Problem: (CNN) -- "I killed that lady," the 10-year-old boy told a Pennsylvania state trooper, after a 90-year-old woman was found dead in the home of the boy's grandfather.

Tristen Kurilla, a fifth grader, made the chilling confession Saturday, police said, after his mother brought him to the Pennsylvania State Police Barracks in Honesdale, about 140 miles north of Philadelphia.

Now, Kurilla is being held at the Wayne County Correctional Facility and charged as an adult with criminal homicide, the Wayne County district attorney's office said. The boy is separated from adult offenders and is being constantly supervised, CNN affiliate WBRE reported.

The boy admitted to grabbing a wooden cane, holding it against 90-year-old Helen Novak's throat for several seconds and punching her in the throat and stomach, according to the police affidavit.

Kurilla told police he was angry at Novak because she had yelled at him when he entered her room. He said he wanted to ask her a question.

Were you trying to kill her? the trooper asked the boy.

"No, I was only trying to hurt her," Kurilla replied, according to the affidavit.

The boy was ordered to be held without bail after his arraignment and is set to appear in court October 22.

Bernie Brown, his lawyer, said he was petitioning the court to get the fifth-grade Damascus Elementary School student out of jail, WBRE reported.

"Tristen really kind of doesn't have an idea of what is going on," Brown told the station.

Brown added, "Jail is still jail, no matter what part of the facility you are in."
1. Who did Tristen kill?
2. How old is she?
3. Why did he do it?
4. Why?
5. Where did she do that?
6. Why?
7. How old is the boy?
8. Does he go to school?
9. How far has he gotten?
10. Where did the find her?
11. What did he use to choke her?
12. How did he injure her stomach?
13. Did he punch her anywhere else?
14. Did he turn himself in?
15. Who took him to do it?
16. Did he want to kill her?
17. What was his plan?
18. How much is his bail?
19. Does he have a lawyer?
Answer: 1. Helen Novak
2. 90
3. he was angry
4. she yelled at him
5. her room
6. he entered it
7. 10
8. yes
9. fifth grade
10. his grandfather's home
11. her cane
12. punching her
13. the throat
14. yes
15. his mother
16. no
17. to hurt her
18. he has no bail
19. yes

Problem: When Paul was a boy growing up in Utah, he happened to live near a copper smelter , and the chemicals that poured out had made a wasteland out of what used to be a beautiful forest. One day a young visitor looked at this wasteland and called it an awful area. Paul knocked him down. From then on, something happened inside him.

Years later Paul was back in the area, and he went to the smelter office. He asked if they had any plans or if they would let him try to bring the trees back. The answer from that big industry was "No".

Paul then went to college to study the science of plants. Unfortunately, his teachers said there weren't any birds or squirrels to spread the seeds. It would be a waste of his life to try to do it. Everyone knew that, he was told. Even if he was knowledgeable as he had expected, he wouldn't get his idea accepted.

Paul later got married but his dream would not die. And then one night he did what he could with what he had. As Samuel Johnson wrote, "It is common to overlook what is near by keeping the eye fixed on something remote. Attainable good is often ignored by minds busied in wide ranges." Under the cover of darkness, he went secretly into the wasteland and started planting.

And every week, he made his secret journey into the wasteland and planted trees and grass. For fifteen years he did this against _ . Slowly rabbits appeared. Later, as there was legal pressure to clean up the environment, the company actually hired Paul to do what he was already doing.

Now the place is fourteen thousand acres of trees and grass and bushes, and Paul has received almost every environmental award Utah has. It took him until his hair turned white, but he managed to keep that impossible vow he made to himself as a child.
1. Who went to college?
2. Where did he grow up?
3. Was he a single man?
4. Where was his childhood residence by?
5. Was it good for the surroundings?
6. What was his dream?
7. Was he encouraged to do so?
8. What did he major in at school?
9. What did the smelter destroy?
10. What did he sneak around and do under the cover of darkness?
11. How many acres was it?
12. Did animal life start to appear?
13. Was he acknowledged for his tasks?
14. Was he a young man when he achieved it?
15. In his younger years was he ever violent?
16. What did he do?
17. why?
18. Who wrote the quote that encouraged him?
19. Did he gain employment for the cause he was trying to achieve?
20. Was the legal system every involved?
Answer: 1. Paul
2. Utah
3. Yes, in college
4. a copper smelter
5. no
6. to try to bring the trees back
7. No
8. the science of plants.
9. a beautiful forest
10. started planting
11. fourteen thousand
12. yes
13. yes
14. no
15. yes
16. he knocked someone down
17. he called the wasteland an awful area
18. Samuel Johnson
19. yes
20. yes

Problem: The longest-serving lawmaker in U.S. congressional history, a legendary Motown artist, and the matriarch of a renowned political family will be among this year's recipients of the nation's highest civilian honor, the White House announced Monday.

Rep. John Dingell, Stevie Wonder and Ethel Kennedy are three of the nineteen Americans who Obama will bestow the Presidential Medal of Freedom upon later this month.

Dingell has served nearly 60 years in Congress representing a district outside Detroit. He'll retire at the end of this session. Wonder has won 25 Grammys and an Oscar for his fusion of soul, rhythm and blues and jazz. And Kennedy, who is the widow of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, became an activist for human rights and the environment after her husband's death.

Other honorees this year include Meryl Streep, the prolific actress known for holding the most Oscar nominations of any actor in history. She stars this winter in "Into the Woods," the musical composed by Stephen Sondheim, to whom Obama will also award the Medal of Freedom on November 24.

Tom Brokaw, the former "NBC Nightly News" anchor, will be honored as well, alongside actress Marlo Thomas, golfer Charles Sifford and author Isabel Allende.

The other medalists are scientist Mildred Dresselhaus; Native American activist Suzan Harjo; former Reps. Abner Mikva of Illinois and Patsy Takemoto Mink of Hawaii; and economist Robert Solow.

Five awards will be delivered posthumously: to "Freedom Summer" civil rights activists James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner; to the well-known choreographer Alvin Ailey, who founded the namesake dance company; and to Rep. Edward Roybal, the founder of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.
1. How many people got medals?
2. How many medals were to people who have died?
3. Who is the medalist from Michigan?
4. What is he known for?
5. He's a representative from near which city?
6. What is Alvin Ailey famous for?
7. Who did the music for Into the Woods?
8. Is he getting a medal?
9. When is the medal ceremony?
Answer:
1. 19.
2. Five
3. Dingell
4. He served nearly 60 years in Congress.
5. Detroit.
6. As a choreographer.
7. Stephen Sondheim
8. No.
9. Later this month.