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FOXNews.com – Texas High School Student Told Rosary Is ‘Gang Symbol’ – Local News | News Articles | National News | US News
A Texas teen claims she is forbidden from wearing a rosary around her neck in school because the Catholic prayer beads are a gang symbol, MyFOXDFW.com reported.

Tabitha Ruiz was stopped by security guards at Seagoville High School in Dallas last week and told to take off the silver and ruby beaded rosary, a gift from her mother. On Monday, the same thing happened when she again came to the school wearing the beads.

“I went to school, walked through the metal detectors and they told me to take it off,” the teen said. “I asked them why and they said because it’s gang-related.”

Ruiz and her mother, Taire Ferguson, said they had no idea that rosary beads were a gang symbol. Police, however, are well aware.

“Lately they’ve been seen wearing religious jewelry such as the rosary worn by gang members, so it is a factor,” Sr. Cpl Kevin Janse of the Dallas Police Department told the FOX affiliate.

While rosaries are not specifically banned in area schools, a spokesman for the Dallas Independent School District said that whether or not they’re allowed is at the principal’s discretion.

Ruiz and her mother have vowed to take the district to court if necessary.

This is not good what else can go wrong.

FOXNews.com – Report: N. Korea Tests Long-Range Missile Engine – International News | News of the World | Middle East News | Europe News
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea has carried out an engine ignition test for a long-range missile capable of striking the western United States, a South Korean newspaper reported Tuesday.

A U.S. reconnaissance satellite detected the North testing the engine of what appears to be a Taepodong-2 missile — or an upgraded version of it — at a west coast missile base it began building several years ago, the mass-circulation Chosun Ilbo newspaper reported, quoting an unnamed South Korean government official.

The test took place earlier this year, the report said, without providing a date.

It would be a key step in development, and would confirm that the North has been working on a long-range missile. The entire missile base in North Pyongan Province in western North Korea is expected to be operational next year, the report said.

The Taepodong-2 missile can fly as far as 4,160 miles, and the upgraded version would take that range to more than 6,210 miles — within reach of the western United States.

South Korea’s Defense Ministry said Tuesday it could not confirm the report because it involves intelligence affairs on North Korea.

Officials with the U.S. military command and U.S. Embassy in Seoul were not immediately available to confirm the report.

Construction of the North’s new missile base is about 80 percent complete, South Korean Defense Minister Lee Sang-hee told a parliamentary committee last Thursday. He said the ministry is keeping a close eye on its construction.

Jane’s Defence Weekly reported last week that the system is about one or two years from first-stage completion, but said the launch pad likely has had “emergency launch capability” since 2006.

North Korea’s missile programs has been a key regional concern along with its nuclear weapons programs.

In 2006, the North conducted a series of missiles — including the Taepodong-2 — but experts said the Taepodong-2 missile plunged into the ocean shortly after liftoff.

Later in 2006, the North again rattled the world by conducting its first-ever test of a nuclear device. However, experts believe it does not have a bomb design advanced enough to be placed on a missile.