Are mermaids real?

In this article, they say that Animal Planet recently attempted to gain more insight to whether mermaids exit or not. They aired its latest documentary special, "Mermaid: The Body Found", on Sunday as part of its Monster Week series and is strictly fictional account based on a scant facts. While the people at Animal Planet may have stretched the truth a bit on the one, the video " Mermaids: The Body Found" uses CGI images to give its viewers a preview of what a mermaid might look like. These mermaids do not resemble anything close to the Disney mermaid on the movie, "The Little Mermaid". It also informs on how mermaids reproduce. Two scientists go on to show the details of a supposed secret government investigation that claims to have proof of mermaid existence. They use clues such as a picture of a 'mermaid' taken by two boys with a camera phone in Washington State. They also found remains inside a shark in South Africa that reconstructed a mermaid. The result is not quite as attractive as the mythical creature depicted in Disney movies and in cartoons. The Animal Planet show proposes that a specific branch of our human ancestors at one point actually began living in the open sea. 'Mermaids' tried to give their claim some credibility by mentioning something known as "the Aquatic Ape Theory," which suggests that human evolution was influenced by a shore-dwelling phase. The Animal Planet show proposes that a specific branch of our human ancestors at one point actually began living in the open sea. Different cultural references over the years, the film's narrator asserts, "The seafaring Greeks described them as did the Vikings, as did the Chinese during their greatest period of maritime exploration. They are recorded in medieval manuscripts, and even into the 19th century. While most of the show is quite unbelievable, the most substantial evidence used in the documentary is said to be the photo taken from the Washington State boys, which contains images never seen before of a supposed mermaid washed up on the beach. The creature was reported alive. At first, nobody thought it was a mermaid, because it had lacked the long beautiful hair, flawless skin, and the sparkly lower torso.

 

War crimes

In this article, they are saying that Ratko Mladic went on a trail on Wednesday at the U.N. The indictment is being against him. He holds the former Bosnian Serb army commander. Mladic is charged with eleven counts of genocide, crimes against humanity and violations of the laws and customs of war. Mladic along with other former Serbian and Bosian Serb leaders are being accused of 'destroying' the entire group of Muslims and Croat communities in various parts of Bosnia. It includes the three-year relentless shelling of the capital. Sarajevo and several other small towns such as Foca, where Serbs were particularly brutal, executing the local Muslims and throwing them into a river. Only some of the remains were found last year.

Illegal Immigrant

In this article, they say that a security supervisor pleaded not guilty to identity theft on Tuesday as a new details emerged about his alleged twenty-year odyssey of deception. He may have assumed the identity of a New York man weeks before the man the murdered. He pleaded not guilty to one count to identity theft through his court-appointed attorney.  There is a second-degree offense punishable by a maximum ten-year sentence. He was standing in an orange prison jumpsuit ad flanked by two sheriff's officers, Oyewole appeared via video feed from the Essex County Correctional Facility where he was held since his arrest on Monday at his home. The court raised his bail from $75,000 to $250,000 after finding out that he has used several aliases over the years. Oyewole has been placed under a federal immigration detainer. He spoke once during Tuesday's hearing, to answer a question from the judge on of his place of residence. He is charged with using the identity of Jerry Thomas. Jerry Thomas was a petty criminal who was shot outside Queens, N.Y., in July of 1992. The remains of Thomas' murders are unsolved, but the police in New York said Tuesday there is no evidence trying Oyewole to Thomas' shooting. 

Teacher gets charged for stealing.

In this article, they are saying that a former high school teacher in Southwest Ohio has been charged with stealing money meant for a school prom in cash-strapped district. The districts say a teacher on the Lakota East High School prom committee apparently urged students to pay her directly, instead of the following process. This forty-five-year old woman has been charged with a misdemeanor theft. She had failed to turn in the money but the office received a report that the woman sold tickets for the April prom but she had failed to turn in the money. The district says that eight hundred dollars were missing, and a relative had paid about one-hundred and sixty dollars of that. Some of the students have complained about having trouble getting admission into the dance. As the authorities investigated, the woman had quit her job.

Missing family in Tennessee

In this article, they are stating that a family went missing in Tennessee. There were two bodies that were found at the home of a Mississippi man. One was the identified as the mother and her oldest daughter. The police spent that say searching everywhere. They dug up several parts of someone’s yard and they even set up roadblocks on the Mississippi highways with the police stopping cars and checking their trunks. The police had said that their family in in extreme danger after the discovery of the two bodies that they found over the weekend in the home of where the mother was last seen. They are still actively looking in the area of Mississippi. They have the local, state, and national law enforcement agents out looking for this family. The mother and her daughters vanished on April twenty-seventh after leaving their home in Whiteville, Tennessee, which is located between Jackson and Memphis. The investigators had said that they believe that the two young girls have been disguised by Mayes. They said that they do have information that he has altered the appearances of everybody, even himself. These girls may have far shorter hair then the pictures that they have out there. They believe that if they have the mother that is dead, and one of her daughters, the other two daughters are definitely in jeopardy. The FBI and the U.S Marshals Service had offered a reward of up to $50,000 for information leading to the whereabouts of the mother and her daughters. Their disappearance had begun about ten day, after their family returned to Memphis for a funeral. The mother’s husband had reported his wife and children missing on Friday, April twenty-seventh. Her truck was discovered less than three miles away from her home on Sunday, April twenty-ninth. That was the same day that the police questioned Mayes, and then let him go. That following Tuesday, the police say, that they realized that Mayes had given them misleading information. When they went to arrest him, he was already gone. They do not know exactly where he is going, but they do consider him armed and dangerous. The police think that Mayes appeared to be a friend of the mother's family, and he is on run for kidnapping Bain and her three daughters. They believe that Bain and her girls have been disguised by Mayes. They all have been abducted and they can be in extreme danger.

Mother put bleach in her baby's eyes.

In this article, they say that a woman had turned herself in to the police on Friday. She is being held for investigation of first-degree assault. A fourteen month year old baby girl was airlifted to Harborview Medical Center on May 12th, for a head injury. The doctors also found some bruising and eye infection, according to the statement of probable cause following police's year-long investigation. While the baby was being airlifter the mother had said that she had no idea what had caused the head injury. She said that a friend was caring for her just before it had happened. The documents did not give any other details about this head injury. They had asked about the eye infection and the mother had said that her daughter's eyes had been swollen shut for about four weeks. They issue began two months' prior when her daughter got a scratch on her eye while playing in a barn. She also said that her daughter was given antibiotics and eye drops for this infection. She was the primary person to put them in her daughter's eyes as her husband has just recently filed for a divorce. The court documents have said that she wanted the father's visits severely limited because of the baby's fragile eye condition and she was the main caregiver. The mother said she needed to go get the eye drops from the hospital room when the daughter was placed into a protective custody at the hospital for the head injury. The detectives have said that they would make sure the baby girl gets her proper medication. When the hospital staff later opened the container to give her the eye drops, they had noticed a strong fume smell that cause their eyes to burn. A detective also had investigated the bottle and noted the strong smell. They sent the bottle to get a test and it was later determined to contain bleach.  One of the doctors at the Children's hospital later told detectives that the infant's eye infections were consistent with injuries cause by bleach. Whoever gave the initial diagnosis of a scratched eye was incorrect. This baby girl's condition had improved once removed from her mother's care. The doctors say that her vision may never be normal, and that some blindness in her right eye was permanent. The mother is being held on a $150,000 bail. The infant is now two years old and has been staying with her biological father since the original incident. The mother has another child that is being taken care of her other family members.

Connection between brain freezes and migranes

In this article, they say that most people have likely experienced a brain freeze. Researchers did not really understand what causes it, until now. The previous studies found that migraine sufferers are actually a lot more likely to get a brain freeze. People without migraines do not get it as often. The researchers thought that they might share some kind of common cause. They have decided to

use a brain freeze to study up on migraines. Headaches that are like migraines are difficult to study because they are unpredictable. They are not able to research a whole migraine from start to finish in the lab. They can medication to induce the migraines, but those can also have side effects that interfere with the results. Brain freezes make this lab easy because it is easy to get a migraine and it is quick to end. They brought on brain freezes in the lab by having about thirteen healthy volunteers sip ice water through a straw, to hit right again the top of their mouth. They would raise their hands when they felt a familiar brain freeze come on, and then raised them again once it disappeared. The researchers monitored the blood flow through their brains using an ultrasound like process to the skull. The increased blood flow to the brain through a blood vessel, called an anterior cerebral artery, which is located in the middle of the brain behind the eyes. The pain disappears when the artery constricts reining in response to the increased flow. This blood vessel is a type of self-defense for the brain. The blood cannot be cleared as quickly as it is coming in during the brain freeze. It can raise the pressure inside the skull and induce the pain that way. The blood vessel constricts as the pressure and the temperature in the brain rise.

 

Fight over Lindsay Lohan

In this article, they are saying that Lindsay Lohan might want to stay in instead of going out to watch Netflix for a bit. On Wednesday night, she went to the Standard hotel in West Hollywood. Her friend who hit another car in a parking garage was the one who drove her. She called her father and he arrived and took her inside the hotel’s Smoke and Mirrors club. Earlier this month, Lohan was accused of shoving a woman, so this might not have been the best choice to do. They drama had continued inside when a female patron made a remark about Lindsay "going clubbing with her dad". Lindsay yelled "Shut the F**k up." The woman then threw a drink at Lohan. Her and her dad got up and left the club after that. Neither of them drank alcohol at the club.

Worlds Oldest Man

In this article, they are saying that the world’s oldest man is one-hundred and fifteen years old. He worked at a local post office all his life until he retired at age sixty-five. He was born in 1897. He has five children, fourteen grandchildren, twenty-five great grandchildren, and thirteen great great grandchildren. His family says that he never misses a meal, and he continues to read the newspaper daily. He is Japanese. He is just two-hundred and thirty-seven days shy of the oldest living person, according to the Guinness Book of World Records. On his one-hundred, fifteenth birthday, reporters came to his house in Kyotango City west of Kyoto, with a smile and a brief message.

Girls get sick from water

In this article, they are saying that the girls in Northeastern Afghanistan School were admitted to the hospital on Tuesday after getting sick from drinking water believed to be poisoned by education for girls. These girls were suffering from nausea and bad headaches after they drank the water from a tank at the high school. According to the doctors, this is not a normal sickness. They are saying that girls from Afghan are the ones who have poisoned the water. Most of the girls were taken to the hospital very quickly before it got worse. There were about one hundred and fifty girls who had got sick from this water.

Using blood tests can screen teen depression in teenagers

In this article, they say that researchers have made a test that can diagnose depression in teens. It's a step they hope will lead to a better way to identify the disorder in young people. Diagnosing depression depends on a patient's willingness to report symptoms. This diagnose is particularly challenging, especially for teens. The researchers were able to pinpoint twenty-six markers of major depression. They looked in the blood of twenty-eight human teenagers, ages fifteen to nineteen, half of them with depression and half without. They found that eleven of the markers had showed up in the depressed teens, but not the teens that are not depressed. They were also able to diagnose different types of depression. They successfully identified teens who suffered from depression alone and other depression combined with anxiety disorders.

The choking game

In this article, they say that kids have been playing the choking game, which causes death. They think it is a safe was to get a rush or a high from passing out. According to the new study, about six percent of kids have played it at least once. The doctors believe the kids who play it have no idea of how deadly it actually is. In this game, a person cuts off oxygen and blood flow to the brain with a towel, belt or rope, or hyperventilates until you pass out. When the blood and oxygen rush back into the brain, it creates an euphoric high. The choking game can lead to brain damage, seizures, and head trauma. A twelve-year-old boy from Santa Monica, California was taught the choking game on the playground after hanging out with his friends at his new middle school. The day after this boy had learned how to play, he tried it by himself at home, after school. He used his rope from Boy Scouts. The mother came home and found him dead in the living room. She didn't believe the police when they said that it was the choking game that had killed her son.

Husband and Wife killed teacher

In this article, they are saying that a husband and wife have been charged with the murder of Vermont teacher. The police said during a news conference that him and his wife were charged with second-degree murder in the death of this woman. The authorities say that they strangled her. The police said that the two were also charged with improper disposal of a body. They knew this lady, and they used to snow plow her driveway a couple years ago. He did not give a motive for the killing. The husband is a snow plow driver and also worked for the newspaper as a delivery man. They discovered her body on Monday in Barnet, a day after her SUV was found abandoned along a dark Vermont road with its engine still running and her two year old son inside the vehicle.

Investigators find leg of woman that has been missing

In this article, they say that they have found a leg that belongs to a missing woman. They found this leg about three months ago and it just has been identified. This woman is thirty eight years old and her girlfriend was also missing. Authorities said the woman, who has been missing since December seventeenth, is dead. They have not yet found the rest of her remains. According to the police, she was reported missing on January twenty seventh, after her apartment complex contacted her family saying that she had not paid her rent. The investigators say that she and her sixty year old girlfriend were last seen on December sixteenth. A few days later, the police had found her car abandoned in Parrish. The police are searching for the rest of her body.

Child loses finger because of nurse

In this article, they are saying that a mother from Florida is suing a hospital after a nurse reportedly cut off part of her infant daughter's finger while removing an IV. Her daughter was three months old. She was in the hospital for three days recovering from a high fever. The nurse went to remove the tape that attached the baby's IV with scissors, and she cut part of the child’s finger off. They say that there was blood everywhere, and the baby was screaming and crying. The nurse ran out of the room screaming and that's when the doctors ran in the room to see what happened. The mother says that she still has nightmares about what happened, and she believes her daughter does too. The baby wakes up screaming and crying in the night ever since that happened. The mother is worried that she is going to have a rough time in sports and school when she gets older.

Four-Year-Old Missing

In this article, they state that a four year old boy from Texas was reported missing and he had been found dead. It was 14 hours later in a neighbor's yard. This baby was apparently mauled by a dog. The child wondered away on Sunday night and was found on Monday morning. The authorities said it appeared to be a pit bull that was kept in the yard that had attacked and killed the boy. An autopsy is scheduled for Tuesday and the results will come back on the same day. His father was cleaning his car as this baby wondered off. The search teams went out on Sunday night, looking for him, and found him at around 10:45 a.m. Monday Morning. The dog that had mauled this baby was quarantined after the attack.

Tobacco Updates

 

In these articles, they are telling people how the soluble tobacco products may reduce the risk to health than smoking cigarettes. It has the potential to increase the total number of smokers. Cigarette smokers face a tax increase, growing health problems, smoking bans, and public condemnation. The Public health groups are arguing that excluding tobacco from trade agreements will help the worldwide campaign to reduce smoking. Lawmakers and farmers claim that the ban on tobacco can lead to economic losses to Kentucky and other states. Diseases from smoking kill about 440,000 Americans a year. Worldwide, tobacco kills five million people each year. The concern about excluding tobacco trade agreement negotiations masks a big problem. The health organizations are urging the Obama administration in the fight with the federal court decision blocking the graphic warnings from appearing on cigarette packs.

Swiss Bus Crash Kills 28, Including 22 Children

In this article, they say that a tour bus was slammed into a tunnel wall in the Swiss Alps in a horrific accident that killed twenty-two school children and six adults returning to Belgium from a joyous ski vacation. Twenty-four students were hospitalized. The bus was carrying fifty-two people when it crashed. The bus had hit the wall of the Tunnel de Geronde shortly after about nine at night. They say that it was unclear of how the accident happened. The police said that the students had spent the last few days at a ski camp and were on their way back to the Belgian provinces of Brabant, Flanders and Limbourg.  The bus carried these students from two towns. In the tunnel, it veered, hit a curb, and then rammed into a concrete wall. The front of the bus was heavily damaged, making it difficult for people to get out.

Three-year-old kills himself with gun

In the article, they say that a three-year-old boy kills himself with a gun that he found in a car while his family stopped for gas early on Wednesday. This is western Washington's third recent shooting by a child. The Tacoma family had stopped for gas at about 12:30 a.m. The father put his pistol under the seat and got out to pump gas while the mother went inside the convenience store. They left their sun and their infant daughter in the car. The boy climbed out of his child seat, found the gun and had shot himself in the head. He was declared dead at the hospital. The infant girl was not injured. The father has a concealed weapons permit, so no charges are anticipated.

Toddler found dead in three foot hole

In this article, they state that they were investigating how a toddler was reported missing and ended up dead in a septic tank in the back yard of her home near the Jersey Shore. The two year old girl was reported missing by her mother and shortly after five o'clock in the afternoon on Monday, she was found dead. The mother told the police that she could not find her child, who had been playing in the yard with her four siblings. The search teams found a three foot wide hole in the yard, which lead to a septic tank. The Public Works Department was called in to pump out water in the tank and 7:30pm the body was discovered in the tank.