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WKNJ Newscast

March 20, 2012

Format Diego Morales

Good morning, its Tuesday, March 20, 2012 and its _____3:00________ oclock and

youre

Listening to 90.3 WKNJ-FM, Union, New Jersey, and Im ___Diego

Morales__________ with the news.

In National News,

A soilder is accused of killing 16 Afghan civilians, however he says he cannot

remember that night. Robert Bales was serving his 4th combat tour with the 3rd

Stryker Brigade when suddenly last Sunday he snuck off base to two nearby villages

and killed 16 people including 9 children, the army says some corpses were set on

fire. Bales is facing possible death penalty if convicted however no charges have

been pressed.


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In International News,

A school shooting in Toulouse, France left a rabbi, his two sons and a schoolgirl

dead. Apparently a man on a motorbike attacked the school. Therefore, the NYPD

has increased their security because the second largest population of Jews other

then Israel is NYC. The police department says that they have to be concerned with

what goes on over seas so they can be prepared here as well.


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In national News,

The FBI has opened an investigation on Traven Martin mysterious death when he

was shot walking to his fathers fiancs son. He was not armed, the teen was just

walking wearing jeans and a white shirt and eating Skittles. Apparently, George

Zimmerman called the police because he was scared that Traven was going to

assault him. However Traven was just walking and not attempting to purposely

go into contact with Zimmerman. On the call to 911 Zimmerman says that he was

following the teenager, after the police had told him not to approach Traven.


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Zimmerman apparently fired in defense, after Zimmerman himself approached

Traven. Zimmerman is not in custody.

In International News,

Two nurses in Uruguay were accused of killing 16 patients. According to

statements the two male nurses killed 16 people by administrating poisoning to

the. Not all the victims were terminally ill and some were even about to be

released. The Uruguayan government found this death suspicious and is now

looking into the matter further.


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In entertainment News,

Actress Nicolette Sheridan from the ABC show Desperate housewives sued the

creator Marc Cherry for wrongful termination. Her character Edie Britt was killed

off in May 2008 and the jury had declared a mistrial today. However, Cherry says

that killing Edie was a creative decision made long before and it was not about

Sheridan.


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In Economical news,

Apple corporation has been proving to many disbelievers that they are

contributing to the UC economy. Having been criticized many times before about

the work force they have over seas, Apple is now saying that due to the fast

growth of Apps apple has created over 514,000 jobs for Americans who can

make and produce applications for the iProducts.


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In International News

Protestors demand that the U S Soldiers leave Afghanistan. Angry Afghanistan

people protested last Thursday in honor of the accused 16 civilians that were killed

by the US soldiers. The protestors went to the US secretary of defense Leon Panetta

and even went to the Afghan President Hamid Karzai. The country seemed very

upset because of the 16 killed civilians, they were not this upset of violent last week

when American troops burned copies of Quran and Islamic religious material


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In national News,

In Virginia Tech, all options are being considered after the jurys verdict that found

that it was negligent in a 2007 shooting that killed 33 people including the gunman.

Seven members of the jury in Christiansburg Virginia awarded $4millon to two

victims families who sued the state for wrongful death. The jury found that Virginia

tech failed to notify students early enough after having discovered the two

shooting victims at the West Ambler Johnston dormitory.


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regards to purchasing two vehicles for two convicted murderers. The cars were in

fact delivered to the governors mansion later that day.

IN technology news,

James Whittaker the man who turned Microsoft and Google together fired off an

outrage about his feelings towards why he left Google. He says he felt desperations

his last days of work there. He says the Google he was passionate about was a

technology company that empowered lots employees to innovate, and the Google he

left was advertising companies with single corporate focus. Whittaker who started

working in 2009 left last month because he left the team was divided into before

Google+ and after Google+


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In Art news

Collections of over 5,500 artifacts recovered from the titanic are being auctioned off

as one lot. Items from dish wear to necklaces to hats. The artifacts come from small

personal items to something large as one of the walls that was ripped off. Some

other properties rights are being auctioned off. The buy can eventually hold all the

right to anything relating to Titanic. However, they have to be willing to preserve


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the collection together for historical purposes. In 2007, the court-ordered appraisal

valued the titanic collection at $189 million.

In National news,

Students are protesting for lower loan rates. 130 letters were sent to congressman

leadership protesting to the government not to double the interest rate for loans for

almost 8 million college students. Many governors agree that schools should be

affordable for students who go to school, because if they dont get an education it

can cause other problems. Many students also spoke and told personal stories about

the debt they will come to after graduating.


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