A teacher found an explosive device in an area of the school that is highly crowded by students, on Monday at Centaurus High School in Lafayette according to police.

The investigators described the device as “unsophisticated” and “Similar to a pipe bomb”, but potentially could have seriously injured students. On Tuesday, the Police confirmed the arrest of a 16-year-old who planted the device. On Monday night at a news conference the Police mentioned that a teacher found the device removed from the building shortly after it was placed. This teacher is being greatly commended for this action.

The school was evacuated and closed for the rest of the day, no students or staff were injured. Students were allowed to come back and get their vehicles on Monday night.

In an email to parents, the Boulder Valley School District said a “suspicious package was discovered this morning,” on school grounds. “Lafayette police were contacted and all students and staff were evacuated from the school site east to Centaur Village Drive.”

Bomb dogs and their handlers from around the metro area responded to the scene and by 9:00 p.m. they had completed searches of the school, and parking lot, including students vehicles that were still there. No other devices were located and it was determined that the area was safe.

Centaurus has been opened on regular schedule on Tuesday and the Police are certain that the building is safe.

A group of scientist in Uruguay have genetically modified sheep to glow-in-the-dark, “Scientists from the Animal Reproduction Institute of Uruguay said they used a fluorescent protein from an Aequarea jelly fish to give a flock of nine sheep a distinct glowing green color when exposed to certain ultraviolet light.” (Foxnews.com), The sheep may be  different when it is night time, but during the day they look and act like normal sheep.
Sheep are not the first animals to be genetically modified to glow-in-the-dark. Scientist created cats, dogs, worms, pigs,and more animals that glow. Now some of you are probably wondering “What is the point of a glowing sheep?” well scientist believe that it will create a better understanding on how diseases happen and it can spread in both humans and animals, plus you will never lose your sheep at night!

Kris Bare

Explosion in West Texas at the fertilizer plant.

On Wednesday, April 17, 2013, there was an unexpected explosion at a fertilizer plant in western Texas.  There were 14 people killed, including 10 first-responders, in the western Texas explosion on Wednesday night at a Fertilizer plant. There were hundreds of people injured from this explosion, firefighters and first-responders have also suffered injuries. The first call came in about 7:50 p.m. The fertilizer plant was near many buildings, an apartment complex, and a nursing home. This led to significant damage of these buildings along with many houses. About 50 houses were destroyed and a whole apartment complex was burned down with about 50 units. When the explosion set off it struck the ground and made a small earthquake that you could feel from miles away, they had to set off flares so they could tell the cars not to go down that way. There was a small boy playing at the school playground while his mother was walking the track as the fertilizer plant exploded. This resulted in shooting her son 4 feet in the air causing his ribs to break. They don’t know how the explosion happened, the cause is still under investigation.

Call 970-247-1112 for any information you have about Dylan Redwine.

While people all around the country were enjoying their break from school and finding things to be thankful for, one Colorado family was in the middle of a nightmare. Dylan Redwine, a 13-year-old Colorado boy, disappeared on November 19th from his father’s home in the Vallecito Lake area. Local police have searched the area, and have even called in a blood hound to sniff the area, according to 9news. In addition to this never-ending search, police have also gone to the homes of known sex offenders in that area to make sure that all had alibis during the time of Dylan Redwine’s disappearance. Since it’s been more than a few months now, police have offered a reward to anyone with information on his whereabouts or information on who could have been involved. The award has now reached $16,000 dollars cash for any new information. Authorities are urging anyone with possible sightings or information to call 970-247-1112. Dylan was last seen wearing a blue and white nike hat, black Nike shirt and shorts, and black Jordan shoes.

In 2007, American student Amanda Knox traveled to Perugia, Italy to study creative writing for the year at the University for foreigners.  While in school, Knox shared a home with two Italian women, and Meredith Kertcher, a student from England.  In October of 2007, Knox began a romantic relationship with Italian engineer student Raffaele Sollecito.  Then, on November 1st, 2007 English student Meredith Kertcher’s semi-naked body was found with her throat slashed in the house shared with Knox and the other two Italian women.  Five days later, Italian police then arrested Knox and Sollecito for the murder of Kertcher.  The court process for the case was a four-year trial and appeal, where Knox was held under cautionary detention in a prison in Perugia.  Finally, in 2009 Knox and Sollecito were both convicted of sexual assault, murder, and simulating a burglary.  Due to Italian law, the pair would not be considered guilty until the case was approved by higher courts.  Then, the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Perugia appealed to the Italian Supreme Court against the judgement that decided that Sollecito and Knox are not guilty of the murder of Kertcher.

On the 25th of March, 2013, the court overturned the acquittal and ordered a retrial of the Knox case.  Although Knox did not appear at the overturning trial, sources close to her say that she will, “Fight with her head held high and prove her innocence to the court.”  Since the trial ended in 2009, Knox has been living in Seattle, Washington.  Now, she must face the past and prove to the court once and for all her innocence.  Although prosecutors argue that Knox and Sollecito are responsible for the death of Kertcher, the retrial was a request from Kertcher’s family.  The Kertcher Family says they believe the first trial was “Superficial and unbalanced,” and that they believe more than one person was in the room when Kertcher was killed (CNN).

Aside from Knox and Sollecito, another man Rudy Guede was convicted separately for the killing.  Guede was convicted of his sexual relations with Kertcher, but denied killing her.

Although Knox may be ordered to return to Italy to face the courts once again, she has the power to refuse the demand.  If this becomes the case, the Italian government can appeal the U.S Supreme Court for her extradition in the case.  The end of this overseas nightmare is far from over for Knox and her family, who have dealt with nothing but a continuing legal battle.  The case reopening this year could be the end for Knox; whether she’s proven guilty or not will be an answer left up to the courts.

One of Yahoo’s newest employees is Nick D’Aloisio, a 17-year-old school student from Britain. D’Aloisio just recently sold the app Summly to Yahoo for $30 million U.S. dollars, now becoming one of the most wealthy 17 year olds. Summly is a an app that summarizes news articles for smartphones, making it easy to browse through items and get the gist of it all in much fewer words. When he was 9 years old D’Aloisio received his first computer and used it to create movies with editing tools, he then began writing apps at the age of 12 in 2008. D’Aloisio has been recognized as the youngest person ever to receive a round of venture capital from Li Ka-Shing’s investment firm at just 15 years of age. Nick is also now Yahoo’s richest, and perhaps only teenage employee.

When not working at Yahoo, he plans to keep up with his hobbies — cricket in particular — and wants to attend college at Oxford. His intended major is philosophy.

The former infantryman Brendan Marroco, just got two new arms, thanks to a double-arm transplant, performed at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.

Brendan was in a vehicle convoy, and he was driving the last car. They were returning to their base in Bayji in Irag. The first three cars passed the roadside bomb, but the car Brendan was driving got hit. It’s a miracle that Brendan is still alive. After losing both legs and arms, many thought he would bleed to death. His carotid  artery was severed, his body badly burned, and vision in his left eye was severely damaged. On the way to the hospital, Brendan dies three times, but he was brought back to life.

Marrocco and several members of the 16-person team of plastic, orthopedic and micro-vascular surgeons who performed the procedure talked about the surgery for a long time, before deciding to do it. This is the first time a double-arm transplant has been performed at Johns Hopkins. The surgery took 13 hours, and was sponsored by the Armed Services Institute of Regenerative Medicine. During the surgery, Dec. 18, the team replaced Marrocco’s right arm, above the elbow, with a donor arm, Lee said. On the left side, where Marrocco still had an elbow, the team replaced his entire forearm over his own remaining tissue. Donor bone, muscle, blood vessels, nerves and skin had to be connected to Marrocco’s own tissue. Marrocco was also given transplanted bone marrow from the donor as a way to help keep his body from rejecting the donor arms using fewer anti-rejection drugs.

“It’s given me a lot of hope for the future,” Marrocco said about the successful completion of the surgery. “I feel like I’ve gotten a second chance to start over after I got hurt. So I’m just excited for the future and where I could go with it.”

Cardinals from all over the world traveled to the Vatican for a first round of a series of meetings on Monday.

These first meetings are to set a schedule for the election of a new pope; however, an official date will not be set until all cardinals are present. These meetings come almost a month after Pope Benedict XVI first announced that he would be resigning; his resignation was official as of February 28th.

When asked about how he felt about the resignation, CJ Franchini, senior, stated, “I guess it doesn’t really affect me. I don’t know how I should feel.”

The Cardinals have declined to give interviews for fear of classified information becoming leaked to the public.

The Catholic Church is dealing with this resignation amidst a scandal of one of its cardinals. Scottish Cardinal Keith O’Brien admitted, “He had engaged in sexual misconduct not befitting a priest, archbishop or cardinal.” The combination of a pope resigning, a cardinal engaging in misconduct, and growing disagreement amongst church leaders has cast a negative light on to the Church.

The battle against H.I.V. (Human immunodeficiency virus) took a major step forward this week. The doctors knew that the mother of a newborn Mississippi baby was H.I.V. positive. Within 30 hours of her birth, the baby was given high doses of three anti-retroviral drug in attempt to control the virus. 2 years later, the girl has no evidence of H.I.V. in her blood. If further studies on babies are proven to be effective, then this process will be recommended throughout the world. The United Nations has estimated over 330,000 babies, worldwide, were infected with the virus in 2011 alone. Over 3 million children are living with H.I.V. globally. If the report is confirmed, then the Mississippi child will be the second curing case in history. The first person cured was Timothy Brown, he was a middle-aged man with leukemia who received a bone-marrow transplant from a donor genetically resistant to H.I.V. infection.

NBA’s legend Dennis Rodman had traveled over to North Korea to meet up with leader  Kim Jong Un. Rodman is the only American to have met and talk to Kim, after meeting with him Rodman spoke to ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos. Rodman stated, “I love the guy. He’s awesome. He’s so honest.” Stephanopoulos asked Rodman if he knew that Kim has threatened to destroy the United States, or of the North Korean regime’s terrible human rights. Rodman replied with ”I hate the fact that he’s doing it but the fact is, you know what, as a human being, though, he let his guard down. He did it one day to me. I didn’t talk about that. I understand that.” He said that Kim does not want war at all, he just wants a call from President Obama… one call is all he asked for. Kim said he loves basketball, so does President Obama. Lets starts there. “Kim isn’t the one pushing war at all, since he is a young leader his father is the one that was kind of telling him what to do and his father was pushing towards war more then Kim”. Rodman said, “One thing I noticed about him  he’s very humble. Very humble,” Rodman replied. “He’s very strong as a man, very strong. But, guess what, he doesn’t want war.” According to Rodman, Obama could prevent a big situation with one phone call to North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un. Rodman also said that him and Kim Jong Un are now friends for life.