THE SALE OF CHRYSLER TO FIAT IS ON - HOLD
The Washington Post reports that the order from the US Supreme Court simply states the sale is on hold pending further notice.The Obama administration has been a major proponent of Fiat buying Chrysler.The federal government has provided millions of dollars in emergency loans to Chrysler, as well as to General Motors, which is also in bankruptcy protection
PRESIDENT OBAMA IS TELLING GOVERNMENT AGENCIES TO SPEND MORE ECONOMIC STIMULUS MONEY AND SPEND IT FASTER. The President says he wants to see 600 thousand jobs created or saved in the next 100 days. Much of the money the president has directed the government to spend will be poured into construction projects and summer youth programs.
A North Carolina man has been sentenced to one year and one day in prison for threatening to kill then Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. 48-year-old Jerry Michael Blanchard of Indian Trail also was fined $3,000 dollars and ordered to be under supervised release for three years following his prison term.
http://www.news-record.com/content/2009/06/09/article/nc_man_gets_year_in_prison_for_threatening_obama
Former first lady Mary Easley was fired from her position at N.C. State University yesterday. Also, N.C. State Chancellor James Oblinger announced he was stepping down. A state and federal investigation is on going…
http://www.news-record.com/content/2009/06/08/article/mary_easley_fired_from_nc_state_job
Israel’s Chief Tax Collector has seized the funds of all Catholic Church institutions in Israel. According to AsiaNews, under a de facto agreement based on a U.N. statute, the ‘Church’ should be exempt from paying taxes on its property, and in fact has not done so since the state of Israel was founded. Israeli officials are reluctant to formalize a tax exemption which other religions in the country might also demand. http://www.ncregister.com/daily/israeli_official_seizes_church_funds/
The pilot of an ultra-light plane (Cessna F-22) walked away from a crash last night. The crash happened in a corn field off of West Mount Herman Church Road near Highway 601 in Surry County. The pilot is reported to have only suffered minor wounds. http://www.wxii12.com/news/19697044/detail.html
Who taught you to drive?? Police said a 17-year-old girl, from Springfield, Massachusetts, who was practicing how to drive broke her mother's legs after stepping on the gas pedal instead of the brake. Police saying that the mother was hit by her daughter…while sitting on a fence last Saturday morning at a movie theater parking lot. The woman was taken to the hospital for treatment.
Authorities cited the girl's 39-year-old father, for allowing an unlicensed driver to operate the vehicle. Information from: The Springfield Republican http://www.masslive.com/news/
Congrats finally: A 90-year-old Chicago woman who dropped out of school to help her family during the Great Depression now has her high school diploma.
Eleanor Benz left Chicago Public Schools' Lake View High in 1936 during her senior year to take a job. Benz later got married: having 15 children, 54 grandchildren and 37 great-grandchildren.
Benz attended night school for typing and bookkeeping, but she recently told one of her daughters that never completing high school was one of her greatest disappointments. Her children contacted Lake View, and the school approved Benz's diploma. This week, at her 90th birthday party, Benz's family presented her with the diploma and a 2009 gown and cap with a 1936 tassel.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090607/D98LGFAG0.html
SPORTS:
High Point golfer Drew Weaver, recent Virginia Tech graduate, has earned a spot in the U.S. Open. The US Open…June 18-21 in New York
http://www.news-record.com/content/2009/06/09/article/weaver_has_ticket_to_play_in_us_open
NBA Finals: LA (Lakers) at Orlando (Magic)…Game 3 tonight… (LA up 2 games to none)
