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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.

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

Primary source utilized in Current Events class

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

Another PA parent opts his child out of PSSA standardized testing as a measure of civil disobedience.  Word of caution:  This can very much hurt a school's Adequate Yearly Progress and ultimately the school may suffer.  But, what if this movement spread amongst parents?  What then?  Would the government take over the school?  Change is hard.

Powerful video of earthquake and tsunami in Japan

I think its awesome to see how countries come together at a time like this. This should make the United States feel better about themselves also. By helping others, it will give us a good impact and if we are in need of help someone will be there for us.

Absolutely, Kristen. It is very devastating, too, and unfortunate. Most people don't realize that it is in every country's best interest to do so. In this day and age, our economies are much more interdependent and like throwing a pebble into the pond, there will be some ripple effects that will surface within our own economy as a result of the Japanese events.

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.

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....

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.

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.