NASA researchers have called in the reserves as part of an ongoing study of sea levels. The researchers originally dispatched a probe complete with a GPS sensor and a satellite telephone to track the flow of water through glaciers. They don’t know where it went.…
$200 million, $84.1 million, $76 million. What do these numbers mean? These are the amounts of money John McCain had for campaign funds at the close of the Republican National Convention. $84.1 million is in federal funds, $76 million in the Republican Party bank account,…
A Pennsylvania mother admitted to buying her 14-year-old son a rifle and gunpowder to add to the weapons cache he was building (complete with "knives, swords, BB guns, the rifle and partly assembled homemade grenades"). The boy had been teased horribly for his obesity and…
The controversy isn't new: Can your cell phone give you brain cancer? But this week Congress is asking doctors around the nation to explain their findings. Full story...Dr. David Carpenter, the director of the Institute of Health and Environment at the University of Albany, says…
In 2006, then-editor Steve Smith of The Spokesman-Review had the idea of starting a publication for an often forgotten audience: teenagers. The Vox Box was a continuation of the Vox, an all-student staffed newspaper published by The Spokesman-Review. High school student journalists who staffed the Vox made all content decisions as they learn about the trade of journalism. This blog's mission was to give students an opportunity to publish their voices. The Vox Box and the Vox wrapped up in June 2009, but you can follow former staffers' new blog at http://voxxiez.blogspot.com.
