Sunday, December 1, 2013

Let's get caught up on what's going on in the news!

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  1. Two men went on trial in France. They are accused of killing a British soldier in a London street. The man killed was Lee Rigby. The accused are Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale. The mean have both denied the charges.
    http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/29/world/europe/uk-soldier-killing-trial/index.html?hpt=wo_c2

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  2. Paul Walker, who played Brian O'Connor in the Fast and Furious movies, died Saturday, around 3:30 pm, in a car crash. He was a passenger in Roger Rodas' Porsche Carrera GT. Rodas was his friend and racing team partner. Both Walker and Rodas died. They were coming from an event for Philippines relief, 30 miles north of Hollywood. The car appears to have been going over the speed limit, hit a speed limit sign, crashed into a tree, and exploded into flames. Officials say the car they were driving was hard to drive, even for professionals. The bodies haven't been officially identified yet.

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    1. http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/30/showbiz/actor-paul-walker-dies/

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  3. A New York City commuter train rounding a riverside curve derailed and came to rest only inches from the water Sunday, killing four people, injuring more than 60 and sending a chain of toppled cars trailing off the track just inches from the water, authorities said.All of the train’s seven cars came off the track about 100 feet north of the Spuyten Duyvil station around 7:20 a.m., MTA officials said. Investigators did not know how fast the train was traveling but said they had recovered a data recorder. Within minutes, dozens of emergency crews arrived and carried passengers away on stretchers, some wearing neck braces. Firefighters shattered windows of the toppled train cars to reach injured passengers.
    http://www.cbsnews.com/news/metro-north-commuter-train-derails-in-the-bronx-multiple-injuries/

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  4. Man tosses $1,000 into crowd at Mall of America.
    A Minnesota man was ticketed after tossing $1,000 dollars from the third floor of Mall of America off the balcony. He had stamped his youtube page on the money before dumping the money, playing the song Let it Snow. The man said it was his last $1,000 dalliers and that he was getting a divorce. He also said he wanted to spread the holiday spirt, be positive, and pay it forward. He wanted everyone's holiday to be snow money. http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/12/01/21708018-make-it-snow-money-man-tosses-1000-into-crowd-at-mall-of-america?lite

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  5. Oelwein woman shot by husband home from hospital
    A woman who was found in her home after being shot multiple times by her husband has finally been released from the hospital. 38-year-old Niki Meador had been shot multiple times by her husband Myron Meador and then he ended up shooting himself the next day. He died October 17th the day after the shootings took place at their Oelwein home. Nikki has been in the University Hospitals in Iowa City for over a month. Family members said she was released in time to spend Thanksgiving with them.
    http://www.kwwl.com/story/24101984/oelwein-woman-shot-by-husband-home-from-hospital

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  6. Police are investigating the death of a man on Sunday at the Kansas City chiefs' arrowhead stadium after he got into a fight with another person. This happened in the parking lot after the game. This began when a man walked outside the stadium and he found another man in the same car that he had.
    http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/01/us/arrowhead-stadium-death/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

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  7. Two California police officers accused in the death of a homeless man are heading to trial more than two years after the killing.
    Manuel Ramos is on trial Monday on charges of second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter in the death of 37-year-old Kelly Thomas, who died after an encounter with six Fullerton police officers.
    Jay Cicinelli is going to trial on charges of involuntary manslaughter and excessive use of force. Both plead not guilty

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  8. After a train derailed, and four people were killed The NTSB was downloading data from a recorder previously found in the rear locomotive in the Metro-North Railroad train that derailed Sunday in New York. A second recorder was found in the front car of the train and has been sent to Washington for analysis, NTSB board member Earl said.
    Investigators have already had some success in retrieving data, but the information has to be validated before it's made public.

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  9. A 15-year-old girl from Indiana has died in a two-car crash in the eastern Iowa town of Kalona. She was killed sunday when her car collided with a truck at an intersection at 1 a.m. The truck driver is 27-year-old and he was not harmed. She was in the passenger side. The driver was 17-year-old. There was a third passenger but she was not harmed.

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    1. http://www.kwwl.com/story/24109589/15-year-old-girl-killed-in-crash-in-kalona

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  10. A 76-year-old woman was killed in a shootout as a gang tried to rob her outside her South Carolina home in the early hours of Saturday. Dorothy Hendrix was shot twice by the gang of two men and a woman, but she managed to shoot one of her assailants in the stomach before dying of her wounds. Steven Hagood, Tereba Geer, and Bradacious Galloway have all been charged with murder.

    http://clashdaily.com/2013/12/shes-fighter-defiant-76yr-old-woman-dies-shootout-thugs-tried-rob-bingo-money/#C2fJp3oyjVlftHrU.99

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  11. http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/12/01/2-calif-police-officers-on-trial-in-homeless-man-2011-death-1-cop-faces-murder/

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  12. A 36 year old man died trying to save two lives. He jumped in the water near Cabrillo Beach to save a teenager and a 49 year old man. The Good Samaritan died trying to save them. The teenager was saved by divers and the 49 year old man found his own way out of the water. The divers retrieved the 36 year old and couldn't find a post. http://mflmmsupersophomores.blogspot.com/2013/12/lets-get-caught-up-on-whats-going-on-in.html

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  13. in Massachucets there was a 70 vehicle wreck and over 30 people were injured it was on a hill so when they came over they tried to brake but got cought and there were 2 major injureis or something cars kept pileing under ttractors and stuff

    http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/01/us/massachuetts-70-vehicle-pileup/index.html?hpt=us_c2

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  14. The chief officer of Amazon.com, Jeff Bezoz, has a plan to deliver it's packages using unmanned drones. The drones would be a electric powered helicopters, that would be pre-programmed to certain destinations. These drones are in early development, and Amazon has to get a law made that will allow them to fly these drones, which won't happen until 2015 at the earliest.

    http://www.chicagotribune.com/sns-rt-amazon-drones-tv-pix-20131202,0,1317586.story

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  15. Police in the US city where "Fast and Furious" star Paul Walker died warned fans Monday against "burning rubber" near the spot where he was killed, as they probed the fatal car crash. They issued the caution after reports of people pulling stunt maneuvers on the stretch of road in Santa Clarita, northwest of Los Angeles, where Walker died in a fiery smash on Saturday. A makeshift shrine has sprung up at the place where Walker was killed when the red Porsche sports car he was traveling in slammed into a tree and caught fire. Speed is believed to have been a factor in the accident, although investigators are also probing the burnt-out wreckage for evidence of any mechanical problems.
    At least one witness has suggested that 40-year-old Walker and a 38-year-old friend, Roger Rodas, may have been drag-style racing at the time, according to CNN, although others have discounted such accounts. But some fans of the blockbuster franchise have apparently been paying tribute by pulling hotrod stunts on the four-lane stretch of road where the accident occurred.

    http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jXS-yEmmsFaEg8evCIFdk9DHf-Ow?docId=cc459c5b-dec5-409c-8716-f19358bcc769&hl=en

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  16. In Seattle there was an Earthquake that was reported. The Earthquake was made not by the Earth but was the Seattle SeaHawk fans. During the game a Earthquake recording station measured around five seismic waves. On the magnitude scale it was a 1 or 2. The game was the Seattle Seahawks v.s the New Orleans Saints. The Sea Hawks won 34-7. The game was at it's loudest point when Michael Bennett returned a fumble for a touchdown. The Saints also had custom made earplugs for the game.

    http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/03/us/seattle-seahawks-earthquake/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

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  17. he commuter train that jumped its tracks in the Bronx was barreling into a curve at nearly three times the posted speed when it derailed, killing four passengers, federal safety officials said Monday.Preliminary data from the event recorders aboard the train clocked it at 82 mph as it approached the 30-mph curve, where the Hudson and Harlem rivers converge, National Transportation Safety Board member Earl Weener told reporters. The data show the engineer cut the throttle and slammed on the brakes, but those moves came "very late in the game," Weener said.

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  18. A study was done after a man took five caffeine pills and started to shake while driving. He was lucky enough to have pulled over and he got out and walked it off. This man literally took 1,000 milligrams of caffeine in one gulp. Study shows that you should know your body and what you have eaten when taking caffeine. It has been proven that you can OD on caffeine. To think of it this way a 16 ounce cup of coffee from Starbucks has 300 milligrams of caffeine. So when you are drinking energy drinks you should think about how much caffeine you are taking in. It can be dangerous if you take to much caffeine.

    http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/03/health/upwave-caffeine-overdose/index.html?hpt=he_c1

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  19. A South African diver thought he would be recovering bodies, from a sunken tugboat, that were already dead. But when he was swimming a hand suddenly reached for him. And it was the ships cook, Harrison Okene. He had survived for about 60 hours, or about 2 1/2 days in a small air pocket of freezing cold water and drinking sips of a coca-cola.The boat had sank in May but the video had just been released. He was the only 1 of 12 that survived. He was in the bathroom around 4:50 when the boat began to turn over.

    "TODAY News." TODAY. 03 Dec. 2013 .

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  20. http://www.today.com/news/hes-alive-video-shows-dramatic-rescue-man-who-survived-days-2D11687554

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  21. A nursing home in Washington may shut down. It's at minimum state requirements. Nurses reportedly failed to do CPR on a dead patient. Owners and staff say regulators should be penalized, not the facility.
    http://www.kwwl.com/story/24117442/2013/12/02/iowa-nursing-home-could-soon-shut-down#at_pco=cfd-1.0

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  22. A german policeman has been arrested in connection with a cannibalism case. Police in Dresden, Germany say that the officer butchered and murdered another man he met on a website. The accused policeman and the victim met on a website called Zambian Meat where people can discuss their cannibalism fantasies. The victim from Hanover, Germany asked the policeman to kill him. They met at a train station in Dresden, and went back to the killers house, where the victim was murdered and his parts were spread around the land by his house. The policeman confessed he killed the man, but he didn't reveal a motive.

    http://edition.cnn.com/2013/11/29/world/europe/german-policeman-cannibalism/index.html?hpt=ieu_c2

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  23. A train derailed in New York. It is said that the engineer fell asleep at the controls. It killed 4 people and wounded over 60. This was caused by only human error.

    http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/04/us/new-york-train-crash/index.html?hpt=hp_inthenews

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  24. Two skydivers collided mid air about 65 mile southeast of Phoenix, Arizona. Witnesses told authorities that the two skydivers collided between 200 and 300 feet, causing their parachutes to collapse and plummet to the ground. One skydiver was pronounced dead at the scene. The other was rushed to the hospital but was later pronounced dead.

    http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/03/us/skydivers-fatal-collision-arizona/index.html?hpt=us_c2

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  25. On tuesday my dad was driving truck in illinois when he saw a crash happen right in frint of him in an intersection he jumped out saw that the mother had broken arm dad had scratches and bruises and the child was passed out in the back, he used CPR on him for twenty minutes till the ambulance came and the kid didnt make it...

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  26. Six short-finned pilot whales have died and about 45 other whales were trapped Wednesday in shallow water off Florida's Everglades National Park.
    Wildlife officials were trying to rescue the whales, which were found Tuesday stranded on the park's remote Highland Beach or trapped nearby in shallow water.
    Rangers found an unspecified number of whales beached, and others in the shallow water, after a fishing guide reported seeing one of the whales Tuesday afternoon.
    Wildlife workers were able to get some of the beached whales back into the water.The whales are believed to have approached the beach at high tide, but were unable to leave when the tide dropped.



    http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/04/us/florida-everglades-whales-trapped/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

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  27. Two skydivers died Tuesday after they collided with each other in midair, police in Eloy, Arizona, said. Witnesses told authorities the two collided some 200 to 300 feet above the ground, causing their parachute canopies to collapse and both to plummet to the ground. One skydiver was declared dead at the scene; the other was taken to a local hospital and pronounced dead there, Eloy police said in a statement.
    http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/03/us/skydivers-fatal-collision-arizona/index.html?hpt=us_c2

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  28. there were some radioactive material stolen early wednsday in mexico.
    The the material was recovered and had no effect to the surrounding populations by mexican officials.
    It was found in a parking lot half a mile from Hueypoxtla of 4,000 people
    The cargo truck carrying the material was for medical supplies and stolen from a gas station people are to keep a look out for the truck

    http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/12/04/stolen-radioactive-material-found-in-mexico/?intcmp=latestnews

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  29. There was a massive hacking of nearly 2 million accounts for Facebook, Google, Twitter, Yahoo, and others. The software was installed on a number of computers, and it was a virus instead. The virus kept track of all your log-in usernames and passwords, and sent all of them to the hackers.

    http://money.cnn.com/2013/12/04/technology/security/passwords-stolen/index.html?hpt=hp_t3

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  30. A South Florida man killed his wife and son with a crossbow, drove 460 miles to try and kill his other son, and then slit his own throat.
    The violent, long-distance rampage took Pedro Maldonado Sr. from one end of the state to the other.
    While the Broward County Sheriff's Office continues to piece together a time line, detectives believe Maldonado shot and killed his 47-year-old wife, Monica Narvaez-Maldonado, and their 17-year-old son, Pedro Maldonado Jr., with a crossbow in their Weston townhouse sometime on Monday. Weston is located about 13 miles west of Fort Lauderdale.


    http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/05/justice/florida-crossbow-killings/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

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  31. There are 41 whales stranded in Florida's Everglades Park. They have said the chances are low that they can save them. 10 have died so far including 4 that have been euthanized. Officials are unsure how they got there. One effort was made to get them out but it failed.

    http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/04/us/florida-everglades-whales-trapped/index.html?hpt=hp_inthenews

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  32. Rare set of identical triplets born in Northern California.
    The children were conceived without the help of fertility drugs. All three are girls and are named after family member or special places. The fertilized egg split into three separate parts. Each daughter's birth weight was 3-4 pounds. All of the girls are doing well. They are still in the hospital to maintain a proper body temperature.

    http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/12/05/rare-identical-triplets-born-in-california/?intcmp=latestnews

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  33. An elementary school in Frisco, Texas has banned christmas trees and the colors red and green. The school banned these things because of an upcoming winter party. However, the school did not know by doing this that they are breaking a law in Texas known as The Merry Christmas Laws.The law says that students and staff are permitted to discuss winter holidays as they please. Even though this is a law in Texas, many parents are in disagreement about this topic.



    http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/12/05/school-bans-christmas-trees-colors-red-green/?intcmp=HPBucket

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  34. Pilot Whales trapped in Florida
    45 short-finned pilot whales stranded in shallow water off the Florida's Everglades National Park. !0 whales have died and the rest are in very poor condition. Rescuers have been using five boats to create a blockade between the whales and the beach to encourage them to go back to the Gulf of Mexico.25 people from the NOAA the marine Conservatory and the Marine Animal Rescue Society.

    http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/04/us/florida-everglades-whales-trapped/index.html?hpt=us_c2

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  35. Prospects dimmed last week for a farm bill before the end of the year. House Agriculture Committee Chairman Frank Lucas acknowledged it would now be “very challenging” for him to meet the Republican leadership’s schedule of having a final agreement back on the House floor by December 13th.
    The Oklahoma Republican had pushed for the framework of a deal before the Thanksgiving recess. But after several face-to-face meetings between House and Senate leaders, Lucas acknowledged that negotiators had made little progress.
    Congress failed to approve the farm bill in 2012 and it’s now at risk of doing the same in 2013 pushing the measure into a yet a third year of debate.
    Lawmakers are still at odds over the fine print in the commodity portion of the farm bill. And then there is the polarizing issue of federal nutrition programs.


    http://www.iptv.org/mtom/story.cfm/feature/11197/mtom_20131129_3914_snap

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  36. Hunters talk about finding cousins' boots
    Kevin Dramstad said he went fishing at Seven Bridges Wildlife Area in Bremer County multiple times, but on Dec. 5, his family decided to go hunting there. He was hunting there for about two hours when he came across human remains. It didn't cross their minds until the patrolman was on the phone and said, "I think we found the girls." Kevin's step mom and husband actually helped search for Lyric Cook and Elizabeth Collins but they never thought they would be the ones to find them.

    http://www.kwwl.com/story/24138447/2013/12/04/exclusive-hunters-talk-about-finding-cousins-bodies

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  37. There are fast food restaurant workers that are now on strike and trying to get a higher minimum wage! Many or at least a hundred workers went on strike outside of the Brooklyn Wendy's restaurant calling for an hourly wage increase to $15 an hour! The usual minimum wage is $7.50 and people that have children says it is hard to even buy diapers.

    http://money.cnn.com/2013/12/05/news/economy/fast-food-strikes/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

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  38. Nelson Mandela has died yesterday. President Obama has ordered all flags to be half-staffed until monday in his honor. It is very rare for a foreign leader to be such a be impact in America. All across the US people have been gathering and making memorials in his honor. He was 95 years old.
    http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/06/us/mandela-american-impact/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

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  39. In Texas to Tennessee there was a snow storm that happened. People have already gotten into many accidents. They are expecting an inch of frozen water.The light, gas, and water companies are ready for everything. The road crews are preparing for the worst of it. Some guy has already died because of a tree falling on his camper late Thursday night.

    http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/06/us/weather-winter-storm/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

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  40. A massive storm hits the U.S. all the way from the South-West to the North-East. This storm is expected to coat everything with an inch of ice. An Arkansas man was killed Thursday night from a tree that fell on his camper. In Memphis crews are expected to use 4,000 tons of sand. An estimated 232,000 people were without power in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. The weather has caused the Dallas Holiday Parade to be canceled for the first time in 26 years.

    http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/06/us/weather-winter-storm/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

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  41. A bizarre, alien-like sea creature that glowed in a variety of colors showed up Tuesday night on the surface of Bristol harbor in the U.K. People in Bristol, located 116 miles west of London, pulled out iPhones and began taking photos and video as they speculated on the mysterious sighting that looked like some sort of jellyfish or giant squid. The London Evening Standard asked whether this footage “of a strange glowing creature” is “proof that the planet is slowly being taken over by aliens?”

    http://www.grindtv.com/outdoor/nature/post/glowing-alien-like-sea-creature-seen-in-uk/

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  42. Cannibal sandwiches is an appetizer with raw meat, lean beef and served on cocktail bread. it is a Wisconsin tradition but health officials say it's not safe. They confirmed four cases of E. coli bacteria.

    http://www.foxnews.com/health/2013/12/06/holiday-cannibal-sandwiches-sicken-wisconsin-residents/?intcmp=latestnews

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  43. Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, who became an international punchline after admitting he smoked crack, is joining a U.S. sports radio show with a name that should delight late-night comedians: "Sports Junkies." Washington D.C.'s WJFK said Ford will be calling in every Thursday morning to talk about sports and give NFL picks.

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