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Introduction to Twitter for my students and my school.  Includes explanatory videos and helps to show the value of Twitter for personal and social learning.

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.

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.

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?

Shamokin fire bureau will be holding it's annual banquet for firefighters. The honoring of firefighters started in 1911 and this year marks the 100th consecutive banquet

I think it is really good that they have an annual banquet to honor firefighters. They risk their life every time they go out to fight a fire and really are so brave. They deserved to be praised

Absolutely, Kayleen! Good point! We can make the world just a little better by thanking those that do great things and firefighters certainly qualify!

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.

Iodine-131 was found in Colorado and Oregon by a monitor in Colorado. The trace amounts of radiation found is about 100,000 times less than the natural radiation we receive from the sun, so it really is no threat.

Two more states Oregon and Colorado join radiation problems with other western states. These radiation problems have spread about 5,000 miles away from Japan.

i feel really bad for all of the states and the family's that lost someone or something. This earth Quake really bad and the radiation was even worsted. I just hope everyone is ok