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Bride Kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan

Grab and run! Bride kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan is a tradition called ala kachuu. It is now illegal but many still follow the tradition.

Typically, a man who wants to marry, gathers a group of men to drive around looking for a women to marry. The family

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60 Replies · Reply by Mr. Bruns Mar 4, 2016

Boy Stuck in a Vending Machine

Today February 28,2016 Crews were called to Lonsdale Street about lunchtime. It was about a 4 year old boy with his hand stuck in a vending machine. New anti-theft flaps have been placed into vending machine to keep people from stealing items out of 

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37 Replies · Reply by Mr. Bruns Mar 4, 2016

No-Selfie Zone?

"Police in one of India's biggest cities are clamping down on people dying for a selfie." The recent death of a college student, was swept into the sea while attempting to take a selfie with her cell phone. She drowned at the Marine Drive Promenade i

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35 Replies · Reply by Mr. Bruns Mar 4, 2016

Kansas Shooting Rampage

Law enforcement officials struggled to understand how this small town has become the latest American community to be shaken by a mass shooting. They tried figuring out why an attacker has gunned down three people and injured 14 others before being ki

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19 Replies · Reply by Mr. Bruns Mar 4, 2016

Teen Sentence 40 years

Back in 2013 Philip Chism followed his math teacher into the bathroom where he killed her. Later her body was found in the woods. Philip Chism is 17 now a has been sentence to 40 years for raping, robbing, and murdering his teach Peggie Ritzer. He wi

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41 Replies · Reply by Mr. Bruns Mar 4, 2016

Pastor Killed

Inside the office of St. Peters Missionary Baptist Church in Dayton, Ohio the pastor William Schooler at age 70 was shot by his brother Daniel Schooler. William Schooler was the only target. The shooter sat down during a prayer time at church and aft

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29 Replies · Reply by Mr. Bruns Mar 4, 2016

Earth's doppelganger

In 2009 NASA launched the Kepler program costing close to $600 million in search for other earth like habitable planets. Last year NASA found Kepler-452b which is the closest earth like plant to be found today.The planet is 1,400 light years away fro

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6 Replies · Reply by Mr. Bruns Feb 26, 2016

The Evolution of School

MSN recently published an article called "11 Ways School Was Different in the 1800s" detailing eleven differences in the school system between school now and school in the late 1800s. The introduction to this article says "Taking a look at what Ameri

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14 Replies · Reply by Mr. Bruns Feb 26, 2016

Do fish have feelings?

Most people who have pets believe that their pet understands them and can feel with them. This topic of animals having feelings has been debated for centuries. Scientists have used different criteria to argue that non-human animals have feelings. Man

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38 Replies · Reply by Mr. Bruns Feb 26, 2016
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