Root the Box claims responsibility for hacking the Univ. of VA.’s website

Charlottesville, VA

An investigation has begun by the University of Virginia’s police department into the hacking of their website.

No classified or personal information was affected, nor was the email system.

A group called “Root the Box” has claimed responsibility.

Patriot's Day Attack

School Safety Experts

It is with a heavy heart that I write this. 

A cowardly terrorist attack ripped into innocent people at the finish line of the Boston Marathon.  An eight-year old is dead, as is at least one other.  Many people were seriously injured, some with missing limbs.

As always with incidents like this, the intial information is sketchy and unreliable.  I urge patience and caution.  The investigators are top-notch, and they will get to the bottom of this.  We will know what actually happened in due time.

Until then, give your thoughts and prayers to the wounded and their families.

Ohio Crash Kills 3 Teens, One on Graduation Day

Cincinnati, OH

A car carrying five teenagers went airborne as it sped over railroad tracks in northeast Ohio early Sunday and crashed, killing the 18-year-old driver hours before his high school graduation and two of his passengers, the Ohio State Highway Patrol said.

The other two passengers, one of them also an impending graduate, were hospitalized.

Less than 13 hours after the crash, Brunswick High School students left empty seats covered with flowers at their graduation ceremony to remember driver Jeffrey Chaya and Kevin Fox, who was critically injured.

“It was very sad,” Superintendent Michael Mayell said after the commencement ceremony at the University of Akron. “There were a lot of tears.”