New Credit Card Law

President Obama has signed new credit card rules into law. He wanted to make clear that he is not condoning those who spend more than they have. He wants to put a stop to punishing those who pay their bills for what others do.

Shuttle Atlantis Landing Delayed

Due to stormy weather in Cape Canaveral, the shuttle Atlantis cannot return today. Even though equally bad weather is forecast for tomorrow, Mission Control decided to wait out the bad weather rather than decide to land in California. There is a slight chance than conditions could improve. Atlantis has enough supplies to stay in orbit until Monday.

Sheriff Mathes Sues County

Carter County Sheriff Chris Mathes is suing the county for over $800,000. Mathes says his reasoning is because the county commission is under funding his dept. Mathes wants to use the money for several things including: new deputies, new correctional officers, higher pay for the dept., new cars, and more.

California Wildfires

After wild fires destroy 80 homes, many Santa Barbra residents were told that they could return home. Over 30,000 people were under mandatory evacuation as the fires covered 13 square miles.

H1N1 Update

An update on the Swine Flu story that we told you last week. Officials are now calling the virus the H1N1 Flu, its scientific name because of people’s fear of eating pork which cannot give you the H1N1 virus. There are now confirmed cases in 18 countries for a total of about 800 cases. The vast majority of those cases are within North America although Spain is the hardest hit with 20 confirmed cases. Worldwide another 20 people have died from the H1N1 Flu. Now to put this into perspective, of the total world population, 129 billionths percent of people have had the H1N1 virus. In the U.S. 555 billionths percent of people have had the disease.