The Vatican announced today that any female priests, as well as bishops who ordained them, will be excommunicated from the church. The Vatican states this rule was formed because Christ chose only male apostles, but some aren't buying it, saying that that was the social…
MSNBC reports that the Texas Supreme Court has upheld an appellate court ruling forcing the return of 300 or so children to the polygamist sect.The court cited the DA's lack of evidence pointing to immediate danger, but that is not the only problem: The children…
Credit: © BananaStock/SuperStock"Accidents involving teen drivers cost more than $34 billion in ’06."Full article... By Doug Newcomb:Ask any parent who has just added a kid to the family’s insurance policy and they’ll tell you how expensive it is to have a teen behind the wheel.…
Photo credit... Canadian police recently arrested a couple for attempting to sell their week-old daughter on Craigslist for the equivalent for $10,100. This is the second time in just as many weeks that someone has been arrested for trying to sell their baby over the…
Reuters reports that:Russian Communist Party members condemned the new "Indiana Jones" film on Friday as crude, anti-Soviet propaganda that distorts history and called for it to be banned from Russian screens."Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" stars Harrison Ford as an archeologist…
If there's one thing I want to deal with as a blogger, it's the issues:Don't be touching those monkeys...
Photo: Kevin Moloney for The New York TimesFull article in the New York Times... COLORADO SPRINGS — In their floor-length gowns, up-dos and tiaras, the 70 or so young women swept past two harpists and into a gilt-and-brocade dining room at the lavish Broadmoor Hotel,…
cartoon by Steve Benson, Arizona Republic As we have been advertising, we are currently taking applications for next year's staff. We need writers and photographers, and we also need a cartoonist. Next year's Vox editor in chief, Conor Wigert, and I recently attended a conference…
I found this website called greatnewsnetwork.com. Essentially, this site gathers happy or inspiring news stories from all over the world and puts them all in one place.With all of the destruction going on all around the world lately, this site is a nice change. Sometimes…
Here's the story. Educate yourself if you feel so inclined.A letter being auctioned in London this week adds more fuel to the long-simmering debate about the Nobel Prize-winning physicist's religious views. In the note, written the year before his death, Einstein dismissed the idea of…
There's so much discussion nowadays over whether teens are overloaded and overwhelmed with school and preparation for college, I thought I would just remind you all it could be worse.SEOUL, South Korea — It is 10:30 p.m. and students at the elite Daewon prep school…
Also in this month's Vox, East Valley High student Sarah Radmar writes about a lawsuit against the East Valley School District for $1, over students' rights to pray at school.From the story: Click here for file “We want everyone to have the ability to meet…
From the Oregonian: MAYA BLACKMUN The Oregonian Staff TIGARD -- Teachers and administrators at Twality Middle School have seen something in the trash bins that has them worried: increasing numbers of empty energy drink cans. Some teachers became so concerned, they e-mailed parents Friday pleading…
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I don't even know what to say to this one:Your odd news of the day!
And while on the topic of sex ed, this from a brief in yesterday's S-R:Chlamydia rates are rising in Spokane County, prompting health officials to urge more sexually transmitted disease screening.Women may develop pelvic inflammatory disease from chlamydia. The disease is often undiagnosed, said Stacy…
Carolyn Campbell, a senior at Huron High School in Ann Arbor, accepted an unusual invitation to the prom from fellow senior Kristoff Wennersten. Photo by: ELIYAHU GURFINKEL, THE ANN ARBOR NEWSby Jeff Arnold | The Ann Arbor News Kristoff Wennersten figured his prom proposal had…
In 2006, then-editor Steve Smith of The Spokesman-Review had the idea of starting a publication for an often forgotten audience: teenagers. The Vox Box was a continuation of the Vox, an all-student staffed newspaper published by The Spokesman-Review. High school student journalists who staffed the Vox made all content decisions as they learn about the trade of journalism. This blog's mission was to give students an opportunity to publish their voices. The Vox Box and the Vox wrapped up in June 2009, but you can follow former staffers' new blog at http://voxxiez.blogspot.com.
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