How Methodists Invented Your Kid’s Grape Juice Sugar High

The upshot, of course, is that if your church uses grape juice for Communion, you’ve adapted an ancient ritual by grafting in a beverage that’s roughly as old as Coca-Cola. Whether that bothers you or not, I think we all can admit that it’s still kind of…weird.

HS football team presents surprise orange roses to cheerleader battling leukemia

Before they played their game on Sept. 3, Foothill High School’s football team honored cheerleader Ashley Adamietz, who was diagnosed with leukemia in August. As each player entered the field, they left an orange rose (orange is the color for leukemia awareness) by Adamietz’s feet — the whole gesture was a total surprise for her.

Maryland School Bus Driver Rescues All 20 Students from Horrific Fire: ‘It’s My Job to Save Them’

A school bus driver saved 20 elementary students from a bus fire that almost took all of their lives on Monday in College Park, Maryland.
Reneita Smith personally took each student off the burning bus and even went back one more time to make sure everyone made it to safety.

Bubble wrap forces military academy lockdown

Police from Radnor and Tredyffrin Township showed up and searched the campus. They found no evidence of a gun fired.
The sound, it turns out, was something else.
“Police report that one student indicated that the sound she heard could have been bubble wrap being popped.” That’s from a post on the Facebook page of Valley Forge Military Academy & College, which is next to the university.

Alcohol-fueled Ohio Amish party raided, 73 arrested

Authorities in the heart of Ohio’s Amish country say they arrested more than 70 people in a raid at a weekend party in a field that was expected to attract hundreds of Amish youth.

Bank robbery suspect: Incarceration beats living with wife

A 70-year-old man accused of robbing a bank in Kansas told investigators he would rather be imprisoned than live with his wife.
Court documents say Lawrence John Ripple gave a note to a bank teller in Kansas City on Friday, demanding cash and warning he had a gun. Ripple took the money and went to sit in the lobby where he told a guard he was the “guy he was looking for.”