WE NEED YOUR HELP:
Do you have extra clothes that you could donate to help out the needy? You can drop off clothing donations behind the Millennium Center (dock) starting at 3pm this afternoon. The clothing will be distributed tonight at the Christmas for the City celebration in downtown Winston-Salem. The Millennium Center is located on 5th street across from the new bus depot in downtown Winston-Salem. (5th and Trade…or…5th and Liberty Streets)
Details and details about Christmas for the City
http://www.christmasforthecity.com/
A major winter storm is promising to bring a white Christmas to parts of the West and Midwest. The storm is expected to dump more than a foot of snow on parts of Colorado today.
CONGRESSIONAL REPUBLICANS ARE WELCOMING THE ‘DEFECTION’ OF FORMER DEMOCRAT PARKER GRIFFITH. Griffith, who represents the fifth district of Alabama, has announced he is switching parties.
Democrats are ready to push President Obama's health care overhaul past one last 60-vote hurdle to final Christmas Eve passage. The third procedural vote comes this afternoon, when Democrats will have to put up 60 votes for the last time to cut off debate on the legislation. Democrats are also expected to turn back points of order raised against the bill by Republicans, including one questioning the constitutionality of requiring most every American to buy health insurance. http://www.seattlepi.com/business/1310ap_us_health_care_overhaul.html?source=mypi
BlackBerry customers finally have their e-mail and Internet back. Services were down for more than eight hours overnight. This was the second such outage for Blackberry users in less than a week.
The parents who pulled off the balloon boy hoax are scheduled to be sentenced today after pleading guilty to charges that they carried out the stunt in October to promote a reality TV show. The husband faces up to 90 days and jail, and the wife faces up to 60 days. The couple could be forced to pay tens of thousands of dollars in restitution over their stunt.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20091223/D9CP0C5O0.html
THE SUPREME COURT OF BRAZIL HAS DECIDED TO RETURN A NINE YEAR OLD BOY TO HIS AMERICAN FATHER. Sean Goldman was taken to Brazil five years ago by his mother. The mother passed away last year during childbirth. The mother's family has been fighting to keep the boy in Brazil.
Ninety-one people were taken to the hospital after an American Airlines plane over-ran a runway and crashed into a fence near Kingston, Jamaica. Flight 331 from Miami, Florida, was carrying 148 passengers plus six crew members. There were no fatalities reported.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/12/22/jamaica.plane/index.html
CNN Money: A list of the 50 Best jobs in America on the News Blog at wbfj.fm
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/bestjobs/2009/snapshots/1.html
SPORTS
College Basketball: Carolina over Marshall…98 - 61
College Bowl Games: Las Vegas Bowl: BYU ripped Oregon State last night…44 – 20
Tonight: Utah vs California in the Poinsettia Bowl
Serena Williams has been named top female athlete by the Associated Press. On Monday, Jimmie Johnson, the first driver in NASCAR history to win four consecutive titles, was named Male Athlete of the Year by the AP. www.nascar.com
You can choose the best 9 Christian songs of 2009. Details on how you can win a
WOW 2010 CD and dinner at Midtown Café online at www.wbfj.fm
