And the Winner of Season 10 is…

By Sandalie Gamage

Season 10 of The Voice was filled with aspiring new musicians who awed the crowds and wowed the judges. Blake Shelton, Christina Aguilera, Adam Levine, and Pharrell Williams were coaches for some great singers in this season.

The finals showcased Alisan Porter on Team Christina, Adam Wakefield on Team Blake, Hannah Huston on Team Pharrell, and Laith Al-Saadi on Team Adam. However, in the end there was only one winner.

Alison Porter, a mother of two, won this season, making Christina the first female coach to win. Alison took the crowds with her amazing voice and emotion put into her singing.

Calvin Harris Injured in a Car Accident

By Sandalie Gamage

Calvin Harris, 32, was injured in a car accident just last Friday. A Volkswagen Bug crashed into Harris’s SUV and it appears that he was lucky to have come out of it with minor injuries.

Harris was hospitalized in Burbank, California and was treated for facial lacerations. A rep for him said that he had been cleared to leave.

Stuck

By Sandalie Gamage

Bella was sitting on the floor in her room reading a book. (Yes, she was reading. No, she is not a nerd). She'd found the book the other day in a corner in the library. It looked like it hadn't been touched in ages. So, being the person she is, she had picked it up. There was no title, which was slightly weird, but she was pretty sure that there were tons of books without titles in the world.

Bella had taken the book home and started reading it just now. The book was really, really weird. The front pages were blank. No author. No copyright. Nothing. The page where the actual writing started was filled with strange words she had never seen or heard before. The odd thing was, she kept on reading it. She didn't know what she was reading, but something made her feel the need to keep reading.

Suddenly, a bright glow was coming from the book. Bella dropped the book and jumped back. The light seemed to grow hands and they twisted around her and pulled her into the book. She screamed, but she could not escape from the light´s vice like grip.  

Bella woke up to the sound of light rustling. She was in a dark place somewhere. She tried to feel around, but her hands didn't come in contact with anything. Bella stood up, or tried to at least. Something seemed to be pressing down on her from above. She was starting to get scared now. What was going on? She tried again to stand up, but to no avail.

Suddenly, a feeling of sheer horror took ahold of her. She realized something. She was stuck. Stuck in the book. The rustling, the darkness, the inability to get up. No one would know. But then what was outside?

Then, she heard the quiet laugh coming from above.

Donald Trump Slips VP Info

By Brett Wilson

Donald Trump has steamrolled every candidate in the GOP election, but now the big question is… Who will his running mate be? He has given some hints though. For example when he stated, “There are people I like, but I don’t think they like me because I have hit them hard”.

Thought candidates for this position are Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, Ohio Gov. John Kasich and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker.

“I don’t think that Marco Rubio, or John Kasich would even want to be affiliated with their former opponent, but I’m not sure about Scott Walker.” Said Frank Lofton, a Sierra Vista eighth grader.

Will Trump choose one of these political leaders, or throw another curveball at the United States of America.  

Queen Elizabeth ll Celebrates Her 90th Birthday

By Sandalie Gamage

Queen Elizabeth ll celebrated her 90th birthday on April 21. She is the longest reigning monarch in British history. The Queen was born in London in 1926 to King George VI and his wife, Elizabeth. She took the throne in 1952, at the age of 26, after her father passed away from lung cancer.

She is, alongside the title of Queen of England, Queen of Canada, New Zealand, the rest of the United Kingdom, Australia, and head of the Commonwealth. She has had four children, and has many grandchildren and great grandchildren. The next in line to her throne is Prince Charles, the Queen’s son.

A New Twist To Fairytales

By Sandalie Gamage

Cinder takes us into a future world, after the Fourth World War, where everything has a story behind it. Linh Cinder, the main character, lives life as a mechanic with her legal guardian, as her parents had died in a hover crash. However, there's a twist.

Cinder is a cyborg. She is different and people are frightened of them. Her stepmother, Adri, and her step sister Pearl hate her. Her only friend is an android named Iko. But then one person coming to get something fixed changes her life completely.

Read this story about a terrible plague, a ruthless queen, and explore the winding passages of a castle. This new version of Cinderella gives as a look into Linh Cinder's life as a cyborg and finding out that she isn't exactly who she thought she was. This book is the first of four in the Lunar Chronicles series.

Aliens: Are They More Than Just Stories?

By Sandalie Gamage

Aliens have been a controversial topic  for a very long time. There have been supposed sightings and more of odd beings and spaceships here on Earth. People have told the world that they have been abducted and taken onto an U.F.O. Of course, they could just be lying, but there are plenty of other pieces of evidence that prove that there could be life outside of Earth.

There are many theories about aliens and how they got to Earth, or why they came. In 1947, the Roswell Air Force Base told everyone that they found a metallic disc on a nearby ranch. However, soon after that, they changed that statement and said they’d found the remnants of a weather balloon. But before they could do that, many newspapers had written stories about an alien spaceship. People said that the weather balloon story was a cover-up, but there isn’t enough evidence to prove it was.

Another alien related topic is, of course, Area 51. There have been many stories that have been used as explanations for why the government won’t let anyone near Area 51, one of them including aliens. The base is supposed to have underground labs, an alien runway that appears and disappears, and research programs that are trying to reverse alien engineered technology. Two different former Area 51 workers claimed to have had contact and even worked alongside an alien named J-Rod. So Area 51 is known as huge government cover-up about aliens.

There is also a less believable conspiracy theory as well. This one says that almost all major government leaders aren’t what they say they are. People believe that they are actually an ancient reptilian race. A strange piece of evidence for that theory is when, during an interview, George Bush Senior’s eye flicked to the side and made a clicking noise. Of course, that could just been a coincidence that reptiles do that as well.

Though all these theories have many people that believe them, there is no solid evidence for them. As much as people want to believe them, they can’t technically be proved true. As of now, we are the only ones in a universe that is much bigger than we think. Of course, there may be life out there that we don’t know of. Our solar system alone hasn’t been entire explored, so what about all the other potential solar systems out there that could be more advanced than ours. They could know about us and be sending “people” to see Earth. But that is nothing more than a theory until proved otherwise.