Matteo Alacran was not born; he was harvested from the DNA of one of the most powerful people on Earth. Matt’s DNA is from a man called El Patron, the lord of a country called Opium- a strip of poppy fields lying between The United States that was...
Monica Ten-Kate, a 2013 graduate of Oakton High School and rising junior at Penn State University, is known around her campus as “Monica the Medium." A medium is a person who claims that they have the ability to communicate with spirits in the afterlife....
It's the time of year where seniors are beyond ready to leave and anxious juniors are awaiting their busy senior life ahead. It's bittersweet saying goodbye to your dear friends to embark on new journey that will guarantee new experiences. Every weekend...
Recently, two men pulled off a climactic escape from a New York prison at the Clinton Correctional Facility using paper-mâché dummies, steam pipe, and a provoking note left for law enforcement. Richard Matt, 48, and David Sweat, 34, escaped about...
A called in bomb threat caused an evacuation of the press briefing room during the daily press conference at the White House on June 9 2015. The interruption was in the middle of a the live broadcast of the press briefing. As journalists were escorted...
Last week gaming company Bethesda Softworks announced the long awaited release of 'Fallout 4,' the next entry into the long running franchise first started in 1997. While the series has changed legal hands several times over the past eighteen years, the...
In every professional sport, it is common practice to discuss who the "GOAT," or "Greatest of All Time" is. With the exception of hockey and its respective great, Wayne Gretzky, there is no clear answer in any sport. In these discussions, the question...
As many students already know, the administration of the SAT on Saturday, June 6 did not go as planned. While the instructions given to proctors set the time limit of the last reading section on the exam (the eighth of the SAT's 10 sections) as 20 minutes,...
In today’s digital age, seemingly everything we do has gone online. From reading books, to playing games, to checking what the homework was, activities that had traditionally been in the real world are increasingly moving to an online platform.
In...
Famed actor Christopher Lee died June 7, 2015, at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital of respiratory and heart failure. The renowned actor was 93 years old, and was survived by his wife and children.
Lee lived a life oftentimes more astonishing then the...
As we reach mid-June, the season for the annual senior prank commences. For Oakton, students of the 2015 class brought their beds to school. On Wednesday, June 11, with pillows and blankets in hand, seniors marched down the Cougar Path to fill up the...
On June 5 the Oakton Administration sent out a safety awareness email in response to a sexual assault on June 3. The incident took place around 6:50pm on June 3, 2015 as a student was walking on Blake Lane at Five Oaks Road. What occurred was that an...
