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A Florida teen was arrested late Thursday for allegedly trying to place a hit on a high school faculty member. The Tampa Bay Times reports that Nicholas Robert Godfrey—an 18-year-old senior at Fivay High School—is accused of offering another student $100,000 for the staffer’s “head.” Godfrey is now facing charges of first degree solicitation to attempt murder. Pasco County […]
A black security guard at a Wisconsin high school said he was fired after saying the N-word in front of a student and the school’s assistant principal. According to Madison365, the Madison Metropolitan School District has a zero-tolerance for employees using racial slurs; however, the former guard, Marlon Anderson, said he repeated the slur in an effort to defend […]
The Cherry Hill school district in New Jersey passed a new policy Tuesday that will allow principals to ban a student from purchasing tickets for school dances, prom included, if their lunch debt exceeds $75, NBC News reports. The punishments that can be levied through this policy, which includes both high school and middle school, […]
In a teaser for his upcoming appearance on CBS This Morning, Lil Nas X returns to his hometown high school in Atlanta, just a few years after he was one of the students roaming those same halls with lofty aspirations of making it in music. “Feels good being able to walk through the halls and not get […]
A student at Illinois’ Washington Community High School was given a six-day suspension after a classmate overheard him misquoting a lyric from the 2017 Future song “Draco.” In an interview with Illinois’ ABC affiliate, the student’s parent Brandon Porter claims his son was singing the song as he left school when he mistakenly replaced “Draco” with “AK” in the line “Draco season with the bookbag.” […]
Alan Maloney, the referee who made 16-year-old high school wrestler Andrew Johnson cut his dreadlocks in order to compete in his next match, has been suspended for two years, USA Today reports. The announcement was made Wednesday following an investigation into the December 19 incident during a Buena-Oakcrest meet where Maloney forced Johnson to either wear a hair […]
A Louisiana student-athlete made national headlines this month—not for his performance on the football field, but for his unique name: De’Coldest ToEvaDoIt Crawford. It all started when the Green Oaks High School sophomore spoke to local media outlet KTLA about his prospects for the upcoming football season. Crawford spoke about the team’s additions and the challenges they’ll face […]
Holley Gerelds, 18, said that there was talk leading up to her graduation this year from Springville High in Alabama that her senior portrait was going to be cut from the school yearbook. Prior to taking her photo towards the end of her junior year, Gerelds asked if she could wear a tuxedo, instead of the V-neck, black-velvet drape traditionally worn […]
Jamie Foxx‘s alleged former tendency to intervene on matters of his daughter’s dating habits was discussed in a purported breaking news moment from a recent Hot 97 interview. Beat Shazam‘s Corinne Foxx, the daughter of Jamie Foxx and his former girlfriend Connie Kline, sat down with the Ebro in the Morning team Wednesday for a 15-minute […]
Gilbert Arenas, Drake, and Fabolous are probably sectioning off a small fortune in hopes to add this exclusive jersey to their collections. Heritage Auctions has put Barack Obama‘s 1978-79 Punahou High School jersey on the auctioning block. The starting bid for the jersey starts at $25,000, but according to CBS, it’s expected to sell for […]
