Dow 15,000, Slim Christie, Bone Head
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
vol. 2, No. 129
Money, Money: The Dow Jones index closed above 15,000 for the first time in history yesterday as the stock market races ahead of economic recovery for millions of unemployed Americans. The market is giving up some gains this morning.
National: A Pentagon report says sexual assaults in the military jumped 37% in the 2012 fiscal year, up from 19,000 to 26,000. The figure is based largely on anonymous surveys because the actual number of reported assaults was just 3,374. The military believes the majority of sexual assaults within the ranks are never reported. The report comes a day after the Air Force officer in charge of preventing sexual assault was arrested and charged with sexual assault.
- James Holmes, the accused shooter in the Colorado movie theater massacre, intends to change his plea to not guilty by reason of insanity, according to papers filed by his lawyers.
- The Delaware legislature voted to make that state the 11th to approve same sex marriage. Rhode Island became the tenth last week.
- The news that New Jersey’s heavyweight Gov. Chris Christie had lap band surgery immediately set off speculation that he’s getting read to run … not around the track, for the presidency. But Christie said he did it for the sake of his health and his family. He’s already lost 40 pounds.
Cleveland: The police chief said the three women held prisoner in a Cleveland house for 10 years or more were restrained much of the time with ropes and chains. They were occasionally allowed into the back yard. Cleveland police are are facing questions about how the presence of the women in the house went undetected for so long.
The Great Sanford: Disgraced former Governor Mark Sanford won a second act in American life beating Elizabeth Colbert Busch to represent South Carolina in the House. Sanford resigned from the state house after the revelation he was having an affair with a girlfriend in Argentina. Now divorced and engaged to the girlfriend, he’s ready to go back to fight for conservative American values in Washington.
World: Authorities say they have now found 804 bodies in the wreckage of the collapse Bangladesh factory building. Since the disaster Bangladesh has shut down 18 factories considered unsafe.
Bone Headed: Scientists identified remains of a small dinosaur that at 85 million years is the oldest in North America and possibly the world. The 90-pound Acrotholus walked on two legs like T-Rex, ate plants and had a four-inch thick dome-shaped skull possibly used for fighting.
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