Flash Flood Watch continues through this evening for Surry and Wilkes Counties...as well as Carroll, Patrick and Grayson counties in southern Virginia.
Your WBFJ Family Station Forecast: Mostly cloudy. 70% chance of showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly this afternoon…High 88
Guest this morning on the Morning Show:
Pastor Alex Mutagubya of Gaba Community Church (Kampala, Uganda, East Africa)
Pastor Alex will be the featured speaker at the Ekissa Ministry Fundraiser this Friday evening (August 20) starting at 6:30pm. Location: Hillsdale United Methodist Church in Advance.
Tickets: $15.00 (includes an Uganda dinner) Proceeds: Ekissa, a local non-profit ministry working in the village of Bweya, Uganda to help purchase land and building projects (336) 971.4855 / www.ekissa.com
A mom in South Carolina does the unthinkable. Twenty-nine-year-old Shaquan Dudley accused of suffocating two of her children could get the death penalty. The boys (ages one and two) were found earlier in the week strapped into their toddler seats submerged in a river. (RnR)
Two boys are back home safe with their father after they were taken by their mother, who violated a custody arrangement. The boys, Ethan Andrew and Austin Green, both 9 years old , were last seen by their father on June 28 when their mother, who was living in Greensboro at the time, came to pick them up from a home on Old Lexington Road in Winston-Salem. The Greenwood Sheriff’s Department in South Carolina located the boys’ on Monday.
The mother could be charged in the incident. http://www.wxii12.com/news/24659898/detail.html
Syndicated radio talk show host Dr. Laura Schles-singer will be leaving her radio program at the end of the year, because she wants her "First Amendment rights back." The announcement comes days after Dr Laura repeatedly used the ‘N’ word while attempting to make a point with an on-air caller. Dr Laura has apologized on her website, saying she was wrong in using the racial slur. FYI: At least one radio sponsor, Motel 6, said it would no longer ‘leave the light on’ well…advertise on the show
www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/TV/2010/08/17/Dr-Laura-says-shes-leaving-radio/UPI-52201282099673/
Hung jury? A federal jury finding former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich guilty of just one count of lying to federal agents. The judge will likely declare a mistrial on the 23 more serious counts against the former Governor. Prosecutors in the case saying that will re-try the case against Blagojevich. RnR
Math Counts, a national math competition for teams and individual students in grades 6 - 8, will not allow homeschoolers to form teams and compete in the 2010-2011 school year. The Math Counts board unanimously decided to exclude homeschoolers in response to a few situations in which "super teams" were formed by pulling certain gifted students from public schools and labeling them as homeschool teams. A spokesperson Concerned Women for America : “These examples of cheating have obviously marred the competition, but homeschoolers as a whole should not be completely ‘left out’ of the competition.” Math Counts is comparable to the National Spelling Bee. Winners on a national level are rewarded and meet the president at the White House. www.christiannewswire.com/news/903314714.html
Beloit (like ‘Detroit’) College Mindset List for 2010…
Class of 2014 (or incoming college freshmen) can't write in cursive, email is way too slow, wrist watches are obsolete and for the most part phones have always been cordless.
Since 1998, Beloit College, in Wisconsin, has released the Beloit College Mindset List. It provides a look at the cultural existence that has shape the lives of students entering college this fall. Check out the list: www.beloit.edu/mindset/2014.php
SPORTS
Minor League baseball: Last night’s Winston-Salem Dash home game against the Salem Red Sox was suspended in the third inning due to heavy rain. FYI: The WS Dash will play the remainder of Tuesday’s game starting at 6pm this evening…then play tonight’s scheduled game afterward. All weather permitting.
www.wsdash.com
