The Murder of Two Children

Two weeks ago the children of Mark Edge were found dead in a hotel room. The authorities say that the mother of the children poisoned them. The children were 13 and 10. The two parents were fighting a custody battle for about a year and it finally got settled in September. The mother was to give the children over to the father, when she heard this in the court room she stormed out in the middle of it. When she finally earned visitation rights, the children went with her to California. She poisoned them in a hotel that they were staying at and the police found her in her car that had been rammed into a pole a couple of blocks down the road. They think she was trying to kill herself. She has been charged with two felony counts of special circumstance murder; multiple murders and murder by poison. If the court convicts her, she will spend the rest of her life in prison without parole.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/26/us/california-chidren-killed/index.html?hpt=ju_c2

The Hiccup Girl

A woman was found guilty for first-degree murder. She was sentenced to life in prison without parole. In October 2010, when she was 19 she was first arrested. She met Shannon Griffin on a social networking site and made him go to a vacant home a couple of days later. They do not believe that they knew each other before the online talking. The murder happened behind the house where Jenifer Mee led him. two men armed and ready, shot Griffin multiple times. Police arrested all three of the people involved about 3 hours after finding the body. Mee was not put in jail because she "didn't pull the trier," but later sentenced to life in prison.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/20/justice/hiccup-girl-murder-verdict/index.html?hpt=ju_c2

Shooting in Time Square

An "emotionally disturbed" man, named Glenn Broadnax triggered a shooting in Time Square on Saturday, September 14th. He was standing in the road facing oncoming traffic and the police officers were trying to get him out of the road. When they did this, Broadnax started to run. He put his hand in his pocket to "grab something" and when he took his hands out he used them to make a gun and "shot" and the officers. "At some time he reached into his pocket, took out his hand and simulated as if he was shooting at them," Kelly told reporters late Saturday. Doing this made the police officers shoot their actual guns, hitting two pedestrians and injuring them both. They shot three times before finally getting close enough to use a taser. Glenn is now in the Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital and is in there as an "emotionally disturbed person". He will be charged with riot, criminal possession of a controlled substance, menacing, resisting arrest, obstructing governmental administration and disorderly conduct.  These charges could change once he goes to court. 
http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/15/justice/times-square-police-shooting/index.html?hpt=hp_inthenews

Tamu Massif

An underwater volcano was found about 1,000 miles east of Japan. They call it Tamu Massif. It is the new largest volcano in the world and is also one of the largest in the Solar System. A professor at the University of Huston, William Sager took a team of other scientist to discover this volcano. "Its shape is different from any other sub-marine volcano found on Earth, and it's very possible it can give us some clues about how massive volcanoes can form," Sager stated. They say that it is 145 million years old and became active within a couple million years after it was formed. Mauna Loa, the largest active volcano is approximately 2,000 square miles, that is nothing compared to Tamu Massif. About 120,000 square miles is the area that this new volcano covers. This all ties together with the French word "massif" meaning massive, or in a scientific matter it means large mountain mass. 

http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/06/world/biggest-volcano/index.html?hpt=wo_c2

Gephyrophobia: fear of bridges.

Gephyrophobia is when people have a fear of bridges. They have a hard time crossing high bridges. Some people have dreams about bridges that go up and never come down, others have fears that the bridge with collapse when they drive over it and with the news showing all of the bridges that do collapse, it gives them even more anxiety. These people don’t trust the safety of the bridge or have a hard time believe that there is an end of it if they can’t see it at first. At Johns Hopkins University they help people get over their fears by having people imagine that they are going over the bridge and then eventually getting them to go over it. 

http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/31/travel/scary-high-bridges-climbers/index.html?hpt=hp_t5