BELLEFONTE, PA — Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky was sentenced to at least 30 years in prison Tuesday, Oct. 8 according to CNN.com. Sandusky was convicted on 45 counts of child sex abuse in June after it was determined that he had sexually abused 10 boys over a 15-year period.
ATLANTA — The Centers for Disease Control reported Tuesday, Oct. 8 that 119 people have been infected with fungal meningitis, a rare noncontagious form of meningitis. The outbreak is linked to contaminated steroid injections and has resulted in 12 fatalities nationwide according to CNN.com.
LOS ANGELES — Walmart employees in more than 12 cities including Dallas, Los Angeles and Washington walked off the job on Tuesday, Oct. 9. According to huffingtonpost.com, the walk out was part of a protest against company attempts to “silence and retaliate against workers for speaking out for improvements on the job.”
SANAA, YEMEN — CNN reported Thursday morning that a member of the team investigating an attack on the U.S. Embassy in Yemen was killed. Officials say the murder was most likely affiliated with al-Qaida.
MOSCOW — Members of the Russian government said Wednesday that they will not renew a 20-year partnership pact with the U.S. According to The New York Times, the pact successfully dismantled chemical and nuclear weapons in the former Soviet Union. The program will expire next spring.
BEIJING — Novelist Mo Yan was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature Thursday morning, according to Fox News. Yan’s win marks the first time a Chinese writer has been awarded the prize for a subject other than critique of the authoritarian government. Yan’s novels carefully tackle controversial issues, such as abortion, in a way that blends Chinese folk tales, history and contemporary literature and lifestyle.
