Top 10 Teens In The News.
“10. Andrew Herm, of Denver, filed a lawsuit in a U.S. District Court to get a federal judge to throw out the city law that orders juveniles to be home by 11 p.m. on school nights and by midnight on Friday and Saturday nights. Check out Curfew.org for info about how teens and parents are fighting curfews nationwide.
9. An unidentified Palestinian teenager died Sunday, October 21, 2001, from wounds he sustained last month in the ongoing conflict between Palestine and Israel.
8. Teens in a Friendswood High School English class in Texas have put together a book of poetry called The Day America Lost Her Innocence. They are selling the book for $10. Proceeds will go to the Families of Freedom scholarship fund. Click here or call (281) 482-3413 for more info.
7. On October 8, a Palestinian high school senior blew himself up near an Israeli car and became the 100th suicide bomber sent to attack Israel since 1993. (Israeli statistics indicate most suicide bombers are under 23—and exceptionally well educated.)
6. Australia’s Olympic swimming champion 18-year-old Ian “Thorpedo” Thorpe is on his way to making megabucks. He just signed a 3-year deal with a Japanese TV station, a sportswear contract with Adidas and another with Gaffney International—all worth $5 million.
5. A 15-year-old French teen was placed under investigation after he allegedly organized a demonstration at the Lezay-Marnesia school in Strasbourg, in eastern France. About 100 students gathered in the courtyard, burned a pair of red-white-and-blue underwear and cried out “Long live (Osama) bin Laden, down with the Americans.” The judge ordered the student to remain under the surveillance of a teacher.
4. Nicholas Sentel Rice, 16, of Spartanburg, North Carolina and Jarrod Sullivan, 17, were just two teens who were killed on Friday October 19—both were victims of gun violence.
3. Nineteen-year-old soccer superstar Landon Donavan, of the San Jose Earthquakes, helped his team win their first MLS Cup on Sunday, October 21.
2. Britney Payton, a junior at Barrington High School (just outside of Chicago) and daughter of the late football star Walter Payton began speaking last week to get teens interested in organ donation. Her father died of a cancer-related illness in 1999.
1. Sixteen-year-old Brenton Butler, an African American, is suing the Jacksonville, Florida, police department for $8.5 million. Butler claims he was a victim of racial profiling and was beaten, threatened and intimidated into confessing to the murder of a Georgia tourist” info from.