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Victoria Stafford: Murder, abduction charges laid over missing eight-year-old girl Michael Rafferty, a 28-year-old male who lives in Woodstock Ontario, is charged in the abduction and murder of an eight-year-old girl named Victoria Stafford on April 8, 2009. When Victoria was abducted on April 8th, 2009 she was sadly killed on the same day. Neighbors of Michael Rafferty expressed shock and horror on Wednesday at the prospect that their own children may have come so close to Michael Rafferty. Court documents show Rafferty, 28, has been charged with one count of first-degree murder and one count of abduction. A women who lives across the road from Michael Rafferty broke in tears as she told reporters how all the kids played right outside his house every day, thinking that he’s probably watched every one of them including her own. What: Michael Rafferty, a 28-year-old male who lives in Woodstock Ontario, is charged in the abduction and murder of an eight-year-old girl named Victoria Stafford on April 8, 2009. Who: Michael Rafferty, a 28-year-old male. Most of the neighbors and the police. Where: This event happened in Woodstock, Ontario, Canada. Why/How: It doesn’t say in the article. When: This event happened on April 8, 2009. Why You Chose This Article: I chose this article because it seemed interesting and I couldn’t believe that someone would do this to an eight-year-old girl.
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Current Events #2 RCMP Defend By Shooting Dog Sometime this week Vancouver RCMP officers defend the shooting of a pit-bull, saying the dog was attacking officers. According to a RCMP spokesman, after being called to a home to investigate an alleged assault on Monday, three officers were confronted by an attacking pit-bull. A 24-year-old woman who was one of the residents and did not want to be identified, said the one year old pit-bull barked three times as the RCMP officers entered the building through the backyard, and did not bite them. The 24-year-old resident said “by the third bark, they had him shot.” But Surrey RCMP Sgt. Roger Morrow said two officers were at the back of the house when the dog ran out and lunged at an officer in the yard. Another officer stood at a sliding door talking to the resident. He said after the first lunge the officer by the door drew his gun. The RCMP officer started requesting to the residents that they take control of their dog. While that happened, the dog lunges once again at the first office. The officer by the door shoots and hits the dog in the neck as the first officer falls back to get out of the way of the dog, Morrow said, The officer did not suffer from any bite wounds and the dog happily survived. The dog should have not been shot and there is no reason to defend the officers. It is their fault. What: Three officers defend by shooting a pit-bull. Who: The three RCMP officers, The 24-year old resident, and RCMP Sgt. Roger Morrow. Where: These events took place in the 24-year old residents house in Surrey. Why/How: These events took place because the officers thought the dog was going to attack them but there was two sets of stories, one from the 24-year old resident and the other from the RCMP officers. When: This article states that this event took place sometime last week but did not date the exact time and date. Why I chose this article: I chose this article because I like dogs very much and I have two of my own and I think its messed up that RCMP officers would shot a dog for barking.

** By: John McKinnon ** ** “Apple offers all iTunes songs without copy protection” ** In the United States Apple Inc. is the most popular source of music without any copy protection from each song in the iTunes music store. iTunes music store announced plans to change the charge of songs as little as 69 cents US a track. Starting April a new variable pricing plan, songs will cost 69 cents, 99 cents or $1.29 and almost every album going for $9.99. Apple had drawn criticism for using so called digital rights management, or DRM, on most tracks, prompting Jobs two years ago to make a public plea to music labels to change their licensing terms. The protections prevented customers from listening to music on unknown devices such as some MP3 Players and limiting the copies they could burn to disk (CDs). This is probably why Apple is removing copy protection.
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What: Apple Inc. is offering songs without copy protection to make iTune songs able to be burnt to CDs an unlimited amount of times and be able to play on unknown devices.

Where: These events happened in San Francisco USA.

When: It didn’t say in the article but the change to iTunes will take effect in April.

Who: Steve Jobs head of Apple Inc., Phil Schiller head of Apple marketing, and any other employees of Apple Inc. were involved with this event.

Why/How: This event happened because customers were having troubles with iTune song protection.

Why I Chose This Article: I chose this article because iTunes is something I use a lot and I’ve had a lot of trouble with the protection on songs as well as others.

Report By: Connie Guglielmo Current Events By: John McKinnon