A Panga boat smuggling drugs into California has been seized by narcotics investigators. Narcotics detectives recovered 500 plastic-wrapped bales of marijuana at Arroyo QUemada beach Sunday morning. The 2,000 lbs of drugs have an estimated street value of four million dollars. Detectives als...
The NHL finally approved the realignment plan that will change the divisions of the NHL for the forseeable future. Many people did not approve of this plan because of the affect it would have on traditional divisional rivalries but it passed anyway. What do you guys think of the realignment? Is it goo...
TJ Lane, 18, when given the opportunity to give a statement at the court, gave a short and crude statement that ended with "f*** you all" before sticking up his middle finger in the courtroom filled with the loved ones of the three students that were gunned down. Lane also arrived at the sent...
It has long been my dream to own even just one of these cars! And to know what it feels like to break the 200 mph mark as all these cars can!! Which one is your favorite? And would you ever have the guts to go 200 mph? If you could have any car you wanted what would it be? http://www.thesupercars.org/fastest...
A chicken has laid a giant egg containing two yolks as well as another perfectly formed egg inside, stunning villagers in one Chinese village.Villagers in Guizhou, Southwest China were reportedly left speechless after the hen laid the enormous egg, and were even more dumbfounded after it was crac...
Energy drink tycoon Red Bull says it is being blackmailed by someone who is threatening to place cans contaminated with feces onto shelves. The Company says the threats started a couple weeks ago. Although no complaint of contamination has been brought up and store records show that the mercha...
Egyptian villagers lynch two men Hundreds of villagers in Egypt have lynched two men for allegedly kidnapping two children and other violent crimes. The bodies were then hung by the feet from a lamppost in a car park in the centre of the village. The residents of Mahallat Ziyad in Gharbiya province, n...
Two Canadian inmates who escaped from prison by grabbing a rope attached to a hovering helicopter are due in court. Theirs was the latest in a long line of dramatic breakout attempts.Check out the most daring Prison Breaouts of all time!http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21835121
Unhappy meal: McDonald's suit claims toddler ate used condom It's a story that leaves a bad taste in your mouth: A Chicago mother filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against McDonald's, alleging that her toddler found and ate a used condom in a play area last year. According to the complaint, 2-year-old Jac...
This isn't my part of the world this week, but I had a request to do this story (GREG), so I figured I'd do it. A Dutch lesbian couple have gone into hiding with their foster son after the boy's biological parents said on television in Turkey that they object to the pair taking care of their child. The 9-yea...
Health Minister Nouri Doghman said Monday that 51 people had died over the previous three days from drinking homemade alcohol containing poisonous methanol and that 330 others had been sickened. Most of the victims were in Tripoli; some were blinded, while others went into comas or suffered kidne...
Ahmadinejad under fire for consoling Chavez's mother Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is mired in a fresh controversy over both real and fake photos showing him consoling the grieving family members of late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. During Mr Chavez's funeral in Caracas on Friday...
An interesting something happened this week that reminded me that perhaps I'm not as mindful as I used to be or as I should be of all of the things that are happening in your lives outside of my classroom (it's NOT an excuse, just an explanation, but between the three MiniCavs and my mom's accident, my pe...
Terrosists attacked a busy intersection in Baghdad left 18 dead and 53 wounded. Atleast one of the four explosions was set off by a suicide bomber. The explosions themselves were set off not far from a fortified building where international and government employees work called the green zone. In a...
http://www.globalissues.org/news/2013/03/15/16095 The new Pope Francis is expected to change some aspects of the Catholic Church, especially the relationship between power and money in the church. However, he takes the traditional stand on issues like abortion, gay marriage, and adoption...
You probably remember that we had three days' worth of "WASC Visits" last year- an outside committee coming in to evaluate our school. That was the culmination of a two-year process where we had to engage in a "self-study" to reveiw our accomplishments and shortcomings and d...
The air pollution in China reached such critical levels in January that schools were shut down, factories were closed and government vehicles were ordered off the streets. February marked their annual Lunar New Year, meaning a lot of fireworks and smoke. Well, not this year. The government signi...
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