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Posted: 4:22 a.m. Monday, Jan. 24, 2011

KRMG Morning News "Stack of Stuff" and Notes 1/24/11 

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By Joe Kelley, Host of the KRMG Morning News

  1. KTUL - Robberies so far this year are down, but there's a new trend in 2011. Criminals are setting their sights on robbing businesses. "They keep going until we catch them and then when it seems like we catch them there's still people taking their place so it's hard for us to get ahead," says Tulsa Police Sergeant Dave Walker, with the Robbery Division. "Starting in September 2010 our commercial robberies were going up so it looks like January is going to carry on with that." The buzz around businesses began with a string of Family Dollar and Subway crimes, now this weekend another retailer got hit.
  2. The courtroom likely will be packed, but the hearing will be short when shooting suspect Jared Loughner stands before a federal judge for arraignment today. An arraignment is a legal formality indicating that the case is officially moving forward. A grand jury already has indicted Loughner after determining probable cause that a crime was committed. Today, the defendant will be asked to enter a plea - "guilty" or "not guilty." Loughner, 22, is charged with one count of attempted assassination of a member of Congress in connection with the shooting of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords on Jan. 8 outside a supermarket near Tucson. That charge alone could earn him a life sentence if he is convicted. Loughner also is charged with two counts of attempted murder of a federal employee in the wounding of Giffords aides Pam Simon and Ron Barber.
  3. OKBlitz.com Staff TULSA, Okla. - According to Tulsa jail records, Booker T. Washington boys head basketball coach Shea Seals was arrested early Sunday morning on suspicion of DUI. Seals was arrested at 3:15 a.m. Sunday and was also cited for improper use of lane. He was released just before 9:00 a.m. on $1,100 bond. Tulsa Public Schools announced Sunday evening that Seals will be suspended until the investigation is concluded.
  4. KOTV - TULSA, Oklahoma -- Tulsa Police say a man they believe was driving under the influence of alcohol caused a five-car collision in a mid-town Tulsa neighborhood at about 1:45 a.m. Sunday. Resident Ann Inness was asleep when her son woke her to say something had happened to her car. When she came out to look, her Chevrolet was in a neighbor's yard two doors down. The driver that caused the chain reaction wreck had turned off Lewis and was eastbound on 6th Street. He was driving fast and lost control of his Toyota Tacoma, just after passing Atlanta. Tulsa Police Officer Gerard Schrader said the truck veered to the right of the roadway where several people had parked their cars. The truck hit Inness' orange Chevy, pushing it into and over a black Saturn owned by Josh Barber. The Chevy landed in a front yard two houses away.
  5. FORT KENT, Maine -- An arctic blast from Canada is bringing brutally frigid air and wind chills expected to dip to 50 below zero to northern New England, prompting officials to warn residents to take precautions against the cold. The National Weather Service in Caribou issued a statewide wind chill warning Sunday night effective through Monday.
  6. MO - (Reuters) - Residents of a small Missouri town planned a candlelight vigil on Sunday night in memory of a young sister and brother who drowned after falling through ice on a pond. Joseph Cody, 12, and Grace Cody, 9, were sledding on Friday when the ice gave way on the pond near their home in Southwest City, Missouri, authorities said. Grace was pronounced dead at an area hospital on Friday night while Joseph died Saturday evening after being transferred to a hospital in Kansas City. Grace was in the ice and water for more than five hours before she was found, while her brother was pulled out after about an hour, said Southwest City Mayor Ryan McKee, a member of the volunteer fire department that responded to the scene. About 850 people live in Southwest City, a farming community in the southwest tip of the state.
  7. Jack LaLanne, the fitness guru who inspired television viewers to trim down, eat well and pump iron for decades before diet and exercise became a national obsession, died Sunday. He was 96. LaLanne died of respiratory failure due to pneumonia Sunday afternoon at his home in Morro Bay on California's central coast, his longtime agent Rick Hersh said. Lalanne ate healthy and exercised every day of his life up until the end, Hersh said. "I have not only lost my husband and a great American icon, but the best friend and most loving partner anyone could ever hope for," Elaine LaLanne, LaLanne's wife of 51 years and a frequent partner in his television appearances, said in a written statement.
  8. Keith Olbermann and MSNBC abruptly announced Friday night that "Countdown" has ended, effective immediately. Olbermann broke the news to his viewers during his show's final sign-off. He said that he had been "told" that Friday's show would be his last. MSNBC issued a statement with the news following Friday's episode.The statement read:    MSNBC and Keith Olbermann have ended their contract. The last broadcast of "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" will be this evening. MSNBC thanks Keith for his integral role in MSNBC's success and we wish him well in his future endeavors.UPDATE: The New York Times' Bill Carter reports that Keith Olbermann's exit from MSNBC was "weeks in the making." According to Carter, Olbermann and MSNBC have both signed on to an agreement which bars Olbermann from returning to television for a period of time, though he is free to take a job on the Internet or the radio. Olbermann is also not allowed to comment publicly on the specifics of the deal, and there are restrictions on when he can give interviews about his departure. Carter notes that the terms of the deal are similar to the one NBC struck with Conan O'Brien upon his exit from the network--exactly a year before Olbermann's.
  9. It's official: Apple's App Store has hit 10 billion app downloads. Apple recently started a countdown for the 10 billionth app and launched a contest to give a $10,000 iTunes gift card to the person who downloaded it. At the end of September 2009, the App Store hit 2 billion apps downloaded and by January 2010, there were 3 billion downloads from the App Store. However, it took just over a week for the app store to generate 250 million downloads, a testament to the incredible growth of Apple's iPhone and iPad App Stores and, most recently, its Mac App Store. At this pace it will be able to hit 20 billion app downloads before the end of the year. It will probably grow even faster than that though, thanks to the Verizon iPhone.
  10. Lots of people let their dog or cat sleep in bed with them, but veterinary scientists are warning that it could be harmful to your health. AOL News reports that a study out next month reports on the potential risks of diseases and infections transmitted from animals to humans, which, although they may be infrequent, could be severe, especially for children or those with compromised immune systems. There are lots of benefits to pets, however, including evidence that they lower blood pressure, reduce cholesterol and triglyceride levels, and decrease feelings of loneliness. So how to protect yourself and your family? Any pet should have regular veterinary care and checkups, and in addition to keeping your pet out or your bed, also try not to regularly kiss them or let them lick you. Pets should also be kept free of fleas and other parasites through treatment and preventive care.
  11. COMPANY TO STOP MAKING DEATH PENALTY DRUG: The only U.S. manufacturer of a drug that's a key component of death penalty lethal injections said Friday (January 21st) that it's ending production. Over the past few months, a growing shortage of the drug, sodium thiopental, has forced some states to delay executions, and this decision is likely to make the problem worse. Hospira Inc. said it decided in recent months to switch manufacturing from its North Carolina plant to a more modern factory in Italy, but Italian authorities demanded a guarantee the drug wouldn't be used for capital punishment. Hospira said they couldn't give that assurance. All but one of the 35 states that have lethal injection use sodium thiopental as part of a three-drug combination that sedates and paralyzes the inmate and then stops the heart. There are similar sedatives available, but substituting another drug would require new laws or lengthy administrative processes in some states, and could also lead to lawsuits from death row inmates, as could switching to another manufacturer.
  12. FITNESS PIONEER JACK LALANNE DEAD AT 96: Fitness pioneer Jack LaLanne, who urged American TV viewers to exercise and eat well decades before it became widely popular, died Sunday (January 23rd) of pneumonia at his California home. He was 96. Longtime agent Rick Hersh said LaLanne ate healthy and exercised every day of his life up until the end. LaLanne's workout show was a TV staple from the 1950s to the '70s, featuring exercises he developed that used no special equipment, just a chair and a towel. He also founded a chain of fitness studios that carried his name. LaLanne is survived by his wife of 51 years, Elaine, who was his frequent partner in TV appearances, and his three children.
  13. TIGER WOODS FALLS TO NUMBER 3 RANKING: Less than three months after losing golf's top ranking for the first time in more than five years, Tiger Woods' standing has fallen again. Woods has dropped to Number 3 after Martin Kaymer won a European Tour event in Abu Dhabi Sunday (January 23rd) and took over the Number 2 spot. Lee Westwood remains Number 1. Woods will begin his 2011 season on Thursday (January 27th) at Torrey Pines, and Kaymer said yesterday, "We'll see how long it takes him to overtake me again."
  14. KIDS ARE BETTER WITH COMPUTERS THAN BIKES: More kids today know how to operate a computer mouse than ride a bike. According to the study, 23 percent of children between two and five can make a call on a cell phone and a quarter can navigate between websites with ease. One in five knew their way around smartphones or even an iPad. Two thirds knew how to turn a computer on and 73 percent said they could work a mouse. However, just 48 percent knew their own home address and only a third were able to write their first and last names. Only 11 per cent could tie their shoe laces. (Daily Mail)
  15. 75% OF PARENTS DRIVE KIDS TO SCHOOL: Though half of U.S. school-age children live within two miles of their schools, three-quarters of the households questioned in the 2009 National Household Travel Survey take their children to school in a private vehicle -- a huge increase from the 15 percent that were driven in 1969. (Dallas News.com)
  16. NEW WORKOUT? MOPPING: It turns out that an hour of pushing a mop across the floor and wringing it out in a bucket works off 238 calories -- the equivalent of a chocolate bar or two small glasses of wine. To sweat this off at the gym, you would have to spend up to an hour on an exercise bike or an hour and 10 minutes lifting weights. Other alternatives to the gym that would burn that many calories include an hour of ballroom dancing or half an hour of football. (Daily Mail)
  17. MAN WEARING OBAMA MASK ROBS AUSTRIAN BANK: A thief in the town of Handenberg, Austria has been robbing banks and disguising himself by wearing a rubber Barack Obama mask. During the most recent robbery, he threatened bank employees with a gun and demanded money before speeding off in a car with what some local papers estimate at 10,000 euros, or $13,500 dollars. Austrian police believe this man has been robbing banks in this fashion for the past two years. (AFP)
  18. SLICE OF 'CHARLES AND DIANA WEDDING CAKE' SOLD: With a royal wedding just around the corner, people are trying to cash in on the last one. A 30-year-old piece of cake, supposedly from Prince Charles and Princess Diana's wedding cake sold for close to $300 on New Zealand auction site Trade Me. The woman selling the cake claims the treat has been in the family since the royal wedding back in July 1981. In her auction description, she wrote, "For the last four years it has sat in a plastic container in the back of a drawer in my china cabinet. The icing had faded and yellowed and I decided to sell it, but not for the money. I wanted to share the story, the icing on the cake is that it's going to a fabulous new home and I hope the auction will feature in a book on the website's most memorable auctions." (AFP)
  19. The nation's sky had a near-perfect safety record last year. Out of 10 million flights in the U-S in 2010, not a single major accident. It's happened before, but this is the third time in four years that there have been no fatalities, leading one industry analyst to tell USA Today that Air disasters are at the brink of extinction. The crash in Buffalo in February, 2009, was the last in this country. Analysts say better training and data collection have led to safer skies.
 
 

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