Colombia’s president says devastating flooding forced him to cancel his scheduled trip to the United Nations climate change conference in Mexico this week-even though global warming itself could be causing the disaster his country faces.† CNN reported that, at least 194 people were killed and …
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Game Club’s budget approved for $200
Last week Campus Council approved a budget of $200 for the recently founded Game Club. †The Game Club meets on Friday evenings to play board games with one another.† Most of the board games played at Game Club are games of strategy and problem solving.† …
70 -year-old woman robbed by a clown
Jacqueline Cutright of Akron, Ohio was robbed as she was sitting on the toilet.† According to AOL News, 22-year-old Cory Buckley broke into Cutright’s basement window and ransacked the house. Buckley, who dressed as a clown as a disguise for this robbery, demanded Oxycontin and …
Arizona votes in favor of Prop. 107
Arizona voters have approved the medical marijuana law, CNN reported Monday. The vote made Arizona the 15th state to pass a medical marijuana law since 1996.† The law allows patients with debilitating medical conditions to use cannabis if they have a recommendation from their physician.† …
Whales suffer from sunburn in Mexico
According to CNN, whales in Mexico’s Gulf of California are showing† signs of sunburns.† Scientists from UK’s Zoological Society of London (ZSL) and Mexico’s Interdisciplinary Marine Science Center collected skin samples from multiple blue whales, fin whales and sperm whales.† The samples revealed blisters and …
Political crisis worsens in Italy
Four members of Italy’s Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s cabinet have resigned. The New York Times reported that losing these four members will deepen Italy’s political crisis and is expected to bring down the government in a matter of weeks as well as lead to early …