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More Musical Acts Cancel Sea World Concerts Because Of Documentary Blackfish

Orlando, FL Rock band Heart is the latest musical act to withdraw from Sea World’s Bands, Brew, & BBQ citing the controversial documentary, “...

West Orange High School Student Shooter Is A Documented Gang Member

Orlando, FL Orange County Sheriff deputies said on Friday that the 17-year-old West Orange High School student accused of shooting another student...

Technology

Cyber Attack Steals Over 2 Million Passwords From Facebook, Yahoo, Google And Twitter There has been a massive cyber attack that has stolen user login information from Facebook, Google, Yahoo, LinkedIn and payroll provider ADP. An...	Israel Is Building Massive 121 Megawatt Solar Power Facility, Fifth Largest In The World Jerusalem, Israel - In an effort to reduce its dependency on fossil fuels, Israel plan to build the world's fifth largest solar power facility,...
Amazon Tests Deliveries By Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Online retail giant Amazon unveiled their plans Sunday for the future of package delivery using unmanned aerial drones. The program is called Amazon...	Man Forgets $27 Of Bitcoin In 2009 That Is Now Worth Almost $1 Million Oslo, Norway - In 2009 Kirstoffer Koch was writing a thesis paper about encryption and was introduced to Bitcoin. The peer-to-peer digital currency...

Aviation

Teenager Dies Aboard Delta Flight To Atlanta A Delta flight from Seattle to Atlanta made an emergency landing in Spokane after a 16-year-old boy died in midflight. The boy was the son of a...	Delta Flight Makes Emergency Landing In San Diego After Hitting Bird San Diego, CA. A Delta flight that had taken off from San Diego for Salt Lake City struck several birds and made an emergency landing back at San...
Airlines Begin Waiving Fees Ahead Of Winter Storm Delays Over Thanksgiving New York City - Airlines have began waiving change fees for passengers traveling in or through the northeast, including Newark, JFK, LaGuardia,...	Top 5 Best & Worst On-Time Airlines During Holiday Periods; What If I Miss My Flight? New York based JetBlue airlines has ranked as the worst airline for on-time performance during the busy holiday periods while Hawaiian Airlines had...

Business

Dow Jones Cross The 16,000 Mark, First Time Ever New York City - The Dow Jones Industrial Average has crossed the 16,000 mark for the first imd in history. It happened just a couple minutes ago at...	Starbucks Says It Will Hire 10,000 Vets And Spouses And Open New Locations On Bases Seattle, WA Starbucks chief, Howard Shultz has announced that Starbucks will hire 10,000 veterans and their spouses in an effort to help reduce the...
Twitter Ends Its First Day Of Trading Almost Doubling Its Share Prices New York City, NY – In its first full day of trading on the New York Stock Exchange social media giant Twitter ended with stocks at $44.90 a share...	More Companies Are Paying Employees With Debit Cards; But Cardholder Beware, Hidden Fees Lurk Increasing, employees are being paid with a pre-paid payroll debit card that is reloaded by the employer on payday, but the trend has drawn the...

Entertainment

Fast And Furious Star Paul Walker Dies In Car Crash Los Angeles, CA – Actor Paul Walker, 40, star of the “Fast and Furious” movie franchise died in a car crash Saturday. Walker was a passenger in his...	Ray Dolby Dies At 80 Years Old; Invented Dolby Sound Systems San Francisco, CA - Ray Dolby has died at his home in San Francisco at the age of 80 and is best known for founding Dolby Laboratories in 1965 which...
Star Trek or Star Wars; Is The Future Past Getting Confusing? Star Wars, Episode VII is due to be released in the summer of 2015 and will be directed by J.J. Abrams, who has announced he will also be involved in...	American Idol Judges For Fall Season Will Be Jennifer Lopez, Harry Connick Jr And Keith Urban Los Angeles, CA - Fox has announced that the fall season's new judges for American Idol will be Jennifer Lopez and Harry Connick Jr. and returning...

Art

$1.3 Billion In Nazi Looted Art Found In Munich Apartment, Much Of It Owned By Jewish Families German officials have discovered as much as $1.3 billion in looted art taken from Jewish families or sold by Jewish families at rock bottom prices to...	2 Arrested In Miami Beach Hotel In Famous Stolen Matisse Painting Worth $3 Million Miami, Fla. - Police and FBI agents have arrested two men trying to sell a stolen Matisee painting worth $3 million. The 1925 painting, “Odalisque...
Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel Turns 500 As Vatican Warns it May Limit Visitors To Protect It The famous Sistine Chapel's fresco painted by Michelangelo turned 500 years old on Wednesday along with a statement by the Vatican saying it may...

Science

Astronomers Find Large New Planet In A Location That Should Not Be Possible Astronomers using the Magellan Telescope located in the Atacama Desert of Chile have discovered a new planet, HD 106906 b, that defies what was...	1.8 Million Year Old Skull May Change The Way We View Human Evolution Soviet Republic of Georgia – Scientists announced the discovery of a skull 1.8 million years old that may change the way human evolution is believed...
Asteroid 2013 TV135 Has Close Call With Earth And Will Come Back In 2032 One of the most dangerous asteroids ever recorded made a close call with Earth on Thursday and will be back in 2032. The object named, 2013 TV135 was...	NASA Narrows Asteroid Search As it Starts Building Planetary Defense System Washington, D.C. - NASA has narrowed it search to three asteroids that it wants to capture and move to a lunar orbit for further study as it begin...

Health

90 Tons Of Salads Sold At Whole Foods And Others Are Recalled Due To E.coli San Francisco, CA Glass Onion Catering of Richmond, Calif. has recalled almost 180,000 pounds of salads and wraps sold at Whole Foods, Trader Joes...	Johnson & Johnson Pleads Guilty And Fined $2.2 Billion Over Kickbacks And Fraudulent Marketing In the latest series of charges, pharmaceutical and healthcare giant Johnson & Johnson has plead guilty to receiving kickbacks for over a decade...
FDA Looks To Ban Trans Fats From Food Production Washington, DC – The Food and Drug Administration is proposing re-classifying Partially Hydrogenated Oils, a source of trans fats, as a food additive...	Will I Be Fined By The Federal Government If I don't Buy Sunglasses? The following is from an email we received here at The Florida News Journal concerning a reader's concerns about the government's encroachment into...

Politics

Jimmy Carter's Grandson Jason Announces He Will Run For Governor of Georgia in 2014 Atlanta, GA. The grandson of former president Jimmy Carter, Jason Carter, who is a democrat from Atlanta, has announced that he will run for governor...	Montana Senator Max Baucus Believed To Be Retiring Montana Democratic Senator Max Baucus is planning to retire according to party insiders. Baucus has served six terms as one of Montana's two...
New Polls Show Republicans Taking Most Of The Blame For The Gov't Shutdown Washington, D.C. - According to new polls out yesterday and today, republicans are taking the most blame for the federal government shutdown, with 62...	Republican Party In Turmoil After Conservative Groups Threaten To Leave Several conservative republican groups have written letters threatening to leave the party if the GOP does not reaffirm its stance to win a...

Travel

Top 5 Best & Worst On-Time Airlines During Holiday Periods; What If I Miss My Flight? New York based JetBlue airlines has ranked as the worst airline for on-time performance during the busy holiday periods while Hawaiian Airlines had...	17 Story Verruckt Waterslide In Kansas City is Worlds Tallest And Fastest The Verruckt waterslide being built at Kansas City water park will become the world's tallest at 17 stories, and the fastest at 65mph and riders sit...
Top 8 Complaints Florida Drivers Have About Other Drivers; Bad Driving Habits Here's the most annoying complaints your fellow Floridian drivers have against you and your bad driving habits, and we found you're not nearly as...	AAA Predicts Less People Traveling For Thanksgiving, But In Fla. 2.2 Million Will Hit The Roads The AAA Automobile club has released its predictions for this Thanksgiving holiday, saying 43.4 million people will travel at least 50 miles for...

Interesting or Odd

First Dog "Sunny" Knocks Over Girl In Front Of First Lady Michelle Obama At White House Event Washington, D.C. - On Wednesday, Sunny, one of the two dogs the Obama family has, knocked over 2-year-old Ashtyn Gardner of Mobile, Alabama. The dog...	Archeologist Discover New Dinosaur, The Lythronax, It Was T-Rex's "Great Uncle" Salt Lake City, UT Archeologist and Paleontologists have announced they found a new dinosaur, the Lythronax, and that is is T-Rex's "great uncle",...
Memphis Man Dies And Leaves $250,000 To His Cats, Not His Kids A man in Memphis, Tenn., Leon Sheppard Sr., has left his home and $250,000 to his two cats, Jake and Frisco, instead of any of his 5 kids, 12...	Dumb Crook: Iowa Man Calls Cops To Complain His Friend Stole His Drugs Police in Iowa City, Iowa have arrested 57-year-old Daniel Noehl on misdemeanor charges of possession of drug paraphernalia and prohibited acts after...

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