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Posted: 4:31 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 11, 2010

KRMG Morning News "Stack of Stuff" and Notes 11/11/10 

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By Joe Kelley, Host of the KRMG Morning News

  • After a couple months of work, the ramps at I-44 and Highway 75 in Tulsa are back open. The Oklahoma Department of Transportation closed the ramps back in September while crews worked to re-deck the bridge there. On Wednesday, ODOT reopened both the off ramp from Highway 75 to Eastbound I-44, as well as the on ramp from I-44 to Southbound Highway 75.
  • KJRH - MUSKOGEE, Okla. - A home invasion in Muskogee ended with a 4-year-old child dead, stabbed with a pair of scissors. Muskogee police confirmed that Dakota Lane had died in a press release issued Wednesday morning. According to the Muskogee District Attorney,  the child was stabbed 36 times, and there is no connection between the suspect and the family at this time. Police identified the suspect as, Aaron Michael Laconsello, 18, and say he faces charges of murder, burglary, and assault with a deadly weapon. Bacone College campus police helped MPD with the search for the suspect, and arrested Laconsello about an hour and a half after the stabbing. MPD Corporal Pedro Zardeneta says that the incident began about 9:50 p.m. Tuesday. A patrol unit was dispatched to a reported home invasion in the 700 block of North N Street. The child's mother, father, and sibling were also in the home at the time of the incident. The 4-year-old was attacked first in his bedroom and then the mother was attacked. The mother, Stephanie Lane, was treated and released by EMS at the scene. She is an employee of Muskogee Public Schools and is pregnant with her third child, according to Melanie Carey, public relations director for the school district. Upon arrival, the officers found the child stabbed and clinging to life. They performed CPR until EMS arrived and transported the child to Muskogee Regional Medical Center. The child was later taken by helicopter to a Tulsa hospital, but doctors could not keep him alive.
  • FOX23 - The Tulsa Police Department says a meth lab caused a massive apartment fire Wednesday morning in west Tulsa. Crews were called to the scene around 10:55.  Fire Fighters say when they arrived, flames and black smoke were pouring from several units at the Overlook Apartments, located at 6339 S. 33rd West Ave. At least eight units were destroyed in the fire, several other units have extensive smoke and water damage.
  • With an eye toward appealing to foodies, Wendy's is remaking its fries with Russett potatoes, leaving the skin on and sprinkling sea salt on top. The fast-food chain has been changing its menu to focus on "real" ingredients to win more fans. The first move in the strategy was a new line of salads such as Apple Pecan Chicken in the summer. Now, the fries, which first appear on Thursday and roll out over the next two weeks. This is the first major overhaul of the 41-year-old company's fries, although it has adjusted the recipe in the past. The new fries are slightly slimmer than the old ones, and crispier because they're smaller. They will have more salt, a medium size fry goes from 350 milligrams to 500 milligrams, and calories add 10 to 420. The selling price will not change, ranging from 99 cents to about $2. The fries will still come to stores frozen. Wendy's is planning a marketing push, including national television ads airing later this month, to highlight the changes.
  • The U.S. Food and Drug Administration wants public input on a proposed anti-smoking campaign. The Tobacco Control Act requires that cigarette packages and advertisements have larger and more visible graphic health warnings, but some people think the FDA may have carried it too far. Proposed graphic health warnings include photos of diseased and dead people as well as images of children being harmed by second hand smoke. The intention is to scare smokers and potential smokers away from the habit. The new images will be front and center on cigarette packs and include an image of a corpse after an autopsy. There are 36 proposed images.
  • Sears will open on Thanksgiving Day for the first time in its 124-year history. The Hoffman Estates-based retailer will open stores from 7 a.m. to noon on Thanksgiving Day. Doorbuster sales include diamond or ruby with diamond pendants for $19.99 (regular $59.99); a Craftsman professional 20-volt lithium-ion three-piece combo.
  • House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) said Wednesday he intends to take commercial flights home when he moves up to speaker in the new Congress. "Over the last 20 years, I have flown back and forth to my district on commercial aircraft, and I am going to continue to do that," he told reporters. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat, took heat in 2007 when she started flying an Air Force jet that could go nonstop back to her congressional district in California. Her Republican predecessor from Illinois, Denny Hastert, had begun using an Air Force jet as speaker because of the increased security after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on New York and Washington. House Deputy Sergeant of Arms Kerri Hanley said officials there had approved the decision of Boehner, the presumed new speaker in the new Congress, to fly commercially, both to his district and to other locations in the country.
  • WASHINGTON (AP) - The oil spill that damaged the Gulf of Mexico's reefs and wetlands is also threatening to stain the Obama administration's reputation for relying on science to guide policy. Academics, environmentalists and federal investigators have accused the administration since the April spill of downplaying scientific findings, misrepresenting data and most recently misconstruing the opinions of experts it solicited. Meanwhile, the owner of the rig that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, Transocean Ltd., is renewing its argument that federal investigators are in danger of allowing the blowout preventer, a key piece of evidence, to corrode as it awaits forensic analysis. Testing had not begun as of last week, the company says, some two months after it was raised from the seafloor. The blowout preventer could be a key piece of evidence in lawsuits filed by victims, survivors and others. Transocean was responsible for maintaining it while it was being used on BP's well. Investigators agreed to flush the control pods with fluid on Sept. 27 to prevent corrosion. But a Transocean lawyer wrote in his Nov. 3 letter that there have been no further preservation steps on the blowout preventer since then.
  • FOXNEWS - An e-book for sale on Amazon.com entitled "The Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure," was apparently pulled by the online retailer late Wednesday after shocked consumers across the nation called for a boycott. The title, authored by Phillips Greaves, was published late last month, according to product details previously available on Amazon.com. It sold for $4.79 on the company's Kindle Store. "This is my attempt to make pedophile situations safer for those juveniles that find themselves involved in them, by establishing certian [sic] rules for these adults to follow," a product description read. "I hope to achieve this by appealing to the better nature of pedosexuals, with hope that their doing so will result in less hatred and perhaps liter sentences should they ever be caught." The content led to hundreds of tweets criticizing Amazon for allowing the title to be sold and a Facebook page was created calling for a boycott of the Seattle-based company.
  • AOL NEWS - Maybe Google isn't such a great place to work after all. Hours after an employee leaked the jaw-dropping news that Google planned to award $1,000 bonuses and 10 percent raises to all of its employees, the company fired the person responsible for sharing CEO Eric Schmidt's announcement. Google refused to comment on the firing of the as-yet-unidentified employee, CNNMoney reported.
  • AOL NEWS - Next week, Washington state residents will no longer find "blackout in a can" beverage Four Loko on liquor store shelves. The infamous party drink responsible for the hospitalization of nine Central Washington University students at an Oct. 8 house party is being placed under emergency ban by the state's Liquor Control Board, set to go into effect Nov. 17, according to The Seattle Times.
  • CBS - Times Square bombing suspect Faisal Shahzad was arrested after he boarded a plane headed for Dubai, though the government is spending millions each year on a program that's supposed to spot terrorists before they reach the gate. As CBS News chief investigative correspondent Armen Keteyian reports, the program doesn't seem to be working. There's a hidden layer of airport security most people don't know about. It's called "behavior detection," and involves specially trained Transportation Security Administration employees whose primary mission is to spot terrorists. They look for unique facial expressions and body language that may identify a potential threat. About 3,000 of these officers work at 161 U.S. airports -- costing taxpayers nearly $200 million in 2009. This year, the TSA asked Congress for $20 million more to expand the program. But CBS News has learned that the program is failing to catch terrorists. It's never even caught one. In fact, sources tell CBS News a Government Accountability Office investigation is raising serious questions about the program. The GAO uncovered at least 16 individuals later accused of involvement in terrorist plots flew 23 different times through U.S. airports since 2004. Yet none were stopped by TSA behavior detection officers working at those airports.
  • CNN - WASHINGTON -- Former U.S. Rep. Gary Condit's semen was found on underwear belonging to Chandra Levy, according to an FBI biologist testifying Wednesday in the trial of Ingmar Guandique, who is accused of murdering the Washington intern in 2001. The panties were retrieved in May 2001 by investigators searching Levy's apartment in the days after her parents reported her missing. Her body was found over a year later in Washington's Rock Creek Park. The testimony addresses the question of whether Condit, a sitting congressman from California at the time Levy vanished, was having an affair with the intern, who had just turned 24 when she disappeared.
  • ORLANDO, Fla. -- Some Orlando-area veterans are outraged after a group of University of Central Florida students defaced and covered a new memorial honoring those who have served during wartime. A group of UCF peace activist students earlier this week used chalk to write on a platform surrounding the monument site, which was installed two weeks ago between the new arena and the Student Union. It's not known what was written, but some students said the words "peace" and "killer" were used. The monument was also covered with blankets during a protest.
  • WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's top adviser suggested to The Huffington Post late Wednesday that the administration is ready to accept an across-the-board continuation of steep Bush-era tax cuts, including those for the wealthiest taxpayers. That appears to be the only way, said David Axelrod, that middle-class taxpayers can keep their tax cuts, given the legislative and political realities facing Obama in the aftermath of last week's electoral defeat. "We have to deal with the world as we find it," Axelrod said during an unusually candid and reflective 90-minute interview in his office, steps away from the Oval Office. "The world of what it takes to get this done."
  • HuffPo - Rahm Emanuel has been traveling to different parts of the city in recent weeks, meeting residents and talking about his mayoral plans. Today, he was in Chicago's Little Village neighborhood when one onlooker decided to heckle the former White House chief of staff. NBC Chicago reports that Emanuel was talking to residents of the southwest side neighborhood then someone tossed an egg at him. The egg missed Emanuel, but hit a nearby camera man. "Don't worry about it," Emanuel said after being told about the egg.
  • HuffPo - In her new book, "The Next Big Story," CNN anchor Soledad O'Brien recounts an exchange she had with Jesse Jackson, where the civil rights leader told her she "didn't count" as a black anchor on the network. In an excerpt of the book posted on CNN, O'Brien writes that, in 2007, she met privately with Jackson, who complained about the relative lack of publicity that CNN was giving to its black personalities. O'Brien, who has a black mother and a white father, agreed with him. But then, she writes, Jackson complained that there were no black anchors on CNN at all:   Does he mean covering the campaign, I wonder to myself? The man has been a guest on my show... I interrupt to remind him I'm the anchor of American Morning. He knows that. He looks me in the eye and reaches his fingers over to tap a spot of skin on my right had. He shakes his head. "You don't count," he says.
 
 
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