WKNJ Newscast 05/08/2014 Sean Kneese

Good afternoon, its Monday, May 8, 2014 at _____________ oclock and youre listening to
90.3 WKNJ-FM, Union, New Jersey, and Im _____________ with the news.

In Local News
Attention smokers: Do you like having the freedom to smoke on campus in between classes?
Well that freedom may soon be taken away from you.

A new bill advancing in the New Jersey state assembly is looking to ban smoking on all college
campuses. The bill, if passed would be the strictest college campus smoking ban in the
nation. Advocates of the bill argue that 90% of smokers start before the age of 21 and are
influenced by their peers to smoke around the college.
The bill is part of an ongoing effort by New Jersey officials to create stricter anti-smoking laws.
This past March, a bill was passed by the Assembly to ban smoking at public parks and
beaches. This past Tuesday, Belmar, a popular tourist destination banned smoking anywhere on
its boardwalk or beach.
If this bill is passed, cigars and pipes will be banned a long with cigarettes. It would also ban
electronic cigarettes, chewing tobacco, dip and other types of tobacco products. If someone is
caught violating the bill, they will be fined $250 for a first offense, $500 for a second offense and
$1000 each time after.
A four year old girl from Newark, New Jersey has died after her babysitter left her alone at
home.
Four year old Naira Bennet was pronounced dead at University hospital was pronounced dead
at 7:11pm this pastWednesday. According to a release issued by the Essex County Prosecutors
office, Bennet was found unresponsive in an apartment on North Munn Avenue at about 10:45
am. According to the neighbors, she had been hit on the head by a toy when she was trying to
reach for it.
Bennets babysitter, 38 year old Sakita Covington has been charged with four counts of
endangering the welfare of a child and one count of aggravated assault. Officials say an autopsy
will be performed to determine how the girl died. Katherine Carter, a spokeswoman for the
prosecutors office, says she is not allowed to disclose where the babysitter was or why she
might have left the apartment. Carter says the other children, who were all under the age of four
were not harmed.

In national news:
The jury who convicted Cecily McMillan, the Occupy Wall Street activist accused of assaulting
a New York police officer, is now asking the judge of the trial to not send her to prison.
This past Monday, McMillan was found guilty of deliberately elbowing Officer Grantley Bovell
in the face, as he led her out of a protest in March 2012. The jury convicted her of second degree
assault, and she may now face up to seven years in jail without bail.
Nine of the twelve members of the jury are now writing to Judge Ronald Zweibei to request that
he not give her a prison sentence on May 19
th
. Most of the juror were expecting a smaller
punishment such as community service, and were shocked and appalled to find out she would be
going to prison.

While some may be neutral about the idea of net neutrality, others are passionately against it.
In an occupy style protest, demonstrators set up camp outside the Federal Communication
Commission headquarters in Washington DC on Wednesday to fight plans they say will hand
control of the web over to major corporations and create a two-tier internet.
Groups that participated in the protest were Fight For the Future, Popular Resistance, and others.
The protestors were unfurling banners that read Save the internet.
The participants are planning to camp outside the FCC until May 15
th
, when the regulator is
expected to announce new rules for the internet that will formalize plans for higher speed
internet for those able to pay for it. On Wednesday, Facebook, Amazon, and Google, along with
100 technology companies signed a letter to the FCC rejecting individualized bargaining and
discrimination for internet traffic. The letter says the FCC must take the necessary steps to
ensure that the internet remains an open platform for speech and commerce.

In international news:

A man confessed to murdering his first wife while appearing on a Turkish Television dating
show.
62 year old Sefer Calinak shocked the audience of Flash TVs Luck of the Draw when he
appeared on the show and confessed to murdering his first wife as well as a subsequent lover.
Calinak informed them that he had killed his wife because he was irritated with her behavior, and
later on murdered another partner because he thought she was after his money. He also
mentioned that he had served prison sentences for each of the murders and had been released
under and amnesty program. According to Calinak hes an honest person looking for a new
wife.
A recent poll shows that more people in China identify themselves as environmentalists than
Europeans.
In reaction to Chinas massive pollution problems, there has been an increasing amount of
environmental campaigners in China. In China, the worlds largest polluter, 64% of Chinese
identify themselves as environmentalists, which is more than double than in the United States or
Europe. These numbers come from a report published on Wednesday by Dutch research agency
Motivaction .For their research, they interviewed more than 48, 000 consumers in 20 countries
about their values and behavior, through online surveys.
Thats it for your news. Youre listening to 90.3 WKNJ-FM, Union, New Jersey. Im
_____________________ and well be right back after this.

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/may/07/net-neutrality-protest-fcc-save-the-
internet

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/08/cecily-mcmillan-jurors-judge-occupy-activist-
jail
http://www.nj.com/essex/index.ssf/2014/05/newark_girl_4_dies_after_being_left_unattended_in
_apartment.html#incart_m-rpt-1
http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/05/bill_to_ban_outdoor_tobacco_use_on_all_nj_colle
ge_campuses_advances.html#incart_m-rpt-1

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/may/07/more-chinese-than-europeans-identify-
themselves-as-environmentalists
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/08/turkish-dating-contestant-murder-confession

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