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List of links and resources to current events in the Middle East, primarily Eqypt.

List of links/resources to developing news and current events unfolding in Libya. Good sources to compare potential media bias as coverage comes form Time, NYT, Guardian, The Telegraph, CNN, ABC News, BBC, Washington Post

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....

Actress Elizabeth Taylor and billionaire Malcolm Forbes visited Knoebles amusement resort on May 23, 1988. It was the final stop on the Muscular Dystrophy Associations "Ride for life event", a event to raise money for research and treatment of diseases.

On Fort Worth Bridge in Texas, around 4:00 a.m. motor vehicle accident involving an 18-wheeler and a red Sedan. The cab of the 18-wheeler was left dangling off of the side of the elevated highway ramp. The driver of the truck was treated for minor injuries. As for the Sedan, it was trapped underneath the truck pinned up against the side of the bridge. The two people in the Sedan appeared to be fine, but still taken to the hospital.

Seth Mathew Hornburger is out on bail after being accused of killing Alan Martin of Windfield.

Any more details? Do you know any of these folks? What makes this a viable news story? We can always make things more interesting when we find something that is relevant to us, our real world, or relative to the society in which we live.

A big fire at Miami airport causes close to a 100 flight cancellations and stranding hundreds of passengers.

College student working on project to turn food waste into energy. He is studying was to converting biomass waste into liquid fuel known as butanol.

This topic is one of the most discussed alternet energy resolutions today, but hardly funded. Its possible that this college student will get somewhere, but also nowhere without funding to back up his research.

A strong earthquake struck northeast Myanmar near the borders of Thailand and Laos with a magnitude of 6.8.

Police in Four nations have held about 200 people, for Trans-Atlantic Drug trafficing. Involving Major Mexican drug cartels,Importing and Distributing drugs from Latin America to the US. 60 Million dollars in cash seized. Suspects Arrested in Mexico and Guatemala. Arrests came after a 15 month investigation. The US and Italian charges cover various crimes, including trafficking of cocaine and marijuana, kidnap charges, attempted murder, conspiracy to use a firearm in a violent crime and conspiracy to kill and kidnap in a foreign country.

This is an interesting topic. The drug trade world is getting out of control a lot of people are being killed and hurt for no reason someone needs to step up and stop these things from happening before its to late

Three teens charged for catching a garage in Shamokin on fire.

Its pretty bad that kids are lighting a garage on fire for fun. They should be heavily charged.

U.S. Census Bureau data that is going to be released Thursday are expected to show that the Hispanic population in the United States- has reached a new high, getting up to 50 million people. Demographers told CNN. The results the Demographers are going to show is said that Hispanics accounted for more then half of the nation's growth since 2000. The white population is staying the same, when the Hispanic and Asain populations are quickly getting larger. Out of the 50 states, 48 of them got Demographs. Nearly 47 million Hispanics were counted in the 48 states, & the Hispanic population of New York is estimated to put the number past the 50 million mark and as high as 50.5 million.

People have no care about anybody else which is why they keep hopping the border. Little do they know that every person that enters our country illegally, could be the person who takes your job in a year or two. Its hard to stop all of this but our country needs to devote even more attention to the border and all of the problems with it.

Lucas ~ reread your post and think about better ways you could have said some of the things above to be less offensive. Sometimes, we can better convey our views and get our point across when we speak more appropriately. Think about it. If you want to convince someone or persuade someone to think as you do, you'll never get the chance if you turn them off by offending them. Does that make sense?

there is radiation in the drinking water and in the food supply and its not safe for infants at all and any women who are pregnant need to drink bottled water.

This is crazy that these earthquakes all the way over in Japan are affecting states over here in the U.S.

Libyans gather in Tripoli, Libya to mourn at the funeral for 13 people who were killed in the coalition air strike.

Dubai police seize arms shipment. They found 16,000 pistols aboard a ship worth $2 million. The guns were hidden in wrapped boxes carrying furniture. Six people were arrested.

That's good that they found those guns. If they wouldn't have found them think of how many people could have been either hurt or killed.

I don't know why people think they can get away with shipping 16,000 pistols on a ship. They should of saw the whole bust coming.

A student at the College of the Atlantic is working on a project to change food waste into energy. He has been studying ways possibilities of converting biomass waste into liquid fuel known as butanol.

Wow cool good for him that would be really cool for him if he did that because then maybe that would change the world.

Snoring is more then just a distraction to your own sleeping it is also a health problem that people have.

I hate when people snore! This article was very interesting.

@Mikael ~ Great! What, specifically, was interesting about it?

Jeremy Morlock was sentenced to 24 years in jail Wednesday. He pleaded guilty for killing three Afghan civilians. Morlock was thought to be the leader of the five soldiers who killed the unarmed men.

A retired Tri-Valley teacher and former Pitman resident and her husband must relocate because of the radiation scare in Japan.

thats kinda crazy somebody from around this area lives in japan. its sad that they lost their stuff but good that they are relocating.

A soldier gets 24 years behind bars for killing Afghan civilians in a "sport" or "game". Also 5 other soldiers are getting 22 or more years for participating.

I understand that there are certain people who need to be killed, the people who are doing harm to the civilians are in the wrong. The soldiers are there to kill the bad people, not to make a sick game out of killing innocent people.

James has a really good point, here. What if there is a bit more to the story? Was it truly a completely innocent a civilian? (Mmm... maybe I should go in and actually read the story. The conversation surrounding the article definitely makes it more interesting and makes me want to take a further look into it. Nice job, students!