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