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Posted: 5:10 a.m. Tuesday, June 29, 2010

KRMG Morning News "Stack of Stuff" and Notes 6/29/2010 

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By Joe Kelley, Host of the KRMG Morning News

  • A Minnesota man pleaded guilty to reporting a false bomb threat to the FBI. 26-year-old Daniel Gerald Peterson of Hutchinson (MN) pleaded guilty yesterday to one count of offering false information and hoaxes. Peterson admitted that last September he gave the FBI a false tip that someone was planning to bomb the BOK Center in Tulsa. FBI determined the threat was fabricated. Peterson faces up to 5 years in prison. No sentencing date set.
  • Hundreds of people lined the streets of Owasso Monday evening to pay tribute to Spc. Andrew Looney, who died last week after an insurgent detonated a suicide vest at a traffic control point.
  • KJRH: Just after 2:30am Monday, Tulsa police officers were called to 10800 block of E. 33rd St in reference to a Home Invasion Robbery. They say the suspects kicked in the front door of the duplex residence and held a man and woman at gun point while they stole electronics and cash. The suspects were described as: black male, 600, 200lbs, Mustache and Goatee, Deep Loud voice, with rectangle rim glasses and a white Male 507, 150 lbs, black short hair with a blond mustache and goatee. The black male was seen carrying a semi-automatic hand gun with a black slide and silver handles. A witness stated the suspects were driving a metallic brown or dark orange, newer model, Chevrolet pick up, extend cab.
  • KTUL: The City of Tulsa and Oklahoma Department of Transportation will be looking into how darkened highways near construction zones are affecting driver and pedestrian safety. A man was killed on the east leg of the Inter Dispersal Loop near downtown Sunday night. Investigators say two people got out of their car to push it off the road after it stalled. The driver of a van that came up behind the men did not see them untill it was too late. She tried to swerve and miss the pedestrians, but she could not without hitting someone.
  • Sandra Bullock and Jesse James' marriage is officially over - the estranged couple's divorce has been finalized.
  • Steve Carell is leaving 'The Office' - The award-winning actor says he will resign from the hit show at the end of next season.
  • Lady Gaga, Conan O'Brien, and "Twilight" superstars Kristen Stewart  and Robert Pattinson joined the Forbes Celebrity 100 list for the first time. But despite their impressive debuts (Gaga hit the list in fourth place), Oprah Winfrey  is the year's big winner. After being ousted by Angelina Jolie on last year's list (Jolie dropped to No. 18 this year), the Queen of All Media takes back her crown on Forbes' annual ranking of the world's ultra-famous. Winfrey earned $315 million over the past 12 months.
  • The Second Amendment provides Americans a fundamental right to bear arms that cannot be violated by state and local governments, the Supreme Court ruled Monday in a long-sought victory for gun rights advocates. The 5 to 4 decision does not strike down any gun-control laws, nor does it elaborate on what kind of laws would offend the Constitution. One justice predicted that an "avalanche" of lawsuits would be filed across the country asking federal judges to define the boundaries of gun ownership and government regulation.
  • LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) - Jim Campbell, the President and CEO of General Electric's Appliance and Lighting Division, was rushed to a doctor after he collapsed just before 11:30 a.m. Monday as Vice President Joe Biden was speaking. Campbell, who was seated on a stool at the end of the stage set up inside a warehouse at GE's Appliance Park in Louisville, fell from a stool and off the stage as Biden was nearing the end of his remarks. Biden paused and called for a doctor. According to GE spokeswoman Kim Freeman, Campbell appears to be fine, but was taken to an on-site medical clinic to be seen by a physician.
  • WASHINGTON -- They had lived for more than a decade in American cities and suburbs from Seattle to New York, where they seemed to be ordinary couples working ordinary jobs, chatting to the neighbors about schools and apologizing for noisy teenagers.But on Monday, federal prosecutors accused 11 people of being part of a Russian espionage ring, living under false names and deep cover in a patient scheme to penetrate what one coded message called American "policy making circles." An F.B.I. investigation that began at least seven years ago culminated with the arrest on Sunday of 10 people in Yonkers, Boston and northern Virginia. The documents detailed what the authorities called the "Illegals Program," an ambitious, long-term effort by the S.V.R., the successor to the Soviet K.G.B., to plant Russian spies in the United States to gather information and recruit more agents. The alleged agents were directed to gather information on nuclear weapons, American policy toward Iran, C.I.A. leadership, Congressional politics and many other topics, prosecutors say. The Russian spies made contact with a former high-ranking American national security official and a nuclear weapons researcher, among others. But the charges did not include espionage, and it was unclear what secrets the suspected spy ring -- which included five couples -- actually managed to collect. After years of F.B.I. surveillance, investigators decided to make the arrests last weekend, just after an upbeat visit to President Obama by the Russian president, Dmitri A. Medvedev, said one administration official. Mr. Obama was not happy about the timing, but investigators feared some of their targets might flee, the official said.
  • General Stanley McChrystal, who President Barack Obama fired last week as the top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan, has informed the U.S. Army he plans to retire.
  • The former Illinois governor accused of trying to sell President Barack Obama's vacated US senate seat to the highest bidder tossed around the idea of tapping talk show queen Oprah Winfrey, a Chicago court heard.
  • Mexico - Mexican singer Sergio Vega has been shot dead only hours after he had denied reports he had been murdered. The 40-year-old singer, known as El Shaka, told a website he had increased security measures after a number of Mexican musicians were killed. Musicians performing narcocorridos, songs celebrating the lives of drug barons, often become the targets of rival drug gangs.
 
 

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