After months of waiting, the two high school football players accused of raping an unconscious 16-year-old victim will face trial this week. But calls to apprehend the other teenagers who used cell phones and Twitter to document the alleged assault are still being ignored. The trial will begin on Wednesday. [HuffPost]
Are the Washington D.C. brats finally agreeing on something? Eight senators who have spent weeks trying to write a bipartisan bill to overhaul immigration laws have privately agreed on the most contentious part of the draft — how to offer legal status to the nation’s 11 million illegal immigrants. Well played…now let’s see what happens next! [LATimes]
Now this is a different type of mile high club! Fatoumatta Kaba, 17, went into labor just four hours after her flight took off from South Africa. Before the pilot could even divert the flight, she gave birth to baby Mamel Joella – 38,000 feet in the air! [DailyMail]
Tough love? Two Philadelphia couples turned their teenage sons in after they allegedly stole $13 out of a young girl’s wallet. The parents of the boys, who are not named because they are minors, saw surveillance footage of their sons eying the wallet of a nine-year-old girl, and decided that they needed to be taught a lesson. Next time, I bet they do the right thing! [DailyMail]
Aww damn! The North Korean army has declared the armistice agreement that ended the Korean War in 1953 invalid. Basically that means the truce between South and North Korea is null and void. Since last week, North Korea had been threatening to scrap the armistice after the U.N. Security Council passed tougher sanctions against it in response to the country’s February 12 nuclear test. [CNN]
