hw 8.1, 8.2

8.1
Basketball Death

A 15 year old student died this morning after collapsing during his school’s basketball practice. Todd White was a freshman at Central High School where he suddenly fell to the ground after running in a morning practice game. White was taken to Central Valley Memorial Hospital where he was pronounced dead after efforts to revive him had failed. The schools trainer says that White had no known illness and the reasoning to him collapsing is unclear. Today the county coroner will perform an autopsy to find reasoning to his death.       

Energy Plan

An 800 million dollar energy plan was announced by the Secretary of the Interior Grace Green. Green was in Salt Lake City at a Western Governor’s Conference when she had made her announcement. The plan will be efforts to have America rely less on foreign oil and to also become greener. It is suspected to take five years and will reduce strip mining, but will also ease licensing of new nuclear power plants.

8.2

Faculty Death

A woman died today after 10 years of battling cancer. Elizabeth Billson was 58 years old and was an education professor for 36 of those years. She was estimated to have taught 10,000 future teachers throughout her career. Last year Elizabeth received the Outstanding Professor awarded from her university.

Wreck

Two Truck drivers walk away unharmed after they collided head-on last night on I-59. The wreck caused a 45 minute traffic jam both ways on I-59 in a location that was undergoing repairs. Fuel leaked from both trucks causing an oil slick on the highway. One of the trucks ended up losing roughly 10,000 dollars in goods after the contents were destroyed. The two will both be cited for speeding and reckless driving.