Today is ‘Wear Red Day’ bringing awareness to women’s heart health.
Sponsored by the American Heart Association. www.goredforwomen.org/national_wear_red_day.aspx
Your WBFJ Family Station Forecast: Today: Sunny…High near 50.
Sunny and warmer for the weekend
First he lost a major sponsor, then he got suspended. Michael Phelps has been suspended from competetive swimming for 3 months. Phelps also losing an endorsement from Kellogg after photos of Phelps smoking marijuana surfaced in a British newspaper. Phelps has apologized for what he called "regrettable" behavior and "bad judgment".
Job Alert: Great Wolf Lodge is holding a job fair today through Saturday at Lowe's Motor Speedway…hoping to fill 500 jobs. The resort off I-85 near Concord opens at the end of March and will offers an 80,000-square-foot indoor water park and more than 400 hotel rooms.
Details: The job fair at the speedway will be 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Friday and 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday. www.wxii12.com/news/18645726/detail.html
Some concerns for people using online social networking Web site Facebook.One Triad woman had to shut her Facebook page down after she became the victim of an internet scam. www.wxii12.com/news/18644880/detail.html
More details coming out about the mother of the Octuplets. Public documents showing that 33-year-old Nadya Suleman, who now has 14 children in all, actually struggled with depression for years. She always wanted a huge family to make up for the isolation she felt as an only child. Suleman also struggled for seven years before finally giving birth to her first child in 2001 through in vitro fertilization. www.the-dispatch.com/article/20090205/APA/902051485
A 60-year-old Canadian woman has reportedly given birth to twin boys after undergoing fertility treatments. The first-time mother, Ranjit Hayer telling the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation that she has tried to conceive naturally for decades. Giving birth at that age is rare but not unheard of. In November, a woman in India who claimed to be about 70 gave birth to her first child. Her age could not be confirmed because she had no birth certificate.
www.wxii12.com/health/18654812/detail.html
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is recovering after pancreatic cancer surgery yesterday. The early stage cancer was discovered during a routine check-up in late January. The 75-year old Ginsburg was appointed to the High Court by President Clinton in 1993.
Nearly 168,000 emergency meal kits sent to Kentucky in the wake of an ice storm had been recalled more than two weeks earlier because some contained peanut butter that could have been contaminated by salmonella. www.the-dispatch.com/article/20090205/APA/902051313
Pirates have released that Ukranian ship after receiving a $3 million dollar ransom. The ship loaded with military weapons and tanks has been held by Pirates off the coast of Somalia since September. Pirates have captured nearly 50 ships since last year off the Horn of Africa.
Grandparents listen up: The Glade Street YWCA in Winston-Salem has a sweetheart of an offer. Free Saturday afternoon swimming during the month of February for grandparents and their grandkids. The FREE Swimming happens between 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. for grandparents and their grandchildren (ages 15 and under). No membership is required.
All you need is a swimsuit, a towel and a desire to have some serious fun.
For more information call 722-5138.
Kids you can catch “Abe and the Amazing Promise’ that latest VeggieTales adventure tomorrow on the Gospel Music Channel (DirecTV channel 338) At 9am and 2pm. http://bigidea.com/index.aspx
‘Abe and the Amazing Promise’ will also be premiered tomorrow between 11 and 2pm during Kids Day at LifeWay Christian Store in Winston-Salem.
WBFJ will be broadcasting LIVE from 11-1.
Sports: Davidson beat UNC-G…75-54 . Davidson moves to within one win of matching the longest league winning streak in Southern Conference history. (Stephen Curry scored 29 points)
Head basketball coach for Tennessee, Pat Summitt winning her 1,000th career game last night…becoming the first Division I coach - man or woman - to win 1,000 career games. Tennessee over Georgia…73-43
