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Posted: 4:28 a.m. Tuesday, July 20, 2010

KRMG Morning News "Stack of Stuff" and Notes 7/20/2010 

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By Joe Kelley, Host of the KRMG Morning News

  • A project to replace four bridge decks just south of the US-75/I-44 junction is under way. Crews will be replacing the north and southbound US-75 bridge decks over Mooser Creek, and also the decks on the eastbound I-44 off-ramp to southbound US-75, and the northbound US-75 off-ramp to eastbound I-44. This $2.3 million contract was awarded to Manhattan Road and Bridge, and is expected to take seven months to complete.
  • KTUL: A Tulsa police officer has been arrested on a complaint of physically abusing his girlfriend. Eric Hill, 32, was arrested at his Tulsa home for domestic assault and battery. He's accused of grabbing the back of his girlfriend's head and hair. He allegedly tried to pull her back into the car as they were stopped at a traffic light. Arrest records show he slammed the victim's head into the dashboard 2 or 3 times, leaving a large cut on her forehead. Hill is also one of several officers named in a grand jury investigation of police corruption.
  • NEWSOK.COM: Sen. Tom Coburn said Monday that he would oppose Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan today in the Senate Judiciary Committee. Coburn, R-Muskogee, a member of the committee, said Kagan "flunked the test" on the importance of the original intent of the framers of the U.S. Constitution. And he said she defended Congress' use of the commerce clause in the Constitution to extend the reach of the federal government.
  • Former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop has written an extensive letter to members of the Senate calling for a no vote on the Supreme Court nomination of Elena Kagan. The letter focuses attention on the Clinton administration memos Kagan authored showing her attempting to manipulate abortion opinion.
  • PHILADELPHIA (July 19) - A retired ironworker and a 70-year-old friend who had been skydiving together for years were killed when their parachutes got tangled during a weekend jump. George Flynn, 75, of Colonia, N.J., had jumped approximately 1,500 times since learning to skydive about 16 years ago, his daughter, Diane Sievert, said Monday. Flynn and Theodore Wilson, of New Rochelle, N.Y., were killed in the Pocono Mountains on Saturday after their parachutes got tangled and they tumbled about 75 feet to the ground, authorities said.
  • A team of British scientists and engineers has created a full-scale model for a car they intend to drive more than 1,000 mph. The model, aptly named the Bloodhound SuperSonic Car (SSC), was built by a team of aerodynamic experts, who took three years to build it. Recently shown off to the world at the Farnborough International Air Show, the 42-foot-long Bloodhound resembles a bright blue missile with wheels. For now, it's just a model, but the wheels are in motion to create the real deal.
  • Actress Lindsey Lohan is expected to turn herself in today to serve her 90-day jail sentence. TMZ has learned Bob Shapiro informed the judge in Lindsay Lohan's case, he's no longer representing her. It is unclear who will represent Lindsay today when she will turn herself in. We do not know why Shapiro has left the case.  He said publicly he would represent Lindsay only if she agreed to jail and followed his instructions. Interestingly, Shawn Chapman Holley never signed the substitution of attorney form last Friday to get out of the case. So Shawn may be on the hook.
  • U.S. National Guard troops will begin arriving along the border with Mexico on August 1 to bolster security as the Obama administration tries to stem the flow of illegal immigrants, weapons and narcotics.
  • Days after the NAACP clashed with Tea Party members over allegations of racism, a video has surfaced showing an Agriculture Department official regaling an NAACP audience with a story about how she withheld help to a white farmer facing bankruptcy -- video that now has forced the official to resign. Shirley Sherrod, the department's Georgia director of Rural Development, is shown in the clip describing "the first time I was faced with having to help a white farmer save his farm." Sherrod, who is black, claimed the farmer took a long time trying to show he was "superior" to her. The audience laughed as she described how she determined his fate.
  • A court rejected the Wesley Snipes' appeal of a conviction on tax evasion charges, meaning Snipes is headed to jail to serve a three-year sentence. Snipes was convicted in 2008 of failing to pay the government some $12 million in taxes due between 1999 and 2001. However, Snipes found his sentence "unreasonable" and appealed to a federal judge to have it reduced.
  • Indonesia's highest Islamic body has been forced to apologize to the country's Muslims after admitting they have been praying towards Kenya rather than Mecca. Officials in the world's most populous Muslim country admitted on Monday that they made a mistake when issuing an edict in March saying the holy city in Saudi Arabia was to the country's west. The Indonesian Ulema Council, or MUI, has since asked followers to shift direction slightly northward during their daily prayers.
  • NEW YORK - An emergency medical technician accused of refusing to help a dying pregnant woman while on his coffee break has been shot and killed near a New York City nightclub. Police say Jason Green was shot in the face near Manhattan's Greenhouse club. Green was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital. There have been no arrests.
 
 

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