Blanco petitioned to leave office

Kat Landry, a Republican of Louisiana, has filed a recall petition concerning Gov. Kathleen Blanco.

According to www.foxnews.com, Landry is trying to gain support to remove Blanco from office.

“What we have seen in the past few months is a lack of leadership to recover from the stormsí back-to-back blows,” Landry said.

To get a recall in Louisiana, one-third of the state’s registered voters, or 900,000 citizens, must sign the petition in 180 days.

Those wanting to vote for the petition can visit www.recallgovenorblanco.com to find out more information.

If the petition gets the 900,000 signatures needed, a majority of votes in a recall election would be needed to remove Blanco from office.

American journalist missing in Iraq

An American journalist was kidnapped last weekend in Baghdad when gunmen attacked her and killed her translator. According to www.foxnews.com, Jill Carroll, 28, a freelance reporter was working for “The Christian Science Monitor” Saturday, when she was kidnapped in one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in Baghdad.

The same neighborhood has seen numerous attacks agains U.S. and Iraqi troops and security forces.

Gen. Mahdi al-Gharawi, commander of the Interior Ministry’s publicorder forces, said Iraqi police are searching for her now and have an investigation under way.

Mouse, leaves sets man’s house on fire

Luciano Mares’, an 81-year-old man in Fort Sumner, N.M., watched his home burn in flames thanks to an awful incident.

According to www.msn.com, while burning a pile of leaves in his backyard, Mares’ found a mouse caught on a glue trap he had set up earlier.   

Mares’ threw the mouse and the trap into the fire, but moments later the mouse was said to be seen running, still on fire, into the house.

Ninety seconds later the fire was blazing and the two-story home was leveled.

This version of the story was contradictory to what Mares’ had told television reporters a day earlier, blaming the wind for the destruction.

Since then Mares’ has stuck with the mouse story, which others are in favor of believing.

Though some wondered how the mouse escaped the glue trap, Fire Chief Juan Chavez said it is possible for the heat to melt the glue, providing for the mouse to get free.