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What actually caused a Parkland JV basketball player to collapse last Tuesday? Results from an autopsy confirming that Khalid Prince had a condition known as myocarditis, an inflammation of the heart muscle that weakened his heart.
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/myocarditis
www.journalnow.com/content/2008/dec/10/autopsy-shows-that-parkland-basketball-player-had-/news/
The funeral service for Khalid Prince is scheduled for noon this Saturday at Pinedale Christian Church. Visitation for the family will be Friday night from 7 to 9 p.m. also at Pinedale. All services are open to the public. Pineville Christian Church is located on Peter's Creek Parkway (or Highway 150 south of WS)
THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IS EXPECTED TO VOTE TODAY ON A $15 billion dollar FEDERAL BAILOUT LOAN FOR THE U.S. AUTO INDUSTRY. If approved the car companies could get the emergency loan as early as next week.
So how much is a US Senate seat worth? The Governor of Illinois (D) Rod Blagojevich and one of his aides were arrested on Tuesday. Both now face federal corruption charges. The governor is accused of, among other things, conspiring to obtain personal financial gain in the naming of a successor to President Elect Barack Obama's Senate seat.
The man who lost his entire family when an F-18 fighter jet crashed in a neighborhood near San Diego is asking the public to pray for the pilot of the plane. Don Yoon lost his wife, two young daughters and his mother-in-law on Monday. Yoon says he does not blame the pilot who ejected safely from the F-18 before in crashed into his home. During his first visit back to what was left of his home, Yoon was joined in prayer by his pastor, brother, sister, and other supporters. Yoon is also asking for help in dealing with the loss of his family.
Wake Forest senior linebacker Aaron Curry had been awarded the Butkus Award. Curry named the nation's top college linebacker. Hall of Fame linebacker Dick Butkus presented the award to Curry yesterday during Coach Jim Grobe's media luncheon. http://www.thebutkusaward.com/
http://wakeforestsports.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/120908aac.html
EagleBank Bowl with Wake Forest vs Navy on Saturday, December 20 in Washington, DC.
According to Major Paul Egan with the Salvation Army in Greensboro, someone intentionally put a counterfeit $100 bill in one of the red kettles. The Army receives more than cash and coins in their Red Kettles during the holidays including: buttons, batteries, foreign coins, stamps, fuses, flattened pennies even Chuckie Cheese tokens.
www.digtriad.com/news/features/article.aspx?storyid=115476&catid=216
Sharing is Caring…Need Knows No Season
The Great Stocking Stuff with WBFJ and the Salvation Army going on NOW thru next Wednesday, December 17 (Wed) This week's focus: The older kids…Teenagers
Pick up stockings at Chick-Fil-A stores, Wachovia banks and select Christian Bookstores
Details: http://www.wbfj.fm/
