I looked at the story "I-Team investigates radiation in our water supply" at khou.com. It explored radiation levels in the Gulf Coast region's water supply.
For this article, the reported had to compile radiation level data for different areas all over Texas. They then had to compare that data to the data the state government released, to see similarities and differences. They also had to figure out where the utilities had received violations for the levels, compare the locations to the current levels there. The data also came with a margin of error, so that had to be factored in too.
The reporter needed to be able to utilize spreadsheets, in order to compile and compare the data. It would have been helpful to have separate spreadsheets for each type of data, but also one that compared each factor with each other factor. They may have used a database manager to manage the different types of data as well. They also may have used mapping software, to visualize the radiation levels compared to their locations.
A man was shot and killed in a disturbance in north Minneapolis Friday evening.
The shooting occurred just north of Farview Park in ht 400 block of 19th Avenue North. Police are calling it a homicide, the Star Tribune said.
A patrol sergeant was on routine patrol at about 5:30 p.m. when he noticed a disturbance on the street. When he returned to check on it, he heard gunshots, the KARE11 said.
When the officer got to the scene, several people were fleeing and the victim lay in front of a house. Minneapolis police Sgt. Bill Palmer said the man was pronounced dead at the scene with gunshot wounds, the Star Tribune reported.
No arrests have been made. Palmer asked anyone with information to call police at 612-692-TIPS.
The identity of the victim and his cause of death will be released by the Hennepin County Medical Examiner's Office, KARE11 said.
The death of Mark Madoff, son of Bernard Madoff, was ruled a suicide Sunday.
The New York City medical examiner's officer completed the autopsy around 1 p.m., a day after Madoff's body was found hanging from a ceiling pipe in his SoHo apartment, CNN said.
Toxicology and tissue tests have not yet been conducted. Officials said the results will not be made public unless Madoff's next of kin asks for the case file, CNN said.
Madoff, 46, hanged himself early Saturday with a dog leash in his living room. It was the second anniversary of his father's arrest, the Los Angeles Times said.
Madoff's 2-year-old son and dog were found safe in the apartment by his father-in-law at about 7:30 a.m. Saturday. His son was asleep, CNN said.
Madoff's wife, who was gone on vacation, asked her father to check on the family when she received worrying messages from Madoff, the Los Angeles Times reported.
"Mark was an innocent victim of his father's monstrous crime who succumbed to two years of unrelenting pressure from false accusations and innuendo," Madoff's attorney Martin Flumenbaum said. "We are all deeply saddened by this shocking turn of events."
Bernard Madoff is currently serving a 150-year prison sentence for swindling $50 billion in the largest Ponzi scheme in U.S. history, CNN said.
Mark Madoff, his brother Andrew, and members of their families have all been sued by a trustee working for Bernard Madoff's victims, who blame the family for profiting from the scheme as well.
Both sons denied knowing involvement, the Los Angeles Times said.
Five people died and 20 were rescued when a South Korean fishing trawler sank in Antarctic waters Monday, CNN reported.
The rest of the 42-man crew remains missing in the Southern Ocean, the BBC said.
The search for survivors was time-sensitive, Maritime New Zealand spokesman Ross Henderson said. The water temperatures in the area are 2 degrees Celsius, or 35.6 degrees Fahrenheit, which likely limits survival to about 10 minutes before hypothermia sets in, CNN said.
The No. 1 Insung, a 58-meter (190-foot) fishing trawler, sank about 1150 miles north of McMurdo, a U.S. research center on the top of Ross Island. It was a remote area, CNN said.
The crew consisted of eight South Koreans, eight Chinese, 11 Indonesians, three Filipinos, and one Russian. A nearby fishing boat saved the 20 crew members, the BBC said.
The ocean was relatively calm, with one meter (about three feet) high swells and a light wind, Henderson said.
He said there was no emergency radio call before the incident, and it is still not clear what happened, CNN reported.
A fire in a rented house killed a University of St. Thomas student early Saturday morning.
Michael Adam Larson, 20, of Woodbury, was a sophomore. He was asleep on a couch when the fire broke out around 3 a.m. at 1795 Selby Ave., and did not escape the fire, the Star Tribune reported.
Three other students, two house mates and a girlfriend of one, were asleep in the second story of the home, and were awoken by smoke alarms. When fire blocked their exit, they jumped from a second-story window, the Pioneer Press said.
They suffered minor injuries and smoke inhalation and were taken to Regions Hospital, the Star Tribune said.
Firefighters arrived at 3:15 a.m., and tried to rescue Larson as they fought the fire on the first floor, but he was dead by the time they entered, the Star Tribune said.
The fire appeared to have started on the front porch. Fire officials are still investigating, but said they didn't think it was suspicious. Larson's autopsy has not been finished, the Pioneer Press said.
The snowstorm that paralyzed the Twin Cities Saturday night is on its way to the record books.
Close to 17 inches had fallen on Minneapolis by Saturday evening, with 22 inches falling in Shakopee. It was the deepest snowfall since the Halloween blizzard of 1991, and should be recorded in the Top 10 ever measured in the Twin Cities, the Star Tribune said.
2 inches of snow fell per hour, which could make it the fifth biggest Twin Cities snowfall, the Pioneer Press reported.
Winds of 30 to 35 mph reduced visibility to a few hundred yards, and winds up to 50 mph gusted across southwest and south-central Minnesota, hindering snow-clearing operations, the Pioneer Press said.
By Saturday evening, MnDOT pulled its plows off the roads due to visibility issues. Hennepin County pulled all but five of its snowplows, the Star Tribune said.
The Department of Transportation shut down Interstate 90 from Albert Lea to South Dakota dude to the storm. I-94 was also closed in western Wisconsin, along with many other highways, the Star Tribune reported.
More than three-quarters of 129 crashes reported by the State Patrol statewide Saturday occurred in the metro area, while almost 600 vehicles spun out or slid off the road, the Star Tribune said.
In the metro area, Metro Transit suspended bus service at 1:40 p.m. after 70 of the 220 operating buses had become stuck in the snow. The snow also caused numerous flights out of the airport to be delays, and more than half of scheduled flights to be canceled, the Pioneer Press reported.
The Metrodome's roof was also overcome by the snow, and collapsed after 5 a.m., causing the rescheduling of the Vikings-Giants game, the Star Tribune said.
Many of the metro's shows and events were also canceled.
A man fleeing a State Trooper in a stolen vehicle hit and killed a mother and her two young sons early Sunday in North Minneapolis.
29-year-old Amanda Jean Thomas and her sons, ages 12 and three months, were killed when the driver ran a red light, State Patrol Lt. Eric Roeske said. The sons' names have not been released, the Star Tribune reported.
Rufus Onel Victor, 29, of Edina, was arrested after he fled the crash scene on foot. He had only minor injuries and is being held in the Hennepin County jail, the Star Tribune said.
A State Trooper tried to pull over Victor about 12:30 a.m. when he saw him driving erratically on westbound Interstate 94. Victor left the freeway at Dowling Avenue and drove south on Second Street at a high rate of speed and through several red lights, Roeske said, the Pioneer Press reported.
Victor plowed into Thomas's car when he ran a red light at the Broadway Avenue intersection, causing it to hit a third car. The trooper, who had slowed and was about three blocks behind Victor at the time of the crash, abandoned the chase to help the crash victims. No one in the third vehicle was seriously injured, the Star Tribune reported.
Victor was arrested about 10 minutes after the crash after a canine tracked his scent to an area near railroad tracks, the Pioneer Press said.
Roeske said it appeared as though Victor was chemically impaired at the time of the crash but blood test results were not immediately available, the Star Tribune reported.
A 59-year-old Cushing man died Saturday night when his all-terrain vehicle fell through the ice on Lake Alexander, the Morrison County Sheriff's Department said.
Gary Donald Deppa was pronounced dead at the scene, the Brainerd Dispatch reported.
A witness saw Deppa driving a four-wheeler east of Soldier Island, authorities said. When Deppa didn't return, the person went to check on him and found tracks leading to a hole in the ice and called 911, the Associated Press said.
Sheriff's deputies and Scandia Valley firefighters found Deppa face down in the water at the edge of a 20-foot hole in the ice at 8:22 p.m., the sheriff's department said. He was pronounced dead at the scene, the AP reported.
Deppa's body was taken to the Ramsey County Medical Examiner's office for an autopsy, the Brainerd Dispatch said.
Morrison County Sheriff Michel Wetzel said thin ice, darkness and the distance from shore hampered recovery efforts, the AP said.
An elderly German woman died after she was attacked by shark while snorkeling at an Egyptian resort Sunday. It was the third shark attack in a week at the popular Red Sea resort, the Agence France-Presse reported.
The tourist died immediately after an oceanic white tip shark bit her arm off while she was swimming at the resort in Sharm el-Sheikh, a popular diving and vacation resort, The Press Association said.
Tourism Minister Zuhair Garana said all the resort's beaches had been closed to swimmers, except for Ras Mohammed, a nature preserve south of the city. He said he had no explanation of the attacks, the AFP said.
Authorities ordered people to stay out of the water around Sharm el-Shikh after the attacks. The resort is popular with British tourists, The Press Association said.
Government conservation experts said they captured an oceanic white tip shark and a mako, believed to be responsible for attacks in the area. There was inconsistency between witnesses as to whether the captured sharks looked like the ones in the attacks, the AFP reported.
A Rhode Island man was arrested for his 11th drunk driving offense, the Boston Herald said.
Vernon Perry, 52, of Roselyn Avenue, East Providence, was observed traveling at 52 mph in a 40 mph zone on Taunton Avenue by Seekonk officer Eric Chalifoux at about 1:20 a.m., the Sun Chronicle said.
The officer followed Perry, who crossed over both the double yellow line on his left and the white line on his right before pulling over, the Boston Herald reported.
Perry failed sobriety tests and was arrested and charged with operating under the influence, negligent operation of a motor vehicle, speeding, and failure to stay within marked lanes, the Sun Chronicle reported.
Perry's 2001 Saturn was towed and he has been hospitalized for undisclosed reasons, the Boston Herald said.
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