AS THE TEMPERATURES STAY COLD TODAY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA IS WARNING PEOPLE OF THE DANGERS OF THE COLD. WITH WIND CHILLS IN THE NEGATIVE 15 TO NEGATIVE 25 DEGREE RANGE, IT COULD BE HAZARDOUS TO PEOPLE WHO ARE OUTSIDE FOR LONG PEROIDS OF TIME. SKIN CAN ALSO GET FROSTBITE SO THEY SAY YOU CAN WEAR LAYERED CLOTHING, A HAT, AND GLOVES TO PROTECT YOURSELF.
FIVE COUNTIES IN KANSAS WERE TOLD THE KANSAS DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE WILL TAKE OVER RESTAURANT INSPECTIONS FROM LOCAL OFFICIALS. THOSE FIVE COUNTIES ARE RILEY, GEARY, SALINE, DOUGLAS, AND RENO. THE DEPARTMENT SAYS THIS WILL HELP SAVE MONEY IN A TIME OF TOUGH BUDGETS. JOHNSON AND SEDGWICK COUNTIES WILL KEEP THEIR LOCAL INSPECTORS BECAUSE THEY HAVE THE MOST RESTAURANTS AND LYON WILL TOO BECAUSE THERE IS NO STATE INSPECTOR CLOSE ENOUGH TO GET TO THEM.
A CALIFORNIA MAN WHO WAS IN KANSAS MADE HISTORY, BUT NOT IN A GOOD WAY. 45-YEAR OLD JOSE LOPEZ WAS BUSTED FOR TAKING PART IN THE LARGEST METH SEIZURE IN KANSAS HISTORY. LOPEZ HAS BEEN SENTENCED TO 33 YEARS AND 9 MONTHS IN PRISION. HE PLEADED GUILTY TO POSSESSION WITH INTENT TO DISTRIBUTE METHAMPHETAMINE. LOPEZ WAS STOPPED IN SHAWNEE BACK IN AUGUST OF 2007 WITH TWO OTHERS WHERE 22 POUNDS OF METH WERE FOUND. LOPEZ HAS ALSO BEEN SENTENCED TO 22 AND A HALF YEARS PRISON ON DRUG CHARGES IN MISSOURI.
THE KANSAS CITY WIZARDS ARE HOPING TO HAVE THEIR OWN HOME SOON. KANSAS OFFICIALS SAY A PACKAGE THEY ARE LOOKING AT COULD HELP CERNER CORPORATION BUILD A BUILDING, FINANCE A STADIUM FOR THE WIZARDS, AND BUILD FIELDS FOR AMATEUR TEAMS. THIS WILL ALL BE PUT IN KANSAS CITY KANSAS BY THE KANSAS SPEEDWAY. THIS PROJECT COULD BRING 9,000 JOBS TO KANSAS.
SENATOR PAT ROBERTS IS BACKING MISSOURI’S CLAIRE MCCASKILL TO MAKE KANSAS CITY MISSOURI’S LIBERTY MEMORIAL THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR ONE MEMORIAL. THE TOWER IS ALREADY DESIGNATED BY CONGRESS AS THE WAR’S OFFICAL MUSEUM. THE LIBERTY MEMORIAL IS IN COMPETITION WITH THE NATIONAL MALL IN WASHINGTON. IT WAS BUILT TO HONOR WORLD WAR ONE VETS IN DC.
PRESIDENT OBAMA IS IN OSLO NORWAY ACCEPTING HIS NOBEL PEACE PRIZE TODAY. HE WAS AWARDED THIS FOR NOT WHAT HE HAS DONE, BUT FOR HIS PLANS FOR THE FUTURE. SOME PEOPLE, HOWEVER, DO NOT FEEL HE DESREVES IT. JUST 9DAYS AGO HE ORDERED 30,000 MORE TROOPS TO AFGHANISTAN. DURING HIS SPEECH TODAY HE DID RATIONALIZE THIS BY SAYING SOMETIMES WAR IS NECESSARY AND JUSTIFIED. THIS SAME DAY IN 1906 PRESIDENT THEODORE ROOSEVELT WAS THE FIRST AMERICAN AWARDED THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE.
LAST NIGHT BARBARA WALTERS HOSTED HER 10 MOST FASCINATING PEOPLE OF 2009. SHE STARTED THE NIGHT BY TALKING TO LADY GAGA, WHO TOOK OFF HER SUNGLASSES FOR THE INTERVIEW AND TOLD WALTERS SHE DOESN’T USUALLY DO THAT. WALTERS ALSO TALKED TO TYLER PERRY, GLENN BECK, KATE GOSSELIN, SARAH PALIN, AND ADAM LAMBERT, WHO’S BEEN STIRRING UP CONTROVERSY ON ABC FOR A COUPLE WEEKS NOW. WITH HER RULE TO ONLY HONOR THE LIVING, WALTERS TALKED ABOUT MICHAEL JACKSON’S THREE CHILDREN; PARIS, PRINCE MICHAEL, AND BLANKET. BUT HER PICK FOR THE NUMBER ONE MOST FASCINATING PERSON WAS MICHELLE OBAMA. THEY CHATTED ABOUT HER NEW HOME, HER NEW DOG, AND HER GREAT ARMS. WALTERS HAS BEEN HOSTING THIS SINCE 1993.
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