THE US SUPREME COURT IS EXPECTED TO CONSIDER TODAY WHETHER TO TAKE UP A LAWSUIT CHALLENGING PRESIDENT-ELECT BARACK OBAMA'S U.S. CITIZENSHIP. The Chicago Tribune reports the case is a continuation of a lawsuit filed by a New Jersey man. Officials in Hawaii saying Obama's birth certificate is locked in a vault in Hawaii.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/obama/chi-obama-birth-certificatedec04,0,664988.story
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15 year old Khalid Prince, a JV basketball player who collapsed during a game at Parkland on Tuesday, remains in critical condition at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. Parkland’s JV team will play Reynolds HS at Reynolds tonight. http://www.journalnow.com/
PRESIDENT AND LAURA BUSH flipped the switch last night to bring on the lights during the 85th annual lighting of the National Christmas Tree.
Don’t expect to find Christmas trees in the libraries at Duke, North Carolina State University and now UNC Chapel Hill. The News & Observer of Raleigh reporting that Associate provost Sarah Michalak decided against the trees after getting complaints from employees and library users about the Christian display. www.journalnow.com/content/2008/dec/05/unc-chapel-hill-library-drops-christmas-trees/
Samaritan’s Purse is officially sending out millions of little shoe boxes to children in 100 countries this week. Since the ministry began in 1993, Operation Christmas Child has sent ‘shoe boxes’ to more than 61 million needy children in 130 countries. http://www.samaritanspurse.org/
New research showing that ‘happiness’ may be contagious? Researchers found that people with the most social connections, such as friends, spouses, neighbors, and, relatives, were the happiest. The study appears in the British Medical Journal.
CCM artists nominated for a Grammy Award in February: Best Contemporary Album: Steven Curtis Chapman, Brandon Heath, Leeland, Chris Tomlin, and Cece Winans. Best Gospel Song: Brandon Heath, Kirk Franklin, and Mercy Me.Other performers receiving nominations in various categories: Casting Crowns, Take 6, tobyMac, Sanctus Real, Superchick and Bart Millard (of MercyMe). http://www.grammy.com/
NASCAR: Petty Enterprises is apparently talking with Gillett-Evernham Motorsports about a possible merger. www.myfoxwghp.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail?contentId=8006193&version=3&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=1.1.1
High School Football Play-offs (schedule at the bottom of the link)
www.journalnow.com/content/2008/dec/04/starmount-worried-about-newton-conovers-speed/sports-highschool-football/
Second round of the FCS college sub-division play-offs: ASU hosting the Richmond Spiders in Boone at noon on Saturday http://www.goasu.com/
The ‘Dash’ is the new name of the minor league baseball team in
Winston-Salem. Name the mascot contest: http://www.wsdash.com/
