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Current Events Blogs current events #1 One morning in February 2009, the state police found 26-year-old Kenzie Houk in her bed with a bullet though her head and she was eight months pregnant. The search for her killer was found at it was her step son 11-year-old Jordan Brown, the son of the victim's fiancé. He is one of the youngest suspects in the country to be charged with homicide. There are two counts of homicide, one covering the fetus. He pleaded not guilty to the charges in May. In Pennsylvania, there is no lower limit for the age someone can be charged as an adult with criminal homicide. If convicted, Jordan, now 12, faces life in prison without the possibility of parole. The question of age is being raised in the supreme court this year where the practice of sentencing young people younger than 14 to life in prison without parole is being challenged. After nearly a year of silence, Jordan's family, friends and attorney are bringing attention to the case as more court hearings loom. They say Jordan is innocent and should be tried in juvenile court. This month, they will launch the Jordan Brown Trust Fund to raise money for his defense.

Current event # 2 In May 2007, the Fronterotta’s Gallup home was invaded by a burglar. the burglar took off with about $1,000 and around a dozen pieces of jewelry. three years later, the burglar was feeling bad and had a lot of bad things happen to him so the necklaces, bracelets, rings and earrings came back to their rightful owners in a padded package addressed to the same home they were stolen from. If they catch the guy that was stealing the couple will not press charges

Current Event #3 A man was found unconscious in a van while the police suspected that himself and two other men were trying to siphoning great amounts of gas from a Circle Ks, underground tank early morning in Phoenix. The police believe that they had siphoned about 200 gallons from the gas station. The gas station immediately called the police when they received an alarm that the tank was losinProxy-Connection: keep-alive Cache-Proxy-Connection: keep-alive Cache-Control: max-age=0 ntrol: max-age=0 20a large amount of fuel at about 12.30 am. The van contained a false door, and equipment used to siphon gas and breech the the underground fuel system. The van actually had a tank big enough of holding 450 gallons of fuel. -I think this is completely stupid, it was obvious that they were gonna get

Current Event #4 In Mexico the marijuana problem has increased 34% in 2008. Even as authorities, there push forward with a large offense against drug cartels that smuggle the product into the United States, according to a State Department report released this week. The part of the report with dealing with Mexico looks bad because most of the illegal drugs in the United States are transported and smuggled from there. the Mexican President Felipe Calderon's war against the drug cartels has not been effective at stopping the drug violence or the selling of illegal drugs. In 2008, 12,000 acres were used for marijuana growing, up from 8,900 in 2007. The 35 percent increase is the most recent statistic available, and marks a 16-year high. Mexico also has eradicated fewer marijuana plants than in previous years. Mexico also set a new record for people extradited to the United States, with 100 people sent to face the U.S. justice system, compared to 95 in 2008. Meanwhile, drug production in Colombia, another key international player in the drug trade, decreased, according to the most recent statistics. --- i am not surprised, i figured that a lot of illegal drugs came from foreign countries, I hope that one day, Mexico can get the drug problem under control, because it has a huge impact on America

Current Event #5 sniper came out and confessed and apologized for what he did. the shooter was Lee Malvo, the younger one of the two D.C snipers. They terrorized the southeast and the Capital back in 2006. Malvo, is goin to be serving a life sentence, and muhammed was executed. Malvo and muhammed arrived in Hammond about 40 miles east of baton Rouge coming on a greyhound bus. Malvo told Muhammed that he wanted to shoot somebody as test of Loyality. Malvo slashed john Gatos tire, causing him to stop down the road and fix it. While he was parked john Gato was repeately coming over to john and asking him questions about the mall, until finally john stoop up and Malvo shot him point blank in the neck. Luckily John wasnt severly hurt, he actually said he barely felt it. Gaeta said he intends to forgive Malvo and plans to send him a letter, though he bristled at the thought of becoming pen pals.

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