Guns used in murders have been "decreasing" for 30 years, according to Dr. Garen Wintemute. Dr. Wintemute has spent the last 30 years studying gun violence. “Suicide by firearm is far more common than homicide,” says Dr. Wintemute. "Over the past 30 years, firearm suicides have exceeded homicides even when homicide rates were at their highest in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

A gold mining company from Australia paid $856 million two years ago to mine gold in Kershaw, South Carolina. The Haile Gold Mine is 60 miles southeast of Charleston. Kershaw has 1800 people. The mine is already mining and pouring gold ingots.

Orange juice supply and demand has stayed on a 15-year nose dive. This year's Florida crop is the smallest since the 1940's and may be no longer grown in Florida soon. Hurricane Irma has destroyed 70% of this year's Florida orange crop, according to the Florida Fruit and Vegetable Association. High winds from Irma have knocked unripe oranges from branches before they can ripen and can be sold. A plant disease called "greening", has infected every Florida orange grove. This disease has become so widespread that it may destroy the state's entire orange crop soon. There is no cure. Growers fear their orange groves may be totally destroyed before one can be found. Also, people's taste for orange juice has taken a nose dived. In the U.S., many people no longer eat breakfast, a time of the day most people are most likely to drink orange juice. Florida's main competitor, Brazil, is also experiencing major declines in sales, crop harvests, and demand. Brazil produces half the world's orange juice. In Great Britain, Brazil's largest orange juice market, coconut water has replaced 80 per cent of the orange juice market.

Elkhart, Indiana is 90 miles east of Chicago, Illinois.

Americans are now drinking an average of 39.3 gallons of bottled a year compared to 38.5 gallons of soda pop.

How do the fish like it? Although fish like wahoo are being caught at this speed, more fish are being caught at the slower speed of seven miles per hour.

One California real estate company saves money by using a tablet-like robot named REX to answer 75 preprogrammed questions for home buyers. Agents rather still let buyers into the homes rather than robots.

A Chinese company purchased Smithfield, the largest pork processing company in the world, five years ago. Since then, Smithfield has hired over 1400 new employees, reduced its debt, expanded, and increased its credit rating. Sales have also increased to over $15 billion a year.

At 47 miles per hour, Wahoo are as faster than tuna. In North Carolina, a 40-pound Wahoo is considered a trophy fish. The fastest fish are Atlantic Blue Marlin (50 mph), Swordfish (60 mph), and Indo-Pacific Sailfish (68 mph).

Women can finally drive a car without committing a crime in Saudi Arabia. This was the last place on earth forbidding women from driving an automobile. The law, passed yesterday, will take effect in June.

Black bears walking the downtown streets of Raleigh, North Carolina is a common sight.

China's Ministry of Water Resources admits that one-quarter of its people drink polluted water and:

• 28,000 of its 50,000 rivers have disappeared over the last 20 years
• 80% of its water is polluted, unsuitable for drinking or bathing
• 25% of its water is unusable
• per capita water resources is only 28% of the world average
• is one of the nine most water scarce countries in the world
• has 20% of the world's population and only nine per cent of the world's fresh water

China and India are warring over Bhutan water rights.