Sunday, March 30, 2014

Summarize a significant news story pertaining to the United States.

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  1. Black box detector to join Malaysian jet search
    In Pertha, Australia a warship with an aircraft black box detector was set to travel towards Australia on Sunday to search for the missing Malaysian jetliner. The ship will still take three-to-four days to reach the search zone. Also twenty-nine Chinese family members, asked for answers regarding to their family from Malaysia's government. They arrived in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday. Regarding the ship and black box, it will still take three-to-four days to reach the search zone.http://www.kwwl.com/story/25106269/black-box-detector-to-join-malaysian-jet-search

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  2. On friday there was a 5.1 magnitude earthquake that hit the Los Angeles area. The quake rattled many neighborhoods and broke many main water lines in those cities. Their were nearly two dozen aftershocks. There was only one minor injury reported.
    http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/29/us/california-earthquake/index.html?hpt=us_c1

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  3. An newlywed was sentenced to 30 years for murdering her husband. Nine months after the incident she was sentenced for shoving him off a "steep" cliff. She pleaded guilty to second degree murder. This happened at Glacier National Park. http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/27/justice/montana-newlywed-sentenced/index.html?hpt=us_t3

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  4. 16 arrested after crowds get rowdy following Arizona's loss to Wisconsin. The crowds threw bottles, beer cans and firecrackers at officers. Wisconsin beat Arizona 64-63 on Saturday night and earned a spot in the Final Four of the NCAA men's basketball tournament. Arizona was the No. 1 seed in the West Region and Wisconsin the No. 2 seed.


    http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/29/us/ncaa-tournament-final-four/?hpt=zite_zite3_featured

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  5. A Maine man in search of a valuable mineral cut open a dead porcupine on the side of the road and unexpectedly pulled out its baby. Jared Buzzell, of Lisbon, says he was searching for wild mushrooms Thursday when he saw a porcupine get hit by a car in Minot. Buzzell says he'd heard that a valuable mineral deposit used in Chinese medicine formed in the stomachs of porcupines. He then cut open the dead porcupine to search for the mineral and instead found the baby.







































    http://www.cbsnews.com/news/maine-man-does-c-section-on-porcupine-roadkill-saves-baby/

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  6. In Dubuque sunday morning there were two fights. There was one at Players Sports Bar on Central Avenue at 2 a.m. Then there was another at 3 a.m. at 5th and Bluff Street. They believe the fights are related are busy figuring out more informations. There was a total of ten people arrested.
    http://www.kwwl.com/story/25111608/2014/03/30/10-arrested-following-two-dubuque-fights

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  7. Suspect in Craigslist slaying tells reporter she killed in 3 other states - A 19 year old woman was arrested for killing men she met on craigslist when they didn't show up for the dates she had set up. She is now in jail admitting to 22 other murders across the united states. The police are saying they don't know if they believe her or not. It is believed that she has some types of mental disability. She also says that she is sad she didn't try to kill six other men she met.

    http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/30/us/craigslist-killing-suspect-interview/index.html?hpt=us_c2

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  8. A magnitude 5.1 earthquake hit Los Angeles on friday. The epicenter was in Orange County. About two dozen aftershocks followed the earthquake. There was only one minor injury in this earthquake.






    http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/29/us/california-earthquake/

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  9. The forecast for the next century is hotter, drier and hungrier. The chance to turn down the thermostat is slipping away. That's the latest conclusion from the United Nations, which urged governments to address the "increasingly clear" threats posed by a warming climate before some options are closed off for good.

    http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/30/world/un-climate-report/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

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  10. Housing fight between grandpa and grandson goes bad. The grandpa killed his grandson and his grandson's girlfriend. The grandpa was 86 years old. Police are still wondering what drove the grandpa to kill them. The grandpa shot himself after killing them. He was mad at the way his grandson and girlfriend were treating the grandpas daughter.
    http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/29/justice/new-york-elderly-triple-shooting/index.html?hpt=us_c2

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  11. Transgendered woman Greena Rocero, model and activist sets up organization to help transgendered people.Her primary goal would be to educate the public on transgendered people and what they are. you sex is the thing you have for reproductive reasons and your gender is in your head, and while Greena Rocero was assigned boy at birth she has done much for herself since. While she grew up in the Philippines, and around an oriental culture that embraces blurred gendered lines et has less legal standing then the U.S. which is what promted her to move in 2005. Monday she launched Gender Proud, which envisions a world where transgender individuals are able to self-identify with the fewest possible barriers. Monday was International Transgender Day of Visibility,
    http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/31/opinion/rocero-transgender-understanding/index.html?hpt=us_t2

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  12. General Motors has a recall that has over 1.3 million cars in it. The problems with the cars are that they are loosing power steering. The cars that this issues is affecting are the Chevrolet Malibu, Malibu Maxx, Saturn Aura, and Pontiac g6's models. The range is in cars made from 2004-2010. They had a recall for this problem before but are telling the owners to come in again because they did not do enough the first time.

    http://money.cnn.com/2014/03/31/autos/gm-power-steering-recall/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

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  13. The death toll from the massive landslide in Washington rose to 24 people on monday, and they discovered three more bodies which means the list of those confirmed killed likely will rise soon. The youngest body that was found was a four month old baby. The oldest was 71 years old.

    http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/31/us/washington-landslide/index.html?hpt=us_c2

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  14. South Korea's Asiana Airlines said that pilot error was partly to blame for the crash of the Asiana Flight 214 in San Francisco last July.Three people had been killed in the incident. A spokeswoman had said that the pilot was not the main reason for the crash but he could have failed to respond quickly.
    http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/01/us/south-korea-us-asiana-crash/index.html?hpt=us_c2

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  15. The deathtole from the mudslide in Washington continues to rise. This morning it was up to 27 and expected to go up. All of the dead were discovered to have died from multiple blunt-force injuries. There are still 22 people missing, and the mud is up to 25 feet thick in some spots. There are 500 rescuers searching for survivors, but as each day passes the chances of finding the missing is getting smaller.

    http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-washington-mudslide-toll-20140401,0,3366518.story#axzz2xecC4l3C

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  16. A 19-year-old woman charged with killing a Pennsylvania man she met through Craigslist has given a second interview and provided specific details about other killings she claims to have committed. Miranda Barbour told newspaper in Pennsylvania that she killed men in Big Lake, Alaska; Mexico Beach, Florida; and Raleigh, North Carolina. In her first interview she said she had killed at least 22 men over six years across the country. Police have charged Miranda Barbour in one death, the November 2013 stabbing and strangling of Troy LaFerrara, 42, in her car.

    http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/30/us/craigslist-killing-suspect-interview/index.html?hpt=us_c2

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  17. Relisha Rudd has been missing since March 1st, and investigators were searching in the park for her when they found something else. Instead of finding the girl, they found a body matching the description of her suspected kidnapper. They believe they found the body of Kahlil Tatum, who was a janitor at the homeless shelter that Relisha lived at. They found his body in a Washington D.C. park, and they think the cause of death was suicide. They still are continuing the search for the little girl.

    http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/31/us/d-c-missing-girl/index.html?hpt=us_c2

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  18. James Valentine from Pennsylvania went to the hospital because a chainsaw was gouged in his neck. The saw was centimeters from a vital artery. He received 30 stitches and an hour of surgery. The saw kicked back when he was sawing into a pine and landed right in his neck. the artery that he could of hit supplied blood to his brain and could have killed him if he would of hit it.

    http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/01/us/chainsaw-accident-survivor/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

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  19. Housing fight between grandpa and grandson goes bad.
    A grandpa killed his grandson and his grandson's girlfriend. The grandpa was 86 years old. Police are still wondering what drove the grandpa to kill them. The grandpa shot himself after killing them. He was mad at the way his grandson and girlfriend were treating the grandpa's daughter.
    http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/29/justice/new-york-elderly-triple-shooting/index.html?hpt=us_c2

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  20. The strongest earthquake since 1980 shook northern Yellowstone National Park measuring in at 4.8 on the Richter scale. The earthquake was considered relatively light and didn't cause any concern.
    http://www.wired.com/2014/03/earthquake-at-yellowstone-caldera-is-no-need-for-concern/

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  21. Ft. Hood shooting was reportedly soldier on soldier incident

    The shooting at Ft. Hood in Texas reportedly left around four people dead and injured 14 others. The gunman also died in the incident. The reason is still unclear and everyone at the base must close their doors and stay away from windows until further notified. This message was sent out via the Facebook and Twitter pages.The scene is being checked out. Many police and ambulances are at the scene trying to figure out what happened.

    http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/04/02/ft-hood-shooting-that-left-four-dead-was-reportedly-soldier-on-soldier-incident/

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  22. Park City utah resident Debbie Scoggan started a movement to ban plastic grocery store bags. Recycling plastic is a very complex process.Debbie said there are seven types of plastics. None of them are bio-degradable and only some of them are actually recyclable. Her petition talks about Using paper and reusable bags because it would have a greater impact on the environment because they use less resources to manufacture and less fuel to transport. A growing number of states ban plastic bags, including California, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington State, and North Carolina, so debbie says why not utah?

    http://www.ksl.com/index.php?sid=29305401&nid=148&hpt=us_bn10

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  23. Multiple people died and others were injured Wednesday when a shooter opened fire at Fort Hood, the sprawling Army post in Texas still on edge after a mass shooting left 13 dead in 2009, officials said.
    A senior military official and law enforcement official said the suspected shooter was among the dead. The Army post said the report was "unconfirmed."
    The initial report is the incident started as a soldier-on-soldier attack, law enforcement sources told CNN. The preliminary assessment is that the incident is not terror-related, the sources said.

    http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/02/us/fort-hood-shooting/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

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  24. The man who opened fire at the Fort Hood military post in Texas was a veteran who served four months in Iraq and was undergoing treatment for mental health issues. Authorities don't know what prompted the shooting on Wednesday, where Lopez, 34, killed three people and wounded 16

    http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/02/us/fort-hood-shooter-profile/index.html?hpt=us_c2

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  25. A man brought strawberries into a movie theater.
    The manager called the cops to take him out.
    The man was diabetic and asked for a refund if he couldn't bring them in.
    They refused to give him a refund so the man took his strawberries right on in.

    http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Brooklyn-Movie-Theater-Calls-Police-Man-With-Strawberries-252997421.html

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  26. Tornado rattles St. Louis. St. Louis woke up to tornado sirens Thursday as a cluster of heavy thunderstorms swept through central United States. The national weather service confirmed that a tornado touched down about an hour before sunrise in University City, Missouri.http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/03/us/severe-weather/index.html?hpt=us_c2

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  27. A tornado ripped through parts of St. Louis. In some spots, there were 5 inches of rain and high winds. The tornado was rated an EF-1, with winds as high as 112 MPH.
    http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/03/us/severe-weather/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

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  28. Police in Las Vegas found a bloody chain saw inside a house where some corpses with severed legs was also found in a bathtub. More legs were found in the freezer. The police believe that the killer is Darius Davon Sorrells. The two people that were found dead are his mother, Janice Burden, and sister Natasha Sorrells.


    http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/04/02/police-bloody-chain-saw-legless-body-found-in-home-las-vegas-area-double/?intcmp=obnetwork

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  29. Local mechanics say there is a temporary fix for vehicles affected by the General Motors recalls. At Community Motors in Waterloo, they're hearing from customers about the recall. "If that was the case, the power steering may be depleted and the airbags may not work," said Mark Steffen, Service Manager for Community Motors. Steffen said there's a temporary fix for the ignition issue: take everything off your key ring, except for the ignition key. "That takes the weight away from it, which will prevent that from turning off accidentally," Steffen said. Once the necessary parts come in next week, he said repairing your car should take about an hour, free of charge. "I mean it's all for the safety of the customer," he said. "That's exactly what recalls are, for the customer's safety."

    http://www.kwwl.com/story/25149474/2014/04/02/temporary-fix-for-gm-vehicles-recall

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  30. A 21 year old man from Pennsylvania took a chainsaw to the neck and shoulder while he was at work. The chainsaw missed his vital artery by barely a cenimeter. He was doing matience on a pine tree when the chainsaw kicked back and sawed into his flesh instead of the tree. thanks to his co-workers he got to the hospital quickly and it only took and hour of surgery and 30 stitches and he wa in stable condition a day later.

    http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/01/us/chainsaw-accident-survivor/index.html?hpt=us_c2

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  31. Almost two dozen ships and aircraft pick up looking for the missing malaysia airline while the weather is nice. They are all hoping for a breakthrough. 14 aircrafts and 9 ships will be in the area which is expected to be where the plane had landed. They want to get robots out their as soon as possible but it wouldnt be much help until they at least found one confirmed piece of debris from the airplane.
    http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/03/world/asia/malaysia-airlines-plane/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

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  32. In Watertown, Massachusetts, thousand of firefighters from across the U.S. gathered Wednesday to help lay to rest a colleague, Lt. Edward Walsh, who died after becoming trapped in the basement of a burning Boston building. "We take care of our own," said Lee Forshner, a firefighter from Palm Beach County, Florida. "And that extends across state borders." Walsh, 43, was killed alongside firefighter Michael Kennedy, 33, during an apartment fire in the Back Bay neighborhood. The fire also injured 13 people. Kennedy's and Walsh's funeral was scheduled for Thursday. "He was destined to do great things," Walsh's older sister said at the funeral service. "And that's what he did. He lived more in 43 years than many of us could in 80."
    http://news.msn.com/us/thousands-attend-boston-firefighters-funeral

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  33. In all 50 States animal abuse is now a felony this is a huge change from before when it was a misdemeanor http://aldf.org/blog/50-states-now-have-felony-animal-cruelty-provisions/

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  34. Powerful storms that damaged homes and businesses in Texas and the central United States moved east Friday, threatening a wide swath from the Gulf Coast north to the upper Ohio Valley, the National Weather Service reported. In Memphis there were 3.495 reported outages. Heavy rain caused parts of the Ohio and Erie canal trail in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park to close because of flooding. The main threats are expected to be straight line winds along with hail and thunderstorms. On friday there were no tornadoes spotted in the south and midwest.

    http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/04/us/severe-weather/index.html?hpt=us_c2

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  36. In Oklahoma a woman that was on her work break stabbed a police officer while he was making a traffic stop. The officer was going to fire his weapon at her but instead he decided to tase her. It is unknown why she stabbed the officer.

    http://www.policeone.com/officer-survival/articles/7041191-Video-Woman-stabs-cop-with-scissors-during-traffic-stop/

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