Filmmaker

SOUTH OGDEN -- Last spring Kasper Kubica felt confident he had done well on the ACT, a college-entrance exam required by most colleges for acceptance. He was hoping for a 34 or 35. That's why he was elated when he recently found out his score -- a perfect 36.

Now Kubica can almost hear the doors opening to attend some of his dream schools -- an Ivy League school or MIT. The nice thing for Kubica is that he still has two years to think about it; he has just started his junior year of high school.

"Why do you care?"

The question was asked of Ogden High School senior Samantha Highsmith at school one day. She had a sticker on her notebook for the Human Rights Campaign, an organization that fights for gay and transgender rights.

A classmate asked Highsmith what the sticker was, and she told him about the campaign.

"His reaction really caught me off-guard," Highsmith said. "Basically, he asked me why I care if I am not gay. Why do I care personally?

"I thought, well, that's a good question. I just couldn't verbalize why.

CHICAGO -- Less than 24 hours after a Hollywood studio awarded him a screenwriting contract, a former leader of a national gang that sprung from the hardcore punk scene was sentenced Tuesday to a year in prison by a federal judge in Chicago.