43 bodies recovered after Pakistan mine explosion

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/03/22/pakistan.mine.blast/index.html#

Rescuers have found 43 bodies in a southwest Pakistan mine that collapsed after a methane gas explosion.
It occured in city of Quetta and rescuers are having a hard time determining the exact total of people who were in the mine.

"43 Bodies Recovered after Pakistan Mine Explosion - CNN.com." CNN.com - Breaking News, U.S., World, Weather, Entertainment & Video News. Web. 23 Mar. 2011.

Weekend full moon the biggest in about 20 years

http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/03/18/nasa.moon/index.html?npt=NP1#

This weekend the moon should look a lot bigger and brighter than usual. Today the moon will look the biggest in 20 years. "The last full moon so big and close to Earth occurred in March of 1993," said Geoff Chester.

 Payne, Ed. "Weekend Full Moon the Biggest in about 20 Years - CNN.com." CNN.com - Breaking News, U.S., World, Weather, Entertainment & Video News. Web. 19 Mar.

West Coast officials, Obama: Don't worry about radiation risk in U.S.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/03/17/nuclear.concerns/index.html#

People in California should not be worrying about radiation, but instead about earthquake drills. Only small nonharmful amount of nuclear radiation from Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant may be discover. There has been no detection of elevated levels of radiation on the West Coast, and experts say there is no way to predict how long it would take for radiation drifts to cross the Pacific.

 Landau, Elizabeth. "West Coast Officials, Obama: Don't Worry about Radiation Risk in U.S. - CNN.com." CNN.com - Breaking News, U.S., World, Weather, Entertainment & Video News. Web. 19 Mar. 2011.

Rising food prices could drive up rates of hunger

http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/03/15/rising.food.prices/index.html#

This week, the U.S. Labor Department announced that raw import grain prices rose 1.4% this past February. That makes an 8.5% increase over the past twelve months. Keystone food commodities like corn, soybeans and wheat have already increased 149% this past decade. FRAC advocates for federal funding of food programs as a way of solving hunger. "If you look at other wealthy societies, mostly European, but also some Asian, they have a vastly different hunger problem than we do," Weill says. "Fewer people in those countries go hungry. The sharing of economic growth and the sharing of affluence lifts a lot of people out of poverty and hunger." I think you makes a very good point of how this nation is wealthy and is capable of feeding everyone but does not know how to distrubute the food or share it with others.

Sepulvado, John. "Rising Food Prices Could Drive up Rates of Hunger - CNN.com." CNN.com - Breaking News, U.S., World, Weather, Entertainment & Video News. Web. 17 Mar. 2011.

Californian hold quake memorial service

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2011/03/13/dnt.ca.japan.memorial.kgtv

A memorial to all the dead that has past away in Japan. The  center peice of the service was the lighting of candle sticks smybolizing the lives lost. This was Japan's worst recording in history. This tragic event taught that we should live our life to the fullest cause we don't know what to expect.

"Video - Breaking News Videos from CNN.com." CNN.com - Breaking News, U.S., World, Weather, Entertainment & Video News. Web. 14 Mar. 2011.

Massive 8.9-magnitude quake hits Japan

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/03/11/japan.quake/index.html#

An 8.9-magnitude earthquake hit Japan early Friday, triggering tsunami warnings and sending people fleeing out of buildings in the capital. Its epicenter was 373 kilometers (231 miles) from Tokyo. It triggered tsunami warnings for various countries, including Japan and Russia. Earthquakes of this size are known to generate tsunamis potentially dangerous to coasts outside the source region.

"Massive 8.9-magnitude Quake Hits Japan - CNN.com." CNN.com - Breaking News, U.S., World, Weather, Entertainment & Video News. Web. 11 Mar. 2011.

Oil industry reassured on Middle East stability

http://money.cnn.com/2011/03/09/news/international/oil_middle_east/?npt=NP1

An American diplomat said some reassuring words to the oil industry on Weds. Conflicts in Libya and Egypt may be in a turbulent for some time but the major oil producing countries of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iran and Iraq will likely stay stable. Problems in the Middle East have scared oil traders, causing the price of U.S. natural substance up over 10% in the last month. The biggest fear is that the problems in Libya, Egypt, Bahrain and elsewhere will spread to the big oil producing nations in the Gulf. Even so, neither Egypt nor Syria export major amounts of oil. Most of the other major oil producing counties in the region, which accounts for over a third of the world's oil 86 million-barrel-a-day oil supply, will remain relatively stable. The major oil companies should be okay as long as their leaders continue to make concessions to a population calling greater transparency, more democracy, and faster economic growth.

Hargreaves, Steve. "Oil Industry Told Middle East Violence Shouldn't Spread - Mar. 9, 2011." Business, Financial, Personal Finance News - CNNMoney.com. 09 Mar. 2011. Web. 09 Mar. 2011.

Rape suspect claims 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde' personality

http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/03/07/connecticut.east.coast.rapist/index.html#

Aaron Thomas aka "East Coast Rapist" was arrested on Monday as he walked near his home in New Haven, Connecticut. A judge ordered him held on $1.5 million bond in a 2007 sex assault case in New Haven. He is linked to sexual assaults on 17 women in Maryland, Virginia, Connecticut and Rhode Island between 1997 and 2009, according to police. DNA from the cigarette linked him to the assaults, according to police. He claimed in court that he has a personality like 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde' when it came to women. On Saturday, Thomas tried to hang himself in his cell, according to police. This man is mentally disturbed and I believe he needs some serious help but should still be punished equally as his crime.

"Rape Suspect Claims 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde' Personality - CNN.com." CNN.com - Breaking News, U.S., World, Weather, Entertainment & Video News. Web. 07 Mar. 2011.

Road trip to the end of the world

http://www.cnn.com/2011/LIVING/03/06/judgment.day.caravan/index.html#

Sheila Jonas and nine other are on a mission to warn people of the end of the world. They travel state to state tell people that May 21, 2011 the world is coming to an end based on there religious beliefs. They claim when that day comes, a huge earthquake will occur and those who are good will be saved by Jesus. They walked away from families, jobs, left their belongings, and homes. They view themselves as
chosen by God to spread the news few understand. They liken themselves to biblical figures, including Jonah, who God commanded to warn the people of Nineveh of their city's destruction.

Ravitz, Jessica. "Road Trip to the End of the World - CNN.com." CNN.com - Breaking News, U.S., World, Weather, Entertainment & Video News. Web. 06 Mar. 2011.

Pay up! The city wants its cut

http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2011/news/economy/1103/gallery.local_budget_gaps/index.html

City and state government are finding ways to earning extra revenue. They want to put a 5% tax on marijuana, upgrade your jail stay for a fee, they want to tax people having fun called caberet tax, charge for going green and not buying gas,  charge little league players $30 each for playing sports on city property, taxing beauty service, and put a tax on "purse" of a horse race.

Censky, Annalyn. "Pay Up! The City Wants Its Cut - A Tax on Medical Marijuana (1) - CNNMoney.com." Business, Financial, Personal Finance News - CNNMoney.com. Web. 03 Mar. 2011.

Anti-gay church's right to protest at military funerals is upheld

http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/03/02/scotus.westboro.church/index.html#

A Kansas church began anti-gay protest at U.S. funerals and won in the supreme courts putting freedom of speech to the test. The church, led by pastor Fred Phelps, believes God is punishing the United States for "the sin of homosexuality" through events including soldiers' deaths.
Albert Snyder, Matthew's father, said his son was not gay and the protesters should not have been at the funeral.

Lawyers try to block release of autopsies in Arizona shooting

http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/03/01/arizona.giffords.gag.order/index.html

The media has requested to show the autopsies of the victims in the arizona shooting but lawyers say that it might spawn prejudicial depictions of the decedents' manner of death in the press.
They argued that releasing statements or the autopsy reports to the media could hamper the court's ability to have a fair trial.

Mungin, Lateef. "Lawyers Try to Block Release of Autopsies in Arizona Shooting Spree - CNN.com." CNN.com - Breaking News, U.S., World, Weather, Entertainment & Video News. Web. 01 Mar. 2011.