Current Events-Students

A Boy Scout troop from Lafayette, Louisiana was found Tuesday. The campsite was found by helicopter a National Guard helicopter.The scouts were being transferred by helicopter to a command post. All the boys are fine. officials were confident the troop was safe, saying the scout master with the troop was very experienced and serves as a backpacking trainer. The average age of the youths is 14.

That is a great thing that they found the troop!

if they would have not took off then they would not have got lost in the first place

Federal officials say the analysis of DNA from relatives confirms that Osama bin Laden is dead. However, the federal officials have not disclosed the relationship of the family. The test confirmed his identity with 99.9 percent accuracy. Since the tests were so accurate they believe that source of the DNA must have been from a parent or child of bin Laden. However, bin Laden did not have any full siblings. He did have 50 half-siblings, some of them had close ties to the United States.

A Selinsgrove man is facing criminal homicide charges. Alan A. Martin, 21 pronounced dead 11:13 a.m. March 15.

That's good. One less murderer on the streets that anybody has to worry about.

I believe that this man should be charged with homicide for stabbing this man to death.

A Lackawanna man was arrested on drug charges. The man was also part of the Mid Vally school district.

I think he should have been fired also because no one should be doing drugs. Since he worked for a school he should of definetly been against it but he wasnt. If you want to do drugs it is your own fault for risking your job.

He should not be aloud around the school and he should be kicked of the school borad for selling drugs....we need to get drugsd of the streets and now adults are giveing them to kids to use or even sell . that is not right

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.

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

Mount Carmel Township is trying to ban selling, delivering, or buying synthetic drugs. They will be the first township with this ban but they want to see it happen. If it goes info effect, it will start April 20. After this date punishment by law will be put into place.

It is about time somebody does something about this ridiculous stuff that people are consuming into there body. People could really make a drug out of anything ya know what i mean?

Mount Carmel Township will be the first township with an ordinance banning synthetic marijuana. But what does this matter? No matter what they ban, there's always going to be the nest new thing out. People will keep finding ways to get around the bans, and the new laws. Its essentially pointless for all this to be happening. even though i do agree that the "fake pot" is a bad idea

Arizona, 9 year old Tristin Saghin saves his 2 year-old sister's life using CPR. The baby went missing and apparently fell into the family's pool. While the rest of the family panicked, Tristin stayed calm, cool, and collective.

At-least someone pays attention in health class. Its a good thing that schools are still teaching this but there's actually people in the government who wont to get ride of education like this.

Gas prices jumped more than 11 cents over the past two weeks. The pace of higher pump prices has slowed and they may have peaked. The average gallon is just 23 cents off the all-time high of $4.1. They say the weakening of demand and slower rate of rise may keep it from hitting the all time average.

Gas prices have been on the rise for a while now. Surveys say the average cost of a gallon of gas in the United States two weeks ago was $3.76 but now it rose to $3.88. The prices in the past two weeks rose more than 11 cents. Publisher Trilby Lundberg says gas prices may be at their peak right now.

Wow if they keep going up like this its crazy noones going to have money to do anything anymore

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

16 year old girl from Arizona left voluntarily with a 19 year old man to Utah.

I think parents should keep track of their children more and this wont happend.

Nice job on looking at both sides, here, gang!

Over 700 people from guatemala was infected with syphilis by U.S researchers some scientists studying the effects of penicillin in the 1940s deliberately infected about 700 Guatemalans and none of them were informed or gave consent.

This was just wrong even though they are in prison you still should not use them as human test subjects. They have a right to the money they are suing for.

Protesters in Bahrain were killed today by police. Soldiers and hundreds of police chased protester out of Bahrain`s capital.

if two planes get close enough to hit each other there is something wrong with the air control station, someone was not performing there job well.

I do not understand how this happened. How could someone at the airport let the planes in the same area at the same time!

The people flying this plane are not to blame, the people in the control towers should be able to maintain control of these kind of things. I wouldn't be too happy about this because of somebody else being careless.

Very cool, interactive timeline of the protests in the Middle East beginning with Tunisia in December 2010