The Triad is under a Code Orange Air Quality Alert
Some 28,000 sets of camouflage child pajamas are being recalled because the screen print on the shirt contains excessive lead. The logo on the shirt says “Athletics 90”. The PJs were sold at The Children's Place retail stores nationwide. Consumers can return the PJ’s To the Children's Place store for a full refund. Children's Place information # 1-877-752-2387
www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml08/08302.html
At least four people were killed…close to 50 people injured yesterday when a tornado hit a Boy Scout camp in western Iowa. Many of the injuries occurred when a brick fireplace was ripped apart by storm. Another storm in Kansas damaged several buildings even ripping the roof off a Frat house on the campus on Kansas State University.
www.cnn.com/2008/US/weather/06/12/severe.weather/index.html
The National Weather Service has extended the dense smoke advisory for much of eastern Carolina (including Hyde County) because of a massive wild fire that has consumed over 40 acres (or 63 square miles). Smoke from the Hyde County fire, about 40 miles from the Atlantic, may drift over the Piedmont over the next few days. No injuries have been reported because of the fire which was sparked by a lightning strike on June 1. www.witntv.com/home/headlines/19456249.html www.wxii12.com/news/16575806/detail.html
NASCAR: Petty Enterprises has sold majority ownership in the race team as well as the Richard Petty Driving Experience to Boston Ventures (a private Equity firm). Richard Petty will still have a large day-to-day role with the race team his family started in 1949. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/racing/06/11/bc.car.nascar.pettysale.ap/index.html?section=si_latest
PRESIDENT BUSH SAYS HE REGRETS THAT THE WAY HE SPOKE AHEAD OF THE IRAQ INVASION. In an exclusive interview published in the British daily ‘The Times’, Bush said that, in retrospect, he could have used "a different tone, a different rhetoric."
Forbes' annual Celebrity 100 list is out and Oprah Winfrey topping the list of the world’s most powerful and best paid celebrities.
#2 Tiger Woods
#3 Angelina Jolie
#5 Soccer star David Beckham
#10 Johnny Depp
#8 Sting and The Police (because of their latest concert tour)
#9 J.K. Rowling (The author of the Harry Potter books)
#22 Simon Cowell
#31 Tom Cruise
#35 Miley Cyrus
#62 Ryan Seacrest
#89 The Jonas Brothers
The Forbes Celebrity 100 factors in celebrity earnings and media coverage of a famous person or group. www.forbes.com/2007/06/14/best-paid-celebrities-07celebrities_cz_lg_0614celeb_land.html
