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OGDEN -- Authorities have filed charges against a 16-year-old boy accused in a plot to detonate a bomb at a Roy High School.

LOS ANGELES -- For weeks, South Pasadena High School senior Alex Hom knew he wanted to ask freshman Brooke Drury to winter formal. But it wouldn't do to just pop the question -- too boring -- or, even worse, to text it.

So he rounded up more than 20 friends, supplied them with red roses, choreographed a dance routine and wrote out his plea on signs. Then he had a friend bring Brooke, blindfolded, to a spot on campus for the big production.

"I thought, this is my senior year and I gotta go out with a bang," Alex said.

He's not the only student elevating the art of the school dance invitation.

Students are folding the question into homemade fortune cookies, tucking it into pinatas, knitting it into scarves, spelling it out with pepperoni on pizza and orange chicken on fried rice.

Success in school sets tone for the rest of your life

With the increased pressures from the competition for scholarships and the job market, students are once again feeling the pressure to succeed. In today's world, where grade-point averages, test scores and citizenship grades can help to determine the rest of your life, it's no wonder student success is one of the most important goals in schools.

All right, this is a message to all you high school seniors out there. Listen up!

It has already been established that high school is hard, we won't go into that too much -- just know that we all get it. But just because it is hard does not mean that life must be full of miserable woe.

BOISE, Idaho -- The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights in Seattle is looking into allegations of Title IX violations at 100 high schools across Idaho.

According to 600 pages of complaints dated June 23, schools in 78 out of the state's 115 school districts have been accused of not providing female athletes equal opportunities to play sports.

LOS ANGELES -- Memories might last a lifetime, but officials at one high school want to make sure some don't.

Students at Big Bear High School have been ordered to return their 2011 yearbooks after a photograph depicting a male student with his hand underneath a female student's clothing at a school dance somehow managed to be published, officials said Thursday.

KIRKLAND, Wash.  -- The principal of Lake Washington High School in Kirkland, Wash., has backed off plans to have every student at this year's senior prom tested for alcohol.