Connecticut woman makes bomb threats to hide dropout status from family

After dropping out of Connecticut's Quinnipiac University a woman was arrested Sunday after admitting to calling in bomb threats to keep her family from learning she dropped out of school. Danielle Shea, 22, of Quincy, Massachusetts, made the threats after arriving at the ceremony in a cap and gown with her mother, who didn't know she had dropped out, and told police she "panicked" when relatives noticed her name was not on the list of graduates. After she panicked she called in threats to cancel the ceremony instead it was juts delayed and moved to somewhere else 1 mile away on campus. Police in the town of Hamden, where the school is located, said a female caller contacted school security twice on Sunday, first saying, "Bomb in the library," and calling back 20 minutes later to say, "Several bombs are on campus. You haven't cleared out graduation. That's not a good idea." Police said they tracked the caller down by tracing the phone number she called from.Shea was charged with threatening in the first degree and falsely reporting an incident. 

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Coal Mine Collapses kills two miners

Rescue workers on Tuesday tried to rescue two miners who were trapped in West Virginia after a mine collapsed. The accident took play late on Monday and was killed in immediately. "Heartfelt condolences to the families and friends of the two miners - Eric and Gary - who lost their lives in this tragic mining accident," Tomblin said in a statement. West Virginia Secretary of State Natalie Tennant called for an investigation into the cause of the collapse in the center of the state."As we learn more details, our first priority is ensuring the safe rescue and recovery of everyone involved and comforting the families in Boone County," Tennant said in a statement. No other details were immediately available. They basically have no idea what happened or what could of caused it.

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3 students expelled for hate crime

San Jose State University in California has expelled three students for bullying their black roommate. They did many things to him like putting bike locks around his neck and calling him derogatory names. Also a fourth student was put on probation for the rest of his college careers. The four students pleaded not guilty misdemeanor battery and hate crime charges. The student they did this too has sued the University for 5 million dollars. The 3 students who are all white will not be able to enroll at California schools to finish college. One of the lawyers for one of the expelled students has said the university did not make a thorough review and acted to quickly before gathering all the facts. A task force was also setup and determined they waited to long to take in action in this case though.

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Texas teen arrested for taking assault rifle and handguns to school

A Texas teenager was arrested on Monday after bringing a loaded assault rifle and two handguns to his high school in San Antonio. He went to the front office and said he had a list a demands he wanted to read over the speakers to the school. None of the weapons were fired and no injuries, the student was a 17 year-old sophomore. The 17 year-old is expected to be charged as an adult with making terroristic threats and possession of a weapon on prohibited grounds.There was a report that the kid was missing by his parents but then was found at the school with the weapons in his backpack. Chancellor said the student had said he was upset at a teacher. It was not clear what his concerns were or whether the student had a class with the teacher.
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The 1992 Dream Team to Return

The original "Dream Team" from 1992 has declared they will be making a one game return. The game has been scheduled for April 1st 2014 and they will play the 2012 USA men's basketball team. The 2012 team has claimed many times they were the new Dream Team and we were better then the 1992. This obviously caused some controversy, so in attempt to stop the controversy the 1992 wants to play them. The man who spear headed this to play the 2012 Dream Team was Charles Barkley. Barkley has repeatedly called out LeBron James for teaming up with Chris Bosh and Dwayne Wade to win a championship because LeBron couldn't do it by himself. This has obviously made a little rivalry between James and Barkley, so in much anticipation everyone cant wait for the one on one match up between those two. This going to be a game for the centuries that people will be talking about forever so don't miss it on ESPN 8et live from AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.

Mexico catches most powerful cartel boss

Mexico now has finally caught the most powerful cartel boss or drug kingpin, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, in Mexico but there are many others waiting in the wing to take over for him. Even though this capture is huge win for Mexico's President this arrest could lead to a huge waive of violence as others fight for his turf. The least violent way this could is if Guzman's main associate just takes over all his duties. Many of the other cartel gangs are very ambitious and want to get to the top.The U.S. and Mexico are both very worried of the violence this could bring because the gangs are getting ready for the next generation of cartel bosses. So its almost guaranteed violence goes up in Mexico as these gangs fight over turf to get to the top.

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Two skiers killed in Colorado avalanche

On Monday two men from Wisconsin were just identified as dying in a weekend avalanche that buried a skiing party atop an 11,000-foot mountain pass in Colorado..The bodies found were those of Jarrard Law, 34, of Portage, and Justin Lentz, 32, of Sun Prairie, they were retrieved from the mountain.The two men were skiing with five other people - two also from Wisconsin and three from Colorado - on Saturday the group triggered the snow slide while on the mountain. Three of the other skiers were hospitalized and two were uninjured.The two men killed were equipped with avalanche beacons, which is how they recovered their bodies. Also in Idaho Sunday a snowmobiler died in a snow slide on Galena Summit. This brought  the number of people killed by avalanches in the United States to 15 this winter, all in western mountain states.Over the last 10 winters, an average of 28 people has died in avalanches every year in the United States, according to the avalanche information center.

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Teenager accused of stealing over $30,000 from Walmart

A teenage juvenile was arrested in Norman, Oklahoma for stealing reportedly near 30,000 three area Walmart stores. The arrest happened at the end of last month but was just found out by the news now. Its was said that the unnamed teenager convinced Walmart employees that he was employed by the big box retailer. Then once inside he was able to steal thousands of dollars in Moore, Oklahoma. The teenager new all about the chain because he worked ta one in Oklahoma City before being fired for stealing money. Then in Edmond, Oklahoma he walked in as an employee and worked a register for the day where stool 3,000 dollars.Then he tried in Norman where he was finally caught and arrested. It is not known if the 17year-old will be tried as an adult.
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Quadruple Murderer Escapes From Custody, Allegedly Abducts Woman

A convicted quadruple murder is supposedly on the run this morning after escaping custody in Michigan while also abducting a women. Officials say Michael David Elliot escaped from the Ionia Correctional Facility Sunday possibly through a hole in a fence before obtaining a car and then driving to Indiana.

Elliot then has been said he abducted a woman with a knife before driving with her to Elkhart, Indiana about 130 miles south where they had stopped for gas, Michigan Department of Corrections spokesman Russ Marlan said. But the woman was able to escape,while Elliot still remains at large. Marlan tells ABC News that a hole was discovered in a fence on the grounds of the Ionia Correctional Facility.“That appears to be how he escaped through a hole he created at the bottom of the fence,” Marlan said in an email. Michigan State Police Lt. Troy Allen said officials are looking for the woman's red 2004 Jeep Liberty four-door with license plate number 5FTG55 also Elliot, 40, has brown eyes and brown hair, stands 5’8” and weighs 165 pounds. He was convicted of murdering four people on Aug. 8, 1993 and is serving four life sentences.

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Lunches seized from kids in debt at Salt Lake City elementary

On Tuesday at lunch up to 40 kids Unitah Elementary picked up theirs lunches, then watched as their meals were taken and thrown away because of outstanding balances on their accounts. This move shocked and angered parents. Jason Olsen, a Salt Lake City District spokesman, said the district’s child-nutrition department had just became aware that Uintah had a large number of students who owed money for lunches.

So this resulted in the child-nutrition manager visiting the school and deciding to withhold lunches to deal with this issue, he said. But cafeteria workers weren't able to see which children owed money until they had already received lunches, Olsen explained.The workers then had to take those lunches from the students and threw them away, he said, because once food is served to one student it can’t be served to another. Children whose lunches were taken were given milk and fruit instead. The school did say staffers typically tell students about any balances as they go through the lunch line and send home notifications to parents each week.The district attempted to contact parents with balances via phone Monday and Tuesday, Olsen said, but weren't able to reach them all before the child-nutrition manager decided to take away the students’ lunches.

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Boy Jailed in Philly shooting not to blame

A 17-year-old boy charged as an adult in the shooting of two students inside a school gym isn't responsible for the crime says his attorney. The charges against Raisheem Rochwell  are all based on a surveillance video and witness accounts from the shooting Friday afternoon at Delaware Valley Charter High School, police said. One bullet from a gun Rochwell was holding hit two students who were both wounding in the arm, police said. But Rochwell's attorney, Amato Sanita, still has disputed that account to reporters Saturday night."I've not seen that, I'm not aware of that, and from the information I have, I do not believe that is accurate," Sanita said of the surveillance videos and eye-witness accounts. He also added that Rochwell "is not the person who will ultimately be responsible for this act."Rochwell is being charged with aggravated assault, carrying an unlicensed firearm, carrying a firearm in public in Philadelphia, possessing a firearm while a minor, possessing an instrument of crime, simple assault, and recklessly endangering another person. Also the 18-year-old female student who was shot in the back of her left arm, and the same bullet also hit 17-year-old boy in the shoulder, police said. Both were treated at the Albert Einstein Medical Center. The female student was released Friday, and the boy was released Sunday. 

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NY women gets one year in jail for punching Wal-Mart greeter

 A New York woman was sentenced on Monday under the state's recently new "Granny Law" to one year in jail for punching an elderly Wal-Mart greeter in the face after a Christmas Eve shopping spree. It was the second time the upstate New York woman, Jacquetta Simmons, 28, was sentenced in Genesee County Court, after her original sentence of five years in prison was successfully appealed with the argument that it was too harsh for a first-time offender. Her legal team said the new sentence of a year behind bars was more appropriate. But prosecutor Lawrence Friedman disagreed he said "This does not do justice to the victim at all". On Christmas Eve 2011, Wal-Mart employee Grace Suozzi, then 70, routinely asked to see a shopping receipt as Simmons, who then was a college student, exited the store in Batavia, New York. Instead, prosecutors said, Simmons punched Suozzi in the face, fracturing her nose and knocking her to the ground.Simmons was convicted of assault and sentenced under New York's Granny Law, which ramps up penalties for intentionally harming someone over the age of 65 if the defendant is 10 or more years younger than the victim. An increasing number of cases are being prosecuted under the law, which was passed in 2008 to protect New York senior citizens. In New York City in 2013, a total of 191 people were charged under the law compared with 129 arrested the previous year.

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At least 14 injured in Minneapolis apartment building blaze

At least 14 people were injured, six of them critically, in a explosion and fire at a Minneapolis  apartment building Wednesday morning in freezing temperatures. The blast and fire started around 8 in the morning and then destroyed the building which also had a grocery store on the ground floor.When firefighters got there, they were forced to withdraw because of the buildings structure integrity. The injured were then quickly rushed to the hospital. The fire department also said it would certainly take some time to find the origin of the fire. "This is a tragic event," said Abdi Warsame, a newly elected City Council member who represents the neighborhood. "My heart goes out to the victims and their families.
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