7 Year Old Girl Recovering From Bubonic Plague

A seven year old girl from Pagosa Springs, Colorado is recovering after contracting the bubonic plague.

Doctors expect that she will see a full recovery, as she was brought to them in time for treatment.

She is believed to have caught it near during a family camping trip to Cimarrona Campground.

It was the first case, of the deadly disease, in Colorado since 2006.

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say that on average there are seven occurrences every year.

Symptoms of the plague appear in humans two to six days after being bitten by an infected flea, rodent, or cat.

Officials say that it shows the importance of never touching dead or dying animals, and being careful with live ones.

Iran and North Korea Expanding Cooperation

Iran and North Korea have announced a renewed cooperation in science and technology.

According to Iranian state media they "will cooperate in research, student exchanges and joint laboratories, and in the fields of information technology, engineering, biotechnology, renewable energy, the environment, sustainable development of agriculture and food technology".
 Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said, "The Islamic Republic of Iran and North Korea have common enemies, because the arrogant powers do not accept independent states".

Both countries were marked by US President George W. Bush as being in the "axis of evil", and evidence of their secretly working together has come out from time to time.

South Africa Dropping Murder Charges Against Miners

South Africa's top prosecutor has announced that murder charges will be dropped against miners that had been striking.

Two hundred and seventy miners had been charged with the murder of thirty-four of their number, after police fired into their rioting mass.

The decision had been ridiculed by civil rights groups and governments from around the world.

Charges of attempted murder would also be dropped, but the charges of public violence and others will stay.

Thousands of miners are still striking, demanding that the government double their wages.

Miners who weren't striking, as well as police, had been killed by the strikers before the mass shooting, which police say was in self defense.

Teen Rescued Safely After Kidnapping

Saturday morning police in Las Vegas, Nevada teamed with officers from Henderson in the apprehension of two kidnappers.

On Friday morning, a seventeen year old girl responded to a knock on the door, only to be dragged out of it by the two men that were outside.

Neighbors and her family chased after the abductors, calling 911 as they went.

Within hours the family received a ransom call and an Amber alert was issued.

Tips from various people led the police to an apartment building in Las Vegas, where they came, warrants in hand, looking for the girl and her captors.

In three separate apartments they found the two suspects and the girl, who was unharmed.

Police arrested thirty year old Cesar Sanchez and Alejandro Manuel Sanchez-Sanchez, twenty five, on counts of kidnapping, extortion, conspiracy to commit kidnapping, and conspiracy to commit extortion.

There will be no bail in their case.

Hobbit Trilogy Dates Released

To many fans it came as very disappointing news that The Hobbit would be split into three parts, instead of the planned two.

But at least some good news has come now as we find when each of the trilogy will be released.

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey will still be coming out December 14, 2012, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug is due out December 13, 2013, and The Hobbit: There and Back Again has been announced for July 18, 2014.

Good news then that we'll not have to wait even two full years to see movie.

3D lovers are sure to be excited that the films will all be available in it, and traditionalists fear not regular 2D is still happening as well as IMAX.

For those who aren't aware The Hobbit was the book, by J. R. R. Tolkien, that takes place before The Lord of The Rings trilogy.

It contains the adventures of Bilbo Baggins, Frodo's uncle, the hobbit who turned 111 near the beginning of The Fellowship of The Ring, and who had been the previous owner of the ring.

Islamists Capture Douentza

Islamist rebels in Mali have captured the important town of Douentza, in Mali.

It is located about five hundred miles from the capital of Bamako, and marks a huge show of strength by the rebels.

MUJAO, an Islamist group, confirmed they had taken the town from the local militia.

The northern half of the country had been lost to the Malian government since April, but til now much of it had been controlled by local militias.

It appears that now the Islamists are moving to conquer the non alined areas, that have stayed secular.

Venezuela's Amuay Reopened

Venezuela's Amuay oil refinery has started production again, a week after an explosion and massive fire, crippled it.

Forty-two people were killed and around one hundred injured in the blast and fires.

Seventeen of the dead were national guard troops, whose job it was to protect the facility.

Despite President Chavez's denials, it is widely thought that poor maintenance was the cause of the explosion.

Cleanup has cost an estimated twenty-four million dollars.

At this point it is not known when the refinery will be back up to full output.

Wyoming Wolves no Longer Protected

Wyoming wolves will no longer being protected by the federal government, after having been nearly extinct, twenty years ago.

The US Fish and Wildlife feels that they have recovered to an extent that there's no longer a threat to the species.

Wolves in certain areas, such as Yellowstone National Park, shall still be protected, but wolves in nonprotected zones can be shot on sight.

Current statistics show two hundred and seventy outside of Yellowstone, and other protected areas the Wind River Indian Reservation and Grand Teton National Park.

The three areas make up about ten percent of the land area of Wyoming. 

Ranchers and hunters have been complaining for years over the number of cattle and game that wolves have been killing.

On October 1, the Wyoming Game Commission will open unlimited hunting licenses, but will close the season after fifty-two wolves have been killed.

Car Wheels Being Stolen

In Jefferson, Douglas, and Arapahoe Counties people have been finding their cars on blocks with the wheels stolen, all over the summer.

The thieves haven't even been partial on whether the rims are custom made or stock, just making off with whatever they can grab.

Some of the stolen rims have been worth up to two thousand dollars a piece.

Police are advising people to use busy, well lit parking lots.

The three counties contain much of the Denver metro area, in Colorado.

Remembering: Germany Invades Poland

On September 1, 1939 at 4:45 am 1.5 million German troops cross over the border into Poland. As they did the Luftwaffe and navy launched attacks against the Polish fleet and airfields.

Hitler attempted to claim the invasion as a defensive action, but England and France would not believe him. He had thought and hoped that they would sit back and let Germany swallow up Poland, just as they had Austria in 1938 and Czechoslovakia in 1939. But they finally realized that he would just keep going if they didn't stop him, and on September 3 declared war. Australia, New Zealand, and India quickly joined in announcing they had joined England and France.

The Germans quickly moved through Poland, using a new form of warfare known as blitzkrieg. The extremely well disciplined combined forces of air, armor, and infantry was hugely successful. Poland was not helped by how over matched their forces were, technologically. In infamous instances Polish cavalry bravely, but suicidally charged German panzers.

The only hope for Poland was that France and England would mobilize fast enough to force the Germans to focus on the west. French troops there outnumbered German ones by about four to one, but they did little more than raid the border. Then all hopes were dashed when the USSR invaded Poland from the east, on September 17. Russia did so in part of a secret agreement with Germany, to split Poland. Polish forces quickly fell apart, and on September 28, the besieged forces in Warsaw surrendered.

World War II had truly begun.