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Posted: 5:09 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2010

KRMG Morning News "Stack of Stuff" and Notes 8/18/2010 

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By Joe Kelley, Host of the KRMG Morning News

  • There was a possible resolution in the works Tuesday night in the debate surrounding the proposed mosque and Islamic cultural center near ground zero. The developers of the mosque may be willing to budge and move away from the Park 51 location where they originally planned the construction. So will the mosque be moving? New York Gov. David Paterson plans to meet with developers of the controversial ground zero mosque as early as this week to offer them state land - at another location - for their cultural and religious center. Paterson told Congressman Peter King about the meeting, and King said the governor asked him to make it public.
  • In a surprise announcement during an appearance Tuesday night on CNN's Larry King Live, Dr. Laura Schlessinger said that she will cease doing her Talk Radio Network-syndicated national radio show. "At the end of the year, when my contract runs out, I've decided not to do a radio show anymore," she said. "I want my First Amendment rights back, which I can't have on radio, without the threat of attack on my advertisers and stations." Schlessinger's surprise announcement comes in the wake of a controversy over her use of the "n" word when talking with a caller during a recent broadcast.
  • Coming THIS FRIDAY, Aug. 20 the Tulsa Republican Club will host a great program. We will be joined by Congressman John Sullivan and Congresswoman Mary Fallin. They will be discussing several important topics: outlook on the 2010 elections, accomplishments from the GOP in 2010 and what we can expect from Republican leaders in Washington in the coming months. Congresswoman Fallin will also discuss her campaign for Governor. We are also honored to be joined by Joe Kelley, host of the KRMG Morning News as the moderator for this event.
  • KOTV: A plan to save two old Frisco Railroad cars in Jenks has been derailed. Wrecking crews worked to dismantle the passenger cars and the old Jenks Depot Tuesday afternoon. The land is needed for a parking lot expansion project. Railroad preservationist Carl Schorfheide tried to find a new home for the cars but ran out of time. He worked raise money to pay for the moving expenses but timing didn't work out. The city needs the cars removed before they repave a nearby street and start construction on the parking lot.
  • KRMG: Jeffrey David Matthews date with death is on hold.  He was to die Tuesday night at the State Penitentiary in McAlester but a federal judge has granted him a 60 day stay. Matthews is challenging a change in one of the drugs used for lethal injection.  Charlie Price with the Oklahoma Attorney General's Office says they are disappointed in the judge's decision and don't feel it is necessary. Matthews was convicted of murdering his 77 year old great uncle in 1994.  Otis Earl Short was shot and killed during a robbery in his McClain County home on January 27th of that year.
  • KOTV: The budget crisis has Oklahoma schools cutting costs every way possible. The Oklahoma City Public School district has a detailed plan to save $1 million in utility bills. Teachers are no longer allowed to have personal appliances in the classroom, such as coffee makers, refrigerators, and microwaves.
  • KRMG: Tulsa City Councilors today said Mayor Dewey Bartlett was painting a distorted picture of the budget surplus from the last fiscal year and that contrary to the Mayor's belief, there was enough money to pay for all of the council's budget amendments that were approved in June. Councilor G.T. Bynum went as far as to suggest the Mayor was being overly gloomy about the city's financial condition, so that he could avoid implementing the council's amendments.
  • KOTV: Upon the request of the Tulsa County fair board, the City of Tulsa has agreed to a stormwater fee credit that will end a dispute over outstanding fees charged to the County for stormwater collection and refuse services at the Tulsa County Fairgrounds.
  • TULSA WORLD: Tulsa police are looking for a woman and her five small children, who were last seen Aug. 6. Monya Battiest, 24, is thought to be endangered, police said. An arrest warrant has been issued for Ambrose Fountinal Martinez in connection with a recent assault on her, according to police and court records. An emergency protective order was issued July 6 against Martinez, the children's father. Battiest alleged in her application for the protective order that she was assaulted by Martinez on July 5. The order was dismissed July 19 when both parties failed to appear in court.
  • TELEGRAPH UK: America's health watchdog, the FDA, is considering revoking its approval of the drug Avastin for use on women with advanced breast cancer, leading to accusations that it will mark the start of 'death panel' drug rationing. A decision to rescind endorsement of the drug would reignite the highly charged debate over US health care reform and how much the state should spend on new and expensive treatments. Avastin, the world's best selling cancer drug, is primarily used to treat colon cancer and was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration in 2008 for use on women with breast cancer that has spread. It costs $8,000 a month and is given to about 17,500 women in the US a year. The drug was initially approved after a study found that, by preventing blood flow to tumours, it extended the amount of time until the disease worsened by more than five months. However, two new studies have shown that the drug may not even extend life by an extra month. The FDA advisory panel has now voted 12-1 to drop the endorsement for breast cancer treatment. The panel unusually cited "effectiveness" grounds for the decision. But it has been claimed that "cost effectiveness" was the real reason ahead of reforms in which the government will extend health insurance to the poorest.
  • A peer-reviewed paper to be published Wednesday in a leading journal of neuropathology, however, suggests that the demise of athletes like Gehrig and soldiers given a diagnosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease, might have been catalyzed by injuries only now becoming understood: concussions and other brain trauma. Although the paper does not discuss Gehrig specifically, its authors in interviews acknowledged the clear implication: Lou Gehrig might not have had Lou Gehrig's disease.
  • A Southwest Airlines flight attendant reportedly removed a baby from her parents' care mid-flight after witnessing the mother slap her crying child. Flight 879 was enroute to Albuquerque from Dallas on Monday when the incident occurred. The flight attendant did return the 1-year-old girl to her parents just before the plane landed. Airport spokesman Daniel Jiron said paramedics checked the baby when the flight landed. Police returned the child to her parents after speaking to the couple, the flight attendant and other witnesses. The parents were not cited.
  • A small plane violated the secure airspace over President Obama's location in Seattle, Washington, yesterday. Two F-15 fighter jets were scrambled from an Air National Guard unit in Portland, Oregon. By the time the planes reached the skies over Seattle, the violating aircraft had departed the area and was never intercepted, North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) officials said. The sonic booms created by the fighter jet engines could be heard throughout the region. Officials said the small plane, which was likely operated by a general aviation pilot who didn't realize the airspace security boundaries, posed no immediate threat to the president. The plane landed at a local airport about 8 miles from the president's location.  Secret Service agents will interview the pilot out of an abundance of caution, sources said.
  • A Florida man was arrested after he allegedly violated a protective order by sending his estranged wife requests to friend him on Facebook. Harry Bruder, 54, admitted contacting his wife twice last last month via the social networking site. Investigators charge that Bruders Facebook requests violated a domestic violence injunction obtained by his wife Carole, from whom he has been separated for two years.
  • A federal law making it a crime to lie about receiving the Medal of Honor or other military decorations violates freedom of speech, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. Although a Southern California water board member convicted of violating the Stolen Valor Act made "deliberate and despicable" claims that he had received the Medal of Honor, the Constitution prohibits the government from prosecuting someone for merely lying, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco said in a 2-1 ruling. "The right to speak and write whatever one chooses - including, to some degree, worthless, offensive and demonstrable untruths - without cowering in fear of a powerful government is, in our view, an essential component of the protection afforded by the First Amendment," Judge Milan Smith said in the majority opinion. If lying about a medal can be classified as a crime, Smith said, so can lying about one's age, misrepresenting one's financial status on Facebook, or telling one's mother falsehoods about drinking, smoking or sex.
 
 

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