Code Orange Air Quality Alert for the Triad today
Your WBFJ Family Station Forecast: Today: Sunny…High 93
The global food crisis is forcing millions to go hungry.
Compassion International is calling for a Day of Prayer and Fasting
TODAY (June 25) for those who are suffering.
Food prices for popular menu items like rice, wheat and beans have doubled in the last year
www.compassion.com/NR/exeres/A1BD84CB-1BBF-443A-B74D-829ABA8D15AB.htm
The number of people around the world with at least $1 million dollars in assets has passed the 10 million mark. One in every three millionaires in the world lives in America.
(Merrill Lynch & Co. and consulting firm Capgemini Group)
Senator Barack Obama is asking his top donors to help his former rival
Senator Hillary Clinton with her campaign debt. www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/06/24/obama.clinton.debt/index.html
A House committee has approved a plan that would make it illegal for children and teenagers under 16 from riding in the open bed of a pickup truck. Current law allows children as young as 12 to sit in the cargo area. Under the bill, violators could be fined $25 dollars plus earn you one insurance point on your driving record. www.wxii12.com/news/16696423/detail.html
A federal grand jury in Charlotte has indicted 26 members of the MS-13 Gang, on various charges including drug trafficking and even murders in Greensboro and Charlotte. www.wxii12.com/news/16698195/detail.html
Chicago-style pizzas headed to troops in Iraq
Mark Evans wanted to send a taste of Chicago to troops in Afghanistan and Iraq. So he's doing it deep-dish pizza-style. The Retired Air Force Sgt. from Elk Grove Village, Illinois has arranged for around 3,000 pizzas to be frozen, packed in dry ice and shipped to the Middle East in time for the Fourth of July. His 16-year-old son, Kent, came up with the idea.
DHL Global has volunteered to ship the pizzas from Lou Malnati's Pizzeria.
"Pizzas 4 Patriots" program www.star-telegram.com/467/story/721850.html
The Northwest North Carolina Chapter of the American Red Cross has put together a cool camp for the summer. Babysitter’s Boot Camp is designed for students ages 11-15. Campers will get babysitter training, infant and child CPR, First Aid basics plus Master of Disaster training. The weeklong day camps are going on in July and August.
(336) 245-5744 www.nwnc-redcross.org
College World Series (Game Two) Fresno State forcing game 3…after an impressive 19-10 win over Georgia. The third and final game tonight.
Tiger Woods had reconstructive surgery yesterday on his left knee.
That’s Tiger’s second operation within 10 weeks.
