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Driver passes out and 13-year-old “hero” student saves the school bus. VIDEO

Usa, 13 year old saves the school bus

A 13-year-old teenager saved his school bus from crashing after the driver passed out. Dillon Reeves “jumped out of his seat, threw his backpack, ran to the front of the school bus, grabbed the wheel and managed to stop” the vehicle in the middle of the road, said Robert Livernois, director of public schools in a northern Michigan district at a press conference. The bus driver, who was taking about 60 students from Carter College in Warren, north of Detroit, home “passed out” at the wheel, Livernois said.

In a video released by the authorities, the driver faints and the student gets behind the wheel, brakes and manages to stop the bus despite the panic and screams of the frightened children. Then he shouts to his classmates to…


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High school students host Ramadan celebration to fundraise for earthquake relief

The cafeteria at Sir Frederick Banting Secondary School in London may have looked bare Friday morning — but by night it’s set to be bursting with lanterns, decorations and an array of delicious foods and desserts.

That’s because a group of Muslim students at the high school have rallied together to host an iftar celebration, a meal shared when Muslims break daytime fast in the evening, to bring the community together during Ramadan. 

But the event is about more than sweets and festivities — it’s also a way to share their culture and fundraise money for relief efforts in February’s earthquake in Syria and Turkey.

“To take action and help the people in need really means a lot to us,” said Amal Belal, co-founder of Banting’s Earthquake Aid student group. 

“I’m a Syrian…


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Union hosting School Supply Drive on Saturday

Saturday night will be Kids Night when Philadelphia Union hosts Houston Dynamo FC at Subaru Park with the match presented by Green Mountain Energy. With the evening dedicated to the youngest Union fans, the club will hosting a school supply drive for those in need!

Fans are asked to please bring any new school supplies to the Subaru Plaza when they arrive and they will receive a FREE $5 voucher that you can use at Philly Pretzel Factory locations (not valid at the Philly Pretzel Factory stand in Subaru Park).

Every donation of backpacks, notebooks, pencils, markers, crayons, or other supplies makes a huge difference to a child starting a big school year, so please help us give kids the start they need for a great education!




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Tom Erickson returned to campus to lead the new School of Computer, Data and Information Sciences

The September 2021 announcement of a major fundraising campaign — which will include a state-of-the-art building — to help launch the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s new School of Computer, Data and Information Sciences, or CDIS, brought together an array of campus luminaries.

Chancellor Rebecca Blank was there that day at the Discovery Building. So were John and Tashia Morgridge, alumni who contributed a staggering $125 million to the new enterprise, and Erik Iverson, CEO of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, or WARF, which granted $50 million.

It’s fitting that the one best able to appreciate the day in historical context — past being prologue — was the new school’s founding director, Tom Erickson.

As the first UW–Madison freshman ever…


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Middletown Area among several school districts experiencing website disruptions

Middletown School District is reporting that its website, raiderweb.org, will be down for an unknown length of time.

The district noted on Facebook Monday morning that Intrado, the web hosting service provider, experienced a fire that damaged the fiber into and out of its data center.

Several other districts, including Cumberland Valley and South Middleton, are also being affected.

The Middletown school district said that it had been given no timeline for restoration.

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