News Items Oct 16

Some of today's news highlights (and some carrying over from yesterday too)..........


- Sea World plans to challenge court decision regarding breeding of killer whales

- large scaffolding collapses outside building in Houston

- Obama will not meet his goal of terminating the war in Afghanistan

- Cuba may deploy troops in Syria to aid Russia

- Earth's oceans are emitting large amounts of methane

- New testing shows that Ebola can live in semen for 9 months

- Turkey shoots down plane in its airspace near Syrian border

- Joseph's Tomb set on fire

- NFL punishes 2 referees for errors made in game calls

- Nevada orders fantasy sports websites to get gaming licenses

- Stocks close higher for 3rd week as market expects easy Fed policy

- First estimate places damage from California wildfires at $2 BILLION

- Virginia Governor bans guns in state offices

- Denny Hastert going to plead guilty

- ABC News analyst Jamie Zimmerman drowns in Hawaii

- Starbucks is in talks to open first stores in Italy

- UPS going to charge more for larger and heavier packages this holiday season

- U.S. Treasury will be out of money November 3

Out of money.  Fantastic.

Just like Illinois.

Out for now.......

Matt