Toyota announced that they have planned what they are calling non-production days at 2 US plants located in San Antonio, Texas and Georgetown Kentucky. The Georgetown plant was scheduled for 1 non-production day on February 26, with an additional 3 non-productions days possible in March and April. The Georgetown plant builds the […]
Snow Storm Slams Central Virginia
Update: a few days after the snowstorm channel 6 news was preparing to shoot a story outside of city hall when snow slid from the roof, fell several stories and crashed threw the glass canopy below. The lucky reporter had his camera in the right place at the right time. Virginia was under a […]
Report Denies That Ceylan Önkol was Killed By a Mortar Blast
The Village of Åženlik in Diyarbakır province Turkey On September 28 Ceylan Önkol went out to tend the family sheep as her mother prepared macaroni for her. According to villagers there was a sound in the air followed by an explosion, shortly thereafter Ceylan (whose ages been reported as 12 and 14) was found […]
Cambodia: One Dead and Six Ill after Eating Poisonous Frogs
For many in the village of Mondul 3 in Siem Reap Cambodia poverty is a way of life, for Sov Soparath this poverty ended in tragedy. Sov and friends caught and ate brown frogs after a heavy rain, 2 hours later Sov was dead and his brother was in critical condition at Kantha Bopha Children’s […]
VCU Student Group Named in a Leaked Terror Threat Assessment
In what came as a surprise to both the Virginia state police and the public, especially the Muslim Student Association at Virginia Commonwealth University the Virginia State Police 2009 terrorism threat assessment was leaked. The document was never intended for the public and carries the following warning at the top of the page: " This is LAW […]
Ohio: Child Protective Services Face Budget cuts
For the first time in Ohio’s history the number of child abuse and neglect cases being reported toped 100,000 and Governor Ted Strickland’s state budget plan has child protective service workers concerned. Under Governor Strickland’s proposed budget $62 million usually used for child protective service by the counties of Ohio would be shifted to the state subsidized childcare […]