Law enforcement authorities are trying to sort out details of a crash in California’s Central Valley that killed two California Highway Patrol officers. The two killed were Brian Law and Juan Gonzalez.

On Monday, investigators spoke of a sequence of different events, but stressed that the investigation was far from over.

At about 6 a.m. Monday morning Law and Gonzalez received calls on their radio about a collision on northbound 99. When the two approached that accident scene headed south, they discovered the accident was actually in the southbound lane on their side and blocking lanes. They also noticed a pedestrian outside one vehicle.

The officers took an evasive action in order to avoiding striking the parties from the accident, lost control of their vehicle, struck a guardrail and crashed severely. The CHP vehicle did not strike any other vehicles before or after hitting the guardrail.

Officials from CHP said both of the officers died instantly.

The commissioner of the CHP Joe Farrow said his officials were trying to determine the reason the officers had crashed.

Farrow said they are still uncertain if the two officers thought the crash had been down the road further, as they came upon the scene they lost control and hit the guardrail and road sign.

Law and Gonzalez were in the highway patrol academy together and ended up as close friends after spending the 27 weeks together in class. After their graduation in 2008, they went to different offices on assignment, but in 2013, they became reunited and worked the graveyard shift in Fresno.

Gonzalez was single but discussing marriage, while Law was married with three children.

Although, the officials are still investigating the accident, detail started to emerge late in the afternoon on Monday.

A reconstruction team at the crash scene was present for most of Monday, with all of the southbound lanes closed for a number of hours.

Officers from CHP will meet with members of the families of the victims. The CHP also announced it would be releasing any new information about the crash and what transpired, as soon as they had it.

A recently completed study suggests that consuming enough vitamin C could help to protect an individual for a stroke.

New research was presented this week that showed the risk of a hemorrhagic stroke – more deadly yet rarer that the ischemic stroke – is less amongst people who consume normal levels of vitamin C, compared to those who have a depleted level of the vitamin.

One of the researchers in the study said the results showed that vitamin C deficiency needed to be considered a risk factor for hemorrhagic stroke, as was high blood pressure, being overweight and drinking alcohol.

The researchers said additional research was needed to determine specifically how the vitamin helps to reduce the risk of stroke.

For this study, the researchers tested the vitamin C levels in blood from 65 people who had suffered a hemorrhagic stroke and the vitamin C levels in the blood of healthy individuals who had not had a stroke.

Amongst all participants, 45% had vitamin C levels that were normal and 45% were suffering from depleted levels of vitamin C. In 14% of the people tested, the level of vitamin C was so low it was considered deficient.

However, the researchers found that those people who had normal levels of vitamin C were the individuals that did not suffer a stroke, while those with depleted vitamin C had suffered a stroke.

Since the findings have not yet been published in a journal that is peer reviewed, they should only be considered as being preliminary. In 2008, a study showed that people that had the highest levels of vitamin C in their blood had a lower risk factor for stroke of 42%, than those people with the lowest levels of vitamin C in their blood.

A study done in 1995 resulted in similar findings. In that study, elderly people that had the lowest levels of vitamin C had the highest risk of dying due to a stroke.

Deficiency of vitamin C can also cause anemia, which is a lowered ability for the body to fight against infections, gingivitis, heal wounds, joint pain, and gingivitis.

Jose Salvador Alvarenga said he lived on raw birds and fish while drifting across the Pacific in a broken down boat.

The man from El Salvador who told officials he had spent 13 months in the Pacific adrift before his boat washed ashore in the Marshall Islands, returned to his homeland of El Salvador, but was too overwhelmed to speak about his experience.

Alvarenga arrived in El Salvador on Tuesday night on an aircraft that flew across the vast ocean he claims he traversed in his 24-foot fishing boat.

The boats engine failed on December 24, 2012 in a storm while he and his companion fished for sharks off the Mexico coast, where he had been living for nearly 15 years.

Without a radio or navigation equipment, the boat was pushed along the currents of the Pacific more than 6,500 miles before reaching the Marshall Islands.

Alvarenga said to survive he caught seabirds, fish and turtle to eat and he drank their blood.

He said his companion a Mexican national named Ezequiel Cordoba was unable to eat the raw animals and fish and subsequently died only a month after the two started drifting.

Authorities have met the story by Alvarenga with awe and some skepticism, but have not been able to find another explanation for how he just turned up on their island.

Journalists mobbed the man at the airport in El Salvador, which is located about 20 miles from the capital of San Salvador. Alvarenga was expected to give a comment to reporters but he was overcome with emotion. Reporters also were at the home of this family in Garita Palmera, which is on the Pacific coast of El Salvador about 60 miles from San Salvador.

Alvarenga originally flew to Hawaii then Los Angeles prior to landing in El Salvador. He appeared exhausted or overcome and was not able to make a comment, while he sat in a wheelchair that was surrounded with officials from Salvador.

Jaime Miranda, the Foreign Minister for El Salvador told the reporters than Alvarenga had been through a great deal in his journey in his drifting boat, but he had finally returned home.

Young females, who smoke, might have a higher risk of a common form of breast cancer, indicated the results of new research just completed.

Researchers have found that females between the ages of 20 and 44, who smoke at least one pack of cigarettes each day for a minimum of 10 years, were 60% more apt than those who smoked fewer cigarettes to develop the so-called breast cancer, estrogen receptor-positive.

Smokers however, were no more apt to develop a type of breast cancer that is less common referred to as triple-negative, which is usually more aggressive.

One of the researchers said that there is more evidence that another health hazard that is associated with smoking is breast cancer.

Research previously found ties between breast cancer and smoking, said researchers. The studies however, amongst breast cancer and younger women have produced results that are conflicting.

The researchers also have said there are questions that remain about whether smoking is tied to a higher risk of certain forms of the cancer and not others.

The team of researchers analyzed data of a group of Greater Seattle, Washington young women who had been diagnosed from 2004 to 2010 with breast cancer.

There were 778 women diagnosed during that period with estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer, which is the more common form. There were 182 diagnosed with the triple-negative form, which is more aggressive and less common.

Another 939 women, who are cancer free, had their information included for comparison reasons.

The National Cancer Institute says that one in eight women in the U.S. will eventually develop some form of breast cancer, but at a younger age, the risk is less.

Only one in 227 women at 30 years of age or less than 0.5% will have breast cancer develop before they are 40 years old.

For this study, the young females who smoked were 30% more apt to develop any type of breast cancer, when compared to females who never had smoked.

Women who had smoked recently or were currently smoking and had been smoking for 15 years or more were 50% more apt to develop the estrogen receptor-positive form of breast cancer. Those who said they had been smoking one pack or more of cigarettes for at least 10 years were 60% more apt to develop that form of cancer.

The mystery regarding what has happened to the Malaysian Airlines flight has deepened on Sunday as the search has continued for the aircraft. A military radar has indicated that the flight could have turned back to return to Kuala Lumpur prior to vanishing.

The flight carried 227 passengers along with 12 crewmembers. It suddenly disappeared in less than an hour after it took off for Beijing from Kuala Lumpur.

The plane’s disappearance has triggered a huge search and rescue operation throughout parts of the South China Sea and the Gulf of Thailand, which has involved the military from China, Vietnam, Malaysia and the United States.

Officials from search and rescue in Vietnam said on Sunday that there was an investigation about a report on suspected debris seen floating near where the flight was thought to disappear.

The object was spotted by an aircraft from Singapore about 100 kilometers off the coast of Vietnam.

Three vessels from Vietnam were dispatched to that location and were due to arrive there sometime Sunday night. Two military airlifters and three vessels from the Singapore navy were sent to join the search.

The plane’s disappearance and the fate of its passengers and crew grew more complicated by revelations that two of the plane’s passengers appeared to have boarded with passports that were stolen. That prompted executives from the airline and officials from aviation to say foul play could not be ruled out.

The police chief in Malaysia said the investigators did not rule out the possibility of terrorism, but were not considering it the more likely cause of the plane’s disappearance.

Rescuers said the plane might have attempted a return to Kuala Lumpur, which might mean it could be in another location.

Military radar indicated that the plane might have reversed its course, said the chief of the air force General Rodzali Duad. The chief said military officials were continuing to study the data from the radar, adding that it was also corroborating using radar data from civilian authorities.

More than one dozen nations were represented by the passengers on the plane. Two people an Italian and an Austrian were not on the plane as their passports were the ones stolen in Thailand.

Prosecutors have said it was the dream theft of a live for the suspect, just snatch a Stradivarius violin worth millions of dollars from a musician who never suspected it.

Salah Salahadyn who is 41 had previously attempted and failed to steal artwork. The man who lives in Milwaukee pleaded guilty to attempting to resell a statue worth $25,000 to an owner of an art gallery from whom he had stolen it five years earlier.

The man’s girlfriend told officials that while he did not take part in stealing it, he in fact plotted the theft.

For the artwork theft, Salahadyn was given a five-year sentence. He now is facing as many as 15 years behind bars for the theft of the violin. He was charged along with another a suspect on Friday in connection with the heist in January of the Stradivarius which is worth $5 million and is 300 years old.

A source told law enforcement that Salahadyn spoke about stealing artwork, said the criminal complaint. The source said the man talked about his dream theft.

Universal Knowledge Allah, who is 36 and Salahadyn appeared on Friday in a courtroom in Milwaukee County and were charged with taking part in a robbery.

Allah was also charged with marijuana possession. The court commissioner put cash bail at $10,000, citing a lengthy criminal record for Salahadyn, which includes bail jumping. Allah was given $500 bail. His does not have a police record.

Paul Ksicinski the defense attorney for Allah said the complaint against his client said he was not at the robbery scene. However, the complaint does say that Allah purchased a stun gun that was used during the robbery.

Alejandro Lockwood, the public defender defending Salahadyn did not speak to reporters.

Experts said the violin degrades if not played, but will remain in top condition when regularly played. It is estimated that between 600 and 650 Stradivarius instruments remain, close to 50% of what were produced by the master and are worth millions.

It would not be difficult to locate one, as symphonies that have a Stradivarius will play up that fact in their ads, brochures and with local media.

An index that contains 55 different foods items fell from December’s 206.2 to 203.4 last month. The drop put world food prices at a 19-month low, as costs for all foodstuffs from grains to sugar dropped amidst large global supplies, said the Food & Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

The FAO, based in Rome, released the information on Thursday online. The drop in the index was 4.5% from one year ago and is it’s lowest since June of 2012.

Corn was the S&P GSCI’s worst performer of the 24 commodities in 2013 dropping by 40% thanks to a record crop globally. Sugar fell by 16% in 2013 in New York and this year has extended that slid by another 1.6% as world supplies outpace the demand across the globe.

In another report, the FAO has said that production of world grain will be more than previously thought with a record 2.5 million metric tons.

Bumper crops during 2013 helped increase inventories, which along with large supplies for export, have forced down the prices internationally of cereals to far below the 2012 high levels, said the FAO.

Early 2014 prospects are also favorable for crops, forcing most cereals to fall even further over the last few weeks.

The grain index for FAO dropped from 191.5 to 188.4 in January, according to the latest report. The gauge for sugar prices by FAO dropped by 5.6%, while costs of vegetable oil fell by 3.8% and prices of meats dropped by over 0.9%. FAO announced that the only prices to rise were dairy costs which climbed by over 1.4%, said FAO.

The dairy cost increase was 29% higher than the same period one year ago. Widespread drought has reduced output in New Zealand, the largest diary exporter in the world.

The Department of Agriculture in the United States projects that the global inventories for dairy products from milk powder to cheese would fall in 2014 as the demand begins to outpace supply.

Imports into China of powdered whole milk, which often times is used in baby’s formula have spiked by 14-fold over the past 6 years, show new data from the USDA.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has launched an ad campaign that is the largest effort yet by the government to curb the use of tobacco amongst teens that are at-risk.

The media campaign of $115 million was born from the new FDA authority to regulate tobacco, given through a law enacted in 2009.

The ads are aimed at the close to 10 million teens in the U.S. who are thinking about smoking or are experimenting with tobacco, said the FDA.

Many kids “at risk” look at smoking as a coping mechanism to give them help in dealing with problems caused by violence, poverty or turmoil in the family.

Although the first set of new ads will be directed at a broad group of teens, the next campaigns will target some specific groups like Native Americans and gay teens.

Ads will air on MTV, YouTube, in Teen Vogue and other forms of social media.

The ad campaign was based upon studies that have shown teens are often worried about how they appear instead of their risk over the long tern of developing cancer.

One ad depicts a female attempting to purchase cigarettes in a store. When the sales clerk say she does not have enough to pay for the cigarettes, the girl scrapes part of her cheek off that reveals wrinkles underneath and then hands over her youthful looking skin to the store clerk.

This campaign comes following a new report from the surgeon general released in January that calculated over 5.6 million children in the U.S. will die from illnesses related to tobacco, unless the U.S. takes action immediately to lower the overall smoking rates.

Nearly 3,200 teens experiment with their first cigarette every day and 700 then become smokers for their lifetime, says the FDA.

The effort to educated teens over the dangers of smoking comes from the expanded authority given the FDA to regulate tobacco that was given to the regulatory agency through the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Act in 2009.

The FDA used the law in 2009 when it created the cigarette pack graphic warnings, an appeals court however struck down the warning labels two years ago.