A teenage Chinese exchange student who authorities say was the victim of an international cyber kidnapping scheme has been rescued after nearly freezing to death in a tent outside Salt Lake City. Authorities say Kai Zhuang, 17, ran away from his host home Dec. 28, after cybercriminals convinced him his family in China was being … Read more
BRIGHAM CITY, Utah (ABC4) — A missing and endangered 17-year-old Chinese foreign exchange student has been located and returned to his family, according to Riverdale City Police. Kai Zhuang had been reported as kidnapped on Dec. 28 after his parents in China received a ransom demand for his safe return. The parents contacted school officials … Read more
‘Collecting degrees like a thermometer’: This Atlanta woman has 3 different degrees, $311K in student debt — but refuses to use her law schooling to earn more money. Dave Ramsey responds College may be expensive, but generations of young adults have been sold on the promise of big returns once they make it to the … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave BERLIN — Czech police on Friday were investigating why a 24-year-old student killed 14 people and wounded 25 others in the nation’s worst shooting in modern history. The gunman’s body was found “motionless” shortly after the shooting rampage, with police saying he died by suicide. Among the … Read more
The family of a 9-year-old girl who was allegedly assaulted and raped multiple times by another student on a Boston school bus filed a lawsuit Friday that accuses Boston Public Schools of failing to protect the child on her rides home from class. The lawsuit, filed by Morgan & Morgan in Suffolk Superior Court, also … Read more
A Rochester Institute of Technology student who had been missing for more than three weeks has been found safe. Matthew Grant, 22, was located and has been reunited with his family, according to a press release by the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office on Wednesday. Details were not released regarding Grant’s whereabouts or how he was … Read more
Play video content A pro-Palestinian student at Yale tried to co-opt the symbol of the current Jewish holiday by planting a Palestinian flag on a menorah. The student climbed the oversized menorah, the symbol of Hanukkah, as others screamed, “Get the f**k down!,” and “It looks bad for us.” One student is seen climbing the … Read more
A 15-year-old was struck and killed by an 18-wheeler tractor-trailer while exiting a school bus, Texas authorities say. The Texas Department of Public Safety said the 15-year-old died Thursday, Dec. 7, in the collision north of Livingston, about 75 miles northeast of Houston. Troopers said the Livingston Independent School District bus had its “flashing red … Read more
Student loan payments were put on pause during the COVID-19 pandemic, but after the government declared that the public health emergency was officially over, student loan payments restarted in October of this year. Interest on your loans started at the beginning of September — meaning that the amount you owed had already begun increasing, even … Read more
You might think you’d find the best student deals around back to school. But this holiday season you’d be wrong. Amazon is offering a limited number of $25 flight tickets home for the holidays. Read on for details. And Amazon isn’t the only one offering student bargains. Retail giants Best Buy, Target and Walmart all … Read more