Today is National Lemonade Day and National Sunglasses Day
Code Orange Air Quality Alert for the Triad today
The Weekend: Scattered afternoon showers and thunderstorms
The latest report released by the NC Drought Monitor showing that current drought conditions are worse now than they were in June of 2007. Ninety-seven of the state's 100 counties are in some level of drought. www.wxii12.com/news/16724579/detail.html
www.ncdrought.org/
In a five-to-four decision, the Supreme Court ruling that individual citizens have the right to own firearms. The ruling striking down a 32-year-old ban on handguns in Washington, D.C.
www.onenewsnow.com/Legal/Default.aspx?id=155230
Oil prices jumping to a new record high…over $141 dollars a barrel.
Over 750 people have been affected by the tainted tomato outbreak nationwide. The CDC saying that tainted tomato cases have been found in 34 states…with more than 300 of the 756 of the cases have come from Texas. www.healthday.com/Article.asp?AID=616940
If you're an older American with no major health problems, chances are about one in 10 that you've had a stroke and didn't know it. A ‘silent stroke’ usually shows no symptoms, except for some loss of brain function. www.healthday.com/Article.asp?AID=616898
A trash searching robot looking for love out…(Wall-E) in theaters this weekend.
Focus on the Family (Plugged In Online) www.pluggedinonline.com/
SPORTS: Derrick Rose, O.J. Mayo and Kevin Love going 1-2-3 in NBA draft.
Golfer Rocco Mediate the runner up to Tiger Woods at the US Open has committed to play in Greensboro this August at the Wyndham Championship (Sedgefield Country Club).