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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 2012
Page
7
The U S Postal Service says it will raise first class stamp to 46 cents on January 27, a one cent increase, while shipping rates rise about four percent. The agency seeks 5 cent authority to lift prices further but faces congressional delays.
Florida wildlife officials investigate a blue eye the size of a softball found by a man at Pompano Beach. The eye was iced and sent to the Fish and Wildlife Research Institute in St. Petersburg for analysis with possible matches including a giant squid a whale or a large fish.
The Obama administration designated MS-13 a transnational criminal organization to freeze its access to U S funds and seize profits. ICE experts note 10,000 members in 46 states with extortion, murder, kidnapping, and drug trafficking. operations span Central America, Mexico, and parts of Europe.
Mexican cartels push highly pure meth into American cities, rising from 4,000 to 16,000 pounds seized 2007–2011 and driving prices down from 290 to under 90 per pure gram. DEA notes 80 percent market share and 88 percent purity by 2011 while U.S. labs remain active inland and on small scales.
In Dakar families keep prized rams like Billal at home as the Wolof show Khar Bii searches nationwide for Senegal’s perfect sheep. Finalists from regions compete for a $4,000 prize and bragging rights ahead of Eid al Adha when sheep buying peaks.
A drive by shooting killed Qassem Aqlani a Yemeni security official who worked for the U S Embassy in Sanaa as al Qaida is blamed for recent high profile assassinations and attacks amid a volatile security decade in Yemen officials said the gunman fled on a motorcycle near Aqlanis home and the embassy sits in eastern Sanaa the 50 year old veteran had served 11 years with the mission and authorities warned of possible escalations.
Boston AP The National Archives and John F Kennedy Presidential Library released about 2,700 pages from Robert F Kennedy covering 1961 to 1964. The files include telegrams reports and notes with doodles and marginal quotes reflecting Kennedy as a trusted adviser during the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban missile crisis.
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