Page 4 - The BUZZ January 11, 2013
January 11, 2013 Page 5 - The BUZZ One person was in custody and two others were wounded following a 9 a.m. shooting at Taft Union High school in Taft, California, on Thursday, after a student arrived at the school armed with a shotgun. Wounded with apparent non-life threatening injuries were another student and a teacher, who were shot on the second floor of the facility’s science building one month after the December 14 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut that claimed the lives of 20 NATIONWIDE students and six adults. In Atlanta last week, a husband coached his wife by phone, urging her to shoot a home intruder who used a crowbar and broke into the couple’s Loganville home and began to hunt for the hiding female and her twin nine-year-olds, who fled through three locked doors, into a bathroom, and into an upstairs crawl space, trying to get away from the pursuing intruder. The female shot the intruder five times when he broke into the crawl space, the husband repeating, “Shoot him SWEETWATER RECYCLING NEW BUSINESS NOW OPEN Monday - Saturday 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. 423-337-0028 <strong>County</strong> Road 323, Sweetwater LILLY’S LOANS & MORE Now Buying Gold, Silver & Coins again,” the intruder, once shot and down, begging her to stop. The intruder lived and was hospitalized, police said. The Food and Drug Administration said on Thursday the makers of Ambien and other sleeping pills will be required to lower the dosage of their drugs as studies have shown patients were at a higher risk of injury due to morning drowsiness. The agency said new research showed the drugs remained in the bloodstream at levels high enough to interfere with morning driving. The nation’s flu epidemic continued on Thursday to worsen as Boston declared a public health emergency with over 700 cases of the flu since October, a ten-fold jump over last year. Nationally, the flu has spread into more than 80 percent of the U.S., where over 2,200 persons have been hospitalized and 18 children have died, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Meanwhile, researchers at the National Academy of Sciences said that Americans were “far more” unhealthier than persons in 16 other developed countries, primarily because of obesity and heart disease, even in younger persons. The U.S. was worse than Canada, Australia, Britain, France, Germany, Portugal, Italy, and others in its infant mortality rate, AIDS, drug abuse, diabetes, heart and lung problems, and disabilities. At the same time, NBC <strong>News</strong> said on Thursday that sitting, like tobacco, is dangerous for one’s health, as Americans are sitting these days now more than ever. Mayo Clinic obesity expert Dr. James Levine told the network that even daily exercise would not undo the damage caused by hours of sitting, whether one is overweight or marathon runner-slim. In sports, for the first time since 1996, the Baseball Writers Association of America on Wednesday elected no one to the Baseball Hall of Fame, snubbing homerun king Barry Bonds and seventime Cy Young Awardwinning pitcher Roger Clemons. Both men ended their careers with suspicions of using per- CERTIFICATE OF TITLE PAYDAY ADVANCE EVERY 4 WEEKS INSTEAD OF 2! Thrift Store Inside WE DO CHECK AND TITLE LOANS formance-enhancing drugs, as did Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire, who also were not selected for induction. And apparently it’s the end of the line for … Top Hat? Thimble? Wheelbarrow? Which one will go when Hasbro introduces its new Monopoly token? On Wednesday, the toymaker announced a Facebook contest to eliminate one of the eight tokens and introduce a new one, including perhaps a cat, a guitar, a toy robot, a diamond ring, and even a helicopter. (Monopoly’s tokens have changed over the years: the original version included a lantern, a purse, a cannon, and a rocking horse, all of which have been replaced.) Homeless Management of <strong>Monroe</strong> <strong>County</strong> Homeless Management of <strong>Monroe</strong> <strong>County</strong> will have its monthly meeting on Wednesday, January 16, at 12:00 noon at the <strong>Monroe</strong> <strong>County</strong> Chamber of Commerce. Anyone interested in helping the homeless in <strong>Monroe</strong> <strong>County</strong> is welcome to attend the meeting. Churches in <strong>Monroe</strong> <strong>County</strong> that are interested in assisting with the homeless are encouraged to have a representative from their church attend. For more information, please contact Cheryl Leach at (423) 836-9505. Please bring a toy to be donated to Toys for Tots. For more information, please contact Cheryl Leach at (423) 836-9505. Monday-Friday 9-5 Saturday 9-1 furniture, home decor, clothes and more! 423-545-9609 Manager Tammie Landreth 890 Old Englewood Road Next to Douglas Cherokee and Pilot Madisonville
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