Big Fire!

There is currently a wildfire going on in northwestern Wisconsin that has destroyed eight-thousand seven hundred acres. The fire has also wrecked fifty structures such as cabins, homes, and what not. The fire forced dozens of people out of their homes. The DNR spokesman says to be exact that they have lost 47 structures, this includes seventeen homes. Some of the people of that evacuated are now staying in the high school in Drummond. Drummond is about sixty miles from Duluth. In order to inform some of the people closer by, they went door to door to tell them that the fire is approaching.

Shot Down

Syrian Rebels recently shot down a military helicopter. There were eight government troops that were killed in the helicopter crash. The Rebels have been targeting air bases to take down how President Bashar Assad's main weapon in the fight. While they were attacking the air bases some Israeli warplanes bombed where they were attacking. The rebels made a video of piling bodies on the back of a pick up truck after they shot down the helicopter. They said that all people in the helicopter had died. The rebels said that there will be more and more planes and helicopters shot down if the keep flying overhead.




http://news.yahoo.com/syrian-rebels-shoot-down-regime-helicopter-east-054433904.html

Tab 3

Samsung recently launched their third tablet called The Tab 3. The tablet is 7.4 inches by 4.37 inches. The tablet all together weighs a solid .66 pounds. The tablet holds up to 64GB of storage. Some people may say that this tablet is an iPad mini competitor but then some say that the Note 8 is a better competitor than the Tab 3. The Tab 3 is mean't to compete with the Nexus 7 and HP Slate 7. The Tab 3 is priced at $199 in respect of the other tablets it's competing against.



http://www.informationweek.com/hardware/handheld/samsung-launches-7-inch-budget-tablet/240153746

Yard Work...

There was a man in D.C. that was arguing with his stepfather over yard work and the argument took a terrible turn. The 27 year old step son ended up shooting his step father because he didn't want to do something. The stepfather that was shot was a policeman for D.C. He was a policeman for 24 years and he is no longer. The step son ended up getting away and no one knows where he is. He is a 6'1" 170 pound guy. Everyone that was apart of the police force in D.C. liked this man and are now mourning the loss of a policeman.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-police-officer-fatally-shot-by-stepson-following-dispute-over-yard-work/2013/04/23/db799ae8-ac1e-11e2-a198-99893f10d6dd_story.html

Turkish Pianist in Trouble

A piano player from Turkey is in some big trouble for making some comments about religions through Twitter. He was making some jokes about a religion leader and some Islamic practices. The forty three year old man was originally sentenced a ten month period in prison. The sentence was suspended for five years. If he re-offends in the next five years he will have to serve the sentence. The man says that this is outrageous and he was just speaking his mind and he brings up freedom of speech. He says he'll be fine and not make any other comments about other religions but he isn't very happy about the whole thing.





  http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/04/15/turkish-pianist-twitter-blasphemy/2083779/

Ford vs. Toyota

Ford and Toyota are having a battle about who's subcompact car is better. Some people say Ford but some other people will say Toyota. They can't really decide on peoples opinions because of what car they have and it's just not reliable. Ford had more sales in China and the United States but Toyota had the most Japan. Even a year after the Focus was released the sales are still increasing since then. They say the sales will strengthen even more within the next year by both cars.




http://www.thestreet.com/story/11891796/1/whos-no-1-ford-says-focus-toyota-says-corolla.html

Bombs Away!!

As of this week Haiti attempted to bomb the United States but that didn't work very well because the rocket came up short and landed in Canada. The rocket actually never exploded. It just landed and got stuck in the ground. Since Haiti attempted to bomb us they ended up getting completely wiped off the map. We sent up a couple two or three huge rockets and the country of Haiti is no longer. After this incident North Korea is now scared and gave up and trying to create a rocket. The End.

Tiger Back on Top

Tiger clawed his way back to the top seed in golf this past weekend. He showed that he is the best by playing the best he has in a long time. He says he feels very comfortable at the top again and he feels very confident with the way that he has been playing. Tiger says he just tuned out all of the talk about him and just recovered from all the injuries and focused on getting back to his normal self. The master's begins soon and he is the favorite of winning his 5th green jacket.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/early-lead/wp/2013/03/26/tiger-woods-is-back-at-no-1-now-for-the-masters/

Samsung vs. Apple

Samsung is trying to beat apple with releasing a smart watch. They say they've been working on it for a long time but they can't seem to get it good enough to release it. Whoever releases it first will probably make the most sells because it's just the first smart watch out there. The Samsung watch might not even be running android. The race here still resembles how the battle between the two companies have high quality smart phones but the people say that the iPhone is better than Samsung's releases. Both watches will be released later in the year.




http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/03/samsung-confirms-its-trying-to-beat-apple-to-market-with-a-smart-watch/

Executions

In Ohio there was a man that killed a man almost twenty years ago. The man took the consequence of killing the other guy. Frederick Treesh was executed for murdering the one security guard. While they interviewed him one he said "If you want me murdered, just say it." He knew what was going to happen to him and he didn't fight it. He wasn't executed just because of one killing, he was executed for being convicted of many crimes and sexual assaults. He died from poison almost just a little while it was injected into his body. This man was the 50th person executed since 1999 in Ohio.






http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/03/06/ohio-execute-killer/1966885/

Search Called Off

There was a sailboat that radioed in saying that their electronics were starting to fail. The Coast Guard sent out a search team but they didn't find them. They searched for two whole days and covered over twenty-thousand miles. There were four people on a boat, there were three adults and one four year old child. They lost radio contact when the man on the radio said that they were going to have to abandon ship because it was capsizing and would sink shortly. They didn't find the family or the capsized boat. They have no idea on who the family was or where they were going.



http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/02/26/coast-guard-missing-sailboat-audio-california/1948057/

Top Movie

'A Good Day to Die Hard' brought in $29.3 million in four days. All together the movie brought in $37.5 million. 'Identity Thief' came close to being number one but just missed it by $2 million. 'Identity Thief' was Jason Bateman's biggest opening in a movie. 'Safe Haven' was also up there bringing in $25.2 million. All movies gave a run for the top ranked movie but the 'Die Hard' series is just too good for anything else. 

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1702172/a-good-day-to-die-hard-box-office.jhtml 

  

Chris Brown Not Happy at the Grammy's

Chris Brown was at the Grammy Awards and was nominated for an award. As they announced the winner of the award, everyone gave a standing ovation except for Chris Brown. The news spread quickly on twitter and was re-tweeted by many of social media groups. Before the Grammy's he was at a court hearing about lying about his community service. He also happened to crash his Porsche the week before too.

Superbowl Ads

An ad during the Superbowl costed $3.8 million for 30 seconds. This was the most expensive ad buy on television. The only reason that it costs so much is because of all the people that watch it. Subway bought two spots to play an ad during the Superbowl. Another reason the Superbowl is a great spot for ads is because of all the free media publicity about the ad. Newspaper journalists write about the ads which gives them even more publicity than just having all the people see it during the Superbowl.



http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324900204578282360008085752.html

Bombings

Two people died in Turkey just outside of the capital. The attack was believed to be from the Al Qaeda or a group from Iran. The U.S. consulate sent out a message telling the visiting Americans in the country to not visit any U.S. places for a little bit for fear of another bombing. They are working on investigating the blast and finding out who did it but they are still working on that. 

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/02/01/at-least-2-dead-in-terrorist-attack-outside-us-embassy-in-turkish-capital/

50M and more iPhones

Verizon says the iPhone accounted for 6.2 million out of the 9.8 million smartphones sold. If apple keeps up they would have shipped out 56 million iPhones within three months. This doubled the amount that was shipped out in the previous quarter. All smartphone sales were up 44% but apple had the most. When the iPhone 4s came out apple activated 46 million phones. Apple is a major contributor to the smartphone industry.





http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/01/22/verizon-numbers-hint-apple-may-have-shipped-more-than-50m-iphones-last-quarter

68 Cents?

Two men have been given prison time for holdups that turned out to be only 68 cents. One man gets 20 years of prison for aggravated robbery and the other man is getting 18 years of prison. One of the men that was involved in the robberies called the police saying that they have made a false report. He tried but failed because he used his mom's car in the robberies and the car was damaged during one of the crimes. No one was hurt during the robberies.  

http://www.kristv.com/news/2-men-get-prison-for-holdups-stole-68-cents/

The Search Under Ice

Many Police and other rescuers have resumed their search for two missing teenagers that have supposedly fell through a partially frozen lake. People say that they heard screams yelling for help at about 6 P.M. and called the police about the screams. The search so far hasn't been successful. As they searched Monday night a helicopter was flying overhead as dozens of rescuers searched the icy lake. The police told the news that as the night went on the less likely they would be to find them. One of the police officers wrote on his facebook page, "I am sad to report that we likely lost two young adults in Mount Olive this evening."



http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/09/nyregion/search-resumes-at-budd-lake-for-2-teenagers.html?_r=0

Looking Down

A man from Florida was on his way him in his own plane and saw that there was a truck in his driveway. He then realized the man in the driveway was trying to break into his house. The pilot dropped the plane down to 300 feet. The man then looked at the plane and hooked up a red trailer and left. The pilot then radioed in to the police and the police arrested him on the highway. The man was then released out of jail on a $2,500 bond.



http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/01/02/16301340-florida-pilot-spots-theft-at-his-home-from-his-airplane?lite