Pop Star Britney Spears will stay in a psychiatric ward for two weeks. Spears was supposed to be released from the hospital in UCLA yesterday after undergoing a 72-hour mental evaluation. http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080204/D8UJGAJ81.html
Dawn Morgan will be installed as the first female Mayor in Kernersville on Tuesday. The Board of Alderman chose Morgan to replace Curtis Swisher who is stepping down to become the town manager of Kernersville.
A Greensboro man was fatally wounded yesterday afternoon when the small plane he was piloting hit an embankment and caught fire while taking off at the Elkin Municipal Airport. It is the second fatal plane crash in Surry County in three days. Six men flying from Georgia were killed on Friday when their plane crashed just east of the Mount Airy/Surry County Airport. The wreckage fell in a grassy area between two homes, in a neighborhood of at least 40 to 50 homes; however, no one on the ground was injured. The Black Box voice recorder has been recovered and sent to Washington DC for analysis. (www.journalnow.com)
A deadly bombing at a Jerusalem Café claiming 2 lives and wounding ten others. The Jerusalem Post reports that a number of Islamic groups have claimed responsibility for the suicide attack. It was the first such attack in Israel since January of 2007.
The African nation of Chad in chaos. Rebel forces trying to overthrow the government in Chad have reportedly been driven out of the capital city. The BBC reports that hundreds of foreigners have been evacuated.
Two earthquakes in Africa claiming 39 lives and injured nearly five-hundred others in Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo on Sunday.
Over 20 states will be holding primaries tomorrow which is known as Super Tuesday. Residents in North Carolina will have to wait til May. But, students (kids) in our state can practice their eventual right to vote on Tuesday. The Super Duper Presidential Poll is designed to encourage students in kindergarten through High School the importance of voting. http://www.kidsvotingnc.org/.
The Hannah Montana 3-D Movie scoring big at the Box Office. Disney presents "Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert Tour Movie" Find a Triad theater showing the movie: http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/hannahmontana3d/
ACC: NC State over Wake Forest…67-65 UNC outlasting Florida State…84-73 in OT.
Super Bowl 42: The Giants upsetting the almost undefeated Patriots in the last minute of the game…17-14
Your WBFJ Family Station Forecast:
Today: Clouds moving into the Triad. An afternoon shower
possible…High 65
Tonight: Showers ending…Low 49
Tuesday: Partly sunny and breezy…High 73
Wednesday: Showers…High 67
That famous groundhog from Pennsylvania ‘Punxutawney Phil’ did see his shadow over the weekend, so legend has it that there will be six more weeks of winter weather??!! :)
