Sunday, January 15, 2012

What's in The News Today

A failed Russian probe will crash on earth today. The probe was design to go to Mars, but instead it's stuck in earth's orbit and will crash down within hours. It will shower fragments and it's one of the heaviest most toxic space collide to earth. Officials are saying that most of the probe will burn up in the atmosphere. Where it will go is unknown and Russia's space agency "Roscosmos stated "it will come down between 11:41 a.m. and 4:05 p.m. EST." The re-entry to earth by the probe will still survive totaling  20 and 30 fragments weighing 440 pounds.

The Washington Post. (January 15, 2012). Failed Russian spacecraft will crash to Earth within hours, agency says. Retrieved January 15, 2012, from http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/failed-russian-spacecraft-will-crash-on-earth-within-hours-agency-says/2012/01/15/gIQA1e9U0P_story.html




A man is accused of poisoning his wife's Rice Krispies cereal. Fernanda the wife of Fernando Porras of Azusa, California, said "the cereal tasted and smelled horrible. She was taken to the hospital and her husband went out for a cigarette and then is when the police grew suspicious of him. He was arrested two miles away for putting a poisonous chemical in her cereal.

Yahoo!News. (January 14, 2012). CA man suspected of poisoning wife's Rice Krispies. Retrieved January 15, 2012, from http://news.yahoo.com/ca-man-suspected-poisoning-wifes-rice-krispies-034333263.html


Mexican officials have arrested four men in the slaying of a marine officer and his family. The family "the marine, his two sons and wife" went missing on December 16, stated the Secretary of the Navy's office. One of the sons is also a marine officer and the other is an enlisted marine. Many of the suspects  were arrested at a fake checkpoint and they admitted to kidnapping and killing the family.

Yahoo!News. Family of Mexican marines kidnapped, slain. Retrieved January 15, 2012, from http://news.yahoo.com/family-mexican-marines-kidnapped-slain-191406480.html

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