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An eagle-eyed teen spotted a car at the bottom of an embankment from the window of his school bus last Friday in Sullivan Country, NY. He alerted his mom after the bus dropped him off, she checked it out and a life was saved.
Three out of four Oklahoma teenagers can’t name the first President of the United States.
That’s according to the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs, who commissioned a telephone survey of 1,000 Oklahoma high school students. The teens were asked 10 questions from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services citizenship test, the test that immigrants need to take to become American citizens. Only three percent of Oklahoma teens passed the test. On the other hand, 92 percent of people applying for citizenship pass it on their first try.
Here are five questions from the survey — see how you measure up on the test below: Continue reading »
As if it wasn’t enough that they grabbed a shot of an underage kid at her sweet sixteen. A catering hall is in trouble for using the picture to promote its wedding availability.
And the picture? It shows the girl with her uncle – as though the kid is marrying a blood relative.
Can anyone say icky here? Continue reading »
He was just one pound, eleven ounces when he was born, and Saturday night, he was playing tribute to one of the biggest rock stars in the world with the eyes of the world on him. The kid who taught himself to play guitar listening to Hendrix rock Woodstock played Woodstock Saturday night.
Conrad Oberg opened the Woodstock anniversary concert at Bethel Woods Center for the Arts in Bethel, NY, and made his guitar scream in tribute to his hero for a feedback-laden rendition of the Star Spangled Banner. Continue reading »
When I was a teen, I wrote my share of fan letters. Duran Duran’s John Taylor , Adam Ant and Martin Scorsese never wrote back me back. But Alison Byrne Fields not only got a response from her idol but John Hughes became her penpal. On the blog We’ll Know When We Get There, Alison shared her touching and amazingly sweet story.
One night while babysitting she wrote Continue reading »
A new policy at a number of British grocery store could force parents to carry ID whenever they want to buy alcohol – ID for their kids that is.
The Brits are upping their efforts not to sell alcohol to minors, but it’s pissing off the parents who say they want to be able to walk into a store with their kids and simply buy a bottle of wine.
And the grocery stores? Continue reading »
When you think of teenage boys’ misdeeds, stealing baby birds is not likely to jump to mind. It may be better than dealing cocaine, but it’s certainly cause for serious alarm. Continue reading »
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