Rants:

Four teens have been charged with the rape of a Bellevue girl. The boys described the attack in messages on MySpace, where the girl identified two of them.

A student from Maine returned home emaciated after losing almost 60 pounds during a school-year long stay with a host family in Egypt.

Raves:

UW President Mark Emmert has turned down several offers to head up Vanderbilt University in Tennessee.

A sea turtle in Texas is being fitted with a prosthetic flipper after predators bit off three of its other flippers.