Daniel Chong, a university student in San Diego has received $4.1 million dollars from the U.S. government after he was abandoned for more than four days in a prison cell, his lawyer said, as reported by the BBC. Chong said he drank his urine to stay alive, and tried to carve a message to his mother on his arm
In an effort to get released from prison sooner rather than later where he is serving time for kidnapping and armed robbery, O.J. Simpson was granted parole on some of his convictions on Wednesday. Simpson was convicted for his involvement in the hold up of two sports memorabilia dealers at Las Vegas hotel room in 2007
violence broke at the event Vans U.S Open of Surfing commenced. This event is an amalgam of surfing, BMX biking events and skateboarding in Huntington Beach. The mayhem occurred as a fistfight broke out, leading to chaos involving the destruction of city vehicles, newspaper racks street signs and portable toilets near and on Main Street in the Southern California area of Huntington Beach.
Two college football players were killed in a single car accident in northern New Mexico on Monday night, according to officials. Poli Manukainiu, a defensive line at Texas A&M and Gaius Vaenuku, an incoming freshman defensive tackle at Utah were killed in a rollover accident near Cuba, New Mexico. Andrew Uhatafe, a 13-year-old, was also killed.
