On October 1, 2017, an outdoor concert, the Route 91 Harvest Festival, turned deadly when at 10:05 P.M., a man named Stephen Paddock started shooting at the crowd of 22,000 from the 32d floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel. Before the police could get to him 59 people were dead, including the shooter, an...

The Cleveland Indians set the MLB American League record of most consecutive games won with their 22-game winning streak. The streak ended with a loss to the Kansas City Royals on September 15. Prior to that, they hadn't lost a game since August 23. For more than 100 years, American League tea...

Hurricane Irma recently hit  the Caribbean and parts of southern United States. Irma caused catastrophic damage. It was the most powerful storm to strike the United States since Hurricane Katrina in 2005. It caused 61 deaths and was the strongest tropical hurricane in the world. Irma developed as a storm of the coast of the Cape Verde Islands on August 30, 2017. It then quickl...

Have you ever wondered how listening to music while studying affects  individual's studies? Listening to music may increase energy levels and lift one's mood, thereby improving mental processing abilities. But at the same time, the brain must still set aside some resources to digesting the music,...

Everyone knows Mr. Carlson, the eighth-grade math teacher on team Ignite. His six years experience include three at Mayfield and before that, a stint at a local private high school--math for tenth and eleventh grade. He describes himself as a laid-back person that likes to joke around from time...

When in need of any video resources, from music entertainment to trailers and movies, most of us would most likely think of one site: YouTube. Though started only twelve years ago by three men, it has now become the largest video sharing platform. Some "YouTubers" have even built up large communities...

You probably have read about the Cassini spacecraft at least once. You might have read an article about its discoveries or maybe an article summarizing all the discoveries made by Cassini until that point. The whole Cassini mission lasted for thirteen years but went out with a bang (literally) at 7:30...

According to the Healthy Children website, about 12 percent of school-age children skip breakfast, and among adolescents it jumps to 30 percent. That would mean that at MMS, which serves about 900 students, there could be about 300 kids coming to school hungry. Should Mayfield Middle School sell breakfast? First,...