All he could hear were the insults being hurled at him by his other third grade classmates.  Fat. Stupid. Wuss. Each may have been a single word, but they felt like a ton of bricks to their target. He...

Extracurriculars, clubs, jobs, sports, homework, pressure to get into college, relationships, family responsibilities - the list goes on. Today’s teens are no strangers to pressure and busy schedules....

The memories of that August night are fuzzy. The four grams of cheese heroin, a mixture of heroin and Tylenol PM, he bought in Flower Mound. A blur. The ride back to the Colony after snorting two of the...

  He was there, but at the same time he wasn’t. It was Christmas morning at the Demers’ household. Junior Ben Demers and the rest of his family were woken up by his little sister in the...

    contain an illegal fungicide last week, the issue of the safety of the U.S. food supply is now being questioned. The illegal fungicide in the contaminated orange juice has been linked to liver...

During her middle school years, junior Ali Williams* could not go to sleep until she felt her rib cage. She would lie on her bed and trace slender fingers along her flat stomach searching for the contours...

  Just say no. Growing up, I never thought I’d actually have to use those three simple words we are taught throughout middle school. Yet, three weeks ago these words were all I wanted to mutter....

Students explore vegetarian dietary habits The images flashed across the screen. Sick piglets thrown against the hard concrete slab on the slaughterhouse floor. Forklifts operated by muscled workers...