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30 year old Kevin Kevick of 220 E. Water street was taken to Geisinger medical center, Danville for emergency room treating at 5:45 said to be in serious condition.

Luke ~ thank you for posting. Do you think you could have read a bit more and found an article that has some sort of relevance to your real life/world? What was it about this article that made you want to bookmark it? Actually, what could we better use and agree upon as criteria to truly qualify an article as viable "news?" Any ideas?

Oil had recently went under $104 a barrel while gas prices kept increasing. The national gas prices went up .6 of a cent overnight ($3.584). Overall, the gas prices went up an average of 4 cents in 6 days.

Find out how the customer service is in Mt. Carmel P.A

Tony ~ how is the customer service in Mt. Carmel? Be sure to add a full summary when commenting.

Its been 32 years since the core meltdown at 3 mile island and it is the worst nuclear disaster in u.s. history.

There are researcher that think this New Shale gas is bad for our global warming, greenhouse effects, and also the climate. This is happen in Cornell University in Ithaca, US. They found this Shale gas underground and there are some on the walls they building by the school. Compared to coal, the footprint of shale gas is at least 20% greater and perhaps more than twice as great on the 20-year horizon, and is comparable over 100 years.

If we used this it might make our economy better.

I feel like it would help us in the future. I do not think it will be bad i think its good for us in the long run.

The United States, with help from Sweden, is trying to get North Korea to release the man on humanitarian grounds. Sweden is representing the US because of the poor diplomatic relations with North Korea. The Swedes visited the man and are asking for regular visits. Because of recent detainments by the North Koreans, relationships are continuing to get worse. Citizens have recently been released in 2009 and 2010. Conditions continue to get worse because of concerns of nuclear development in North Korea also. The US and South Korea joined forces on drills despite the norths warnings. Without Sweden, chances of getting the man back would be slim.

Maria Velasquez was offered a bus ticket to Argentina and a job. she was so in need of money that her and her family got fake passports and left for Argentina. When they got there she was throw into slave labor working 7 days a week and 18 hours a day. After 1 year they left and the sweatshop and ended up in La Alameda where she started making designer clothing called breaking chains which is now world wide.

At 9:30 am five children and one adult were inside the Love Alive Montessori day care inside Richwood Presbyterian church at 1070 when water started to pour in the back of the buliding. The teacher took all the children to the second floor of church until rescued. They were taken to McDonald's by county sheriff. Area known to flood but last time it flooed bad was in 1973. Several roads are closed and drivers are urged to avoid area.

Alzheimer's doesn't start when family and friends start to notice differences in someone, it starts way before the symptoms become known. By the time a doctor tries to treat it, patient's functions are usually significantly impaired and too far gone. Doctors hope that the disease could be detected earlier for better treatment. There are three stages of Alzheimer's disease. The first stage is for research purposes only. The second stage is when a person starts having small changes in memory, behavior, and thinking. The third stage is when memory, thinking and behavioral symptoms have become so damaging that the patient's ability to function is hindered.

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.

Emily Fennell lost her hand in a car crash in 2006. She lives in Yuba City, California with her 6 year old daughter Hannah. Emily is the first on that got this transplant.One month after she signed up for this transplant , she got a call that a donor hand has become available. To get to the Hospital as fast as she can. This surgery lasted 14 hours to complete. She is thankful for her hand back so she can play with her kid, but she don't take it for granted.

Well thats good now she gets her life back her life is back know shes gets to go and have some normal fun her life is back to the same now

The gulf nations meet to ease unrest in yemen.Foreign ministers of Persian Gulf will meet in the united arab emirates. The gulf cooperation council said the meeting will focus on the discussions from sunday in Saudi Arabia.The meeting came as Yemeni security forces opened fire on anti government protesters. that was in the city as Taiz. The Gulf Cooperation Council met the capital of Saudi Arabia and on sunday in effort to bring end to the current political impasse in the country. A few weeks before protesters were taken to the streets. Many were arrested or injured dealing with security forces.

A man named Robert Lustig gave a speech called "Sugar: The bitter truth." In his speech he talks about how sugar is "evil" and a "toxin" to many people in today's society. Lustig says that sugar is an empty calorie but the problem does not come from this. The problem come from our over consumption of sugar. Our over consumption of sugar has led to many problems in the US today. Some of these problems include obesity and diabetes.

British military officers will be working with the Libyan opposition. Also the European Union is prepared to send troops into Libya for humanitarian assistance.

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?

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

Hosni Mubarak has been under detention at a hospital in the Red Sea resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh. Egyptian authorities ordered that he will be transferred to Tora Prison hospital. The former president's medical team says a move is too risky. Authorities are investigating Mubarak in deaths of hundreds of activists during a recent uprising in Egypt. He is also being tried on allegations of corruption and misuse of state funds.

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 robot Japanese used found sauna-like conditions inside the reactor number 2 building at the Fukashima Daiichi power plant. The number two reactor has less radiation in it then the other reactors says the building owner. Reactor No. 2 is said to be leaking radioactive water. The water is filling the basement of the turbine plant and utility tunnels. The robot they used to go into the plant found temperatures up to 106F and humidity from 94-99 percent. The conditions were so bad that they fogged up the lenses of the probe's cameras, causing operators to get the robot out after only a few minutes, company officials said.

Robots are getting a lot smarter as the years go on. I wish I had one.

Grete Waitz a Norwegian Marathon runner died today in Oslo. She won 9 New York City Marathons. Her first Marathon in 1978 she set a new record time of 2 hours 32 minutes and 30 seconds. In 2005 she announced she had cancer. She inspired runners all of the world.

She has accomplished a lot in her life and made huge accomplishments on winning her marathons. It's sad she has died but she definatly got a lot out of life.