Second Grader Suspended for Drawing Gunfight

In Dennis Township, NJ, a second grade child, named Kyle Walker, was suspended for one day after drawing a picture of a stick figure shooting a gun at another stick figure with the word “me” written above the shooter. The school has a zero-tolerance policy on guns. The boy gave the picture to another child on his school bus and that child’s parents complained about the picture to the school.

Singer La La Brown Murdered in Milwaukee

The RnB singer La La Brown was murdered a couple of days ago in Milwaukee, WI. She and her boyfriend were killed inside of a production studio on Milwaukee’s northwest side. The boyfriend’s brother found the two bodies when he couldn’t get in touch with his brother and went looking for him. Police say that they had been dead for at least a day. She was an upcoming artist that was known for her singing on the songs “Sex” with Lyfe Jennings and “John Doe” with Public Announcement.

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California College Uses Roaches to Attract Students

The college UC Riverside in California is using a cockroach petting zoo display to try to attract students and parents to an upcoming recruitment fair. The display will have several species of cockroaches and will include the Madagascar hissing cockroach. The fair is mainly for high school students that are interested in careers as science teachers and engineers.

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Woman Attacks Comcast Company With Hammer

A 75 year old woman, named Mona Shaw, says that she and her husband had an appointment for a Comcast technician to come to their home and install the Triple Play phone, Internet, and cable service. The couple says that the technician showed up two days later than he was suppose to and didn’t finish setting up the services. Two days later, Comcast cut off their services.

The Shaws went to the Comcast office and waited two hours before being told that the manager was gone for the day. The next Monday, Mona Shaw showed up with a hammer and smashed a keyboard and telephone and knocked over a monitor. She was arrested for disorderly conduct, given a three month suspended sentence, fined $345, and is banned from going to the Comcast offices for a year. The Shaws decided to go with Verizon and DirecTV for their phone and television services.

Couple Catches Burglar and Makes Him Clean Their Home

In Montgomery, Al a couple named Adrian and Tiffany McKinnon came home to find a thief had broken in and had taken almost everything they owned. Adrian sent his wife her sister’s house while he inspected the house. When he walked back into their sunroom, the thief walked in from the back door straight into him. Adrian held the man at gunpoint and made him clean up the mess that he had made, which was piles of stuff that was thrown out of the drawers and cabinets to the floor, until the police arrived. When the police arrived the thief complained about being made to clean up at gunpoint.

The thief is being charged with burglary and theft. He is being held at the Montgomery County Detention Facility on a $30,000 bond.

Dick Cheney and Barack Obama are Cousins

Lynne Cheney, Dick Cheney’s wife, says that while she was doing some family research she found out that her husband and Barack Obama are eight cousins. She traced their common ancestor to be a 17^th century French immigrant. Obama is distantly related to Mareen Duvall, whose son Samuel married the granddaughter of Cheney’s ancestor.

Oprah Talks about Her Thyroid Problem

Oprah has chosen to go public about her hyperthyroid condition that has caused her to gain weight by slowing down her metabolism. She says that at first her condition sped up her metabolism and made it difficult to sleep. Then her metabolism slowed down and made her tired most of the time and caused her to gain 20 pounds. She decided to take a break for a month in Hawaii to feel better and get rest and take a break from her stressful career. She has also decided to talk about her condition on her talk show.

Best Buy No Longer Sells Analog TVs

Best Buy has decided to take all of their analog televisions off the shelves and sell only flat panel and high-definition television sets. In February 2009, broadcasters will stop transmitting analog signals and people with older televisions will have to get service through converter boxes, set-top boxes, or direct satellite.

Currently, more than 60 million people in the U.S. use antennas and analog cable. In the beginning of the next year, the government will have coupons available for buying converter boxes. Also early next year, Best Buy will sell coupon-eligible converter boxes.

Apple Now Allows Third Party Applications on iPhone

Apple Inc. will now allow third party applications on the iPhone. They previously wanted to have control over the applications that people have on their iPhones. In February, they plan to release a software development kit that will allow other companies to make iPhone and iPod touch applications. They want to wait until February for the benefit of developers and protect iPhone users from viruses, malware, and privacy attacks.

The iPhone is a cellphone, multimedia, and wireless device. Over 1 million iPhones have been sold since the product launched this past June.

You-Tube Creates Anti-Piracy Filters

The website YouTube has created a way to get rid of copyrighted clips. They have made filtering tools so that the owners of copyrighted material can block their material from being shown on YouTube. They also have the option for owners of copyrighted material to sell ads around their material if they want the clips to stay available on YouTube.

Seven months ago, Viacom Inc. sued YouTube for $1 billion dollars for showing thousands of copyrighted clips that the company owned. Over time, movie and TV studios have become upset with piracy through YouTube even though YouTube says it follows copyrighted laws by removing protected videos when requested.

You Tube has been working with Google engineers to make tools that can flag copyrighted video. They have been working at it for the past six months. YouTube also needs copyright holders to provide copies of the video that they want to protect so that they can compare the files provided with the material uploaded on its site. The movie and TV studios will have to provide all of their copyright material if they don’t want it on YouTube. Without doing this, YouTube will have a difficult way of knowing which material is legally or illegally posted on the site.

Social Security Checks Rising

In January, Social Security benefits are rising by 2.3 percent. The average check will receive an extra $24 per month. This is not much considering that food prices, medical prices, and general costs of living are significantly increasing each year. This increase is the smallest since a 2.1 percent rise in 2004. Last year it was 3.3 percent and the year before that it was 4.1 percent. Nearly 50 million Americans get social security checks and another 4 million get Supplemental Security Income payments.

The average check for a retired couple currently is $1,722. Individuals get $623. Disabled workers get $981 currently.

The government says that millions of people will have to pay higher taxes next year because the maximum amount of Social Security earnings subject to the payroll tax will rise from $97,500 to $102,000. Baby boomers, people born between 1946 and 1964, are going to be receiving Social Security payments soon. The first baby boomer will turn 62 next year. They estimate that between 2017 and 2041 Social Security will have completely depleted its reserves by paying out more in payments than it collects in payroll taxes and then each person will have to be completely responsible for their own financial well being without the help of the government for the rest of their life.

50 Cent Gets Into Fight at Movie Set

The rapper 50 Cent got into a fight on the set of his new movie with co-star Frank Hughes. Hughes had confronted 50 Cent on not knowing his lines. It started as an argument and by the end it turned into a fist fight and 50 Cent had Hughes on the ground punching him. Afterwards, the paramedics and looked over Hughes and said that he was okay.

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