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Like most graduates, teenager Carson Covey had a lot of things on his mind, but stage fright was not one of them. The Chatfield High School senior joined his classmates at Red Rocks Amphitheater to walk and accept their diplomas Thursday -- no small feat for Covey, who lives with cerebral palsy, and was determined to step up to the podium. "I decided, two years ago, that my goal was to walk across the stage at graduation," Covey told CBS Denver. "I think I can do anything, when I set my mind to it." Sure enough, he walked for the first time within months of his graduation. Prior to that, he had been confined to his bed and wheelchair -- not that it stopped him from leading an active life. Covey signed up for a weight training class taught by Chatfield High's football coach, Bret McGatlin. From there, Covey asked to get involved with the team. He served as an unofficial coach and team manager. "You would hear the buzz from his little wheelchair, and they would be doing pushups right … [Read more...] about Colorado teen overcomes disability to walk across stage at graduation

A man in Ohio realized the downside of bringing home the bacon when a pig wouldn't stop following him on his way home early Saturday morning. Police in Elyria, Ohio, say they thought the unidentified man must have been drunk or hallucinating when he called for backup after failing to shake the swine. The North Ridgeville Police Department said they received the call at 5:26 a.m. Saturday morning. Upon arrival, they discovered the man, who was still being followed by the pig near the city's Amtrak station. An officer loaded the pig into his police cruiser and eventually returned it to its owner. A department spokesperson told CBS News the pig's name was Zoey. "Also, we will mention the irony of the pig in a police car now so that anyone that thinks they're funny is actually unoriginal and trying too hard," the department said in a Facebook post.  … [Read more...] about Ohio man calls police on pig following him home

At least one server used by an app for parents to monitor their teenagers' phone activity has leaked tens of thousands of accounts of both parents and children. The mobile app, TeenSafe, bills itself as a "secure" monitoring app for iOS and Android, which lets parents view their child's text messages and location, monitor who they're calling and when, access their web browsing history and find out which apps they have installed. Although teen monitoring apps are controversial and privacy-invasive, the company says it doesn't require parents to obtain the consent of their children. But the Los Angeles, California-based company left its servers, hosted on Amazon's cloud, unprotected and accessible by anyone without a password. Robert Wiggins, a U.K.-based security researcher who searches for public and exposed data, found two leaky servers. Both of the servers were pulled offline after ZDNet alerted the company, including another that contains what appears to be only test data. "We have … [Read more...] about Teen phone monitoring app leaked thousands of user passwords

It's been an emotional year for Amelia Thompson. The 12-year-old survivor of the May 2017 bombing at Manchester Arena was in disbelief when she learned she would be attending the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.  Thompson's mother, Lisa Newton, had secretly submitted a request for her daughter's invitation to the royal wedding when she learned that 1,200 members of the public would be admitted to the grounds of Windsor Castle, according to Reuters. Just 12 months earlier, she was in direct line of sight to an explosion that rocked the Manchester Arena as 14,000 concert goers exited the stadium after an Ariana Grande performance. Hundreds were injured and 22 killed by the blast of a suicide attacker's explosive. When Thompson learned that her invite to the royal wedding came with a plus one, her choice of guest was clear: Sharon Goodman, grandmother of 15-year-old Olivia Campbell-Hardy, who was one of seven children killed in the Manchester bombing. Newton was … [Read more...] about Manchester bombing survivor attends royal wedding, snaps photo with David Beckham

Orbital ATK readied an upgraded Antares rocket for launch Monday from Wallops Island, Virginia, to deliver more than 3 tons of crew supplies, science gear, spare parts and three small satellites to the International Space Station to test miniaturized, low-cost technologies for Earth observation applications. The experiments headed for orbit include a quantum physics study that will attempt to cool atoms to a billionth of a degree above absolute zero, another to test a novel technique for separating liquids and one devoted to learning more about how concrete settles in the absence of gravity. "A lot of time when I'm asked what's the research that I do, and I just say simply concrete, people give me a blank look and say they don't give a Ph.D. for concrete research. Well, yes, they do!" said Aleksandra Radlinska, principal investigator for the Microgravity Investigation of Cement Solidification, or MICS, experiment at Pennsylvania State University. "Because we are looking into colonizing … [Read more...] about Orbital ATK readies cargo ship for station launch