SOPA/PIPA Bills Cause Internet Protest, Petitions

Posted in: Featured, U.S. News, World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | January 21st 2012 | no comments

Google Inc. on Friday released the information that it had collected seven million signatures in the United States for its petition related to its internet protest against the SOPA/PIPA anti-piracy legislation the American Congress is preparing with the endorsement of the Hollywood and the music [...]

Hawaii Sees Volcano Eruption

By Roxana Ostafe | March 7th 2011 | no comments

Scientists are amazed at the beautiful eruption of the Kilauea Volcano, who has been active since the 1980s. The volcano on a Hawaiian island has been shooting lava as far as 80 feet high into the sky since Saturday, when the floor of the Pu'u O'o crater collapsed, making way for [...]

Larger Classes, Harder For Teachers

By Roxana Ostafe | March 7th 2011 | no comments

Given the new budget plan and the cuts that have to be made, in order to get out of the crisis, education will have to suffer. Class size will increase, although efforts of making classes smaller have been [...]

Mother Dies Protecting Baby From Tornado

By Roxana Ostafe | March 7th 2011 | no comments

The announced tornadoes and huge storms of the weekend have caused a lot of damage in a south Louisiana community. A 21-year old woman was at her home in a community of about 8,500 people near Baton Rouge. [...]

Gold – More Reliable Than Anything

By Roxana Ostafe | March 7th 2011 | no comments

People have been looking for gold since like forever and for a very long time, this precious thing has been the obsession of many. According to Rosland Capital in Santa Monica, everything is about gold nowadays and the more you have, the better. These people at Rosland [...]

12-year Old Kills Parents, Injures Siblings

By Roxana Ostafe | March 5th 2011 | no comments

The state of Colorado is shaken by the news of a 12-year old boy killing his parents and seriously injuring his siblings. On Friday, the district attorney for Kit Carson County, Robert Watson, filled two counts of first-degree murder against the little kid. The boy allegedly [...]

BYU Student Suspended After Having Sex With Girlfriend

By Roxana Ostafe | March 5th 2011 | no comments

Brandon Davies, the start of the basketball team at BYU, was suspended after she told the university staff he had been having sex with his girlfriend. Brigham Young University is very well known for its honor code, which forbids students that [...]

Tata On The List Of 15 Most Wanted Fugitives

By Roxana Ostafe | March 5th 2011 | no comments

Jessica Rene Tata, the woman who was working at a day-care center in Huston where 4 children died after a fire started in the house, while the woman was shopping, made it on the list of the Most [...]

Floods And Tornadoes Hit The U.S. This Weekend

By Roxana Ostafe | March 4th 2011 | no comments

After huge snow storms have swept the entire United States during this winter, it seems that this spring will see a couple of floods too. According to The Weather Channel, many regions of the U.S. will see great storms and possibly some [...]

Girl Flees Home From Fear Of Arranged Marriage

By Roxana Ostafe | March 4th 2011 | no comments

A 13-year old girl from California fled her home after she found out that her parents had arranged a marriage for her in Pakistan. The girl left her home on the 22nd of February and has just been found at a motel in a nearby community on Wednesday and then [...]

RFK’s Assassin Does Not Remember Pulling The Trigger

By Roxana Ostafe | March 2nd 2011 | no comments

Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, the man who was imprisoned back in 1969 for shooting Robert F. Kennedy is up for parole again, after 43 years have passed since the assassination. According to his lawyer, the man was brainwashed and now he wants [...]

New Suspects In The Hartley Case

By Roxana Ostafe | March 1st 2011 | no comments

Two more suspects have been identified in the case of the murder of David Hartley. For those of you who do not remember, David Hartley was shot in the head while spending some time with his wife on a lake [...]

Four Children Die After Left Unsupervised

By Roxana Ostafe | March 1st 2011 | no comments

A home day care operator in Huston left the kids she was carrying for unsupervised and four of them got killed, while others got seriously injured. It seems that something inside the day [...]

Mother Commits Suicide After Stabbing Husband And Daughter To Death

By Roxana Ostafe | March 1st 2011 | no comments

A woman in rural Nebraska stabbed her husband and daughter to death then killed herself, on Monday. According to Reuters, the woman, known by the name of Toni Hindman was a 45-year old mother and wife who had been suffering from a depression, according to Saunders County [...]

Party At The White House And The Oscars

By Roxana Ostafe | February 28th 2011 | no comments

The Oscars’ night was not only about winning the gold man, but also about politics, as they played an important supporting role. It all started with Charles Ferguson, who accepting the Documentary Feature Oscar said the following: "Forgive me, I must start by pointing out [...]

Measles Outbreak In U.S. Airports

By Roxana Ostafe | February 28th 2011 | no comments

U.S. Airports freak out after woman who visited 4 of them this weekend was diagnosed with measles. Although measles is not such a big scare, most people, especially adults (in which the disease may [...]

Frank Buckles, Last Veteran Of WWI Dies At 110

By Roxana Ostafe | February 28th 2011 | no comments

The last U.S. Veteran of the First Great War died on Sunday, sadly but expectedly at the age of 110. The great man, Frank Buckles, served in the World War I, even though he was only 16 of age when [...]

That Motown Sound Echoes From The White House

By Roxana Ostafe | February 26th 2011 | no comments

Does anyone remember what a Motown is? Motown is the record label which was founded back in the 60s and which had a great role in the racial integration of popular music and the first label to be owned by an [...]

Dead Baby Dolphins Washed Ashore

By Roxana Ostafe | February 26th 2011 | no comments

It’s been a relatively long time since the oil spill, but it seems that the repercussions can still be seen, as Mother Nature forgives no one. More than 60 baby [...]