Eduardo Arellano Felix

The city of Tijuana, situated at the border with the U.S., witnessed yet another drug related shooting, yesterday. This time, the parties involved were the Mexican federal police and a group of drug dealers lead by Eduardo Arellano Félix, also known as ‘The Doctor’.

Arellano Felix, one of the most powerful traffickers of the Tijuana drug cartel, has been taken into custody by Read More…

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Students of Vasquez High School

The Vasquez High School, in Acton, California, witnessed the death of yet another bullying victim. Teenager Jeremiah Finton Lasater, of 14, committed suicide in the boys’ restroom, on Monday, 20th of October.

The boy was a junior varsity football player, but his learning disability and his stature (he was 6-foot-5), made of him one of his colleagues’ favorite bullying targets. Even his fellow special needs students laughed at him and made pranks on him.

Students who remember having seen Lasater on the day of his death say Read More…

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Minimalist House on Wheels

The crashing economy has made popular a new real estate movement – minimalism. How to minimalise a 1,800 square-foot house into a 100 square-foot one? The answer is apparently a very simple one and a Californian family is ready to share it with the world.

In Calistoga, California, Bill and Sharon Katrinos have decided to show people that one can live perfectly without using too much space or resources, for that matter. Read More…

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Britney Behind the Wheel

Last August, Britney Spears “hit it one more time”….this time in a parking lot, and it was a classic case of hit and run. Unfortunately for her, the whole incident was caught on camera and the case went to court.

After many hours of deliberations, the jury could not reach a verdict as not all of the members were of the same opinion regarding this incident.

It is more than possible that some of them did not want to see Read More…

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Marijuana Plants

Over the last 10 years the Police and environmental organizations have discovered over 159 illegal marijuana plantations only in the Sequoia Kings Canyon National Park.

Marijuana cultures have transformed the California national parks and forests in some of the most polluted ones in the United States, mostly because Read More…

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Same-sex Married Couple

After months of legal battles, the gay and lesbian couples in the state of Connecticut have won the war – the Supreme Court of Connecticut has ruled that they do have the right to get married.

Taking Massachusetts and California as precedents, eight same-sex couples have asked for the right to say “I do” in Connecticut as well. This sentence only comes to recognize what the American constitution stated in the first place: the right of citizens to be treated equally when they apply for marriage license, not depending on Read More…

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Burning Forest

After the fire in Napa Valley, on Friday, that caused the loss of 300 acres of forest, a home and a barn, the firefighters received another emergency call; this time, in another area of California, North of Los Angeles.

The wildfire that started on Sunday destroyed over 750 acres of forest and more importantly threatened to burn out several houses, as well as the establishment of an animal sanctuary.

About 400 firefighters were Read More…

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