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Four People, Including Three Children, Found Dead In Florida Home

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Tallahassee, FL, United States (AHN) – Four people, including three young children, were found murdered in their Tallahassee, Fla. home Saturday morning.

The Tallahassee Police Department said two of the children were 6 years old and one was 3.

Neighbors told the Tallahassee Democrat newspaper that the 6-year-olds were twin girls and the 3-year-old was a boy. The fourth victim is believed to be the children’s mother. Their names have not been released.

Police were called to the house when a neighbor noticed something unusual, according to local media reports.

Neighbors told reporters that the area has been plagued by burglaries recently. But police have given no indication how the people were killed, and investigators have not ruled out murder/suicide.

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Delaware School Bus Crash Leaves Students Injured

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Wilmington, DE, United States (AHN) – Two school buses carrying students collided Wednesday morning in Wilmington, Delaware.

The accident occurred around 8:25 a.m. at the Maurice J. Moyer Charter Academy.

A spokesperson for the school said a parked bus was rear-ended by another bus pulling up to drop off students.

Medical officials evaluated 47 students from both buses and took nine of them complaining of neck and back pain to area hospitals, reports stated.

The students were in grades 9 through 12.

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Man Tries To Run Over Girlfriend When She Says No To Proposal

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Los Angeles, CA, United States (AHN) – A Los Angeles man reportedly tried to run his girlfriend over with his car when she turned down his marriage proposal.

According to local media reports, 22-year-old Mario Francisco Hernandez painted the words “Will you marry me?” on his car as a novel way to pop the question to his girlfriend. When she said no, he chased her in the car through a Burger King restaurant parking lot.

Hernandez popped two tires on his 1987 Toyota Supra when he jumped to curb to catch the unidentified woman.

Hernandez and the woman have two young children together.

He was arrested and is facing a felony charge of assault with a deadly weapon.

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3 Killed, 1 Injured in Florida Twin Engine Plane Crash

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West Palm Beach, FL, United States (AHN) – A small plane crashed shortly after takeoff from West Palm Beach International airport. Three people were killed and one injured in the Thursday evening accident.

A representative of the Federal Aviation Administration said the twin engine Piper PA-44 crashed at 6:10 p.m. shortly after it took off from runway 10. Flight records show it had arrived from the Bahamas and was scheduled to depart for Melbourne.

The Piper Seminole aircraft built in 2008 was registered to FIT Aviation, a Melbourne-based flight school affiliated with the Florida Institute of Technology.

School officials said two of the people on the plane were students and one was an instructor. A fourth person on board the downed plane was airlifted to St. Mary’s Medical Center in critical condition.

It remains unclear at this time if it was a training flight.

Neither the pilot nor the passengers have been identified pending notification of relatives.

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Facebook Post Rescues Woman From Sex Slavery

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Messina, Italy (AHN) – A 23-year old woman forced into prostitution in the Sicilian coastal city of Messina managed to escape her tormentor, a 53-year-old man known only as T.O., after a female friend posted her plight on Facebook.

The arrest of T.O. soon followed, together with two other men, also identified only with initials, S.A., 41, and I.D., 48.

S.A., a married man with two children, formed a relationship with the woman but after discovering that she was working as a prostitute, began to steal her earrings and beat her up when she refused to have sex with him, according to police reports.

Media reports didn’t say if S.A. was also involved with T.O.’s pimping of the young woman.

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Maggie Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard Open Orphanage In India

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Maharashtra, India (AHN) – Hollywood couple Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard, who are the global ambassadors for the philanthropic SOS International, have set up an orphanage for abandoned children in India.

The orphanage, to be called the “SOS Children’s Village,” is located in the village of Alibaug in the northeastern part of the country and will be home to about 140 children who have either been orphaned or abandoned by their families.

Facilities will be provided in the village for children to live in groups in individual family houses and receive formal education in school.

On a recent trip to the village to open the village, Gyllenhaal was touched by the warm reception that she received. “I’ve never been greeted like this by anyone, I’ve never seen anything like this,” she told a television channel. “I tried not to have any expectations.. I have never been to India before so I didn’t know what to expect. It’s exceeded anything I could have imagined.”

Her husband and Hollywood actor Sarsgaard expressed optimism at the prospects of the orphanage.

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Somali Refugees Complain Of High Mogadishu Rent

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Mogadishu, Somalia (AHN) – With no peace prospects in the continued fighting in war-torn Mogadishu, most of the neighborhoods of the capital city are vacant.

In 2007, Ethiopian military forces supporting Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, the former leader of the transitional government, entered Somalia with the aim of dislodging the regime of the Union of Islamic Courts. Fierce battles broke out in the city.

Mogadishu residents fled the political quagmire and violence to save their lives and children. But hundreds of thousands of people displaced inside Mogadishu face the toughest conditions on their life.

No job, no hope and no bright future, Fatuma Osman, one of the internally displaced people in Mogadishu, told All Headline News in a short interview.

Osman lives in government-controlled Waaberi district. She says what has made their lives tougher is that housing is very expensive.

“Months ago, the price of this room I live [in] right now was about 310,000 Somali shillings ($10), but the house owner informed us to move from this [place] or pay 620,000 Somali shillings ($20) for renting,” she lamented.

Peaceful districts in Mogadishu, such as Hamar-weyne, Hamar-jabjab, Waaberi and Wadajir are also reported to be renting housing for extremely high prices as an influx of newly displaced people arrive in those areas.

Nur Isma’il, a dweller in the Wadajir district in southern of Mogadishu, said his family fled from Howlwadag after one of his sons was killed by a mortar shell that hit their home. Isma’il suffered a slight injury to his leg.

“After we couldn’t endure the repeated clashes, fighting and haphazard barrages in our neighborhood, I ran away with my family and settled [in] a renting house in this district with [an] expensive price,” Isma’il explained.

He called on the new prime minister of Somalia, Mohammed Abdullahi, to act quickly to help the displaced Somalis.

More than 1 million people have been forced to flee their homes as the result of protracted fighting that erupted in the early 1990s when the military regime led by Maj. Gen. Mohamed Said Barre was overthrown.

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Study: Kids Develop Dyslexia After Night of TV, Electronic Gadget Use

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Vancouver, Canada (AHN) – A preliminary study has found that children and teenagers who avidly watch television, text from their cellphones, play computer games or use their i-pods before bedtime develop dyslexic learning problems the following morning due to lack of sleep.

Some 40 young people aged 8 to 22 were treated at the JFK Medical Center Sleep Laboratory in Edison, NJ, where about 77 percent had trouble falling asleep; others had daytime sleepiness, disrupting their learning faculties in the daytime.

According to the study’s lead author, physician and researcher Peter Polos, “Children who engage in pre-bedtime use of technology have a high rate of daytime problems, which can include attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, anxiety, depression, and learning difficulties,” in addition to other challenges they encounter during the night, such as insomnia and leg pain.

Polos continued that, “These children are engaging in stimulating activity when they should be in an environment to promote sleep.”

Results of the study were to be presented Monday at a meeting of the American College of Chest Physicians in Vancouver, British Columbia.

To remedy the situation, Polos gave the following pointers:

  • Make the bedroom a technology-free zone, with no TVs, cellphones, iPods, computers or video games
  • Turn off electronic devices at least half an hour before bed, and
  • Don’t allow kids to read or do homework in front of a computer screen so they can avoid the temptation of checking in on Facebook or answering an instant message.
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Somali Soldiers Kill 12-Year-Old Boy, Injure 2 Others In Mogadishu

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Mogadishu, Somalia (AHN) – A 12-year-old boy has died and two other children were wounded in Mogadishu after Somali government soldiers opened fire on scuffling girls, residents said Sunday.

The shooting occurred in Composer’s House better known as (Ex-Fiyore) which is near the presidency in Mogadishu. Witnesses say the soldiers reached the scene to intervene in a local scuffle.

The soldiers allegedly opened fire when the crowd became violent. Halwo Nahar, a Somali singer, said that one of her boys was wounded in the gunfire opened by government soldiers. She said some of Somali composers and singers were at spot at the time of shooting but indicated no casualties sustained them.

Residents said the injured children were taken to a presidential building where African Union peacekeepers have a small hospital. There has been no official word about the incident so far.

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Pope Declares Six New Saints

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Vatican City, Vatican (AHN) – Pope Benedict XVI proclaimed six new saints on Sunday in Vatican City’s St. Peter’s Square.

Canonized were Australian nun and educator Mary MacKillop, Canadian healer Andre Bessette, Italian nun Camilla Battista Varano, Polish preacher and confessor Stanislaw Soltys, Italian catechist Giulia Salzano, and Spanish educator Juana Cipitria Barriola.

The canonization of MacKillop, Australia’s first saint, drew some 8,000 Australian devotees to Rome.

St. MacKillop (1842-1909) founded the Sisters of St. Joseph of the Sacred Heart, whose nuns educated poor rural children for free.

St. Bessette (1845-1937) healed thousands of people while working as a doorman of Notre Dame College in Montreal.

St. Soltys (1433-1489) cared for poor Krakow natives.

St. Salzano (1846-1929) founded the Catechetical Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus to continue her work of teaching catechism to children, their mothers and regular laborers.

St. Barriola (1845-1912) founded the Daughters of Jesus and ran a Sunday school for girls working as house helpers.

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