Article 3 - PANTS ON THE GROUND!

School officials at Northwestern High School, in North Carolina, lend out belts to students with saggy belts rather than punishing them right away. The administrators hope that this action will reduce the number of students referred to discipline, and make students realize how they dress. Previously, students would be written up and sent to the office if their pants sagged below their waste. Junior Joe Johnson says that students already wear belts on their sagging pants, and is unsure that the schools lending of belts will deter teens to pull their pants up. The principle of the school states that he is willing to do anything to give the students a chance to do something right.

Article 2 - Gay Hate Crime Going Way Too Far

Burke Burnett was at a party when three men attending the party found out he was homosexual. He says
that night "Reminded me just how much hatred was still directed towards lesbians, and gays." The victim was beaten harshly, stabbed twice with a broken beer bottle, and thrown into a fire, sending him to near death! If it wasn't for some kind-hearted girls at the party, stepping in and letting Burnett get away.

The three suspects were charged with aggravated assault but police are leaving it up to the grand jury to decide whether its hate crime or not. Each suspect will be receiving five to ninety-nine years in prison.

But even justice can't heal Burnett's wounds. He needed thirty stitches total, above his eye, and on his ribcage, and now wears bandages for the entire leg full of blisters from the fire.

Article 1 - Knife Attack Over Chair on Thanksgiving

A man in Wisconsin was charged with attempted homicide, when he allegedly tried killing a fellow guest at a Thanksgiving feast when she ignored his claim to a chair.

Kendrick Carr, 23, pulled a 12 inch long butcher knife on the guest when she declined to moving from the seat that Carr had claimed. The woman used a broom as a defense mechanism and remained unharmed. When she refused to remove herself from the seat, Carr started throwing things around his girlfriend's apartment, where the dinner took place. He made way fro the kitchen where he grabbed the knife and returned to the woman where he attempted to slash her while Carr's girlfriend ran over to a neighbors house and dialed the police.

Carr also was charged with disorderly conduct, criminal damage to property, and first degree reckless endangerment charges, in addition to attempted homicide.