The Hula Hoop is 50 years old today. :)
www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,368743,00.html
The number of people known to have fallen ill after eating salmonella-tainted tomatoes has now jumped to 383 in 30 states plus the District of Columbia.
www.healthday.com/Article.asp?AID=616672
No Summer school on Fridays? Officials at Thomasville City Schools deciding to go to four days during the summer in an effort to reduce rising energy costs. (Fox 8)
AMBER Alert: The search for 17 year old William Benitez has expanded from Rockingham County to Texas. The teenage boy was kidnapped at knifepoint on Wednesday from a home in Madison. www.news-record.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080619/NRSTAFF/679717511
www.myfoxwghp.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=6799017&version=2&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=3.2.1
PLANNED PARENTHOOD HAS BEEN IMPLICATED IN THE DEATHS OF AT LEAST FOUR PATIENTS WHO USED THE ABORTION DRUG RU-486. The Family Research Council is outraged…saying that "taxpayers are still forced to provide the resources for Planned Parenthood's medical negligence."
RELIGIOUS CONGREGATIONS IN THE U.S. HAVE WHAT RESEARCHERS CALL A "MORTALITY RATE" OF JUST 1%. The study by sociologists at the University of Arizona and Duke University revealed that about 10 out of every 1,000 religious congregations disband each year. The findings were published in the June issue of the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion.
Police in Hawaii say a thief got his caffeine fix when he made off with more than 1,000 pounds of Kona coffee beans. http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080619/D91D0AT80.html
Police Springville, Utah say a 17 year old driver who lost control of her car while scrambling to capture her pet gerbil wasn't cited for an accident that hospitalized two people. http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080618/D91CQ14O7.html
SPORTS:
No more ‘tour play’ for golfer Tiger Woods. He has taken himself out for the rest of the season. Woods will have surgery to repair a torn ligament that he injured 10 months ago.
Local Baseball: Winston-Salem Warthogs vs The Nationals…7pm
Warthogs at home through the weekend. http://www.warthogs.com/
Beautiful weather continues…
Your WBFJ Family Station Forecast:
Today: Sunny…High 85
Tonight: Partly cloudy…Low 56
Friday: Mix of sun and clouds…High 85
