson said. He said the officers were responding to a 911 call from Hamilton’s wife, Crystal, when they approached the front door.”

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2016/02/28/police-officer-fatally-shot-day-after-joining-force/81070582/

My article is about 30 researchers are trapped at a installation in Antarctica. It is on USA Today. “A specially equipped plane from the U.S. Antarctic Program will fly to the rescue of 30 researchers trapped at an Australian station on the frozen continent after an icebreaker poised to bring them home ran aground in a blizzard.” The rescue plane is american made and is strongly equipped for rescue missions such as this. “The American plane, an LC130, is equipped with skis for ice landings. The plane will scoop up 30 expeditioners from Davis research station, the most southerly of Antarctic stations, and deposit them at an airstrip-equipped station “in the coming days” — presumably when the weather is more agreeable — the Australian Antarctica Division said. From there a more conventional Airbus owned by the Australians can whisk them home.”

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2016/02/25/us-rescue-antarctic-researchers-trapped-blizzard/80930714/

My article is on USA Today and is about a teen girl who was impaled during a basketball game. The girl had been impaled by a broken floor board and was taken to the hospital where she stayed the night. Luckily she was not seriously injured. Officials said it was a fluke accident.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/02/18/teen-impaled-giant-splinter-during-basketball-game/80547620/

My article is on USA Today. It is titled, “9-foot-long anaconda found in Florida neighborhood.” It was found in Florida and that is super scary! Gizmo — a shih tzu — and Teddy — half poodle, half shih tzu — dashed to the side yard to sniff out a large, shiny dark object.

“I wasn’t thinking what it was, because it was so large,” said Remsberg, who trailed behind her dogs.
A nine-foot-long green anaconda reared its head, veering toward the two pooches.
“It raised its head up like it … like snapping at them … like lurching at them to make them back off,” Remsberg said. “I started screaming for the dogs right away.”
Teddy hurried back into the house. Gizmo was still curious, brave or something else.
“He’s the not-so-smart one,” Remsberg said.
Remsberg dialed 911.
“I did not know what it was,” she said. “I knew it was not good. I was just screaming, ‘There’s just this huge, huge snake!'”
Remember to always be cautious in your own back yard.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2016/02/03/anaconda-found-florida-brevard-county-animal-services/79743302/

My article is about wreckage that could possibly be from the Malaysia Airlines flight that vanished almost two years ago. The article is on USA Today and is titled, “Debris could be linked to doomed Malaysia flight.” A piece of curved metal that appears it could be from a plane was found on the coast of Thailand. “Malaysian Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai said Sunday that Thai authorities had invited his investigators after a large piece of white, curved metal was found by a fisherman in Thailand’s Nakhon Si Thammarat province.” He also said, “I urge everyone not to speculate on the wreckage found in Thailand,” he said in a tweet Sunday. “Let’s wait for the experts to verify details.” In case you didn’t know Flight MH370 disappeared after taking off from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on March 8, 2014, bound for Beijing with 239 people aboard. Months of aerial and sea searches over thousands of square miles of the southern Indian Ocean turned up no trace of the plane. In July 2015, a piece of a wing was found off the coast of the French island of Reunion. A week later Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak confirmed it was from the doomed plane after French analysts matched the plane parts. Reunion is more than 3,000 miles southwest of the site of the Thai find. I really hope the lost flight is found just to give the victims’ family’s a piece of mind.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2016/01/24/debris-could-linked-doomed-malaysia-flight/79267544/

My article is about the NCAA allowing a 7’6 man to play for UCF. This article can be found on USA Today, and the title is, “NCAA clears UCF 7-foot-6 recruit Tacko Fall to play.” His name is Tacko Falls and he is from Senegal. He had recently been ruled ineligible by the NCAA. Not in till a few days ago had Tacko been cleared to play. This is big considering the ‘Huge’ asset that he will be to UCF. Some schools may argue that he is not a american which could cause a laundry list of problems. I personally wish him well and can’t wait to see him play.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaab/2015/11/13/ncaa-clears-ucf-7-foot-6-recruit-tacko-fall-to-play/75702796/

The topic of my article is a possible ‘alien mega-structure.’ The title of my article is, “Search for ‘alien mega-structure’ on distant star underway.” I found this article on USA Today. My article is about a possible earth-like planet that could be emitting signals that could be picked up by satellites on earth. They discovered this planet by using light patterns. The planet is 1400 light-years away in our galaxy. I feel very split about this discovery. I think it is very cool that we found this but it also worries me that this could be bad. This event could affect me if alien life were to react. This could make a alien invasion possible. This could impact the world if aliens were to be discovered. They could be good. They could be bad. If they were good then they could help further earth and give us new technology. If they were bad then… well… you know what could happen.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2015/10/21/kepler-space-telescope-msyerious-star-seti-alien-life-search/74336930/

“I lost my ID twenty years ago, and haven’t been able to get a new one, so technically I don’t exist. But for the record— I do exist, my name is Paul Ambrose, I was born on July 4th, 1948, I grew up in Tennessee, and on the day Martin Luther King was killed, I said ‘Forget this,” and bought a bus ticket to New York because it was $20 cheaper than a ticket to California.”

This is my favorite story because this man is a free spirit and does what he want. He decided to hop on a train and go to a city to make a life for himself. To me that shows courage and determination, what else do you need if you have that.

Due to a breach in security that lead to lost files, the school board will hold a emergency meeting on Friday February 6th, to vote on renting computers for the journalism department to use to complete the yearbook.

For 22 years the school has sponsored a “Yearbook Day,” which is a party on the day the yearbooks arrive for seniors.

“ We have to get our yearbooks before school is out. Yearbook Day is one of the highlights of senior year. Yearbook Day is more popular than prom,” said Reggie White, senior.

This shows right here how important Yearbook Day is to the seniors. Rodney Stephens, yearbook advisor, talked to me about the problem with getting computers to finish the yearbook.

“It’s great that the school board is moving so quickly on the request. I know it will be somewhat costly for the district. MacWorld in southside agreed to let us rent four Macintosh computers with the necessary software for $500 for three weeks. Yearbook Day for seniors is one of the most beloved traditions at the school. If the school doesn’t approve the $500 expenditure, I am not sure what we will do. I would rather not think that way. I am hoping for the best and crossing my fingers.”

This year the yearbook team was looking to add even more coverage to the book.

“This year we pushed our final yearbook deadline back as far as we could to add more coverage to the book. Our yearbook representative warned us that if we didn’t make the deadline, the chances of the book arriving before summer break were slim. We were confident this would not be a problem. in fact, before this computer hacking problem, we were ahead of schedule.”

I spoke to Ed Robles the district technology director.

“ Whoever hacked into our system is bright. They didn’t leave many traces. I don’t think it was a student. This is some pretty sophisticated hacking. The police are getting closer to the hacker, though. He or she left us a few bread crumbs for us to follow.”

My article is about the United States and how they had to reroute one of their aircraft in order to maintain safe distance from a Russian plane. The title of my article is, “U.S. plane in Syria forced to avoid Russian aircraft.”
I got my article from USA Today. In my article a U.S. plane had to be rerouted to maintain safe distance from a Russian plane coordinating airstrikes over Syria. Russia has recently launched airstrikes against the Islamic State. The U.S. and Russia are by no means coordinating attacks with each other. I think it’s ridiculous that our relations are that bad. We shouldn’t have to maintain a “safe distance.” This affects me because if a war was to start between us and Russia I and tons of other people could be killed. This event greatly impacts the world because of the deadly potential. The U.S.-Russia relations are so unstable that not much could start a possible nuclear war. If nuclear war was to start between the two nations millions would be dead. Not to mention how many other countries would be drawn in to the war or be affected.

Heres the link to the article:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2015/10/07/us-plane-syria-forced-avoid-russian-aircraft/73545664/