William Carpenter

William Carpenter used his body as a shield to try and save people that he wanted to protect from a bomb. William lost parts of his jaw, an eye, and a lung collapsed. William spent close to 2 and a half years in the hospital, multiple surgery's, while the doctors tried to save his body. Along with him, eight other men got an award by Obama for the nations highest military award. After the explosion, William, had to be revived and they had to pick him up in a helicopter and bring him to the nearest hospital. No William is attending the University of South Carolina, in Columbia.



http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/20/us/medal-of-honor-carpenter/index.html?hpt=hp_c2

Ferry sinking

About a month ago, a ferry sank in South Korea. Four people are being charged with murder. There were 11 other crew members on the boat, and they are getting charged with abandonment of the boat and violating this boats safety rules. The 4 people are being charged with murder because they didn't use the proper ways to save peoples lives such as, life rings, life jackets, ect. There were a few hundred people on the boat, 284 people died and 20 people are still missing. The boat has been under water for almost a month now and researchers that have gone down to look at the boat say that it is going to collapse soon so they need they are trying to get as much information as they can about they wreck and why the boat collapsed. 

http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/15/world/asia/south-korea-ship-sinking/index.html?hpt=hp_t2 

Rager

In Brampton, Ontario, a house was under construction and there was party that a kid threw there. About 1,500 people were there. When the police got there, there were 200+ cars parked outside on the road. By the time that the police got there, there wasn't too much that they could of done. There were people that were getting fines for public intoxication, several kids were assaulted and there were multiple people that got arrested. There was about $70,000 worth of damage to the 5,000 square foot mansion.


http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/us/2014/05/05/dnt-can-teens-party-in-mansion.ctv.html

Too Much Rain

States on the Gulf Coast have been getting really bad weather lately. Tornado's, 10+ inches of rain, winds, power outages and flooding. This is causing people to leave their houses, and towns. Since Sunday, there have 36 deaths in Oklahoma, Iowa, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Tennessee and Arkansas. The flooding is taking over the streets, driving through town, the water is half way up a truck. Hurricanes have been starting to form too. In Florida and Alabama there were 18.9 inches of rain in 24 hours.  Weather people say that until this ends, there will be very heavy rain.


http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/30/us/severe-weather/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

Justina is dead

On April 2nd, 2013, Justina Zukauskaite and Shannon Martin went to go buy heroin from her regular dealer. She thought that she had bought heroin but it was actually Desomorphine, also known as Crocodile. When Justina got home, she was going to inject the 'heroin' into her arm, and Shannon diced that she wasn't going to do it this time. Justina didn't think twice about it. Not knowing what Crocodile was, she didn't question anything about it. Shortly after she had put the drug into her body, her body started to shut down, and her flesh was going away, said Shannon. Shannon had taken Justina to the emergency room, and the doctors knew that is was Crocidile. Justina was pronounced dead at the hospital.

Captain Phillips

On February 19, two american security officers were found dead at on the Maersk Alabama ship. They were killed on Tuesday (February 18th). The investigators are still investigating the scene. They aren't sure what happened.  In the past there have been killing of people on the ship too, from trying to hijack the ship. The last one was in 2011. So far they do know that no one on the crew (24 people) killed them.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/19/world/asia/seychelles-maersk-deaths/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

Sinkhole in Kentucky

On Wednesday, February 12th, eight vintage Corvettes were distorted by a giant sinkhole. They said that it is about 40 feet wide and 30 feet deep. This happened at the Corvette museum in Kentucky, the sinkhole happened in the part of the building where the dome was. All of the cars that got smashed were important but the one that was in the very middle, was the 1 millionth Corvette made. At the time it was made it was about $15,000 but before it got all smashed up, that car was worth about 1 million dollars.

Toothpaste bombs

Flights that are going straight from the US to Russia or vice verse, have all been warned that in toothpaste tubes, or makeup tubes can have explosives in it. Michael McCaul, the head of Homeland Security think that people are bringing then to Sochi, Russia, where the 2014 Winter Olympics are being held, that people are smuggling explosives over the planes. The Russian officials contacted the American officials, saying that there is a possibility that people are doing that.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/05/world/europe/sochi-security-toothpaste/index.html?hpt=hp_t3

Photo bomb leads to death

On January 28, 2014, 23 year old, Kim Van was killed because of a picture was being taken and a photo was being taken and Kim Van had photo bombed a picture. After the picture the people who had taken the picture saw her in the background and ended up beating her to death. Kim's death was video taped and she was killed in front of a group of people. Kim's friends aren't speaking up and saying anything. These people were from the Vietnamese side of Atlanta and the news reporter said that the cops aren't very good there, and they have trust issues. The police have taken 5 cellphones from the people that were there.

George Stinney

About 70 years ago, in South Carolina, 14 year old, George Stinney was killed because he got blamed for killing 2 people. Now family members are saying that they want his name cleared but they know that they can't bring him back. George confessed to killing the girls. There was no evidence that he killed them or anything.  Within 10 minutes the jury convicted him to the death sentence. "be electrocuted, until your body be dead in accordance with law. And may God have mercy on your soul," that is what the court documents say. When they put him into the electric chair, they had to put books underneath him and be hind him because he was too small. He was wearing a mask, and the shack from the chair made that mask come off and his face was exposed to about 40 people who had come to watch him be killed. 

Glow in the dark fish

The glow in the dark fish, people can't see but other fishes can. They are blue, green and red. Only when the fish are under a black light, that is when people can see it but otherwise, only the fish can see the colors. The fish that glow are the fish that live by reefs, eels, shark reefs, small fish, rays, lizerdfishes also pan fish. The light that glows off of them is helpful for camouflage, to hide from predators. It can be really helpful to the fish, but I'm not quiet sure if the fish that don't live by the reefs glow in the dark.



http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/08/world/fish-light-up/index.html?hpt=wo_t5

14 people injured in a fire blast

On Sunday, January 1, 2014 a fire started in a 3 story apartment building, in Minneapolis. 14 people were injured and 6 people are in critical conditions and and 3 people are either be in the building or missing. The explosion was reported at 8:15 a.m. Fire chief said that John Fruetel said that soon after that the whole building was in flames. This building was the home of people that had worked at a grocery store connected to the apartment building. People had to jump out of windows to get out of the fire.


http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/01/us/minnesota-blast/index.html?hpt=us_c1