Teacher in Colorado Accused of Taping Students Mouths Shut

Aurora Public Schools are investigating claims that a teacher taped students mouths shut, on Thursday.

It reportedly happened at Fulton Academy of Excellence, in a second grade classroom.

According to parents, all twenty-eight children had scotch tape placed over their mouths.

The teacher has been placed on paid administrative leave, while the investigation takes place.

Colorado Scientists Creating H7N9 Vaccine

Scientists at Greffex, in Aurora, Colorado, believe that they have come up with a vaccine for H7N9.

The strain of bird flu has killed twenty-seven and sickened one hundred and twenty people, in China.

Greffex was sent the genetic makeup of the virus, in March.

They believe that their vaccine will be capable of blocking and perhaps curing H7N9.

Tests will continue for the next two to three months, then clinical trials can begin.

If all goes well mass production could begin by October.

California Pizza Kitchen and Digiorno Pizza Recall

Nestle's Pizza Division has announced a recall of various pizzas.

They are being recalled due to plastic fragments that have been found in some of them.

The plastic pieces were mixed in with spinach, which the company used.

Pizzas were made between February 26 and March 9, and then sold all across the United States.

The pizzas facing recall are:

California Pizza Kitchen Limited Edition Grilled Chicken with Cabernet Sauce, UPC 71921 00781; the production code is 3059525952.

California Pizza Kitchen Crispy Thin Crust White, UPC 71921 98745; the production codes are 3062525951, 3062525952 and 3063525951.

DiGiorno Crispy Flatbread Pizza Tuscan Style Chicken, UPC 71921 02663; the production codes are 3057525922 and 3058525921.

DiGiorno pizzeria! Bianca/White Pizza, UPC 71921 91484; the production code is 3068525951.

China Arrests 904 in Fake Meat Crackdown

As China works on ensuring food safety they made a major crackdown.

Nine hundred and four people have been arrested for involvement in three hundred and twenty-eight incidents.

Some of those incidents was portraying rat, fox, or mink meat as beef or mutton.

In others chemicals or drugs were added to meat.

Springs Fire Over 10,000 Acres

The Springs Fire reaches the ocean

Over ten thousand acres have now been burnt by the Springs Fire, near Camarillo, California.

The fire, which on Thursday morning, has burnt fifteen buildings, a parking lot of RVs, and left a trail from the 101 to the Pacific Coast Highway.

More than a thousand firefighters are battling the blaze.

Santa Ana winds pushed the flames and are expected to do so again on Friday. Temperatures in the nineties and humidity below ten percent are going to help things either.


Hundreds of residents of the Deer Creek and Yerba Buena communities have been evacuated, with the fire threatening their homes, as well as the California State University Channel Islands campus.

Also in danger, from the blaze, is Naval Base Ventura County. The base hasn't been evacuated, but the personnel have been warned to stay indoors to avoid breathing in the smoke.

US Refueling Plane Explodes Over Kyrgyzstan

A US Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker exploded in mid air, over Kyrgyzstan, on Friday afternoon.

The remnants of the KC-135 refueling plane came down over a three mile area, near the village of Chaldovar.

At the time of the explosion, the plane had about eighty tons of fuel aboard.

Captain Mark T. Voss, Captain Victoria A. Pinckney, and Technical Sergeant Herman Mackey III were killed in the crash.
  Military officials are investigating what could have caused the explosion.

Sixteen Year Old Arrested for School Chemistry Experiment

Sixteen year old Kiera Wilmot was the perfect student, child, and friend to everyone who knew her.

Then the Bartow, Florida teen was expelled, arrested, and charged with multiple felonies.

Her crime? She caused smoke and a small explosion in a chemistry experiment, on Monday.

No one was hurt and nothing was damaged yet Kiera was expelled and arrested on charges of possessing a weapon on school grounds, discharging a weapon on school grounds, and discharging a destructive device.

Making matters worse, the district attorney is attempting to charge her as an adult.

School and district officials are taking national heat for their treatment of Kiera.

South Carolina House Passes Bill Making Obamacare Illegal

South Carolina House chambers

South Carolina's house of representatives passed a bill, on Wednesday, called the Freedom of Health Care Protection Act.

The act declares Obamacare to be null and void.

Adding to that, it also makes the implementation of Obamacare a criminal act.

It moved from the House, to the Senate, on Thursday.

Governor Nikki Haley has already promised to sign it if it reaches her desk.

Rhode Island Legalizes Same Sex Marriage

Governor Lincoln Chafee signed into law a bill making same sex marriage legal in the state of Rhode Island, on Thursday.

The bill passed the state house, earlier in the day, with a vote of fifty-six to fifteen.

On August 1, the law will go into effect, making Rhode Island the tenth state to allow them.

An exception was added to the bill that allows religious leaders and churches to refuse to marry same sex couples, without facing law suits.

It also ends Rhode Island's policy of allowing civil unions, which began two years ago.

Maryland Repeals the Death Penalty

On Thursday, Governor Martin O'Malley signed a bill that officially removes the death penalty from Maryland.

In doing so, he made Maryland the eighteenth state to repeal the death penalty.

According to the governor's office, "Maryland has effectively eliminated a policy that is proven not to work. Evidence shows that the death penalty is not a deterrent, it cannot be administered without racial bias, and it costs three times as much as life in prison without parole".

The law will go into effect on October 1.

Currently five men are on the state's death row, but their sentences were not commuted, by the repeal.