CALIFORNIA (TO Ban Flamin HOT CHEETOS from School ) No Way

School officials say the concern is their nutritional value, or lack thereof. Each bag of Flamin' Hot Cheetos contains 26 grams of fat and a quarter of the amount of salt that's recommended for the entire day.

One school district in Illinois, which used to sell about 150,000 bags each year, has already taken the snack off its menu.

"If children were to bring in snacks that are high in fat, high in calories, that's their choice," Rockford School District Interim Superintendent Robert Willis said. "We're not going to be providing those kinds of foods."

On top of the artificial coloring and flavoring, some experts say the Cheetos are "hyperpalatable," meaning they're highly addictive.

"Our brain is really hardwired to find things like fat and salt really rewarding and now we have foods that have them in such high levels that it can trigger an addictive process," said Ashley Gearhardt, a clinical psychologist at the University of Michigan.

Frito Lay, which makes and sells Cheetos, says it is "committed to responsible and ethical practices, which includes not marketing our products to children ages 12 and under."

While Flamin' Hot Cheetos are under fire in schools, kids can't get enough of them. So much so that there is a YouTube video featuring kids rapping about their love of the snack.

"Got my fingers stained red and I can't get them off me. You can catch me and my crew eating hot Cheetos and takis," one boy raps in the video.

Takis are a chili pepper- and lime-flavored corn snack.

The video has already been viewed more than 3.3 million times and there are even Facebook fan pages dedicated to the snack.

One fan page has more than 49,000 "likes," with many fans posting photos and videos with the snack.

"Don't feel like leaving to get food," one person writes. "So I'm eating Flamin' Hot Cheetos."

PAKISTAN ( Interior Minister Rehman Malik has offered a $1 million bounty for Ehsanullah Eshan )

Interior Minister Rehman Malik.—APP (File Photo)

  BOUNTY FOR TALIBAN LEADER (who had malala shot)                                          
KARACHI: Interior Minister Rehman Malik has offered a $1 million bounty for Ehsanullah Eshan, the central spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban, which claimed responsibility for the attack on 14-year-old activist Malala Yousufzai’s life.
Speaking to CNN in an interview late Monday, Malik said that security agencies were investigating the attack and hunting down those whose involvement had been ascertained.
“All our law enforcers, intelligence agencies are hunting all those who were involved. I have got some other names which I would not like to mention on record because it may damage the investigation. But let me (as)sure my Pakistani nation, and the entire world, that we will get them very soon,” the interior minister told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour.
Malik said that according to details unearthed in the probe, the assassination attempt on Malala was planned in Afghanistan.
“Four people came from there. … One of the guys, we have identified and (a) few of his associates have been arrested. One of – the fiancee of one of the terrorists has been detained, and all possible leads which we have developed … we are following it,” said Malik, vowing to hold all those responsible to account “very soon.”
Moreover, the interior minister affirmed that the government was providing security to Malala’s family and to two other girls also wounded in the same attack.
Malik says ‘Radio Mullah’ new Pakistani Taliban chief
Later on Tuesday, the interior minister said that intelligence reports suggested that powerful militant commander “Radio Mullah” Fazlullah was being made the central leader of the militant umbrella group the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).
“We have reports that Mullah Fazlullah was being made the chief of the TTP,” Malik told reporters in Mingora, Swat. He said that the reason Fazlullah was being made leader was that current chief Hakimullah Mehsud had been ‘underground’ and inactive, and had not been commanding most of the operations of the TTP.
Fazlullah is the chief of the Swat Taliban, which previously had control over the Swat region and is believed to have melted away across the border following a Pakistani military offensive in 2009. Fazlullah is now believed to be based in Afghanistan’s Kunar province.
A spokesman for the Swat Taliban had claimed that two killers from Fazlullah’s special hit squad had been sent to target young schoolgirl Malala Yousufzai. The spokesman had further threatened to kill the girl’s father following the failed assassination attempt on the girl’s life.
Malik visited the house of Kainat, one of the girls injured during the attack on Malala in Swat. The interior minister added that three platoons of the Frontier Constabulary (FC) would be named after the three girls – Malala, Kainat and Shazia.
He also said that the government would confer a Sitara-i-Shujaat (Medal of Courage) award on Malala for her activism for girls’ education and peace despite dangers to her life.

TUCSON Az ( WALMART woman beat with GUN and ROBBED) See photo

Gunman sought in violent mugging outside Tucson Walmart

UPDATE : WOMAN IN HOSPITAL WITH LIFE THREATENING INJURIES.

Photos courtesy of Tucson Police Department

Police are looking for a gunman who beat a woman outside a north-side shopping center and stole her purse. Security photos show the woman being attacked just before 8 p.m. Sunday as she walked toward the entrance to Walmart at 455 E. Wetmore Road between First and Stone avenues.

2012-10-15T14:17:00Z2012-10-15T14:29:18ZGunman sought in violent mugging outside Tucson WalmartKimberly Matas, Arizona Daily StarArizona Daily Star

49 minutes ago • Kimberly Matas, Arizona Daily Star

Police are looking for a gunman who beat a woman outside a north-side shopping center and stole her purse.
Security photos show the woman just before 8 p.m. Sunday walking toward the entrance to Walmart at 455 E. Wetmore Road between First and Stone avenues, when a man attacks her from behind, repeatedly hitting her in the head with a handgun. When a witness tried to intervene, the robber pointed the gun at him.
The robber took the woman’s purse and got into the passenger seat of a waiting silver Chevrolet Impala that had chrome wheels and a sunroof.
The woman who was attacked confronted the driver of the car and was dragged for several hundred feet through the parking lot. She was taken to a hospital with serious injuries.
The robber is described as in his 20s, standing 5-feet-6 and weighing about 160 pounds. He was wearing a white T-shirt with a logo on the front and baggy shorts with dark stripes on the sides. The getaway driver is described as a thin man wearing a dark shirt and dark pants.

TUCSON Az ( PLANE crash kills pilot ) AVRA Valley

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Plane crash outside Tucson kills pilot

Benjie Sanders/Arizona Daily Star

Sgt. Costaki C. Manoleas with the Pima County Sheriff's Department, stands over the wreckage of a plane that crashed near Waterman Peak southwest Avra Valley Road and Johnson Mine Road.

2012-10-15T08:47:00Z2012-10-15T13:29:20ZPlane crash outside Tucson kills pilotKimberly Matas, Arizona Daily StarArizona Daily Star

5 hours ago • Kimberly Matas, Arizona Daily Star

A small plane crashed in the Tucson Mountain District northwest of Avra Valley last night, killing the pilot, said Deputy Tom Peine, spokesman for the Pima County Sheriff’s Department.
No one else was on the plane.
Between 7:30 and 8:30 Sunday night the Federal Aviation Administration lost radar contact with the plane and contacted Customs and Border Protection to start a search via Black Hawk helicopter. The plane was found in a rugged area about 45 miles outside of Tucson, Peine said. He does not know what time the wreckage was spotted.
“That plane hit the ground hard,” Peine said. “It shattered into about a million pieces.”
Investigators, so far, have been unable to identify the pilot

CODY Wyo (Montana man ARRESTED for Kidnapping 11 yr old Girl )

CODY, Wyo. (AP) — A Montana man faces charges of kidnapping and assaulting an 11-year-old girl in Wyoming after police said he lured her into his car by saying he needed help finding a missing puppy, court records obtained Monday state.

Jesse Paul Speer, 39, was taken into custody Saturday in Belgrade, Mont., and held for Wyoming authorities. He faces extradition on charges of kidnapping, aggravated assault and felony use of a weapon, the records state.

Speer's bond was set at $2 million and he was expected to make a court appearance later Monday in Bozeman.

Authorities looked into a possible connection between the case and the disappearance of Jessica Ridgeway, a 10-year-old girl in Colorado, but now say they don't think the cases are related. Jessica's body was found in a park about 7 miles from her suburban Denver home on Wednesday. No arrests have been made.

Speer approached the victim and other children in Cody on Oct. 8, police Detective Jonathan Beck wrote in a statement. When the girl refused to get in his vehicle, Speer pulled a pistol on her and motioned her into his SUV.

Beck wrote that Speer drove the girl to a church parking lot and tied her hands behind her back. He told her to keep down as he drove through town, hitting her once on the head with the gun when she tried to raise it.

"The victim told the suspect that she knew that he was going to rape her, and the suspect responded that she wasn't going to get hurt," Cody Police Chief Perry Rockvam told reporters Monday.

He then drove the girl to a mountainous area outside of Cody, where he assaulted her, Beck said in the statement, which was filed written to support felony charges in state court in Cody.

Rockvam said the man then put a cloth bag over her head and released her, telling her to count to 50 before she turned around. Passing elk hunters found the girl, dressed lightly in the mountainous area, and took her to safety, he said.

14 yr OLD Girl ( Malala Yousafzai Airlifted to ENGLAND) Real life ' Princess Leah'

The 14-year-old activist who was shot in the head by Taliban gunman has been airlifted to Birmingham, England, to get more advanced medical care. Doctors in Pakistan were able to remove a bullet from the skull of Malala Yousafzai, but there was extensive damage to the bones in her head that will need to be repaired and she will also need "intensive neuro rehabilitation." On Sunday, Al Jazeera reported that her chance for survival was slim, but she was apparently stable enough to handle the flight to England.

Real Life "Princess Leah" airlifted to England (Malala Yousafzai)

                             leader of a Rebel force "that stands up against the taliban"!

                             ARIZONA DOCTORS (Gabby Giffords) offer to treat 14 yr old
                             Girl (Malala Yousafzai).

 

RELATED: The Taliban Ordered a Hit on a 14-Year-Old Girl Walking Home from School

Moving her out of the country will also presumably make her safer as well. The Taliban has promised to attack her again, should she survive, as retaliation for writing that criticized the groups actions in the Swat Valley where her father runs one of the few schools that allows female students. Despite the protests in support of Malala, violence in the region has not abated. A large group of Taliban fighters attacked a police station in Northwest Pakistan, killing at least five officers and beheading a local police chief. The gun battle lasted for several hours and the police station and several vehicles were burned before attackers fled the town of Matni, near the city of Peshawar.

ARIZONA (Sierra Vista soldier killed in Afghanistan)

Sierra Vista soldier killed in Afghanistan

 

Posted Oct 14, 2012, 12:37 pm

Dylan Smith TucsonSentinel.com

U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Ryan J. Savard of Sierra Vista was killed Saturday while on patrol in Afghanistan, the Defense Department announced Sunday.
Savard, 29, was hit by small arms fire during combat operations in Khanabad District, Afghanistan.
He was assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Company, U.S. Army Special Operations Command, Fort Bragg, N. C.
Savard was a 2001 graduate of Sierra Vista Buena High School. He enlisted in the Army in August 2001.
Savard served one tour in Iraq, and then attended the Army's Special Forces school. He served three tours in Afghanistan.

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