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Tag: High School Graduation
Widow Of Legendary Wrestler Balls Mahoney Faces Eviction, Friend Says
Balls Mahoney was a hardcore wrestling icon, who captivated fans with his matches with John Cena in WWE and bloody brawls with the Dudley Boyz in ECW, that often ended with him going through flaming tables.
Mahoney aka Jon Recher, a Monmouth County native, died in 2016 of a heart attack at the age of 44, leaving behind his wife Gayle and son, Chris.
Now Gayle and Chris are facing eviction from their home in Spring Lake Heights, the only home Chris, a senior in high school, has ever known.
"Gayle has shown incredible strength, raising Chris on her own despite facing enormous challenges," De…
NY Teen Tech Star Rejected By All 8 Ivies Chooses His College–After Building $30M App Empire
He built a $30 million app, launched a website with 5 million users, and still got rejected by all eight Ivy League schools.
Now, 18-year-old Long Island resident Zach Yadegari, of Roslyn, is taking his talents to South Florida.
Despite a perfect 4.0 GPA, a 34 ACT score, and a resume that includes founding a wildly successful calorie tracking app, Yadegari says he was denied admission to 15 of the 18 colleges he applied to—including every Ivy League school, plus Stanford, MIT, Duke, and NYU.
“I didn’t expect to be accepted to all of these colleges,” he told The New York Post in April. “Ho…