Matt and Kim, the increasingly popular indie-pop-dance duo from Brooklyn won best break-through video at the MTV Video Music Awards Sunday night. They weren't there to see it though. Instead they announced their win to their fans during a free concert at Parkland College on a beautiful night that graced the cusp of summer and autumn.…
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Looking for a fun way to honor our American Patriots? Look no further, as Parkland has several ways for you to be involved in supporting our troops. Here are some of the events that took place at our own school to honor and aid our American Heroes.
First up was the Bravo Company Welcome Home celebration.…
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My grandmother is a fantastic cook. People have driven many miles just to eat biscuits at her house. (If anyone wants to know why you would go out of your way for biscuits, when you can get them at the drive-thru, then you have obviously never eaten an actual biscuit.…
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"Peering through his telescope, what would he see?
Four "stars" near Jupiter there seems to be,
Faint and slowly moving from night to night.
Orbiting moons are these points of light!"
-A poem from the International Year of Astronomy.
The International Year of Astronomy is here, but what exactly does that mean? The IYA is an international celebration of numerous astronomical and scientific milestones.…
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.-For the last four years, Roberta Levitt-Moscia has delighted in buying winter vegetables directly from a local farm but despaired at the end of each harvest season. She found produce from the supermarket less tasty, less nutritious and quicker to spoil.…
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WENATCHEE NATIONAL FOREST-The tiny male bat didn't expect to wind up in a biologist's hand when he set out in search of a nighttime snack along Box Canyon Creek.
After being snagged in a net, weighed and measured, the unhappy creature gnashed its teeth and squirmed as Pat Ormsbee stretched its wing for inspection.…
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WASHINGTON-The House of Representatives is expected this week to back overhauling-and simplifying-how college students receive financial aid.
The rules for awarding and repaying loans would remain unchanged, but the government would make all loans itself, ending the practice of subsidizing loans made by private lenders.…
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CHINO, Calif.-It's nearing noon inside the central wing of the California Institution for Men, and it's not hard to find evidence of how this has become Exhibit A in California's prison crisis.
A gymnasium is a sea of bunk beds. The 213 inmates inside are quarantined on this day, the result of worries about a swine flu outbreak.…
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