Wednesday, July 27, 2011

What's in The News Today

Casey Anthony is offered 1.5 million for her first interview. Casey Anthony demands more than 1.5 million to talk. Casey Anthony is the mother accused of murdering her toddler Caylee Anthony. She was acquitted from the crime.

CNN. (July 26, 2011). Did tot offer reach $1.5 million. Retrieved July 27, 2011, from http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2011/07/26/exp.ng.totmom.interview.hln?hpt=hp_t2


Olympic silver medal winner kills himself. Freestyle skier "Peterson" won the silver medal at the 2010 Winter Olympics. He shot himself in the head after he made a call to the police that he was going to kill himself. When police arrived they found Peterson dead with a suicide note. Peterson went through some trying times. He was sexually assaulted as child. His sister was killed by a drunk driver and he witnessed his best friend kill themselves as he walked through the door.

CNN. (July 27, 2011). U.S. Olympic skier Jeret Peterson takes his own life. Retrieved July 27, 2011, from http://www.cnn.com/2011/SPORT/07/27/utah.skier.peterson/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

A Los Angeles (Glendale) man operates on himself with a butter knife. The man was tired of waiting  for his hernia surgery so he decided to do it himself. He pierced himself with a butter knife and tried to stop the bleeding with a lit cigarette by  cauterizing the wound. The man's wife called the police and when they arrived they found him naked on his back porch. He was taken to the hospital and is under a 72-hour psychiatric hold and then doctors will operate on his hernia.

Dobuzinskis, A. & Johnston, C. (July 27, 2011). U.S. man operates on himself with a butter knife. Yahoo!News. Retrieved July 27, 2011, from http://news.yahoo.com/u-man-operates-himself-butter-knife-140842462.html

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