This Week's Issue 

Student Council Meeting

By: Isabella Carstens 

On April 22, 2026 Student Council had a meeting where they discussed all the upcoming events and plans for the final stretch of the year. Some of the following discussions were:

• The Rock Paper Scissors event will be postponed to next year

• Volunteers needed for bringing treats for Teachers Appreciation Week

• The Impact Blood Drive is on April 30th, and an adult is needed to supervise in the back gym.

• Talk about doing “bring anything but a backpack day”

• Volunteers needed for Freshman Orientation on August 10th, to show around new freshman and families, pass out popcorn, and promote Student Council

• If any of the members want to volunteer to go to the CRH Elementary to help out with field day

• Cash cow for the Senior Student Council Members

One of the biggest surprises was when the Arizona Cardinals picked running back Jeremiyah Love from Notre Dame at number three. Usually, running backs don’t get picked that high anymore, so a lot of people were shocked by that decision.

After that, the Tennessee Titans picked wide receiver Carnell Tate from Ohio State, which gives their offense another good weapon. Then the New York Giants picked linebacker Arvell Reese from Ohio State, adding a strong defensive player.

Throughout the rest of the first round, a lot of teams focused on defense. Players like Caleb Downs and Sonny Styles were picked, showing that teams really wanted fast and athletic defenders. 

Another surprising moment was when the Los Angeles Rams picked quarterback Ty Simpson from Alabama. 

There were also a lot of trades during the first round. Some teams moved up to get players they really wanted, while others, like the Buffalo Bills, traded back to get more picks later instead of picking in the first round.

Overall, the first round of the 2026 NFL Draft had a mix of smart picks, risky decisions, and big trades. Rounds 2 and 3 of the draft start on Friday April 24th, 2026 with rounds 4-7 following on Saturday April 25th, 2026 on ABC and ESPN. 

The victim, Celeste Rivas Hernandez, is noted to have been present in the singer’s Discord server in 2022, likely where he began to groom her. At the time she would have been around 12-13 years old. Hernandez was reported missing on April 5, 2024. Her brother claimed to have seen her leave with Burke. Evidence suggests the two lived in a rental home for about a year where he is believed to have sexually abused her before she was killed on or around April 23, 2025. Burke then allegedly dismembered her body and placed it in his car.

Since his arrest, new allegations have arisen from the investigation. Charged with sexual abuse of a child, prosecutors believe that Hernandez was killed after threatening to go public with his "criminal conduct". The autopsy report suggests that she was killed by stabbing. Burke’s phone was confiscated for the investigation as well, and a significant amount of child sex abuse material was found on his iCloud account. 

Burke has pleaded not guilty to all charges, including first degree murder, lewd and lascivious acts, and mutilation of a corpse. Beyond the years behind bars that he is facing, Burke is also facing the death penalty, a rarity in the California court of law. Only time will tell whether he will face a life behind bars or if his life will come to an end.

had fled the home and had asked for help from multiple different neighbors, who had then also called 911, and then had gone into a nearby marsh, according to the police. Fast forward to December 2011 her skeletonized remains were found in the marsh halfway entangled in overgrown shrubbery. The medical examiner listed that her cause of death was undetermined. But an independent autopsy was performed and the Chief medical examiner Micheal Baden concluded that there was “ insufficient information to determine a definite cause of death, but the autopsy findings are consistent with homicidal strangulation.” He also noted that part of her neck bone was missing from her remains. Which may have been fractured during the strangulation. The police also ruled out the driver and the client of all criminal involvement. According to Rondey Harrison “ Based on evidence, the facts, the totality of circumstances, the prevailing opinion in Shannan’s death, while tragic, was not a murder, and was most likely non-criminal.” The Suffolk County District Attorney's Office had declined to respond to Gilbert’s case. Again on June 28,1997, the dismembered torso was found in a wooden area in the state park in West Hempstead on Long Island told by Nassau County District Attorney's office. A tattoo had been found on the unidentified body of a peach and that earned her the nickname “peaches”  They had swabbed the remains of the body and they detected the presence of semen. In April 2011 the search for bodies on Long Island had found the remains of a toddler off Ocean Parkway in Gilgo Beach. The investigators had also found the remains that were left of peaches. On the westbound side of the parkway in Zachs Bay the child had been determined that she was “Peaches” biological daughter.  Those two had been undefined for more than a decade. In April of 2025 with the help of genetic genealogy Nassau County Officials and the FBI had announced their identities. Tanya Jackson, a 26 year-old and a US Army veteran and her 2 year- old daughter, Tatiana Dykes. Tayna was originally from Mobile, Alabama and had served in the army from 1993 to 1995 and her and her daughter were living in Brooklyn and had been estranged from their family at the time. In December the child's father, Andrew Dykes who was 66 had been arrested in Florida and charged with the murder of Tayna and Tatiana. “ Tayna Jackson was not murdered by a serial killer, but allegedly by the man she loved, and the father of her child,” said Donelley, the district attorney. He also served in the Army from 1980-2001 as a military instructor who specialized in anatomy and physiology, then worked as a Florida state trooper. After they had identified tayna and Tatiana the investigators had surveillance Andrew in Tampa, Florida. They had received a Charley’s Cheesesteak plastic cup and straw that he threw into the trash and his DNA had been matched to the one found on Tayna Jackson’s body, but there was no evidence to go forward with the murder of the child’s death. Dykes has pleaded not guilty to one count of second-degree murder and he faces up to 25 years in prison.  Skeletal remains of a person that they referred to as the Asian Doe were found off Ocean parkway in April 2011. The body was an Asian biological male dressed in women's clothing. “ Because the victim was wearing exclusively women’s clothing at the time of the death, it is possible that they identified as a woman or were known by others for being a woman,” said Ray Tierney. They had believed that the victim died in 2006 and the victim was between 17- 23 and about 5’6 and was wearing a blue, ribbed short-sleeved shirt, a women's bra and pants. Investigators believe that the victim had been working as a sex-worker.