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Drunk Teenager Runs Through Red Light and Crashes Into School Bus (5 Dead, 3 Severely In-jured)Tuesday, April 29th, 2014, a teenager makes a deci-sion he will regret for the rest of his life. Benjamin Clover ( 18, high school senior) and a couple of his

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The Circle Set to Open Fall 2014The construction has been a long and lengthy process, but The Circle is still set to open to UNCC students for the Fall semester of 2014. Sadly there has been a death during the construc-tion of the apartments, but despite the tragedies, work-ers are doing everything they can to finish the project.

New Snow Records In Charlotte This past winter Charlotte has seen weather they are not accustom to. Many days of heavy snowfall resulted in school cancelations across the entire state. Charlotte received six inches of snow in just one day, Charlotte hasn't seen that much snow in one day since 2004.

Bobcats Take on the HeatBobcats will be hosting the Heat this friday, May 2nd. Make sure to get your tick-ets to see the Bobcats take on one of the best teams in the league.

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high school friends decided to take a "senior skip day" from school and day drink at Ben’s house. After the group had downed some beers, Ben’s mom called Ben, undoubt-edly frustrated, because she thought Ben was at school. She told her teenage son to rush home, and as frightened as he was he drove home as quickly as possible, drunk.. He didn't make more than five miles before running a red light and crashing into a school bus filled with children on their way home. Sources say that Benjamin had a BAC of about .28 when he crashed into the school bus. Benjamin killed five young children and severely injured three in the accident. The three children that were severely injured are reported to be in bad condition, but are expected to survive.

Benjamin Clover’s luck sadly ran out at 3:12 PM April 29th, 2014 when he decided to drink and drive ending five young children lives. Ben faces five accounts of manslaugh-ter and many possible years in prison.

MADD: Is your kid safe playing in the streets?

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Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) is starting a new campaign slogan to bring the awareness of under-age drinking and driving. MADD is an organization that has participated in the debate of lowering the drinking ever since MADD became of existence. MADD argues that lowering the drinking age is a bad idea and will put young adults at great risk. MADD believes that the country should create and enforce more underage drinking laws. They are doing everything they can to bring the concern of underage drinking to the public, and that’s why they started their slogan campaign; Is your kid safe playing in the streets? MADD hopes to re-ceive a lot attention and participa-tion in this cam-paign.

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Underage Drink-ing, A Bigger Prob-lem than You May ThinkAlcohol use by underage adults is a major health prob-lem. Alcohol is the most com-monly used and abused drug among youth in the United States. Alcohol is responsible for more than 4,300 annual deaths among underage youth.• 11% of all alcohol consumed in

the U.S. is by underage drinkers

• On average, underage drinkers consume more drinks per drinking occasion than adult drinkers

• In 2010, approximately 189,000 ER visits by persons underaged for injuries and other conditions linked to alco-hol

Drinking Levels among Youth

The 2011 Youth Risk Behavior Survey found that among high school students, during the past 30 days• 39% drank some amount of al-

cohol

• 22% binge drank

• 8% drove after drinking

• 24% rode with a driver who had been drinking alcohol