Caffeine is the most addictive drug in the world. If you drink coffee, tea, or even sodas every day, you are addicted. It is possible to overdose on caffeine – too much could kill you if you consume it in a short period of time. Davis Allen Cripe passed out during class at Spring Hill …
In November 2016, a Chattanooga school bus driver named Johnthony Walker, 24, made headlines when he wrapped the bus he was driving crashed and killed six children. There were 35 children on the bus at the time of the crash that ranged from kindergarten to fifth grade. Twenty other children were taken to a local …
You teach your children to be kind. You tell them that fighting is wrong, but you hope they are capable of defending themselves if they are attacked. You don’t want them to hurt anyone, but to stop the attack. When a boy kept pinching a girl’s bra at school, the teacher told her just to …
While driving home in Arkansas, Alicia saw a man pedaling a bike down the road with a trailer. The homeless man was having a hard time because the trailer was loaded down and had 10 dogs inside! Later, Alicia found out that the man, Steve, had been homeless since 2001. During that time, Steve has …
Some announcements people make are a big deal. Like when you get engaged or when you get pregnant. The announcements themselves can take on many forms. These days, it is popular to just post your announcement on social media (many people get the news from social media). You can learn so much by following people …
One day in 1980, an American businesswoman named Mary Robertson was looking for a nanny to care for her son Patrick, who was a toddler at that time. The pair moved all the way from America in order to reside in London due to Mary’s job. Only one young woman responded to her ad: it …
When your loved ones pass, it is often hard for us to cope. Whatever the reason, life does not get any easier even though deaths are supposedly an unavoidable part of human life. But what happens when you really feel that your loved ones are really around you – how can you tell? Here are …
Do your children know what to do if someone tries to kidnap them? I was taught to scream and run away. A 13-year-old girl in Michigan did. She was dragged into some bushes by a strange man just seconds after she tried to get away from him. According to WJBK News, the girl was walking …
The speed limit in most residential neighborhoods is 25 mph. How many cars going down your street are actually going that speed? It isn’t safe for the children for cars to go flying down the road in neighborhoods. A dangerous high-speed motorcycle chase took place in April 2015. The police were having trouble catching the …
No one likes a pop quiz, but Stephen Barrows was going to have his students at Aquinas College in Grand Rapids, Michigan take one on April Fools’ day. Turns out, his students had something else in mind! As a macroeconomics teacher at the school, Barrows has a cell phone policy – if the phone rings, …