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Quinn Ewers, the top-ranked high school football player in America for the Class of 2022, is skipping his senior year to enroll early at Ohio State. His father, Curtis Ewers, informed Yahoo Sports of his son's decision. Prior to the NIL change, Ewers was headed into his senior season at Southlake Carroll High School, located outside Dallas.

Ashley Qualls doesn't sound like a typical high school student. Maybe that's because the 17-year-old is the CEO of a million-dollar business. Ashley is the head of whateverlife.com, a website she started when she was just 14 — with eight dollars borrowed from her mother. Now, just three years later, the website grosses more than $1 million a year, providing Ashley and her working class family a sense of security they had never really known. It all started with capitalism 101, the law of supply and demand. Ashley became interested in graphic design just as the online social networking craze...

Activist's Arrest At President Bush's press conference yesterday, ABC News (search) reporter Terry Moran (search) described the case of a Jordanian activist, Ali Hattar, who Moran said had been arrested and charged with slander for promoting a boycott of U.S. goods. Moran called it an "abuse of human rights," and invited the President to condemn it, saying, "If you won't, sir, then what ... do your fine words [about freedom] mean?" President Bush said he was unaware of the case. He was in good company. The Hattar case appears never to have been mentioned by any news outlet in the...

Jennings: A sentence on infrastructure work in Iraq where people were better off under Saddam. The January 25 CyberAlert noted that though ABC's Peter Jennings relayed on Monday how "every U.S. officer encountered today said the media has missed or under-reported" U.S. efforts to re-build Iraq, ABC never did show any video to illustrate the money spent on "sewer pipes, sewage treatment, landfills for garbage, available clean water." On Tuesday, Jennings gave a sentence to how "in parts of Sadr City in eastern Baghdad, new water pipes and new paving don't go unnoticed." But, he quickly added, "in Baghdad's Shula...

Continued immigration and a stubborn high school dropout rate have stymied efforts to improve literacy in Los Angeles County, where more than half the working-age population can't read a simple form, a report released Wednesday found. Alarmingly, only one in every 10 workers deemed functionally illiterate is enrolled in literacy classes and half of them drop out within three weeks, said the study by the United Way of Greater Los Angeles.

DALLAS - A Dallas man who was videotaped encouraging his two pit bulls to fatally maul a neighbor's dog was convicted of cruelty to an animal and dogfighting. Carey McMillian, 23, was sentenced to 10 years in prison. In September 2003, neighbors videotaped McMillian dragging neighbor Ronald Huff's dog by the legs as one of his pit bulls locked onto the screaming dog's neck and the other locked its jaws on the dog's hind legs. Cisco, a pointer-hound mix, died hours after its body was thrown behind its owner's southeast home. McMillian also faces $14,000 in fines. The jury watched...