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Ford Motor combined strong sales and improved pricing to roar past earnings forecasts and post its best first-quarter profit since 1998. Ford earned $2.6 billion, up 22% from last year. They did this by lowing prices on cars and making the most sold cars in America. This has been Fords best since 1998. They are currently the company withe the most cars sold.

This would be good for them because then it would help them out

Hopefully things stay good for them.

Barak Obama apparently doesn't have a birth certificate according to Donald Trump. It is supposed to be in a vault in Hawaii where Barak was supposed to be born but now we really are not sure. At first i was thinking this is just probably because of the fact that he is going to be running against Obama in the next election but now i'm not so sure. There is a good possibility that he is actually not a member of the United States. Let alone not even legally. If Barak has any sort of birth certificate it shouldn't be that hard to find it considering he is the president of the United States. For some reason they have yet to find it. Either it was never created or somebody along the years had lost it.

I would vote for trump. Cause Obama is changing our live for ever we need some one else in office.

I personally think Donald Trump will actually help us out.

According to the University of Michigan's annual survey of the Nation's adolescents, in 2006, about one- fifth of U.S. seniors smoked monthly, down from more than one-third who did so in 1996. Signs in the most recent surveys indicate that smoking among younger teenagers might be on the rise. The cost of cigarettes, usually a strong predictor of a decline in teen smoking, continues to rise. Yet more than 40% of high school students today have tried smoking before they graduated. The only thing left to do is to raise the legal purchasing age to 21.

Well you know today 12 year old children can simply get cigarettes with the slightest ease. So I really don't think its such a big deal, but if I was the Cigarette company I sure would be. Also Next where going to have to be 30 to drink and 26 as an official adult. FREEEEEEDOOOOMMMMM!!!!! lol

I think the price should be doubled, maybe even tripled. There are no benefits to smoking at all. Just a way for tough guys to waste money maybe. If the prices are raised, people will still buy them I know. But that just goes to show you how addicting they are. Better yet, the age should be changed to 21. Change both of those variables and you'll see a positive change in our citizens, thats my opinion though.

A nine year old boy named Tristin saves his two year old sister from drowning in a swimming pool in Mesa, Arizona. The fire department said that the girl fell into the swimming pool and the Mom came out and seen her daughter floating in the pool. The young boy rushed outside and gave her CPR. He said he learned CPR from watching t.v

Tristin must be a really smart kid by learning CPR from tv. I wonder if the mother knew how to perform it.

He has to be good at learning if he learned CPR from tv.

Recently seven of the Mount Carmel Area Odyssey of the Mind teams went to Williamsport. Three out of the seven teams advanced to world. Odyssey of the Mind is a competition that anyone can compete in. The teams consist of five to seven people. This competition has two parts. The first is your long term problem. At the beginning of the season you pick a problem. There are five total. You then have to solve this problem within an eight minute skit and meet all of the regulations. The second part is spontaneous. The team enters a room with three judges. You can receive a hands-on problem, a hands-on verbal problem, or a verbal problem. Each problem varies on topics and you have a specific amount of time. You are also limited to how many times you may answer. Each of your teams received 1st or 2nd place at the state competition. They will be going to the University of Maryland where they will compete for a world title. Spontaneous and the long term problems are on separate days. Pin trading and shirt trading are only two of the many activities to do during their time there.

Hope u have a good time. Good luck and hope u win.

The first time in a lone time that our odyssey of the mind made it to worlds. Good luck and great job at worlds, Congratulations and i hope you win at worlds.

The budget can be cut up to $40 billion.

$40 Billion is a lot of money to just take away. They should atleast take it away in increments so people can adjust to it easier.

I don't get why they are cutting budgets from the school's all around the world. I think that is so silly because people put us though school to learn and now there thanking them from us. So i guess they what us to be stupid and not get good jobs. A lot of people will lose jobs if this happens.

In Boston a mother was accused of killing her son. the mother said she withheld lifesaving drugs from her cancer that was making him sicker. She was found guilty of attempted murder in connection with her son. The boys name was Jeremy Fraser. He was 9 years old. he was diagnosed with cancer in 2006.

This is such a sad story. I think that it's very wrong for somebody to do this to their own son. This lady must have thought she knows more then a person who had gone to school for years to be able to tell the boy he needed these drugs.

I don't know how you even do that its just not right. Yet not all people are right i the head it's just something your born with....

The United States was once one of the most rapidly growing countries in the world, but that is not the case now. Slow population growth can be a good thing, as the U.S. is in a recession the way it is, and more people can make it worse, especially with jobs currently being difficult to find. From the 90's to 2000, the U.S. was growing at 13.2%, and from 2000 to 2010, it has grown 9.7%. 43% of the growth is Hispanics, which shows how rapidly we our adapting to a diverse community. Studies show that the U.S. is becoming a middle aged country, which will most likely harm us if we don't get out of the recession, because that will be even more money being drained once all the middle aged people are able to collect Social Security.

Ryan Hamil went missing Tuesday after ferocious weather. He was with his mother and siblings when the storm hit. The mother has broken bones bruises and cuts and the father was away but returned. They were last searching a 16-mile stretch. They have taken refuge in a bathtub. Its one of the worst since 1953 and their hearts go out.

The storm must have been very strong to take a child away from his mother. Hopefully they keep searching until they find the child. I've seen pictures of the wreckage and it will be a struggle but we can hope everything will be all right.

A cattle truck flipped over on an interstate ramp in the south suburbs, klling 16 cows. One cow escaped from the truck as crews were trying to upright it. The cow, which had a broken leg, charged at some of the workers. Illinois State Police say they were forced to shoot it to put it down. One of the cows fell on to the roof of a car on the interstate below. The driver suffered minor injuries and was taken to the hospital. Dozens of cows remained alive inside the turned over truck.

The Missouri tornado death toll as rose to 118 people dead and it is still rising as they look for more people that are trapped under their own houses. This tornado was one of the deadliest single U.S. tornado since modern record-keeping began more than 60 years ago.

With every tornado it just gets worse and if not its going to.

Natural disasters are a terrible thing to suffer from, because you can't blame anybody for your misfortunes. I think that people should read these articles and become more aware of how devastating they can be, and more people will be inclined to seek more protective shelter.

A 62 year old hiker fell into a hole and was stuck there for 3 days. On May 14th the womans family had a reunion for the missing hiker and the family decided to go for a walk. On their walk they had found what they had been missing. On May 14th three days after the hiker was missing the family had found her.

Well for 62 years old thats good she's getting exrisce but too bad this happened to her.

It's amazing that the family actually found her. She's very lucky she made it out alive after being there for three days especially without having any food or water and the risk of wild animal attacks.

At Finn McCool's Bar last Monday night there was a shooting with one person shot and killed. The accused shooter is Derrick Phillips is now behind bars. Also charged are Sunni Pompey, 23, and Kyle Mason, 22. And a fourth suspect, Fahim Allen, was arrested Monday evening.

There's no reason anyone should shoot another person. There's other ways to settle things. It's horrible that there are people like that in the world.

57-year-old Jacqueline Berghorn came face-to-face with a bear at her home in Center Harbor, New Hampshire. It pushed her down and she hit a glass door. The bear then ran away, right through a fence. Berghorn said it came back and her husband fired two shots at it. He missed and the bear ran off.One of Berghorn's neighbors said a bear killed six chickens on his property Sunday, but it's believed to be a different bear.

I agree with kayleen, the bear must have a motive behind doing this. Black bears arent really that mean of bears. they usually keep to themselves.

It's not unlikely to have bears around our houses and places where we do activities. We just need to be careful in case we do see one to know what to do.

The primary suspect in the brutal beating of a of a San Francisco Giants fan at Dodgers Stadium is Giovanni Ramirez. He is 31 years old and is associated with the Varrio Nuevo Estrada street gang. It is one of 34 gangs in a 15-square-mile area east of downtown Los Angeles.

I really can't believe that somebody has the guts to beat somebody up for something so little and stupid. That guy can't even like his favorite baseball team without getting beat up for it. I think that it is a great thing that the giants players are giving a reward to anyone with answers. It really shows that they care about their fans.

when stuff like this happens it needs to be dealt with and have major consequences. when this happens it just looks bad on the sport and general managers that do not provide enough security. this is a major problem at sporting events.

Rare and dangerous thunderstorms and possible tornadoes could appear Tuesday in northeast Texas, Mississippi and the southern part of the United State. Very large hail and damaging winds are also to be expected. It doesn't stop on Tuesday, on Wednesday there is also a severe thunderstorm warning. We just started getting nice weather for the first time all year and its all about to get ruined by the raging wind and thunderstorms.

I enjoy the rain probably more than the normal person. Lets also hope for some cool thunderstorms would be awesome. Let it rain.

What is with this weather? When is summer weather going to come? It seems like this summer is just going to be full of rain its been 2 months of rain everyday.

Chrysler has paid off $7.6 billion to U.S and Canadian government. They repaid the loans 6 years ahead of schedule. also because of the loans they were able to hire 6000 workers

This is great especially with the economy the way it is. Other companies should follow the ways of Chrysler so we can get our economy back on track.

That is great and it may show signs that our country is slowly recovering from the recession we are in, maybe this will give people motivation to start looking for jobs again.

Obama was the first U.S president to speak from westminster Hall the american and the European influence remain as dominant as ever.

A Tornado hit Canadian Country, Oklahoma and a 3 year old kid went missing along with another 500 people who were killed. This season has been the deadliest season since 1953. Rescuers and volunteers have been searching the land for survivors day in and day out.