Police arrested a 15-year old girl was arrested for cyberbullying. They say she sent several hundred texts to 3 other girls. The girl is being charged with three counts of stalking and 1 count of tampering with a witness. Many of the texts that we sent were death threats
Typhoon in Philippines leaves 10,000 people dead in only one city. This storm was one of the worst storms recorded. Amongst volcanos, earthquakes, and tropical storms, Typhoon Haiyan was the deadliest so far. Wind speeds got up to 170 mph. About 4 million people had been affected by the storm. The president says that we will be helping with recovery from the event.
Two Gonzaga University students could be suspended or even expelled after using a handgun to defend themselves from an intruder in their university-owned apartment, an act which the university says violates the school's weapons policy. A short while after the incident, police captured the man, whom they identified as a six-time convicted felon. Gonzaga University, a private, four-year university in Spokane, Washington, says the students violated the school's weapons policy by having firearms in their apartment, which is in a complex near the campus.
Homeless man naps in Pittsburgh presidential suite. Jeffery Watson napped in the comfort of a $2,500 presidential suite, which has hosted movie stars, leaders of industry, and every U.S. president from Theodore Roosevelt to Barack Obama. Charged with theft of services and criminal trespassing. He was charged 15,000 dollars and was sent to jail.
A 50 year old Wisconsin man fell out of his tree stand november 10 at noon. The man fell when he was trying to move his tree stand to French Creek Public Hunting area. He was able to call 911 from his phone. He was airlifted to La Crosse hospital.
Fallen Waterloo soldier honored with monument. A fallen war hero will be remembered now from outside a high school outside the football field in Waterloo. US Arm Sergeant Eric Steffeney was killed on a roadside bomb in Iraq on Febuary 28, 2005. He was 28 years old. Steffeney graduated in 1994 and his stone marker was outside Waterloo's Memorial Stadium. Steffeney was serving his second tour during Iraq Freedom when he died. He leaves behind a wife and tree children.
The Holy Trinity Church in Grazeley, Berkshire has tried something new. In an effort to save money they bought 10 sheep to graze the churches cemetery. The church says they had to other money to pay for someone to mow the grass and that the sheep keep it short. But the sheep have their downfalls. Not only are they eating the grass but they are eating the flowers and destroying mementoes left by loved ones. They have even destroyed headstones. Most people are outraged by this. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/10438385/Graveyard-sheep-eating-mourners-mementos.html
Hy-vees all over eastern and midwest Iowa are serving veteran breakfast. Eggs, sausage, hash browns, pancakes etc. were served to thank the veterans. There is over 200 hy-vee's participating in this event. Hy-Vee on Logan Avenue in Waterloo has veterans on its staff, and said this is just one way the store recognizes their service."From all of us at Hy-Vee, we'd like to say thank you," said kitchen manager Brandon Stevens. "We really do appreciate everything you do and have done, and are very grateful." It ran till 11 a.m. monday morning. http://www.kwwl.com/story/23932732/2013/11/11/hy-vee-serves-the-military-this-veterans-day
The 73-year-old Omaha man learned last week that California authorities had recovered his 1953 Triumph Tiger 100 at the Port of Los Angeles. The bike was about to be shipped to Japan when U.S. Customs & Border Protection agents who checked the vehicle identification number discovered the motorcycle had been reported stolen in February 1967. DeVault said he is eager to get the bike back, but he thinks investigators may be even more excited than him about the motorcycle's recovery. DeVault had had the bike for only a year or two when it was taken from his fenced backyard. "I really want to protect it this time," DeVault said. "I'm sure there's people out there that would want to take it away."
The bike was valued at $300 when in 1967. The shipping documents listed its value today at $9,000.
An army veteren was paralyzed during Operation Desert Storm. He crashed and it crushed his spine. Not allowing him to walk. This occurred 5 years ago. A company spent $125,000 to build an exoskeleton that will strap around his wait and legs. This will allow him to walk again.
A giant typhoon hit the Philippines this Friday that has killed an estimated 10,000 people in the city of Tacloban alone. Typhoon Haiyan has had devastating effects everywhere in the Philippines. Bodies are laying in the streets, and the survivors are running extremely low on food, water, and medical supplies. Massive relief efforts are helping the situation, but it's still really bad.
Five people died and 15 were wounded by a hotel in Somalia. A car bomb exploded outside a hotel. They are still unsure on who was behind the attack. They are gathering evidence leading to Al Shabaab. Al Shabaab is part of al Qaeda. http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/08/world/africa/somalia-attack/index.html?hpt=wo_c2
A Kalispell, Montana, newlywed accused of pushing her husband from a cliff wants her trial postponed after prosecutors told her attorney they have evidence her husband was blindfolded before falling to his death, court documents say. http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/11/justice/montana-newlywed-husband-death/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
A man ripped up his carpet to find a monopoly game under it. Most people just find dust, loose change and other small objects that you lost. This man found a complete Monopoly board. It has all of the right colors and number of squares. Although it is missing the writing (names or prices) on all of the squares all of the objects and pictures are their. Even the 'go to jail' and the 'jail' places are their. Some people are joking and saying, "Hope you have a dog, it would save you from buying a piece." This is really a unique find.
A high speed chase went down in Michigan. When the cops stopped the victim he started climbing over an overpass as the cop was chasing him and they both fell down. Neither have been identified yet.
A husband and wife are facing federal charges for an alleged bank-robbing spree that spanned two states. The Tampa Tribune reports that FBI agents arrested 28-year-old Immanuel Lee Williams and his wife, Cara Lee, this week at their Tampa home. The two are accused of robbing 13 banks in Florida and two in Alabama. Authorities say they used disguises and notes to demand money the robberies netted a total of $54,740.
In an unusual twist, lenders are offering rates on jumbo mortgages that are more than a quarter of a percentage point lower than those on the conforming loans backed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The government-run agencies require conforming loans to be below $417,000, unless they are for homes in high-cost areas like New York or Los Angeles,where the limit is $625,500. Jumbo loans exceed those dollar limits and, historically, banks charge higher rates on them -- about 0.25 percentage points more.
Joseph Palmarchuk won a $1.35 million lottery jackpot Wednesday in Michigan's Classic Lotto 47 game. In the past few years, Palmarchuk has also won a $1 million lottery game in Tennessee. Palmarchuk and wife Phillis moved to Mecosta County, north of Grand Rapids, in 2011. The Palmarchuks plan to look for a condo in a warm state to skip Michigan winters. He says he buys tickets that cashiers put aside as mistakes.
Earlier this year the wife of an Ohio man was killed in a car accident. Now her husband wants to sue the hospital she worked at. She was a nurse at the Jewish Hospital in Cincinnati, and after working a 12 hour shift, she got into a car accident. He claims the hospital was overworking her and other nurses, and the conditions led to her death. He filed the wrongful death suit last week, and wants to bring attention to the issue of hospital understaffing.
An Ohio inmate on death row for rape and murder of a 3 year old wishes to donate his heart. If he had his way he would give at least one of his kidneys to his mother who has kidney disease, and give his heart to his sister who has a very bad heart conditions.The decision to donate the bodies organs will be left to the family after the execution.
A 31 year old man attacks a cab with a didgeridoo. The man got in the cab at Chula Vista and they slept on the twenty minute ride home. When they arrived the man argued with the cab driver about the fare. He went inside and came back out with a long big wooden stick from Australia, and started hitting the cab while he was driving away putting a few dents in it. The police arrested him for further questioning..
The National Weather Service said that Spencer, Iowa and Aberdeen, South Dakota hit below 1 degrees Fahrenheit on Tuesday, making them the coldest in the country yesterday. http://www.kwwl.com/story/23948563/2013/11/12/spencer-iowa-and-aberdeen-sd-coldest-in-nation-tuesday
A rabi bought a $200 desk off craigslist. But found $98,000 stashed in a bag inside the desk. He didn't know what to do with it so he called the original owner. She said that she had stored her inheritance in it and forgot all about it. He then returned the money to her.
Nasa released new photo of Saturn and Earth. A color picture that captures not only Saturn, but also the tiny dots of Earth and other planets in the background. The image, released Tuesday, was captured by the Cassini spacecraft on July 19, when the sun slipped behind the ringed planet. Earth appears as a bright blue dot to Saturn's lower right, just above Saturn's outer, halo-like E-ring. This is the first image where Saturn's moons and rings, Earth, Venus, and Mars are all visible.
Environmentalists in Vietnam were exited this week after remote cameras in a forest reserve snapped pictures of a live saola, one of the rarest large mammals on Earth. Somewhere between 12-200 are alive today. Because of that rarity and its elusiveness, the saola is known as the "Asian unicorn." "These are the most important wild animal photographs taken in Asia, and perhaps the world, in at least the past decade," said William Robichaud, coordinator of the Saola Working Group of the International Union for Conservation of Nature's Species Survival Commission, in a World Wildlife Fund press release.
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford admitted during a heated City Council debate Wednesday that he had bought illegal drugs in the past two years, but he firmly refused to step down from his job even after nearly every councilor stood up to ask him to take a leave of absence.The mayor made the confession under direct questioning by a councilor who has introduced a motion that would ask Ford to take a leave of absence and get help for his admitted drug use. Ford publicly admitted last week that he smoked crack cocaine last year in a "drunken stupor," but his comments Wednesday marked the first time he acknowledged having bought illegal drugs.
Ford paused for a long time after Councilor Denzil Minnan-Wong asked him if he had bought illicit narcotics in the past two years. Then Ford replied, Yes I have.I understand the embarrassment that I have caused. I am humiliated by it said Ford. http://www.kwwl.com/story/23952228/toronto-mayor-admits-he-has-bought-illegal-drugs
A convicted child killer and rapist's request to donate his organs to his mother and sister after he is executed was denied Tuesday.The 40-year-old man is scheduled to die Thursday by lethal injection for murdering and raping his girlfriend's 3-year-old daughter in 1993.In a letter written by his attorney,requested Monday that his heart be given to his sister, who has an unspecified heart condition, and that one or both of his kidneys go to his mother, who is "suffering from kidney disease and on dialysis."
Authorities say his body will be handed over to his family and they "may take whatever action they wish with the physical body, including pursuing organ donation."
On Wednesday at Camp Pendleton in Southern California, four marines were killed in a training accident. It happened at 11 a.m. The identities are not being released until relatives get the notification. The military investigation says that human error was to blame for the incident. One marine didn't follow the correct procedures resulting in a highly explosive round going off at a mortar position. The investigation also found that the team didn't have the correct preparatory training.
In Vietnam people were amazed this week after remote cameras in a forest reserve snapped pictures of a live saola. The saola is one of the rarest mammals on Earth. Only a few of the animals are thought to exist. Because it is so rare it is also called the "Asian unicorn." It's funny that it is called that because it has two horns. These pictures are some of the rarest in the entire world.
Sundown Mountain Resort in Dubuque began making snow. Although it may seem early, officials say this isn't the earliest they have begun to make snow for the slopes. Officials say 4-7 feet of snow is already on the ground at Sundown Mountain Resort. "We are using a new gun that comes from Italy and it's probably some of the most state-of-the art snow making equipment in the world today," Kutsche said. "It does an excellent job. We are in the process of automating our snow making system so that the computers tell the snow gun when to add more water and when to take water away. It also adjusts the snow quality according to how we set it and it makes snow making extremely efficient." http://www.kwwl.com/story/23963591/2013/11/13/cool-weather-leading-dubuque-ski-resort-to-let-it-snow
A sinkhole in Florida swallowed part of a house Thursday. The hole was behind the house and it also swallowed a tree and a boat. Sinkholes are common in Florida and can be deadly.
Navy divers have recovered 64-square-foot section of a Civil War ironclad warship from the bottom of the Savannah River in Georgia.The 120-foot-long CSS Georgia was built in 1862 to protect Savannah during the Civil War. The ship had armor forged from railroad iron, but its engines proved too weak to propel the ship's 1,200-ton frame against river currents. A smaller-scale recovery effort in the 1980s removed two cannon, a few cannon balls and other artifacts.
In California, 4 marines were killed during a training exercise by an explosive device after it detonated. It is thought correct procedures were not used. It was at Camp Pendleton. 3 more marines were relieved from their duties because their commanding general lost trust in them. The names have not been released yet. http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/13/us/marines-killed-camp-pendleton/index.html?hpt=us_c2
Most people think it is easy to put their children in preschool. Most people are unable to put their children in preschool due to not being able to afford it. Senator Harkin has introduced the Strong Start for America's Children Act to change this. Michoel Crowe said that Harkin's goal is to prove knowledge to children who are 5 years old. Dehl thinks it will make a big difference in a child's life. Duncan said, " That this is going to be an important single step we should take to change young peoples lives.
Three people that were accused of torturing a dog and leaving it do die were charged with animal abuse but 2/3 of there charges were dropped. Last winter a dog was found dead in crate and covered in its own feces last winter. They people that were responsible for this were AJ Sellers, Kelsey Block and Ty HIckman. Hickman said he left the dog with Block and Sellers while they find it a new home. Sellers and Block pled guilty in doing this the judge dismissed all charges on them. They were fined 12 months on probation and fined $315. Hickman still has to go to trial.
The Iowa football players are in Cedar Falls for the state semi-finals at the UNI dome and the parients would need too sleep some were so that would need money and the $3.5 million will be pumped into the local economy from guests visiting for both the semi finals and finals. http://www.kwwl.com/story/23967664/2013/11/14/iowa-high-school-football-playoffs-come-to-cedar-falls
A Connecticut woman was attacked by a pit bull and was badly hurt. The woman's hands were gone and were suspected that the pit bull ate them. The authorities found the dogs collar and found that the dog is a 2-year old male and name is "Tux". The dog attacked another woman in a different town and ate her left arm and a portion of her right and the dog had been taken to laboratories to be tested for rabies
Four Marines were killed at a California Base when they were sweeping a range for "dangerous unexploded ordinances" to make it safe for future practice. Names have not been released.
A southwest air pilot told passengers that they were going down. The flight attendants began securing the bins and the pilot dropped oxygen masks. The pilot was able to gain control of the plane and land it at an airstrip in Raleigh.
Surfer Missing after wiping out on 20-foot Wave A surfer has been missing from wiping out on wave off the Oahu’s North Shore. The surfer, Kirk Passmore 32 years old was last seen on Wednesday morning at a surfing spot called Alligator Rock. His surfed and got wiped out and they found his broken board down the beach. He is still missing and people don’t know why he was surfing when there was warning out.
Sink hole in Florida swallows part of a house. Michael Dupre and his family made it out of their house after noticing the screened in room plunging into a pit in the ground. His wedding ring didn't make it out. A firefighter saved the ring. A few minutes later the whole thing collapsed to the ground. The hole was 70 to 75 feet wide and 50 feet deep and growing http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/14/us/florida-sinkhole/index.html?hpt=us_c2
This week U.S. Navy Divers worked with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to help retrieve the sunken Ironclad. Wednesday they retrieved a 64 foot section of the ironclad in the savannah river. In December of 1864 the union took over the town of Savannah and presented the town to Abraham Lincoln as a Christmas Present. The Ironclad removal is estimated to cost $9.5 million. The removal is expected to begin in the summer of 2014. They are removing the ironclad because they need to deepen the vital shipping channel.
One World Trade Center, rising to 1,776 feet, has claimed the title of tallest building in the the country, beating off a challenge from Chicago's Willis (formerly Sears) Tower. The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat said Tuesday that the 408 foot antenna atop One World Trade Center counts toward the building's full height. The decision was unanimous among the council's 25 members.
A pilot's distress call sent rescuers scrambling to an area near Miami on Thursday to search for a passenger who fell out of a small plane. He opened the back door and just fell out the plane. The pilot said he was flying at 1,800 feet about 2 miles from the shore when the man fell out. A police man said it was unlikely that he could survive falling from that height. The police didn't know if her fell out or deliberately jumped out.
In Georgia a two year old and her 4 year old sister were playing outside on the slide. Somehow gasoline was poured on the slide and the two year went down and started the gasoline on fire with static electricity from her. She was severely burned and was taken by helicopter to a hospital. She then was put into a medical induced coma to help her with the pain. Investigators are calling this a freak accident, but they still haven't found out how the gasoline got there in the first place. All they knew is that the little girls wanted the slide to go faster.
A forlida man was fined 5000 dollars for having 2 trees that were too short. 51 year old Patrick Fitzgerald said he planted 2 small magnolia trees in front of his house a year ago. The Home Owners Associate said that they have a rule that all trees have to be 8ft or taller. Fitzgerald said that he just wanted some more trees because he thinks the fertilizer in his yard is killing all his other trees. He had to spend 2000 dollars on a lawyer for two trees. He said that was the last thing he would of thought on getting a lawyer for. http://abcnews.go.com/Business/fla-homeowners-association-fines-man-100-day-small/story?id=20890562
A Cedar Rapids high school was briefly evacuated Friday morning for what turned out to be an overheated electrical fan motor. Approximately 1,800 Kennedy High School students and faculty safely evacuated the school when fire alarms activated at around 8:11 a.m., according to Greg Buelow with the Cedar Rapids Fire Department. Firefighters located a light haze of smoke in the mezzanine above the band room where an overheated electrical motor was located. Alliant Energy officials who also responded to the scene believe the cause of the incident was related to electrical power being partially interrupted to the school. The fire alarm system and power were fully restored and students and faculty returned to the school after around 15 minutes. No injuries were reported in the incident.
There was a thirty-eight minute video of never-before-seen footage that offers a rare glimpse of the president and the people around him, have been recovered and released to the public. In one shot, he’s in Sioux City, Iowa, riding a white mule that local Democrats tried to pass off as a donkey. The clip shows Kennedy’s head bobbing above a sea of people crowding around him. It also shows some of his funeral.
Moose do not usually live further South than northern Minnesota, so while it was exciting for those that saw it but experts want you to know that should be cautious. Moose can weigh close to 2000 pounds and stand eight feet tall. Thats so tall that your cars headlights won't reflect of their eyes. Making them impossible to see in the dark.
A mining accident occurred Sunday morning killing two miners and injuring 20 others. The accident happened at the Revenue-Virginius mine in Colorado. The mine produces silver, lead, zinc, copper, and gold. The two miners killed were first believed to be trapped, but were later confirmed dead. The cause of the accident is still unknown. Authorities have determined there was no explosion. The miner's injuries were caused by inhaling chemicals. http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/17/us/colorado-mine-accident/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
A North Carolina social worker is under arrest after a foster child was found cuffed by the ankle to her front porch with a dead chicken hanging from around his neck. Wanda Sue Larson and Dorian Lee Harper are charged with numerous offenses after a sheriff's deputy found the shivering 11-year-old boy. The children, ages 8 to 14, have been removed from the home.
Dallas Zoo Male Lions Kill Lioness. Crowds at Dallas Zoo witness two male lions attacking. In the end a lioness was killed. No people were killed, but many were stunned. A witness said a male lion lashed out and killed Johiar a female in the same pen. Another male joined than, and continued to fight. The lion that attacked was put down. None of the zoo keepers know why the lions attack one another. http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Dallas-Zoo-Male-Lions-Kill-Lioness-232279131.html
One person is dead and another is injured after they were in a head on crash in Hardin County. It all happened around 6:45 am saturday morning on highway 175. Iowa State patrol says that 17 year old Braden Wicks crossed the center line and hit 62 year old Floyd Wiley. Braden died in the accident.
The body of a man found Saturday in a mangrove area near Miami might be the body of a 42-year-old passenger who fell Thursday from a small plane. The body was discovered at 10:30 a.m. Authorities had been looking for the Key Biscayne man since a pilot's mayday distress call sent. The pilot said he was flying Thursday afternoon at an altitude of 1,800 feet about two miles from shore when the incident occurred. The search was called off later that night and resumed Friday at daybreak.
Over the past generation, the U.S. military has always wanted to invent something to give the soldiers more stealth. Inventors are coming closer to having soldiers become invisible. Not like a harry potter cloak or anything. But a device that will wipe out all tracking of soldiers. But they say that someday our soldiers could actually become invisible. Inventors say that our technology will be that advanced in the near future.
San Francisco transformed into Gothem city for a five year old boy with leukemia. His cancer went into remission so the city turned him into bat boy. 12,000 volunteers worked to give this boy his dream. He got to ride around town with bat man in the bat mobile, he got to wear his bat boy costume and safe people around the city.
A passenger who is blind says he and his service dog were kicked off a plane at Philadelphia International Airport after his dog left his seat. He wound up making the journey on the ground instead, joined by other passengers from the plane.
The U.S. Airways plane was supposed to take off for Long Island MacArthur Airport around 8:30 p.m. Wednesday but the airline canceled the flight following the incident.
Police arrested a 15-year old girl was arrested for cyberbullying. They say she sent several hundred texts to 3 other girls. The girl is being charged with three counts of stalking and 1 count of tampering with a witness. Many of the texts that we sent were death threats
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Typhoon in Philippines leaves 10,000 people dead in only one city. This storm was one of the worst storms recorded. Amongst volcanos, earthquakes, and tropical storms, Typhoon Haiyan was the deadliest so far. Wind speeds got up to 170 mph. About 4 million people had been affected by the storm. The president says that we will be helping with recovery from the event.
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Two Gonzaga University students could be suspended or even expelled after using a handgun to defend themselves from an intruder in their university-owned apartment, an act which the university says violates the school's weapons policy. A short while after the incident, police captured the man, whom they identified as a six-time convicted felon. Gonzaga University, a private, four-year university in Spokane, Washington, says the students violated the school's weapons policy by having firearms in their apartment, which is in a complex near the campus.
ReplyDeleteHomeless man naps in Pittsburgh presidential suite. Jeffery Watson napped in the comfort of a $2,500 presidential suite, which has hosted movie stars, leaders of industry, and every U.S. president from Theodore Roosevelt to Barack Obama. Charged with theft of services and criminal trespassing. He was charged 15,000 dollars and was sent to jail.
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A 50 year old Wisconsin man fell out of his tree stand november 10 at noon. The man fell when he was trying to move his tree stand to French Creek Public Hunting area. He was able to call 911 from his phone. He was airlifted to La Crosse hospital.
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Fallen Waterloo soldier honored with monument.
ReplyDeleteA fallen war hero will be remembered now from outside a high school outside the football field in Waterloo. US Arm Sergeant Eric Steffeney was killed on a roadside bomb in Iraq on Febuary 28, 2005. He was 28 years old. Steffeney graduated in 1994 and his stone marker was outside Waterloo's Memorial Stadium. Steffeney was serving his second tour during Iraq Freedom when he died. He leaves behind a wife and tree children.
http://www.kwwl.com/story/23926022/2013/11/09/fallen-waterloo-soldier-honored-with-monument
ReplyDeleteThe Holy Trinity Church in Grazeley, Berkshire has tried something new. In an effort to save money they bought 10 sheep to graze the churches cemetery. The church says they had to other money to pay for someone to mow the grass and that the sheep keep it short. But the sheep have their downfalls. Not only are they eating the grass but they are eating the flowers and destroying mementoes left by loved ones. They have even destroyed headstones. Most people are outraged by this.
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Hy-vees all over eastern and midwest Iowa are serving veteran breakfast. Eggs, sausage, hash browns, pancakes etc. were served to thank the veterans. There is over 200 hy-vee's participating in this event. Hy-Vee on Logan Avenue in Waterloo has veterans on its staff, and said this is just one way the store recognizes their service."From all of us at Hy-Vee, we'd like to say thank you," said kitchen manager Brandon Stevens. "We really do appreciate everything you do and have done, and are very grateful." It ran till 11 a.m. monday morning.
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The 73-year-old Omaha man learned last week that California authorities had recovered his 1953 Triumph Tiger 100 at the Port of Los Angeles. The bike was about to be shipped to Japan when U.S. Customs & Border Protection agents who checked the vehicle identification number discovered the motorcycle had been reported stolen in February 1967.
ReplyDeleteDeVault said he is eager to get the bike back, but he thinks investigators may be even more excited than him about the motorcycle's recovery. DeVault had had the bike for only a year or two when it was taken from his fenced backyard.
"I really want to protect it this time," DeVault said. "I'm sure there's people out there that would want to take it away."
The bike was valued at $300 when in 1967. The shipping documents listed its value today at $9,000.
An army veteren was paralyzed during Operation Desert Storm. He crashed and it crushed his spine. Not allowing him to walk. This occurred 5 years ago. A company spent $125,000 to build an exoskeleton that will strap around his wait and legs. This will allow him to walk again.
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A giant typhoon hit the Philippines this Friday that has killed an estimated 10,000 people in the city of Tacloban alone. Typhoon Haiyan has had devastating effects everywhere in the Philippines. Bodies are laying in the streets, and the survivors are running extremely low on food, water, and medical supplies. Massive relief efforts are helping the situation, but it's still really bad.
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Five people died and 15 were wounded by a hotel in Somalia. A car bomb exploded outside a hotel. They are still unsure on who was behind the attack. They are gathering evidence leading to Al Shabaab. Al Shabaab is part of al Qaeda. http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/08/world/africa/somalia-attack/index.html?hpt=wo_c2
ReplyDeleteA Kalispell, Montana, newlywed accused of pushing her husband from a cliff wants her trial postponed after prosecutors told her attorney they have evidence her husband was blindfolded before falling to his death, court documents say.
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A man ripped up his carpet to find a monopoly game under it. Most people just find dust, loose change and other small objects that you lost. This man found a complete Monopoly board. It has all of the right colors and number of squares. Although it is missing the writing (names or prices) on all of the squares all of the objects and pictures are their. Even the 'go to jail' and the 'jail' places are their. Some people are joking and saying, "Hope you have a dog, it would save you from buying a piece." This is really a unique find.
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A high speed chase went down in Michigan. When the cops stopped the victim he started climbing over an overpass as the cop was chasing him and they both fell down. Neither have been identified yet.
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A husband and wife are facing federal charges for an alleged bank-robbing spree that spanned two states.
ReplyDeleteThe Tampa Tribune reports that FBI agents arrested 28-year-old Immanuel Lee Williams and his wife, Cara Lee, this week at their Tampa home.
The two are accused of robbing 13 banks in Florida and two in Alabama. Authorities say they used disguises and notes to demand money the robberies netted a total of $54,740.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2498371/Partners-crime-Bonnie-Clyde-style-couple-arrested-15-bank-robberies.html
In an unusual twist, lenders are offering rates on jumbo mortgages that are more than a quarter of a percentage point lower than those on the conforming loans backed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The government-run agencies require conforming loans to be below $417,000, unless they are for homes in high-cost areas like New York or Los Angeles,where the limit is $625,500. Jumbo loans exceed those dollar limits and, historically, banks charge higher rates on them -- about 0.25 percentage points more.
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Joseph Palmarchuk won a $1.35 million lottery jackpot Wednesday in Michigan's Classic Lotto 47 game. In the past few years, Palmarchuk has also won a $1 million lottery game in Tennessee. Palmarchuk and wife Phillis moved to Mecosta County, north of Grand Rapids, in 2011. The Palmarchuks plan to look for a condo in a warm state to skip Michigan winters. He says he buys tickets that cashiers put aside as mistakes.
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Earlier this year the wife of an Ohio man was killed in a car accident. Now her husband wants to sue the hospital she worked at. She was a nurse at the Jewish Hospital in Cincinnati, and after working a 12 hour shift, she got into a car accident. He claims the hospital was overworking her and other nurses, and the conditions led to her death. He filed the wrongful death suit last week, and wants to bring attention to the issue of hospital understaffing.
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An Ohio inmate on death row for rape and murder of a 3 year old wishes to donate his heart. If he had his way he would give at least one of his kidneys to his mother who has kidney disease, and give his heart to his sister who has a very bad heart conditions.The decision to donate the bodies organs will be left to the family after the execution.
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A 31 year old man attacks a cab with a didgeridoo. The man got in the cab at Chula Vista and they slept on the twenty minute ride home. When they arrived the man argued with the cab driver about the fare. He went inside and came back out with a long big wooden stick from Australia, and started hitting the cab while he was driving away putting a few dents in it. The police arrested him for further questioning..
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The National Weather Service said that Spencer, Iowa and Aberdeen, South Dakota hit below 1 degrees Fahrenheit on Tuesday, making them the coldest in the country yesterday. http://www.kwwl.com/story/23948563/2013/11/12/spencer-iowa-and-aberdeen-sd-coldest-in-nation-tuesday
ReplyDeleteA rabi bought a $200 desk off craigslist. But found $98,000 stashed in a bag inside the desk. He didn't know what to do with it so he called the original owner. She said that she had stored her inheritance in it and forgot all about it. He then returned the money to her.
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Nasa released new photo of Saturn and Earth.
ReplyDeleteA color picture that captures not only Saturn, but also the tiny dots of Earth and other planets in the background. The image, released Tuesday, was captured by the Cassini spacecraft on July 19, when the sun slipped behind the ringed planet. Earth appears as a bright blue dot to Saturn's lower right, just above Saturn's outer, halo-like E-ring. This is the first image where Saturn's moons and rings, Earth, Venus, and Mars are all visible.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/13/us/nasa-saturn-earth-picture/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
Environmentalists in Vietnam were exited this week after remote cameras in a forest reserve snapped pictures of a live saola, one of the rarest large mammals on Earth.
ReplyDeleteSomewhere between 12-200 are alive today. Because of that rarity and its elusiveness, the saola is known as the "Asian unicorn." "These are the most important wild animal photographs taken in Asia, and perhaps the world, in at least the past decade," said William Robichaud, coordinator of the Saola Working Group of the International Union for Conservation of Nature's Species Survival Commission, in a World Wildlife Fund press release.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/13/world/asia/vietnam-rare-mammal/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford admitted during a heated City Council debate Wednesday that he had bought illegal drugs in the past two years, but he firmly refused to step down from his job even after nearly every councilor stood up to ask him to take a leave of absence.The mayor made the confession under direct questioning by a councilor who has introduced a motion that would ask Ford to take a leave of absence and get help for his admitted drug use. Ford publicly admitted last week that he smoked crack cocaine last year in a "drunken stupor," but his comments Wednesday marked the first time he acknowledged having bought illegal drugs.
ReplyDeleteFord paused for a long time after Councilor Denzil Minnan-Wong asked him if he had bought illicit narcotics in the past two years.
Then Ford replied, Yes I have.I understand the embarrassment that I have caused. I am humiliated by it said Ford.
http://www.kwwl.com/story/23952228/toronto-mayor-admits-he-has-bought-illegal-drugs
A convicted child killer and rapist's request to donate his organs to his mother and sister after he is executed was denied Tuesday.The 40-year-old man is scheduled to die Thursday by lethal injection for murdering and raping his girlfriend's 3-year-old daughter in 1993.In a letter written by his attorney,requested Monday that his heart be given to his sister, who has an unspecified heart condition, and that one or both of his kidneys go to his mother, who is "suffering from kidney disease and on dialysis."
ReplyDeleteAuthorities say his body will be handed over to his family and they "may take whatever action they wish with the physical body, including pursuing organ donation."
http://www.hlntv.com/article/2013/11/12/condemned-killer-cant-donate-his-organs?hpt=hp_t3
Four Marines killed in training accident.
ReplyDeleteOn Wednesday at Camp Pendleton in Southern California, four marines were killed in a training accident. It happened at 11 a.m. The identities are not being released until relatives get the notification. The military investigation says that human error was to blame for the incident. One marine didn't follow the correct procedures resulting in a highly explosive round going off at a mortar position. The investigation also found that the team didn't have the correct preparatory training.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/11/13/marine-corps-officials-4-marines-killed-in-training-accident-at-camp-pendleton/
In Vietnam people were amazed this week after remote cameras in a forest reserve snapped pictures of a live saola. The saola is one of the rarest mammals on Earth.
ReplyDeleteOnly a few of the animals are thought to exist. Because it is so rare it is also called the "Asian unicorn."
It's funny that it is called that because it has two horns. These pictures are some of the rarest in the entire world.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/13/world/asia/vietnam-rare-mammal/index.html?hpt=hp_t3
Sundown Mountain Resort in Dubuque began making snow. Although it may seem early, officials say this isn't the earliest they have begun to make snow for the slopes. Officials say 4-7 feet of snow is already on the ground at Sundown Mountain Resort. "We are using a new gun that comes from Italy and it's probably some of the most state-of-the art snow making equipment in the world today," Kutsche said. "It does an excellent job. We are in the process of automating our snow making system so that the computers tell the snow gun when to add more water and when to take water away. It also adjusts the snow quality according to how we set it and it makes snow making extremely efficient."
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A sinkhole in Florida swallowed part of a house Thursday. The hole was behind the house and it also swallowed a tree and a boat. Sinkholes are common in Florida and can be deadly.
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Navy divers have recovered 64-square-foot section of a Civil War ironclad warship from the bottom of the Savannah River in Georgia.The 120-foot-long CSS Georgia was built in 1862 to protect Savannah during the Civil War. The ship had armor forged from railroad iron, but its engines proved too weak to propel the ship's 1,200-ton frame against river currents. A smaller-scale recovery effort in the 1980s removed two cannon, a few cannon balls and other artifacts.
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In California, 4 marines were killed during a training exercise by an explosive device after it detonated. It is thought correct procedures were not used. It was at Camp Pendleton. 3 more marines were relieved from their duties because their commanding general lost trust in them. The names have not been released yet.
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Most people think it is easy to put their children in preschool. Most people are unable to put their children in preschool due to not being able to afford it. Senator Harkin has introduced the Strong Start for America's Children Act to change this. Michoel Crowe said that Harkin's goal is to prove knowledge to children who are 5 years old. Dehl thinks it will make a big difference in a child's life. Duncan said, " That this is going to be an important single step we should take to change young peoples lives.
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Three people that were accused of torturing a dog and leaving it do die were charged with animal abuse but 2/3 of there charges were dropped. Last winter a dog was found dead in crate and covered in its own feces last winter. They people that were responsible for this were AJ Sellers, Kelsey Block and Ty HIckman. Hickman said he left the dog with Block and Sellers while they find it a new home. Sellers and Block pled guilty in doing this the judge dismissed all charges on them. They were fined 12 months on probation and fined $315. Hickman still has to go to trial.
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The Iowa football players are in Cedar Falls for the state semi-finals at the UNI dome and the parients would need too sleep some were so that would need money and the $3.5 million will be pumped into the local economy from guests visiting for both the semi finals and finals. http://www.kwwl.com/story/23967664/2013/11/14/iowa-high-school-football-playoffs-come-to-cedar-falls
ReplyDeleteA Connecticut woman was attacked by a pit bull and was badly hurt.
ReplyDeleteThe woman's hands were gone and were suspected that the pit bull ate them.
The authorities found the dogs collar and found that the dog is a 2-year old male and name is "Tux".
The dog attacked another woman in a different town and ate her left arm and a portion of her right and the dog had been taken to laboratories to be tested for rabies
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/11/14/pit-bull-who-mauled-connecticut-woman-known-to-authorities/?intcmp=latestnews
Four Marines were killed at a California Base when they were sweeping a range for "dangerous unexploded ordinances" to make it safe for future practice. Names have not been released.
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A southwest air pilot told passengers that they were going down. The flight attendants began securing the bins and the pilot dropped oxygen masks. The pilot was able to gain control of the plane and land it at an airstrip in Raleigh.
ReplyDeleteSurfer Missing after wiping out on 20-foot Wave
ReplyDeleteA surfer has been missing from wiping out on wave off the Oahu’s North Shore. The surfer, Kirk Passmore 32 years old was last seen on Wednesday morning at a surfing spot called Alligator Rock. His surfed and got wiped out and they found his broken board down the beach. He is still missing and people don’t know why he was surfing when there was warning out.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/14/us/hawaii-missing-surfer/index.html?hpt=us_c2
Sink hole in Florida swallows part of a house. Michael Dupre and his family made it out of their house after noticing the screened in room plunging into a pit in the ground. His wedding ring didn't make it out. A firefighter saved the ring. A few minutes later the whole thing collapsed to the ground. The hole was 70 to 75 feet wide and 50 feet deep and growing
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This week U.S. Navy Divers worked with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to help retrieve the sunken Ironclad. Wednesday they retrieved a 64 foot section of the ironclad in the savannah river. In December of 1864 the union took over the town of Savannah and presented the town to Abraham Lincoln as a Christmas Present. The Ironclad removal is estimated to cost $9.5 million. The removal is expected to begin in the summer of 2014. They are removing the ironclad because they need to deepen the vital shipping channel.
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One World Trade Center, rising to 1,776 feet, has claimed the title of tallest building in the the country, beating off a challenge from Chicago's Willis (formerly Sears) Tower. The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat said Tuesday that the 408 foot antenna atop One World Trade Center counts toward the building's full height. The decision was unanimous among the council's 25 members.
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A pilot's distress call sent rescuers scrambling to an area near Miami on Thursday to search for a passenger who fell out of a small plane. He opened the back door and just fell out the plane. The pilot said he was flying at 1,800 feet about 2 miles from the shore when the man fell out. A police man said it was unlikely that he could survive falling from that height. The police didn't know if her fell out or deliberately jumped out.
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In Georgia a two year old and her 4 year old sister were playing outside on the slide. Somehow gasoline was poured on the slide and the two year went down and started the gasoline on fire with static electricity from her. She was severely burned and was taken by helicopter to a hospital. She then was put into a medical induced coma to help her with the pain. Investigators are calling this a freak accident, but they still haven't found out how the gasoline got there in the first place. All they knew is that the little girls wanted the slide to go faster.
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A forlida man was fined 5000 dollars for having 2 trees that were too short. 51 year old Patrick Fitzgerald said he planted 2 small magnolia trees in front of his house a year ago. The Home Owners Associate said that they have a rule that all trees have to be 8ft or taller. Fitzgerald said that he just wanted some more trees because he thinks the fertilizer in his yard is killing all his other trees. He had to spend 2000 dollars on a lawyer for two trees. He said that was the last thing he would of thought on getting a lawyer for.
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A Cedar Rapids high school was briefly evacuated Friday morning for what turned out to be an overheated electrical fan motor. Approximately 1,800 Kennedy High School students and faculty safely evacuated the school when fire alarms activated at around 8:11 a.m., according to Greg Buelow with the Cedar Rapids Fire Department. Firefighters located a light haze of smoke in the mezzanine above the band room where an overheated electrical motor was located. Alliant Energy officials who also responded to the scene believe the cause of the incident was related to electrical power being partially interrupted to the school. The fire alarm system and power were fully restored and students and faculty returned to the school after around 15 minutes. No injuries were reported in the incident.
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There was a thirty-eight minute video of never-before-seen footage that offers a rare glimpse of the president and the people around him, have been recovered and released to the public. In one shot, he’s in Sioux City, Iowa, riding a white mule that local Democrats tried to pass off as a donkey. The clip shows Kennedy’s head bobbing above a sea of people crowding around him. It also shows some of his funeral.
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Moose do not usually live further South than northern Minnesota, so while it was exciting for those that saw it but experts want you to know that should be cautious.
ReplyDeleteMoose can weigh close to 2000 pounds and stand eight feet tall. Thats so tall that your cars headlights won't reflect of their eyes. Making them impossible to see in the dark.
http://www.kwwl.com/story/23976174/2013/11/15/moose-sighted-near-jesup
A mining accident occurred Sunday morning killing two miners and injuring 20 others. The accident happened at the Revenue-Virginius mine in Colorado. The mine produces silver, lead, zinc, copper, and gold. The two miners killed were first believed to be trapped, but were later confirmed dead. The cause of the accident is still unknown. Authorities have determined there was no explosion. The miner's injuries were caused by inhaling chemicals.
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A North Carolina social worker is under arrest after a foster child was found cuffed by the ankle to her front porch with a dead chicken hanging from around his neck. Wanda Sue Larson and Dorian Lee Harper are charged with numerous offenses after a sheriff's deputy found the shivering 11-year-old boy. The children, ages 8 to 14, have been removed from the home.
ReplyDeleteDallas Zoo Male Lions Kill Lioness.
ReplyDeleteCrowds at Dallas Zoo witness two male lions attacking. In the end a lioness was killed. No people were killed, but many were stunned. A witness said a male lion lashed out and killed Johiar a female in the same pen. Another male joined than, and continued to fight. The lion that attacked was put down. None of the zoo keepers know why the lions attack one another.
http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Dallas-Zoo-Male-Lions-Kill-Lioness-232279131.html
One person is dead and another is injured after they were in a head on crash in Hardin County. It all happened around 6:45 am saturday morning on highway 175. Iowa State patrol says that 17 year old Braden Wicks crossed the center line and hit 62 year old Floyd Wiley. Braden died in the accident.
ReplyDeleteThe body of a man found Saturday in a mangrove area near Miami might be the body of a 42-year-old passenger who fell Thursday from a small plane. The body was discovered at 10:30 a.m. Authorities had been looking for the Key Biscayne man since a pilot's mayday distress call sent. The pilot said he was flying Thursday afternoon at an altitude of 1,800 feet about two miles from shore when the incident occurred. The search was called off later that night and resumed Friday at daybreak.
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Over the past generation, the U.S. military has always wanted to invent something to give the soldiers more stealth. Inventors are coming closer to having soldiers become invisible. Not like a harry potter cloak or anything. But a device that will wipe out all tracking of soldiers. But they say that someday our soldiers could actually become invisible. Inventors say that our technology will be that advanced in the near future.
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San Francisco transformed into Gothem city for a five year old boy with leukemia. His cancer went into remission so the city turned him into bat boy. 12,000 volunteers worked to give this boy his dream. He got to ride around town with bat man in the bat mobile, he got to wear his bat boy costume and safe people around the city.
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A passenger who is blind says he and his service dog were kicked off a plane at Philadelphia International Airport after his dog left his seat. He wound up making the journey on the ground instead, joined by other passengers from the plane.
ReplyDeleteThe U.S. Airways plane was supposed to take off for Long Island MacArthur Airport around 8:30 p.m. Wednesday but the airline canceled the flight following the incident.
http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/weird/US-Air-Blind-Man-Guide-Dog-Kicked-Off-231883191.html