News 4-02-09

Man Decapitates 5-Year-Old Sister in Front of Officer
A 23-year-old man attacked his siblings in a bloody rivalry Saturday. Police say that this was not the first time they had been called to the house for domestic violence, in about 2004 the man was arrested beating his sister over money. This time he killed his sisters, age 5 and 17, before the police could save them like his 9-year-old sister. This event happened in Massachusetts.
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Hang On to Your Pistachios
Recently Kraft Food Inc. notified the U.S. Food and Drug Administration that they had found salmonella in pistachios. The nuts were traced back to Terra Bella, California which lies about 75 miles south of Fresno. Setton Farms made an approximate 1 million pound recall on pistachio products. This amount covers around the average output of their crops last year.
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Ancient Deformed Children Not Always Killed by Parents
To prove against former studies the discovery of a infant skull with deformities suggests that ancient peoples did not always immediately kill their children. This skull was thought to live until around the age of 10 with the craniosynostosis, this is where the skull fuses together too quickly causing the brain not to develop normal. Rejecting the abnormal offspring is not abnormal for most mammals, but in these people they might have kept the deformed children.
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Applying for Jobless Benefits? Here Pee in a Cup
Filing for unemployment or food stamps may become harder to do after a state lawmaker in West Virginia introduced a new bill. This bill states that if you are filing for either of these then you may have to take a drug test to see if you system is clean. If you fail this test then they give you 60 days to clear your system and if you fail again you loose the benefits for more than two years. This law is being put into effect because these aids are to help you get back on your feet and get a new job, but how are you supposed to do that if you're doing drugs?
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