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KKK Leader Arrested
Just north of New Orleans Louisiana a woman was shot to death after refusing to do a task in an initiation for the KKK. The killer has been sentenced to second-degree murder and could face life in prison. At the site of the scene the police found six klan robes, weapons and the confederate flag. Thes people where severely racists and cruel to blacks and all of the people involved in the klan were arrested.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090219/ap_on_re_us/klan_slaying
Ice Age Fossils Found in LA
In 2006 fossils were found of a nearly intact mammoth, a skull of an American lion and bones of Saber toothed cats under an old parking lot in the La Brea Tar Pits. This could most likely double the previous findings of other museums. They found a 10 foot long mammoth tusk near an ancient(now under ground) riverbed.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090219/ap_on_sc/sci_la_tar_pits
Australian Fire Trauma
A little boy from Buxton, Australia escaped the deadly fires but is now coping with the fear he faced while his family hurridly fled the area. Psychiatrists believe that kids coping with this is much like that of the kids surviving Hurricane Katrina. Thousands of houses were engulfed and 201 known lives were lost.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090218/ap_on_re_au_an/as_australia_wildfires_children
Zimbabwe Using US Currency
Teachers, soldiers and civil servants of Harare, Zimbabwe are now being paid in US dollars rather than the local currency due to the recent inflation on their economy. Though the government did not like the idea of sharing power with the United States so they put the person who thought of this on trial for potential terrorism.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090218/ap_on_re_af/af_zimbabwe