Algebra Teacher Murdered

A 14 year old named Phillip Chism allegedly killed his algebra teacher at his school. He was in the final class of the day, which happened to be Colleen Ritzer’s algebra class. He was drawing unusual pictures and listening to music when the teacher asked him to stay after class. After they were done talking, she went into a girls bathroom on the second level of the school. Phillip followed her in and killed her using a box cutter. Her body was later found in the woods outside of school. Phillip put her body in a recycling bin and rolled it down to the woods.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/25/justice/massachusetts-danvers-school-killing/index.html?hpt=ju_c2

Obesity

Helen Casillas, is just one example of the many people that are obese in America. She had diabetes and the doctor told her that she needed to lose weight in order to stay healthy...but she didnt listen. She ended up dying of a heart-attack at the age of 44. "This is the problem within the Hispanic community," Dieppa wrote on the blog. "We love our curves, but the line between beautiful and deadly curves is blurred." Hispanic and African American girls are less likely to think that they are overweight, even when they are. Latinos are also the "most vulnerable" which makes them more likely to become obese. Diabetes is a main concern in the Latino community. They need to learn what is healthy and what is not healthy.

Gym Mat Death

Kendrick Johnson, 17 years old, was killed in January. His body was found rolled up in a gym mat in his high school gym. He was suffocated when he was reaching for his sneaker. They say that he died form positional asphyxia and that the death was accidental. But they did a second autopsy and found that he died because of a "unexplained, apparent non-accidental, blunt force trauma." The county sheriff has declared the case closed but Micheal Moore, the U.S. attorney for the district is reviewing the case and deciding if he should open his own investigation. 

http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/10/justice/georgia-gym-mat-death/index.html?hpt=ju_c2 

Bride Pushes her Husband off a Cliff

On July 7th, Jordan Graham and her husband went for a walk through a national park. They were fighting before they went for the walk and continued to fight while on it. The fight of physical and Jordan ended up pushing her husband off of the cliff to fall to his death. They had only been married for 8 days prior to the push. Her friends say that she showed no emotion after what happened. Her attorney said that the groom's  death was an accident. A federal grand jury charged her with first and second-degree murder, also making a false statement. She pleaded not guilty and was released like she had been before. She will return  to court on October 15th.

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