17 Pound Lobster

Joesph Ali was a 27 year old man who works at a surf shop on the water in Huntington Beach, California. The end of his work shift was coming to an end so he decided he will go diving for his dinner and hopefully he will catch something good. He dove off the Huntington Beach Pier and ended up to be his most successful dive of his life. Ali dove 16 ft. to the bottom of the floor with a LED flashlight and there he noticed a 17 pound lobster. He said he found it in a crevice and under some rocks, once he found this big lobster he said it was a struggle to catch him. He finally got him after diving down there once more. This spiny lobster was a trophy and is searched for but only found occasionally. He is going to have a few great dinners.

Man Made Earthquake

The Monday night game between the New Orleans Saints and the Seattle Seahawks had the ground rumbling. The cheers were so thunderous that the nearby seismographs registered the thundering crowd as a minor earthquake. The largest "earthquake" was when Michael Bennett recovered a fumble from Drew Brees and returned it for a touchdown. The cheering and foot-stamping had the seismographs record a magnitude earthquake between 1 and 2. This has happened in the Seahawks stadium before so they aren't new to the recording of a small magnitude earthquake, this is just the biggest earthquake that has happened.

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/celebrating-fans-cause-minor-earthquake-u-football-game-140159988--nfl.html

Dead-Mouse Drop

In Guam 2,000 dead mice were parachuted down to the ground to supply food to the poisonous brown tree snakes. The U.S. Air force was the group behind this whole operation. Reportedly these dead mice were pumped full of acetaminophen. They put this in the rodents so that the snakes which are an invasive species will go to them and eat them. The ingredient that they pumped into the mouse will cause them to croak or die. The Air Force said that the other animals who may eat the dead rodent will have minimal risk. This is a 8 million dollar project that the United States invested in, and if this plan succeeds they will use this tactic in other places in the world.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/operation--mouse-drop-163310851.html

Turkey Shortage

Butterball, the nations largest producers of turkeys, is telling everyone that they may have a shortage of turkeys this year. They also said the turkeys had trouble gaining weight for this years Thanksgiving and it may be a struggle to get turkeys 16 pounds or more. They did say they would send out the smaller birds too, but there just wont be as many big ones. Butterball is en-charge of around 41 million birds a year which is about 16 percent of all turkeys distributed. But during Thanksgiving 1 out of every 4 turkeys is a Butterball so this may be a huge concern to families all around the country.

http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2013/11/18/butterball-warns-turkey-shortage/

Almost Got Away

The police just arrested a man in Oklahoma City who escaped from a Maryland prison in 1980, 33 years later. He got caught because he was tired of paying a business man to keep his secret, so he threatened to expose him as a fugitive. Anthony, escaped the prison in 1980, after he committed a robbery crime. He called the police saying "He called back and said he needed to talk to us about a situation. He said 'I'm a prison escapee from Maryland.' He was very forthright and forthcoming." After he did that he was put back into prison and he is waiting to see how long he will be in the cage again. 

http://news.yahoo.com/oklahoma-police-arrest-prison-escapee-33-years-run-003455681.html

That's Nuts

In Escalon, California a nut thief made off with 140,000 pounds of walnuts. With all 140,000 pounds of nuts that he stole, he made a profit of $400,000. All of this happened in a little central town of Escalon. It is said that it is the biggest hit to this booming nut industry. Last month 12,000 pounds of walnuts which equal to $50,000 were stolen in Sacramento off of the highway. No arrests have been made, but this is an ongoing investigation.

http://news.yahoo.com/calif-thief-gets-away-140-000-pounds-nuts-211531317.html

Candy=Obesity

A woman in North Dakota called in to a radio station and told the radio hosts that she will be handing out strongly worded letter along with some candy. She told the radio hosts that if she sees a kid that she thinks is overweight she will give them candy along with letter that that says she is worried about their weight. Cheryl the woman that called in said "I am just hoping the parents are going to read this and think about it while they watch their kids get into bigger and bigger sizes of clothes," she is criticizing all of these kids weights. In part of letter it reads  "Your child is, in my opinion, moderately obese and should not be consuming sugar and treats to the extent of some children this Halloween season." It is just one day of the year where they are allowed to have as much candy as they want and have no consequences because of it. They aren't her kids so she does not need to worry about them, because they aren't her responsibility. 

Ways to Reduce Heart Attacks, Strokes, and Even Death

Recent studies have shown that if you get a flu shot it reduces your chances of getting a stroke, heart attack, or even death. The shot protects the heart health and even respiratory health. In many trials involving 3,238 patients got the vaccine and 95 of them which is 2.9% went on to experience "a major adverse in cardiovascular event." Then later 151 of them or 4.7% later experienced cardiovascular events. It shows that there is a 36% chance of a reduced risk heart attack. Doctors also said that is 55% less likely to get a serious heart attack after taking this shot. All together the amount of deaths after getting this shot is 1.3% of people who did get it. There is a small risk, but the outcome means you can live longer and have a healthier life.
http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-flu-shot-heart-attack-stroke-death-20131022,0,5451794.story#axzz2iUg7xyDm

Laos Plane Crash

At 4 p.m. on Wednesday on October 16 a ATR propeller aircraft crashed in Mekong River towards the southern Laotian province Champasak. It was a Laos Airline plane that crashed in the river and 44 people died in the crash. Remnants of Typhoon Nari has been hitting the area. Champasak capital had received around 4 inches of rain since Tuesday. Witnesses said that the plane crashed due to bad weather, but it is not final yet if that is the cause. There has been a total of 10 commercial aircraft crashes this year alone. The Laos plane crash is the 10th crash this year. Most of these plane crashes are international commercial airplane companies ranging from 2 deaths all the way to 307 deaths.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/10/16/thailand-plane-crash-laos/2993111/

The Nation and the NFL

NFL owners meet in Washington D.C. on Tuesday with the Oneida Indian Nation members to debate about the Washington Redskins mascot. Per Maske, Aldopho Birch, the league's VP of labor relations, wrote a letter to the Oneida Nation Tribe to have the meeting about the name. Obama thinks the name "Redskins" truly offend a group of people so he came out and said "think about changing," to the Redskins owner. Obama later said “I don't want to detract from the wonderful Redskins fans that are here. They love their team and rightly so." By next year Washington may have a different mascot, we will have to wait and see. 

http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/eye-on-football/24051030/report-nfl-will-meet-with-oneida-nation-over-redskins-name

Fiery Bus Crash

Six people were claimed dead after the commercial bus crashed and burned on Interstate 40 going west bound in Jefferson County. According to witnesses at the scene the commercial bus crossed over the median then struck a tractor trailer which caused the commercial bus to go up in flames with passengers aboard the bus. All of this chaos happened around 2 p.m. today. At least 10 others were being sent to various hospitals in its region. After all of this the trailer was still burning and this ended around 3:20 p.m. which is a hour and 20 minutes later. This crash also caused traffic to shutdown going in both directions because debris was scattered on both sides of the highway. 

http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2013/oct/02/fiery-bus-crash-shuts-i-40-jefferson-county/

Shooting Near Long Island Mall

By the Long Island Mall there was a shooting at 10:10 A.M. The police quickly reacted to the shooting nervous that it could be what happened in Kenya, but he just shot one guy and killed him and shot another and just injured him. Sang Ho Kim works at a Save Energy, a light fixture company and he entered the mall angry. After the shooting there was a lock down at a university near the mall and at other stores and this lock down only lasted 45 minutes. The shooting apparently happened work related motive and that the general public should not be worried. They think he is in a white Honda, but he has left the area according to the NYPD.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/shooting-long-island-mall-kills-wounds/story?id=20372315

A Tragic Break Up

What could she have done to bring up this break up? Maybe the grinding on Robin Thicke or possibly stripping down into to her skin colored underwear. Who would have though the relationship between them would have ended. They met on the set of The Last Song made in 2010. Then they later got engaged in May 2010. They experienced more break ups than actual bonding moments. They mutually agreed on putting the wedding off maybe for another chance for them to work on something, or possibly just have this relationship to end as fast as it started. I mean who wouldn't want to be with Miley Cyrus a fun, loving, and sweet country girl that knows right from wrong.


http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20735370,00.html

Obesity in the US

Obesity in the US keeps growing larger and larger each year. This year about 4% to 6% of children and teens are severely obese. Young children are starting to get type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, liver disease, sleep apnea, musculoskeletal problems, and early signs of clogged arteries. This has not been a big problems in the 90's and now the obesity in the country is a common thing. Fast food industries are starting to really target kids now days which is a big problem because it makes them want to go there and their kids down the line will see what their parents do which will just be a chain of obesity. The American Heart Association are trying to save these kids, but it is slowly getting out of control.

Blue II Butlers Mascot Retires and Then Passes Away

Butler Mascot Blue II passed away today September 3, 2013 at 3:06 pm. He has been the mascot from 2004 all the way to 2013. He has been a loyal companion to the Butler basketball for many years. Blue II has been to 2 NCAA men's basketball championship games. Yes, Blue II has been with the basketball team for 9 years and have made this team succeed in all of their games. This dog will forever be loved by the school that they even will make a memorial outside Hinkle Fieldhouse, so all athletes can see this amazing dog. He will forever be loved by the school as well as the athletes.

http://ftw.usatoday.com/2013/09/retired-butler-mascot-blue-ii-passes-away/