Evacuation Warnings in China

It is possible that more than one million people might have to evacuate dozens of villages in a Sichuan province if the lake bursts and floods the area due to the recent earthquake. The lake has a wall of debris that is clogging a river. On Saturday, officials will start a three-day drill that will test the government communications systems to make sure that residents in the valley can hear future evacuation orders.

So far, it is estimated that 68,858 people were killed in the earthquake and there are 18,618 people that are missing. The earthquake left 5 million people homeless and many people were separated from their families.

Owners of Pets Thrown Off Bridge in Puerto Rico Receive Help

The animal welfare groups plan to help the Puerto Rico housing project residents to pursue legal action against the animal control workers that seized their pets and killed most of them by throwing them from a bridge. Friends of the Animal, a Puerto Rican company that rescues and rehabilitates abandoned pets and farm animals, and many other groups will help the pet owners with claims of animal cruelty and civil rights violations.

Everybody Wins in a Car promotion

A direct-mail marketing company hired by a local care dealership accidentally sent out 50,000 scratch-off tickets to residents and all of them claimed to be the winner of the $1,000 grand prize. The Honda general manager said an error by Atlanta-based Force Events Direct Marketing, which printed the advertisement, gave all 50,000 tickets the grand prize. At this point they are not sure how they are going to handle the matter but they are making a full effort on investigating the mistake.