The James Logan Courier

By Christina La, Courier Co-Editor-in-Chief
Just days into her college career, former Courier Entertainment Editor Carmen Shiu, won a position as the co scene editor and online editor of the Chabot College newspaper, “The Spectator.”

Shiu was in the journalism class at Logan her senior year. She is currently enrolled at Chabot College in Hayward where she is taking journalism classes along with general education requirements. Shiu plans to stay at Chabot for the next two years.

By Martha McKay
The Record (Bergen County, N.J.) (MCT)

HACKENSACK, N.J. — George Hotz — pale, skinny, shaggy-haired and brilliant — claims he's won the worldwide race to unlock an Apple iPhone so it can be used with a carrier other than AT&T.

The 17-year-old Glen Rock, N.J., resident posted the complicated steps on his blog Thursday.

An avid tinkerer who goes by the online name Geohot, Hotz showed off two iPhones that he'd unlocked, both of which can make and receive calls using T-Mobile's network.

By Andy Campbell
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)

DAYTON, Wash. — Nineteen-year-old Kevin Gowan spent his summer in the sky, looking down from 260-foot wind turbines at Puget Sound Energy's first wind farm.

And on top of his amassing acclaim and credit for designing a 20-foot-tall wind turbine in Bellingham Bay, he can now add professional experience to his belt.