Popocatepetl Causes Evacuations Near Mexico City

Saturday night the Popocatepetl volcano let forth a burst of steam that reached about half a mile into the sky.

Over night, Popocatepetl could be seen to be emitting glowing rocks as well.

As a precaution, the government sent soldiers and federal police to clear a seven square mile area, around the volcano.

Shelters were set up for those evacuated.

Authorities are preparing to evacuate an even wider area, if it is deemed necessary.

Popocatepetl is located only about twenty-five miles from the nearest suburbs of Mexico City.

Whole Foods Salad Recall

Whole Foods has issued a recall for two of their salads, in the Northeastern US.

Both the curried chicken salad and vegan curried chick’n salad are being recalled due to mislabeling.

Normally both have allergy warnings, as the curried chicken salad contains egg and the vegan salad contains soy.

However, a mistake led to neither being marked with the allergy warning notice.

Due to this Whole Foods will grant full refunds at the fifteen stores which sold the incorrectly labeled salads.

Washington Man Goes on Bulldozer Rampage

A man in Port Angeles, Washington went on a rampage with a bulldozer, on Friday.

Several homes were damaged, a pickup truck was destroyed, and power lines were knocked down, in the wake of Barry Alan Swegle's assault.

No one was hurt during the incident.

The fifty-one year old was arrested "for investigation of malicious mischief".

According to authorities, it all began with an argument between Swegle and his neighbors.

Trenton Police Negotiating With Gunman Holding 3 Hostages

A standoff in Trenton, New Jersey is still going.

It began on Friday afternoon, when police officers conducting a wellness check found a body at a home.

They were going to investigate further when they were confronted by a man with a gun, and they backed off.

Since then police have surrounded the home, and been joined by the FBI.

Authorities believe that the man has three hostages, ages 17, 14, and 4.

The man has already killed the children's mother and thirteen year old brother.

Police hope to talk the man into releasing his hostages and surrendering, before anyone else is hurt.

West Wing Evacuated Due to Smoke

The West Wing was evacuated for part of Saturday after smoke began coming from a utility closet.

Fire fighters responded and discovered that a piece of equipment had overheated, causing the smoke.

Once the smoke had stopped, and the site was deemed safe, the evacuation was lifted.

The evacuation included the press corp.

Illegal Immigrant Goes on Pickaxe Rampage Killing 1 in Milan

Twenty-one year old Mada Kabobo was arrested by Italian police, on Saturday.

The illegal immigrant, from Ghana, is being charged with one count of murder and two of attempted murder.

According to authorities he began swinging a pickaxe in Milan, attacking people at random.

Before police subdued him, he killed one man and injured four people, two of them critically.

There is no known motive for the attack.

Kabobo already has a police record of property damage, robbery, theft, and resisting arrest.

Egypt Foils Plot to Attack Western Embassy

Egyptian police are saying that they foiled a plot to attack a western embassy.

According to authorities they arrested three men, connected to Al Qaeda.

The men had been planning a suicide attack, involving chemicals and explosive devices.

They have not specified which embassy was to be targeted.

Pakistanis Vote Despite Taliban Threats

Pakistanis headed to the polls despite Taliban violence against polling stations.

Taliban attacks had claimed more than one hundred and fifty lives over the past month, and twenty-nine more were killed on Saturday.

Despite that, millions voted in the election, the first transfer between civilian governments, that the country has ever seen.

Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League-N looks to be the winner of the election.

If they win Sharif will likely become prime minister again, giving him his third time in the position.

Car Bombs Kill 43 in Turkey

Forty-three people are dead and one hundred and forty wounded after two car bombs struck Reyhanli, Turkey, on Saturday.

The two explosions occurred about fifteen minutes apart, one outside the city hall, the other outside the post office.

According to Deputy Prime Minister Besir Atalay, the terrorists responsible have connections to the Syrian government.

He did not explain what had led them to that belief or which group was responsible.

Many in Turkey are worried that their country will be drawn into the Syrian civil war.

Sacramento Woman Slaps Officer to Quit Smoking

Thirty-one year old Etta Lopez walked up to Sacramento County Sheriff's Deputy Matt Compoy, on Tuesday night, and slapped him.

Lopez was quickly arrested for assaulting an officer.

When asked why she had slapped the deputy, she responded by saying that she wanted to be arrested.

She continued to say that she was trying to quit smoking, and that only in jail would she be sure she would make it.