TOKYO, Japan (AP) -- One person was stabbed to death and at least seven others were hurt by a man who went on a knifing spree outside a shopping mall in eastern Japan on Sunday, police said.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/03/23/japan.stabbings.ap/index.html

(CNN) -- Rescuers found four spelunkers "wet and cold" but alive Friday afternoon in a cave in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, a park spokesman said.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/03/21/missing.cavers/index.html

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- A group of Valley boys ages 12-15 were arrested after a YouTube video surfaced showing them on a destructive rampage inside a Scottsdale parking garage.

http://www.kpho.com/news/15663361/detail.html

I agree with you on getting tired of politics.

So here is what I figure, we can use this thread to post local and/or national news that really doesn't have much to do with politics. So find something you see as important and post it up, cheers!

I'm a bit puzzled how any of these stories are in any way related to politics.

Current news

I'd have to reply that that is the point. They aren't. The thread is a break from politics, and they are still current events and news.

Ahhh. I see Fear posted, I missed it.

Missed you, Jist.

I think I'd like to see something other than inflammatory political threads that have been done to death. Good idea Fear.

Just ask clinton,osama,,mccain you will ask that same question......

An armed robber killed five women — including at least one customer — this morning at a Lane Bryant clothing store in south suburban Tinley Park before fleeing the scene and launching a manhunt, police said.

http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/773695,tinley020208.article (This happened awhile ago I just figure it is news worthy)

Flames of up to 15 feet high shot out of tons of coal after a train in the South Side's Englewood neighborhood derailed Sunday morning, rupturing an underground gas line.

http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/857295,train032308.article

A Lincoln Park High School girls' swim coach and Chicago firefighter was arrested in Elmhurst on attempted sexual abuse charges after he allegedly tried to solicit a child on the Internet, police said Saturday.

http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/857247,CST-NWS-fire23.article

A bit from the local side.

Lindyy says:

I have posted a couple of those types of threads. Really, if you look at the title of this forum it IS FOR "Current News & Events."

Please just turned it into a political bashingg board.

Glad you brought this up to everyone! Maybe more will follow your lead.

Lindyy

OOPS, meant "People" just turned it........

I live for politics, ever since dog-fighting was banned there isnt much left for me...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- People should throw away cantaloupes from a Honduran manufacturer believed to be linked to a salmonella outbreak.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/03/22/fda.cantaloupe.ap/index.html

(CNN) -- Four crew members of a fishing vessel sinking off the coast of Alaska have died, a U.S. Coast Guard spokesman said Sunday.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/03/23/alaska.boat/index.html

VALLEY PARK, Missouri (AP) -- Residents' trust in their community's new levee was justified Saturday as the earthen wall protected their town from the Meramec River, bloated by heavy rain that caused flooding across the Midwest.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/weather/03/22/severe.weather.ap/index.html

Please post some stories from your hometown, or issues that you feel should be brought up...just leave the politics to the numerous political threads already up.

DAYTONA BEACH SHORES, Fla. -- Two 21-year-olds from the Chicago suburbs face felony charges in Florida after they and another 21-year-old allegedly set off a quarter stick of dynamite at a hotel in Daytona Beach Shores during spring break last week.

http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=159347&src=1

Getting workers to their jobs quickly, moving trains through the area, providing decent housing at affordable prices and ensuring there's enough open space to go around.

http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=159207&src=1

More local news brought to you by FaL.

(BBC) Scientists have discovered the oldest human remains in western Europe.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7313005.stm

(BBC) An investigation is under way into how a gun carried by a US Airways pilot was discharged during a flight.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7314668.stm

(BBC) Forty humanitarian agencies have warned of an impending catastrophe in Somalia unless urgent action is taken.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7313911.stm

Income growth in Minnesota outpaces nation in 2007
http://www.twincities.com/ci_8704240?nclick_check=1

Abigail Taylor, girl injured in pool-drain accident, dies
http://www.twincities.com//ci_8651186?IADID=Search-www.twincities.com-www.twincities.com
This one is very sad!
"The world's a lesser place today," he said tearfully.

Abigail was swimming in the kiddie pool at the Minneapolis Golf Club on June 29 last year when her buttocks became lodged in an open pool drain. The resulting suction removed much of her small intestine and caused other internal injuries.

It's been a prolonged series of surgeries and medical battles ever since. Abigail could only receive daily nutrition through a feeding tube, but returned to elementary school for a few days in the fall. The formula caused her liver to fail, though.

In December, Abigail received a multiple-organ transplant of a new liver, small bowel and pancreas. She suffered complications from the transplant, including a transplant-related cancer that resulted in her need for chemotherapy.

Steve!!!!

Give that wild woman a kiss for me, and tell her three weeks Karma will be here, and then two months after that...!!!

Thats terrible Zap

Congratulations!