Three Americans were arrested while hiking in Iran last July, according to BBC News.
Iranian government accused Sarah Shourd and two American men of being spies, not just hikers, CNN reported.
Tehran has charged the hikers with spying and have scheduled a trial for Sunday, BBC News reported.
The three Americans were hiking along the border of Iraq and accidentally strayed, which is causing much trouble.
The hikers said they did not mean to cross the border.
A shooting killed one and injured 11 people at a fraternity house at Youngstown State University Sunday, the Pioneer Press reported.
The shooting took place during a party at the fraternity, according to the Star Tribune.
The person who died was Jamail E. Johnson, a 25-year-old student at the university.
Johnson was shot in the head once and several times in the hips and legs.
Six of the injured people were students.
No arrests have been made but there is one suspect, authorities said.
A St. Paul man admitted to robbing the same SuperAmerica store three separate times, the Star Tribune reported.
Jeremy Allen Glass, 21, said he felt invincible after drinking alcohol, according to the Pioneer Press.
Glass was charged with two counts of first-degree aggravated robbery Friday in the Ramsey County Court District.
Glass used a knife during two of his robberies.
No one was injured during any of the incidents.
A Wisconsin man was killed and a Minnesota man was injured in two separate snowmobile crashes in northwester Wisconsin Friday, the Star Tribune reported.
Timothy Patrick O'Meara, 45, was riding his snowmobile and collided with a car on Friday evening, according to the Pioneer Press.
The driver of the car was not injured.
Six hours later, a man from the Twin Cities was airlifted to the hospital after his leg was crushed between two snowmobiles.
A freight train carrying chemicals derailed Sunday, causing the explosion of at least 15 tanker cars, the Star Tribune reported.
The freight train derailed about 50 miles south of Toledo, Ohio, according to the Pioneer Press.
There have been no injuries reported.
About 20 homes in the area were evacuated.
The train was headed from Chicago to North Carolina with freights full of ethanol.
There is no answer as to why the freight train derailed.
There are about two or three different sources used in the Star Tribune story titled, "Gym roof at Apple Valley church collapses." The writer uses a fire official, employees and Apple Valley Fire Chief Nealon Thompson as three separate sources. All of the sources are from people, there weren't any documents or records referenced in the article.
The attributions are somewhat scattered throughout the article, however almost all of them are from statements from Thompson. The writer used the method of using "Thompson said" at the end of most sentences. Also, direct quotations from Thompson were used and attributed to him. The attributions throughout the story are presented in an effective way because it keeps the information clear and concise.
A fire destroyed a large portion of Rio de Janeiro known as Samba City on Monday, New York Times reported.
Samba City is where decorations, floats, costumes and other creations are made for the city's carnival parade, according to CNN.
The fire spread to several of the warehouses in the area, which were filled with flammable materials used in the parade.
There were no materials left in the destroyed warehouses and at least six of the floats were lost in the fire.
The source of the fire is yet to be found.
Schools and organizations of the city invest millions of dollars in the parade since it's a sacred ritual for many Rio citizens.
Gary Ridgway, the "Green River Killer," was charged with a 49th murder Monday, CNN reported.
Teenagers exploring a ravine south of Seattle discovered a skull, which turned out to be one of Ridgway's victims, according to CBS News.
Rebecca Marrero, the latest found victim, was a 20-year-old mother and prostitute that went missing in 1982.
Ridgway was already serving 48 life sentences when he confessed to strangling Marrero this week.
The King County prosecutor said he expects Ridgway to plead guilty when he is formally charged on Friday.
Stacey Champion, 39, will not be able to reclaim the puppy that she tried mailing to her son in Atlanta, the Star Tribune reported.
An administrative hearing officer ruled Monday that the 4-month-old Schnauzer-poodle mix will stay in an animal shelter and not be returned to Champion, according to the Pioneer Press.
Postal workers found the puppy before it was mailed by air, which would have suffocated him.
Champion was charged with animal cruelty.
Rochester police arrested a man, 25, in the death of the 4-month-old boy Monday, the Star Tribune reported.
Police responded after the baby was not breathing and the baby was pronounced dead at the scene, according to the Pioneer Press.
The baby showed signs of trauma.
The name of the boy has not been released.
Muzzammil "Mo" Hassan has been found guilty of second-degree murder Monday, CNN reported.
Hassan has been convicted of stabbing his wife, Aasiya Hassan, and then beheading her in 2009 after she filed for divorce, according to BBC News .
Hassan, founder of a television network aimed to fight Muslim stereotypes, could face a lifetime sentence.
Hassan was arrested in 2009 in Buffalo, New York, after reporting to the police that his wife was dead.
The reporter of the Star Tribune article, "83-year-old arrested over 4-plus pounds of khat," opens the story with all of the key details. The lead includes who, what, where, when and why. The reporter presented all of the information in one long sentence. This method is effective because it tells what happened quickly and keeps the reader interested in the story.
Next, the reporter explains a quick background about the drug khat and links it to issues Minneapolis is having with it. Then the reporter explains how the 83-year-old was arrested and where he was being held. Finally, the reporter ends by explaining more about the drug khat. The reporter summarized all of the important facts in the first sentence, which was effective. However, the order of the rest of the story does not seem to flow. It would have made more sense to explain how the man was arrested directly after the lead, and then clump the two fact blocks about khat together after.
Egypt's military has initiated a 10-day plan to rewrite the constitution and return control to civilians, the New York Times reported.
After the reformations to the constitution are created, a referendum will be held about the plan within two months, CNN said.
The military council plans to give control back to the civilians in about six months.
One clause that restricted who can run for president will be removed from the constitution, according to the New York Times.
Military officials say they do not want to lead the country and that a civilian ruled Egypt is the best option, CNN reported.
A mother and toddler were found dead in a trash can near their Massachusetts home Tuesday, the Star Tribune reported.
The medical examiner found that they died of blunt-force trauma to the head and brain, according to the Pioneer Press.
The Plymouth District Attorney, Timothy Cruz, said autopsies show that these deaths are homicide.
The woman, 25, was found in a duffel bag with the toddler near her.
No arrests have been made.
The "Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs" exhibit is opening Friday at the Science Museum of Minnesota, KARE 11 reported.
The tickets for the exhibit went on sale Tuesday.
In celebration of the exhibit, a 10.5 ton sculpture of Anubis, an Egyptian god, was installed.
The exhibit is including 100 artifacts, which the Supreme Council of Antiquities in Egypt is loaning to the museum, according to the Star Tribune.
Large-scale exhibits such as this bring in more people, along with more revenue for the city, the Star Tribune said.
A Twin Cities nurse is receiving drug addiction treatment after being charged with stealing a patient's painkiller, which left the patient in pain during a procedure at Abbott Northwestern Hospital, the Star Tribune reported.
Sarah May Casareto, 33, of Forest Lake, had a hearing Tuesday that she did not show up to, according to The Examiner.
Casareto stole a patient's painkillers meant for his kidney stone surgery and told him to "man up."
Casareto has denied the allegations and claims that she was sick with symptoms that were wrongly perceived as signs of the stolen painkiller.
Governor Mark Dayton plans to decrease the state's deficit of $6.2 billion by more than half in the next two years by increasing income taxes of the top 5 percent of earners, the Star Tribune reported.
Dayton outlined a two year budget of $37 billion dollars today.
Dayton described that his budget plan is meant to "keep my promises I made to the people of Minnesota last fall," according to the Pioneer Press.
Ninety-five percent of Minnesota will experience no tax increases, according to Dayton's office.
Dayton planned $775 billion in cuts for health and welfare programs.
He also proposed a Minnesotan property tax on houses greater in value than one million dollars.
The leads of the two stories are similarly written but the key information released is very different. The first CNN story, which is titled, "Mother of dead Cuban hunger striker detained, family said," has a lead describing how the mother was detained. The next day a second CNN article, "Mother of dead Cuban hunger striker released," explains in the lead that the mother was released. The updated lead is the most recent news on the story. The information in the two leads differs greatly.
The information in the first article explains what happened to the woman's "hunger striker" son, along with background information on the story. The second and updated article explains what happened to her while she was detained and discusses the arrest in more detail. The second story has more updated information, which makes it more advanced. For example, it confirms that two of the three people detained were released, sharing the most current information.
The man accused of killing to Pakistani men is apparently a CIA contractor working to protect members of the CIA, CNN reported.
Raymond Davis was part of a CIA led team collecting intelligence and observing militant groups in the country, according to U.S. government officials Monday, the New York Times reported.
American officials described the shootings as a "botched robbery attempt."
Davis was put in jail January 27 after the two shootings occurred.
Pakistan wants Davis tried in a the Pakistan court system.
Four Americans were held captive and shot in their yacht by Somali hijackers in the Indian Ocean Tuesday, Fox News reported.
The pirates took over the ship on Friday off the coast of Oman, where military ships began to follow the yacht, according to CNN.
Americans Jean and Scott Adam and Phyllis Macay and Bob Riggle were found dead on the yacht when U.S. officials boarded the ship.
Two pirates were found dead on the yacht and U.S. forces killed two others.
The pirates boarded the yacht, called the Quest, directly from their mother ship, which currently remains free.
Chipotle Mexican Grill fired 450 Minnesota employees in the past year because of immigration status, the Star Tribune reports.
This number was released last week in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The employees could not prove their eligibility to work in the U.S., according to the Pioneer Press.
The restaurant chain says they check that the employees have proper documentation to be able to work in the U.S., yet some workers still may not be authorized.
Virginia and Washington D.C. are currently undergoing documentation reviews of Chipotle employees.
Minnesota officials, including Gov. Mark Dayton, began planning for expected flooding this spring, the Pioneer Press reports.
Dayton held meetings in South St. Paul and Stillwater Wednesday assuring everyone that there is a plan to handle the floods, according to the Star Tribune.
The heavy snowfall in the metro area throughout the winter so far has alarmed many because of the impending floods.
There have been 74.9 inches of snow this winter through Tuesday.
Dayton has more flood prevention meetings coming up in Chaska, Mankato and Winona.
State troopers are getting hit on the road more than double the amount of last year, the Star Tribune reports.
Eight state troopers were struck by cars in the past three days, according to the Pioneer Press.
These crashes have been occurring at a high rate, making state troopers ask drivers to slow down and pay attention.
Several troopers have been hit while in their squad cars.
Each crash creates several issues for the state troopers, including problems with the patrol's "staffing, fleeting and finances," the Star Tribune reported.
The New York Times has a multimedia page called the Lens, in which they post pictures of the day with cut lines describing the photo. Users can choose to view the photos in fullscreen. The captions explain what is going on in the photo, along with news worthy information about what is happening. The writing explains the story and relates the news to the photo.
CNN has a multimedia page called NewsPulse. This page has a chart set up listing news stories in order of popularity, which they have a meter on the left side for. Each story has a photo and a title. If you click on the story, the photo enlarges slightly and a small description of the story is displayed, along with the option to read more.
The two multimedia sites allow for the readers to interact more closely with each story, with photographs along with the news. They provide informational writing and a more visual experience.
