Virginia Tech student newspaper won’t appeal dismissal in lawsuit seeking records about missing student

The case involving police records from a 1998 missing person investigation has been dismissed because the West Virginia State Police claim the records are part of an ongoing investigation.The Collegiate Times, Virginia Tech's student newspaper, wanted to access the police investigation file in 2009 when reporter Caleb Fleming was writing a story about the 10th anniversary of former Virginia Tech student Robert Kovack's disappearance.

Texas high school yearbook recalled after “Ugly Hoe” caption discovered

On the heels of another high school yearbook prankIrving High School in Irving, Tex., recalled every copy of the 2012-13 yearbook last week after realizing that a student’s name had been changed to “Ugly Hoe” in a photo caption, the Dallas Observer reported.

The person who changed the student’s name has not yet been identified, said Lesley Weaver, the school district's director of communications.

“We can speculate, but we don’t know definitively,” Weaver said.

Missouri high school junior arrested for yearbook prank

Kaitlyn Booth, 17, a junior at Hickman High School in Columbia, Mo., was arrested earlier this month after a prank in which she she changed a student's last name to "Masturbate" in the 2013 yearbook.Booth faces charges of harassment as well as first-degree property damage, a felony, in addition to unspecified school punishment.The name change is found on page 270 of the yearbook, the page that features the index.