Lance Armstrong was stripped of his bronze medal he earned at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney following admitting that he took performance enhancing drugs while racing on the Tour de France.  His seven Tour de France championships were already stripped by the international bicycling committee.  I guess he forgot to take them during the Olympics and had to settle for Bronze.

An Al-Qaeda wannabe group took Americans hostage at a gas plant in Ain Amenas, Algeria.  Four American hostages were released and the two other American hostages escaped.  Violence has since ensued resulting in the deaths of at least six hostages from other countries.

A second grade student brought a gun to his Far Rockaway, NY school today.  The gun was found in his backpack.  It could not be determined whether the boy knowingly brought the gun or if one of his brothers stashed  the gun in his bag.  The rest of the class’s “Show and Tell” was cancelled following the gun incident.