Next year, Free State will not endure as many alterations as it did this year. However, it will have some fresh staff changes. Free State will be getting a new associate principal and guidance counselor....

As exemplified in many television shows and movies, the senior year of high school is the most exciting year and many seniors want to make the most out of it by completing a full senior year. However,...

On Friday, May 11, U.S. Rep. Lynn Jenkins stepped through a door beneath the Firebird that watches over the Commons, walked down an endless hall of green lockers and entered a room decked with wooden easels...

Several months ago, Joseph Kony would have been less than a household name. Now, he’s all anyone’s talking about. Kony 2012 is a protest created by the charity Invisible Children to make Joseph Kony...

In 2009, exams were administered across 28 Advanced Placement (AP) subjects in the Shawnee Mission School District, which has two schools on Newsweek’s list of the Best High Schools in America. Comparatively,...

In Kansas, buying alcohol for underage drinkers can carry a $1,000 fine and up to a year in jail. In other words, according to stickers now decorating beer, wine and other alcoholic beverages around...

November 6, 2012: The next presidential election. With a new election cycle comes new 18 year old voters. The question usually is “okay, now I can vote. But, how do I register?” With new technology,...

When seniors think about graduation, they think about walking across the stage and seeing all of their family waving and cheering for them. One senior this year, however, will not be. Camila Barbosa,...

A flight attendant begins her march to the front of the airplane, and frequent fliers feverishly plug away at their iPads and smartphones to send one more Angry Bird flying into the clouds before she...

Teachers. The people who give us endless homework and tests. But not all of them have always been dishing out grades. We have teachers that have traveled far and wide and experienced other cultures, like...

Students arrived at school Thursday morning on an assembly schedule, only to be sent home before the first bell rang. At approximately 7:58 a.m. Dec. 1, the school was evacuated due to a bomb threat....