Saturday, September 18, 2010

Miners to be Rescued Soon

In Chile workers in a mine have been trapped in it since Aug. 5th and weren't spossed to be rescued until november. They have been surviving by a metal pipe that has been going more than 2,000 feet down to the workers. They have been dropping food and supplies through this hole. There is also a phone cord so that they can talk to there families. They are going to have to widen the hole to rescue the workers, but that can be tricky because if it is not stabalized the rocks could break and fall down and kill the workers.
Do you think they should still widen the whole even with its risks or is there an alternitive?

Player Collapses and Dies

Reggie Garret was a Senior and Straight A's student at West Orange Stark High School. On Sept. 18 after throwing a tuchdown he collasped and was later pronuced dead. His parents and coaches said they think he had a siezure. He will later have an otopsy to see what the the real cause of death is. His team went on to win the game 27-6. After the game reporters said that most the community was in the hospital parking lot of the hospital in which he laid dead.
Do you think he died from a siezure or something like a stroke from the heat?

Monday, September 13, 2010

Hikers Arrested In Iraq

Sarah Shroud was one of 3 hikers who were arrested on July 31, 2009 after allegedly crossing the Iran border on a hike in Iraq. Her family will have to cough up $500,000 to bail her out of jail. Her family is ready to bail her, but she said she would rather they all be realesed together.The family on her website said she has been in solitary confinement and only allowd two 30 minute with Bauer who is her fiance. They have been able to telephone there familys only once. The U.S. and Iran have had no diplamatic relations for 3 decades and the U.S. is not involved on trying to free the 3 prisoners. The State department is moniriting the situation, but all deplomacy is being handled by Swiss Embassy.
How scared would you be knowing your family needs $500,000 to relaese you and you are overseas?

Friday, September 3, 2010

Toughest Jail

In the deserts of Arizona at "Tent City" a convict camp is known as one of the toughest jails. Its doesn't have the regular ac and can reach 130 degrees Fahrenheit. Shaun Attwood a former prisoner says " In Arpaio's jail we were fed a diet of baloney, which was often green with mould," he adds. Also the toilets in the cells were usually overflowed with sewage. There are many deaths at the prison due to lack of hospitality. He began writing to show the world about these illegal conditions. He had to smuggle the papers to his parents so that they could post them on his blog. Shaun was sleeping and when he woke up there was a cockroach in his inhaler, but he didn't know so he inhaled and got a cockroach stuck in him that he couldn't eject, so it was stuck in him for a week.
Think if you had to go there what would you do?

Thursday, September 2, 2010

Clemens in Court

Roger Clemens is going to court this after noon for allegdly lying to congress over the use of steroids. Clemens is accused of lying under oath 15 different times dening the use of steroind or growth hormones. It will be U.S.District Judge Reggie Walton. Clemens has been playing baseball for a while now and he is a 7 time Cy Young award winner, but he is now retired. Clemens has consistinly denied all charges of using steroids. If Roger is convicted he could face up to 30 years in prison and 1.5 million dollars in fines. If you were Roger Clemens would you just surrender now if you knew you were guilty so the charges wouldn't keep going up ?