Your WBFJ Family Station Forecast: Mix of sun and clouds with a chance of thunderstorms this
afternoon. Humid…High 92
FYI: Elvis Presley died on this date back in 1977. Elvis was 42 years old.
President Obama: Muslims Have Right to Build Place of Worship Near 9/11 Site. President Obama declared his support Friday night for the Muslim house of worship. www.christianpost.com/article/20100814/obama-muslims-have-right-to-build-place-of-worship-near-9-11-site/index.html
While the number of conventions in the Triad has been holding steady, the number of people traveling to those events is starting to rise once again. The convention business took a hit nationally during the recession. But convention and tourism officials in Greensboro and Winston-Salem say they’re starting to see an increase in the number of people making the trip to the Triad. www.bizjournals.com/triad/stories/2010/08/16/story3.html?b=1281931200^3789831
An 18 year old from Greensboro was one of two people killed in a deadly crash Saturday morning near Monroe. Arielle Parker would have been a freshman at Wingate this fall. Police stating that the driver of the car that four students were riding in…ran a stop sign and were hit by a large farm truck. (Enquirer-Journal of Monroe)
A deadly crash during an off-road 200-mile truck race in southern California's Mojave Desert claimed the lives of eight spectators Saturday night. Nine others were seriously injured.
www.cnn.com/2010/US/08/15/california.racing.deaths/index.html?hpt=T2
Just in time for Back-to-School, JC Penny stores nationwide and locally will once again ask you to ‘round up’ your total bill for a good cause. The JC Penny Afterschool Round Up helps kids through charitable organizations. The JC Penny location at Hanes Mall continues its partnership with the YMCA afterschool programs of NW NC. The Round up goes through August 17th.
Kernersville police are searching for a female who posed as a parking lot attendant and collected money from visitors at Beeson Park on Saturday. The suspect looked the part of a parking attendant…but…the money was supposed to be for the baseball teams and her pocket
Anyone with information should contact Kernersville Police Department
at 336-996-3177.
Court is no laughing matter as far as one North Carolina judge is concerned. A Fayetteville man who was waiting for his case to be heard on Friday drew the wrath of Judge Toni King after he began laughing while court was in session. Authorities said King asked 47-year-old Johnny Montgomery why he was laughing, but the man refused to say. The Judge ordered Montgomery to jail on a misdemeanor charge. As deputies were preparing to take Montgomery to jail, they searched him and found more than 3 grams of crack cocaine. Montgomery was charged with felony drug possession. http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100815/D9HJTQP00.html
SPORTS
Today’s “Kevin Harvick Foundation Pro-Am” kicking off a week of pro golf action with the Wyndham Championship at Sedgefield country club in Greensboro. The tournament officially starts Thursday. www.WyndhamChampionship.com
NASCAR: Kevin Harvick taking the checkered flag at Michigan international Speedway on Sunday. www.nascar.com
Update: The Dudley High School football player who broke his neck during practice last week, has been released from Moses Cone Hospital and is back at home. Doctors have told Brandon Burkes that although he will never play football again…he did not suffer any paralysis from his injury. Burkes will undergo weeks of rehabilitation. (Greensboro News n Record)
Pro Golf: Crazy finish at the PGA Championship in Wisconsin. Martin Kaymer winning his first ‘major’ yesterday…while Dustin Johnson was knocked out of Sunday's playoff because of a two-stroke penalty for grounding his club in a bunker he figured for a footpath. A tiny patch of sand well behind the ropes on the 18th fairway that spectators had trampled over all week. A rules violation he never thought was at issue. (RnR)
Minor League play: The Winston-Salem DASH vs the Salem Red Sox. First pitch at 7 pm www.wsdash.com
