Baseball

A new rule has been recently approved by the MLBPA (Major League Baseball Player's Association) involving the prohibition and dis allowance of collisions at home plate. This new impending rule protects catchers from hard impacted hits prohibiting base runners crashing and colliding head on at home plate. This new rule is implemented especially to prevent concussions and serious injuries that are potential in this kind of deliberate collision. Executive director of MLBA, Tony Clark, states the rule will be an experimental basis for the 2014 season. Boston Red Sox catcher, A.J. Pierznyski states, "I disagree with it,'' "I understand why they're doing it, but next, they're going to tell us that you can't slide into the guy at second base."It's one of those things, as a big-league catcher, I signed up for it. You never want to see guys get hurt, and you never want to see guys go down because of it, but it's part of the game you signed up for.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/2014/02/24/mlb-mlbpa-approves-rule-prohibiting-collisions-at-home-plate/5783449/

Craigslist

Recently, Pennsylvania teen, Miranda Barbour age 19 has been accused  and charged (along with her newlywed husband)  of murder of a man named Troy LaFerrara who they interacted with through Craigslist. It has now been discovered in an interview that Barbour claims she has killed 20 other men across the country in states ranging from Alaska, California, Texas to North Carolina. Barbour states she had stopped counting at 22 victims. The Barbours also claim they were part of a satanic cult and that they "wanted to kill someone together". The death penalty is being seeked by prosecutors currently.

Flappy Bird

Many of you people are familiar with the prestigious gaming app, Flappy Bird. Unfortunately, for all you die hard obsessive fans, the owner, Dong Nguyen has announced he will be taking the no.1 app down in the app store. Nguyen simply  tweeted, "I can't take it anymore!" (at the time the game was still available) With approximately over 50 million downloads and a revenue consisting of $50,000 a day, the game was officially pulled out of the app store on Sunday, February 9th. Will this highly rated app's existence be gone forever or will it be back in a matter of days? It is yet to be determined whether Hguyen will put the game back up or if it is gone forever.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/02/08/flappy-bird--online-reaction/5328159/

iPhone

Taking place in Maine, a young 13-year old girl experienced and suffered first-and second-degree burns. The cause of her severe burns was her iPhone that happened to catch on fire while it was in the back pockets of her pants. Bangor Daily News states and reports this unfortunate and unlikely incident started when she simply sat down and there a popping sound coming from the back of her pocket. The girl then had no choice but to remove her pants as her teacher brought her a blanket later. Investigations are being examined by fire officials in Kennebunk as to what exactly happened and what potential possibilities could have set this off. The girl was immediately treated and later released form the hospital.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/02/01/newser-iphone-fire/5101833/