Ralston Valley [e]Xpress Newspaper

      Tonight Haste the Day will make their final appearance in Colorado. Read more…

          One of the most exciting games was played on Sunday. Read more…

     After spending 69 days in the depths of a collapsed mine, all 33 miners were successfully rescued on October 13th, having been trapped since August 5th, when the mine first collapsed. 

     After August 5th, 17 days past before it was realized that the miners were still alive, due to the 7 inch hole discovered through which food, water, letters from family and friends, hydration gels, soccer videos, and even bibles were passed. 

     For the other 52 days, rescuers spent their time building the shaft intended to rescue each miner.  The shaft was barely wider than a person’s shoulder width, held one person at a time, and the journey to the surface was about 15 minutes.  One by one, the miners each were  brought back to the real world and were reunited with their families and friends.  They were made to wear special sunglasses to prevent damage the sudden brightness might cause their eyes after spending so long in a dark tunnel.  As they fell to the ground, a few prayed, and one professional soccer player was tossed a ball and he juggled it for a while; his first pleasure of being given back his life.  Others hugged their loved ones for a long time, crying in gratitude.  The Chilean President Sebastian Pinera was at the mouth of the  hole, waiting to hug each man as he surfaced.

     The rest of the world has seen this remarkable save as inspiration, and Chilean Pinera voiced his agreement. 

     “We have lived a magical night, a night we will remember throughout our lives, a night in which life defeated death,” Pinera said.

     “This is our house!” the fans cheered in the gym of Arvada West as the Mustangs Volleyball team shut out the Wildcats.

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Well they’ve done it again, for the fourth time. The legendary Heavy Rock band Disturbed’s new album, Asylum debuts at number one atop the Billboard 200 with an estimate of 179,000 records sold. Next to it is the Now 35 compilation, at No. 2 with 105,000 units bought. Eminem’s Recovery maintains its spot at No. 3 with 93,000. This is the fourth consecutive time that the band’s album has made #1. The last three albums that made number one are Indestructible in 2008, Ten Thousand Fists in 2005, and Believe in 2002. From which only two other bands have accomplished: Metallica and the Dave Matthews band.

In New York on May 28th, four teens waged a competition to see who could hold their breath the longest–including the driver. Read more…

Sean Woodworth poses stoically with his new haircut.

Kurt Luce revels in his newfound semibaldness.

No matter how good one’s study habits are, it’s unavoidable that he or she enters a period of cramming shortly before finals.  However, some students were not only adjusting the contents of their heads. Read more…