Funeral Director: No Signs of Fight or Struggle Present on Trayvon’s Hands
According to funeral director Richard Kurtz of Roy Mizell and Kurtz Funeral Home in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 17-year-old Trayvon Martin did not have any cuts or bruises on his hands to indicate that he was in a fight with George Zimmerman on the night that the neighborhood watch captain murdered him.Speaking exclusively to HLN’s Nancy Grace, Kurtz said that when he prepared Martin’s body the only injury that was discernible was a gunshot wound to Martin’s upper-chest area.
Plan Now for Climate-related Disasters Warns U.N. Report
A future on Earth of more extreme weather and rising
seas will require better planning for natural disasters to save lives
and limit deepening economic losses, the United Nations said on
Wednesday in a major report on the effects of climate change.
Aimed largely at policymakers, the report, and an additional summary of its contents, makes clear nations need to act now, because increasingly extreme weather is already a trend.
The need for action has become more acute as a growing human population puts more people and more assets in the path of disaster, raising economic risk, the report said. The report’s title made the point: “Managing the risks of extreme events and disasters to advance climate change adaptation.”
Sanford police threaten to arrest reporters
Sanford Police threatened to arrest members of the media who approach or ask questions off the clock.A press release sent out Wednesday said police would arrest journalists who attempt to make contact with city employees during non-working hours. They asked to not approach, call or email the city employees at home.
Some city staffers have been "followed or approached at their home or in settings outside of working hours," the release said.
"Law enforcement officials will not hesitate to make an arrest for stalking."
However, the Florida statute on stalking does not include language that would provide special protection to city officials or prevent media from asking questions.
Sanford police did not immediately return any calls Wednesday and Thursday morning.
Pope Benedict criticises US trade embargo on Cuba
Pope Benedict XVI has criticised the 50-year-old US trade embargo imposed on Cuba, as he ends a visit to the island.
This aim was not helped by economic measures which "unfairly burden" Cuba's people, he said.
Earlier, Pope Benedict met Cuba's revolutionary leader and former president, Fidel Castro, and celebrated Mass in front of vast crowds in Havana.
The Pontiff made his parting comments in the airport in Havana, in the presence of the current president, Raul Castro.
He said all Cubans should be able to share in "forging a society of wide horizons, renewed and reconciled".
Shooter of Florida teen appears uninjured in video
SANFORD, Florida (Reuters) - The neighborhood watch volunteer who shot dead an unarmed black teenager in Florida appeared uninjured when he was brought into the police station on the night of the shooting, according to a video released by ABC News on Wednesday.George Zimmerman told police he shot Trayvon Martin inside a gated community on February 26 in self-defense after Martin attacked him and repeatedly bashed his head into a concrete walkway.
What to do after you hit the Mega Millions jackpot
With a half-billion-dollar multistate lottery jackpot up for grabs, plenty of folks are fantasizing about how to spend the money. But doing it the right way -- protecting your riches, your identity and your sanity -- takes some thought and planning.Making sure you don't blow the nation's largest-ever lottery jackpot within a few years means some advice is in order before the Mega Millions drawing Friday, especially if you're really, really, really lucky.
More States Retaining Struggling 3rd Graders
Some families in Tulsa, Okla., recently received a brochure that surely grabbed their attention. The title? "Will your child pass third grade?"Produced by the 15,000-student Union district, the handout explains the state's pending reading requirements for students to advance to the 4th grade. It also outlines what the district is doing to help students read and offers tips for what parents can do at home.
Oklahoma is one of several states that recently adopted new reading policies that—with limited exceptions—call for 3rd graders to be held back if they flunk a state standardized test.
79,000 jobless workers in SC to stop receiving benefits
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Nearly 79,000 unemployed South Carolinians will stop receiving weekly jobless benefits by year's end.The drop-off is because of 2 things: South Carolina's jobless rate is improving and a new federal law that phases out the federally paid emergency benefits.
State unemployment officials told senators Wednesday their agency is offering job coaching services to the 6,500 residents affected by the jobless rate's improvement to 9.3%. The move made the state's unemployed ineligible for 16 weeks of federally paid extensions - those without a job for between 62 and 78 weeks.
Russell Simmons rips Geraldo’s hoodie apology to Trayvon Martin supporters
Russell Simmons, who called Rivera his longtime friend, promptly ripped the apology."Geraldo, your apology is bull----!" Simmons wrote on GlobalGrind.com. "Your apology is nothing but a defense of a racist, backward thing you already said. And I am a yogi, and I generally don't speak like this, but I have to say it like it is. It is a non-apology apology that continues to blame the victim for their appearance."
Venice Sinking More Than Previously Thought
Venice has begun sinking again and is even tilting slightly eastward, new satellite measurements have revealed.
Despite previous studies suggesting the subsidence had levelled off, new research indicates that the lagoon city continues to sink an average of one to two millimeters (0.04 to 0.08 inches) a year. That's more than researchers previously thought.
"It’s a small effect, but it’s important," Yehuda Bock, a research geodesist with Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, in La Jolla, Calif., said.
With the Adriatic rising in the Venetian lagoon at the same rate, the combined effect is a 4mm (0.16 inches) a year increase in sea level. This means that Venice could sink up to 80 mm (3.2 inches) by 2032.
The study, which will be published March 28 in Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, a journal of the American Geophysical Union, also found that the City of Water in northeast Italy is listing one millimeter or two (0.04 to 0.08 inches) eastward per year, meaning that the western part is higher than the rest.
Prior satellite analyses didn’t pick up on the tilt, Bock said.
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