Thursday, April 11, 2013

Thursday's headlines that caught my eye


In the headlines, California legislators are threatening to strip the Boy Scouts of their exemption from state income tax.  The proposed legislation is designed to try to pressure the Boy Scouts to end their ban on gay scouts and scout-leaders.

The U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency has concluded that North Korea has the capability of putting a nuclear warhead on a missile. 

Rapper Rick Ross has lost his endorsement deal with Reebok over some controversial lyrics that seem to endorse date rape.

Surgeons have managed to save the arms of a man who tried to saw them off at a Home Depot store.  An off-duty paramedic managed to apply make-shift tourniquets at the scene.

Over 60 years ago, Captain Emil Kapaun was an Army chaplain serving in the Korean War.  He died in a POW camp in 1951.  Now, his heroism has been properly recognized as his nephew accepted the Medal of Honor awarded to Kapaun by President Obama.

A restaurant in Burlington Vermont is closing due to business being…too good.  Skyburgers is owned by an older couple who are tired of the grind of working seven days a week.  So they’ve sold out to an Asian restaurant that will take over on May 1st.

A Missouri hospital that called the police to forcibly eject a man from his husband’s room at the request of the husband’s family is trying to say they were only trying to respond to “disruptive and belligerent behavior”.  You’d be belligerent too if someone wouldn’t let you visit your husband.

Hopi Indian tribal leaders in Northern Arizona are upset that some tribal objects are going to be auctioned off on Friday in Paris.

A pizza delivery driver in Ohio saved a baby from a fire.