Early morning on Thursday Dec. 2, $1,000 worth of gifts was stolen from The Family Partnership located in North Minneapolis, according to Kare 11's Dave Berggren. All gifts were donated by citizens in the area and were intended to be holiday presents for low-income families.

"Obviously they were unwrapping some of them in order to see what was in there -to see if it was worth it," Annie Lewis from non-profit organization, said.

This is simply a balance between the gracious act of donation with the selfish act of theft, similar to the recent issue regarding the thieving of delivered packages from the post office, UPS, Fed-X, etc., that had been placed on a consumer's door-step.

Dan Hendrickson from the Better Business Bureau recommended some tips to avoid fraud and bogus purchases, and general habits consumers should embrace during the holiday season, provided by Kare 11.

Be cautious about sites that display quality graphics and low deals; "If it is too good to be true -it is, and you want to get out of there fast," Hendrickson said.

In addition, avoiding general search terms in search engines, and using common, known retail outlets to search for gifts will ensure safety. Also, check the privacy statements, look for the security lock during the act of a purchase made online, and always take note of the confirmation number that should be provided after a purchase.

On behalf of all consumers during the season of giving, keeping up to date with statements and balances, and avoid fishing : an email that claims to be from the credit card company and requests an account number due to an error during the online purchase.

Know consumers' rights; "After 30 days of an order online, you have the right to cancel and demand a refund," Hendrickson said.

Peter Linton Smith reporting for Fox 9 News interviewed John Bolander about the film, photos, and diary that Bolander shared in order to reflect on a significant part of American history.

"Today kids aren't getting the education that maybe I got, or even people a bit older than I did," Bolander said. "So, we can give them ten minutes of education on American history."

The various items from Dec. 7th, 1941 had been documented by Clyde Daughtry. Daughtry was assigned to the U.S.S. Argon along battleship row at Ford Island in Pearl Harbor.

Daughtry wrote about the sound of explosions and the need to document the first time the United States was attacked -through the lens of his camera.

"Bolander has been collecting small pieces of World War Two history for years," Reporter Smith said. "But this discovery may be one of the last first-hand accounts of that day," provided by Fox News.

This morning at Maple Grove Jr. High Dane Neuberger, 15, was rushed to the HCMC after his ninth-grade science teacher, Mr. Matt Anchor, had to tackle him with a fire blanket to subdue the flames when he caught on fire.

"I started screaming and he was on me fast to put the fire out and my shirt and face were on fire," Neuberger said, according to CBS News.

Though the sprinkler system and fire alarms didn't go off, police and fire units showed in an attempt to vent the classroom in order for the rest of the school to continue for the remainder of the day. The students in the science class were excused from school due to tragic incident.

"Thinking back, I can't even remember what happened," Neuberger said. "It was like I was in a video game or something."

This morning at Maple Grove Jr. High emergency officials rushed Dane Neuberger, 15, to the HCMC after his ninth-grade science teacher, Mr. Matt Anchor, had to tackle him with a fire blanket to subdue the flames.

"I started screaming and he was on me fast to put the fire out and my shirt and face were on fire," Neuberger said, according to CBS News.

Though the sprinkler system and fire alarms didn't go off, police and fire units showed in an attempt to vent the classroom in order for the rest of the school to continue for the remainder of the day. The students in the science class were excused from school due to tragic incident.

"Thinking back, I can't even remember what happened," Dane Neuberger said. "It was like I was in a video game or something."

Kare 11 reporters asked opinions from citizens and John Marinovich, CEO of AB Group One Brand marketing agency, about Abercrombie & Fitch's most recent provocative ad - This is not the first investigation taken place surrounding Abercrombie & Fitch's marketing tactics.

"You can market clothes and sell clothes without being edgy," one man told Kare 11 reporters; provided by Kare 11.

Abercrombie & Fitch marketing schemes have always contained lots of skin and scandalous poses, but Kare 11 anchor Julie Nelson explains that it is the placement of two individuals that results in the portrayal that the act is actually going to take place.

"It is controversy, John says, that gets people talking, reporters writing, and kids shopping," Karla Hult reported. "This type of buzz -talk value- is huge for this brand," CEO Marinovich said.

Abercrombie and Fitch have always maintained steady sales and have an ever-growing global presence in the international retail market.

"John says that picture wouldn't get a second look in other countries, but we in the United States, he says, tend to be a bit more puritanical" Hult reported, provided by Kare 11.

According to the Star Tribune, Ortega-Hernandez took shots at the White House on Friday night around 9:30 p.m. from Constitution Avenue, approximately 750 yards south of the White House -provided by The New York Times.

The President and Michelle Obama were away from the White House at the time the shooting occurred -vacationing in California and Hawaii- according to the Star Tribune.

U.S. Park Police found an abandoned car with the semiautomatic assault rifle near bridge exiting the Capitol, according to the New York Times.

Ortega-Hernandez was arrested around 12:35 p.m. The New York Times reported, at a hotel in Pennsylvania; criminal records reveal accounts in Idaho, Texas and Utah; Ortega-Hernandez's mental health status is under examination -it was a God-sent personal mission, according to the Star Tribune.

This effort will not be effected by budget cuts made to the pentagon; since U.S. troops are leaving Iraq and Afghanistan, this effort will allow broad distribution amongst Southeast Asia to aid in the regions future.

"As the world's fastest-growing region - and home to more than half the global economy - the Asia Pacific is critical to achieving my highest priority: creating jobs and opportunity for the American people," President Obama said, according to Reuters.

Japan and South Korea wanted the U.S. to counter balance China's expanding global presence; U.S. marines, naval ships, and air crafts deployed to Australia will result in a total of 2,500 U.S. troops by 2016, compared to 28,000 troops in South Korea and 50,000 in Japan, Rueters explained.

Beijing accuses the U.S. deployment of military troops to Australia as escalating tensions within the Southeast region; China has invested military, long-range air craft and deep-sea naval force in the East and South China Seas, according to the New York Times.

The Trans-Pacific partnership would not include China. To better defend foreign producers' property rights and to limit subsidies to state-owned companies would be standards that would require Beijing to let its currency rise in value in order to allow China's inclusion into the partnership, the New York Times explained.

"The notion that we fear China is mistaken; the notion that we are looking to exclude China is mistaken," Obama said, provided by the New York Times.

A Target store located in Edina sold out its "Sampler Vol. 23" copies within just one half hour at a price of $25.97, according to Fox 9 News.

The Cities 97 FM station sells these Compact Discs in order to raise money for various Minnesota charities; this year's all-time estimated total should exceed $9.7 million, Fox 9 News explained.

"The Cities 97 Sampler is the longest running non-profit radio CD in the country," Fox 9 News reported.

The 11:15 p.m. Guns N' Roses concert was held on Sunday the 13th at the Target Center and had an attendance of 8,000 fans -only 1,000 down from the previous 2006 concert, but up by 4,000 from the 2002 show, according to the Star Tribune.

The Star Tribune went on to report that the only comment made by lead singer Axl Rose was made in reference to the previous 2006 show; "it was pretty rowdy our last time here," he said.

Rose retained his typical character: his famous 'shimmy shammy dance,' established by the Star Tribune, in addition to a black top hat, bandana, and wallet chain.

Guns N' Roses began the show with a bang but reduced to an atypical system that most rock musicians do not; Rose sought that an active, rowdy crowd would then prefer extended solos and cover songs, according to the Pioneer Press.

In addition, the band believed that its 3-year-old "Chinese Democracy" album, which didn't sell well in stores, would balance out the band's traditional, widely recognized tunes.

Guns N' Roses 2006 performance began with five hours of "mostly dreadful" opening acts before the main event, but this year's performance cut right to the chase; for the first hour, give-or-take, the Pioneer Press explained.

Nonetheless, by 1:55 a.m. Monday morning -during the band's performance of "Paradise City," one fan through a black bra at Rose; "One gets the sense it wasn't a gesture about sex as much as it was about sheer exhaustion," the Pioneer Press reported.

Hunting related deaths have occurred four times during the firearm season of this year, which is two more than that which occurred the previous; the most since four deaths that occurred during the 2006 hunting season, according to the Star Tribune.

"It highlights the fact that a lot of people fall from elevated stands,'' Hammer said. "If you fall from a stand, chances are you will get hurt.'' Provided by the Star Tribune.

Arthur Joseph Knafla of Maple Grove, age 84, died the morning of the start of the firearm season in St. Louis County after lighting a propane heater from his partially enclosed deer stand; after his clothes caught on fire he fell from his stand, according to Outdoor News.

Outdoor News explain when members of Gene A. Berthiaume's deer hunting party, a St. Paul man of age 72, found Berthiaume dead beneath his deer stand in Saum on opening day; the cause assumed to be a fall from the stand.

Near Outing Minn., a man from Sartell, age 51, died on Sunday opening weekend after falling from his stand, receiving a fatal wound that resulted from his gun discharging, according to Cass County Sheriff Tom Burch, provided by Outdoor News.

In Brunswick Township the Kanabec County Sheriff's Office found a 15-year-old boy from Mora whose gun fired a shot into his inner leg while holding it between his legs, trying to take off his jacket, the Star Tribune Reports.

The state of Minnesota could gain $40 million a year from e-pulltabs, and a recent state fiscal analysis report says that a racino could bring in $130 million a year, in addition to an increase of jobs that would result from video slot machines at Minnesota race tracks, according to the Star Tribune.

"If people want to spend their money gambling, it should be up to them," Paul Landvice, 54-years-old and a meat cutter said, provided by the Star Tribune.

In 2010, ten states took on new gambling tactics; Pennsylvania legalized table games, New York now participates in a multistate lottery, Ohio will invest in four new casinos, and the State of Iowa has private casinos, racinos, and tribal casinos. The American Gambling Association says that 15 states have commerical casinos and 13 states of racinos, the Star Tribune reported.

Debi Seifert, who sells pulltabls at Rail Station Bar and Grill in Minneapolis, claims that 12 years ago she would sell $5,000 for pulltabs a night, but today $1,000 a night is a steady rate.

State wildlife officials say that hunter registration has fallen 34-38 percent in the areas of Tower Minneosta and Cloquet Wisconsin; Wildlife manager Tom Rusch of the Tower area said deer harvest for Fall 2011's firearm season fell by 3,275 this year, with a harvest of 8,623 in the Fall of 2010. Rich Staffon of the Cloquet area reported a mere 8,956 deer harvest for this firearm season, compared to a harvest of 13,526 the previous season, according to the Duluth News Tribune.

The Department of Natural Resources says that the overall harvest of deer throughout the state of Minnesota, as of now, is down by 20 percent, high winds being a contributing factor the Dulth News Tribune says.

Conservation Officer Jermy Woinarowicz of Thief River Falls says its hunters have had moderate to poor hunting success; CO Bruce Vollbrecht of Bemidji has had low success with a high number of hunter participation; and CO Gary Forsberg of Pelican Rapids consisted of few hunters, low success rate, and a small number of deer sightings.

According to the National Confernce of State Legislatures, same-sex marriage is legal in the state of New York, Massachusettes, Connecticut, Vermont, New Hampshire, Iowa, and the District of Columbia.

Dozens of groups and coalitions that promote same-sex marriage rights have campaigned together under Washington United for Marriage, with news confrences scheduled Monday and showings to follow at sabbureum town halls, in order to get the Washington legislature to pass a marriage equality law in 2012, provided by the Seattle Times.

If the goals of the campaign are achieved, that would make the state of Washington the seventh state to legalize gay marriage, according to the News Tribune.

"We are going to push it," lawmaker from the 43rd district and an activist for marriage equailty, D-Seattle Sen. Ed Murray said. "I believe 2012 is the best change we've ever had to make marriage equality a reality," reported by the News Tribune.

Washington first passed a law, though with a broad scale of rights according to the Seattle Times, in favor of gay and lesbian persons called the Domestic Partnership Law in 2006; it prohibited discrimination based on sexual orientation in areas like housing, employment, and insurance, the News Tribune reported.

In 2009, the "everything but marriage law" was upheld by a public vote and the Seattle Times reports that two recent polls have statistics that display anti-same-sex marriage promotors are failing in public support.

Currnelty the Democratic State Senate holds a 27-22 majority, where as the Democratic State House maintais 56-42 majority, provided by the News Tribune.

There are 114 Minnesota school districts have requested levies with 79 percent passing according to the Star Tribune, 80 percent passing according to the Pioneer Press. Out of the 114 districts, 56 percent requested levy increases the Star Tribune reported; 59 percent of proposed levy increases were approved, according to the Pioneer Press.

Renewal levies, those that establish no tax increase but will continue to see funding, were sought by 58 districts, the Rocori district denied the renewal levy, as well as in Stillwater with half of its voters denying levy proposals, the Pioneer Press reports. Similarly, 41 percent of the Richfield district's voters denied levy increases, according to the Star Tribune.

"People know their schools are hurting and they stepped up," Mary Cecconi, executive director of Parents United for Public Schools said, provided by the Pioneer Press.

For the Twin Cities, only two out of eight districts were successful at achieving levy increases: West St. Paul with 7,200 voters and a voter turnout with 62 percent approval, in addition to Anoka-Hennepin, the largest district in Minnesota, according to the Pioneer Press.

"It was heartening that, in a tough economic climate, the success rate stayed quite high," Scott Croonquist, director of the Association of Metropolitan School Districts, said, provided by the Star Tribune.