Franki Benavidez

International Summary:
In Mexico City, drug cartels have used classified job ads to bring young Mexicans close to the border into unknowingly working as drug couriers. Mexico City's El Universal newspaper first reported the trend Thursday saying that the ads require applicants to have a U.S. visa to drive a car across the border. An official at the federal Attorney General's office in Ciudad Juarez had told the press that they advertise as if they were a company, and they send them to El Paso but they don't tell them what they are carrying. The official also said that the applicants often think they are applying to become messengers, but they end up unwittingly driving vehicles loaded with drugs into neighboring El Paso, Texas. The people associated with the drug cartel would tell the applicants that all they had to do was to take some documents to El Paso, but they don't tell them what they're really carrying. Here: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,346270,00.html

Opinion: I think it's sick what those drug cartels did. Why would someone put something like that in the classified job ads? It's bad for the applicants that signed up for it because they don't know what they were carrying. One of the applicants must have known what was in those vehicles. If anyone is dumb enough to drive with "documents" all the way to El Paso, you must be a total idiot!

Summary: In Tokyo, Japan, a U.S. sailor was arrested for the stabbing death of a Japanese taxi driver near an American naval base outside Tokyo. Olatunbosun Ugbogu, who is 22 year old Nigerian national serving in the U.S. navy was arrested for murder and robbery charges. The police spokesman said that the driver was stabbed in the shoulder with a kitchen knife, causing him to die from blood loss. Ugbogu confessed to the murder and the police plan to send him to prosecutors on Saturday for his indictment. Here: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,345574,00.html

Opinion: This navy guy is a real psycho! I can't believe he just stabbed a 61 year old taxi driver. In the article, it said that the navy guy killed him because he couldn't pay the $190 taxi fare. Isn't bad for the U.S. Navy as a whole because it kind of ruins their stay at Tokyo? Honestly, I think this guy is lucky he was in the U.S. Navy because if he wasn't, Tokyo wouldn't be so light on him for what he had done.

National Summary: In Madison, Wisconsin, death of University of Wisconsin-Madison student spreads fear. In less than a year, 3 killings share at least thing: they have spread fear for college students and downtown residents in Wisconsin's normally laid back capital. The first killing that came up in the laid back capital involved a college student that had vanished in June after a night of barhopping. Her body was then found a few days later in the woods. In January, a man was stabbed to death with a paring knife in his home near the university. The most recent killing was with a college student who's body was found in her apartment. The police aren't saying how she died but that she was a victim of homocide. Here: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,346150,00.html

Opinion: I absolutely hate hearing stories about college students found dead. It really scares me because these kind of things can happen at any university. In the article, it said that it was weird for these killings to happen in a such a laid back capital. I feel really bad for the college students going to that school because they have to be extra careful in what they do on a regular basis.

Summary: In Santa Ana, California, an elementary school teacher was arrested after her 3rd grade students found an unloaded gun and ammunition in the classroom supply cabinet. On Wednesday, the teacher was arrested for investigation of possession of a firearm on a school campus and misdemeanor child endangerment. The students had access to the cabinet, where the gun and ammunition was kept in a drawer. The teacher was released on $20,000 bail late Wednesday and no longer works at the school.
Here:http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,346195,00.html

Opinion: This teacher is soooooo dumb! The teacher knew that the kids could get into the drawer and then load the gun if they wanted to. I'm actually surprised that the teacher got bail. I think it's terrible that the teacher would just leave the gun and ammunition together in the "supply cabinet."