Thursday, January 21, 2010

1-21-10

GOOD NEWS FOR RILEY COUNTY…ACCORDING TO RCPD OVERALL CRIME IS DOWN IN 2009. IT DROPPED 7.9% FROM 2008. BESIDES JUST THE OVERALL CRIME DECREASING, VIOLENT CRIME FELL 9.7% , MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT WAS DOWN 25.9% , AND THE BIGGEST DROP WAS ROBBERY, WHICH WENT DOWN 26.7%. THE FBI HASN’T PUT OUT NATIONAL NUMBERS YET BUT THOSE ARE EXPECTED TO HAVE DECREASE TOO.


SNOW DAYS ARE ALWAYS FUN UNTIL YOU HAVE TO MAKE THEM UP. THE DISTRICT MET LAST NIGHT TO DECIDE WHAT TO DO ABOUT THE TWO EXTRA DAYS THEY TOOK. RIGHT NOW THEY ARE CONSIDERING ADDING A FEW MINUTES TO THE BEGINNING AND END OF THE DAY. WE’LL KEEP YOU UPDATED OF WHAT DECISION THEY MAKE.


TWO CALIFORNIA MEN ARE FACING FEDERAL CHARGES AFTER THEY WERE BUSTED WITH METH. THE TWO MEN WERE IN ELLSWORTH COUNTY WHEN A STATE TROOPER FOUND TEN POUNDS OF METHAMPHETAMINE IN THEIR CAR WITH A VALUE OF TWO-HUNDRED-THOUSAND DOLLARS. THEY WERE BEING STOPPED FOR EQUIPMENT VIOLATION.


POLICE AND FAMILY STILL HAVEN’T GIVEN UP HOPE IN THE 1995 DISSAPEARANCE OF A GARDEN CITY GIRL. LAST SEEN WATCHING A MOVIE IN HER HOME 15 YEARS AGO, RACHEL PRATT HASN’T BEEN SEEN SINCE. PRATT WAS PREGNANT WHEN SHE WENT MISSING. EVEN THOUGH THERE HAVEN’T BEEN SIGHTINGS OF HER FOR YEARS, HER MOTHER STILL MISSES HER AND PRAYS SHE’S STILL ALIVE AND WILL SOMEDAY CONTACT HER FAMILY.


FORMER ILLINOIS GOVERNOR ROD BLAGOJEVICH IS EATING HIS WORDS AFTER HE TOLD A MAGAZINE HE WAS “BLACKER THAN BARACK OBAMA.” HE APPOLOGIZED ON WLS RADIO IN CHICAGO AND SAID IT WAS A “STUPID THING TO SAY.” BLOGOJEVICH TOLD ESQUIRE MAGAZINE HE GREW UP IN A SMALL APARTMENT, SHINED SHOES AS A BOY, AND HIS FATHER RAN A LAUNDRY MAT IN A BLACK NEIGHBORHOOD. THE ISSUE OF ESQUIRE HIT NEWSTANDS TUESDAY.


RELIEF EFFORTS SUFFERED A TEMPORARY SET BACK WEDNESDAY AFTER A STRONG TREMOR ROLLED THROUGH HAITI. THE MAGNITUDE 5.9 AFTER SHOCK LASTED ONLY SECONDS BUT CAUSED WIDE SPREAD PANIC AS PARTIALLY DESTROYED BUILDINGS FELL TO THE GROUND. THIS COMES A WEEK AFTER A MAGNITUDE 7 EARTHQUAKE DEVASTATED THE AREA. ALTHOUGH NO DEATHS WERE REPORTED WEDNESDAY, AUTHORITIES HAVE RECORDED 72,000 DEATHS SO FAR, ROUGHLY ONE THIRD OF THE ESTIMATED FINAL TOLL.


ERMA DEUTSCHENDORF DAVIS, MOTHER OF THE LATE SINGER JOHN DENVER, DIED SUNDAY AT THE AGE OF 87. ACCORDING TO HER SON RON, HIS MOTHER SUFFERED HEALTH PROBLEMS SINCE A FALL BACK IN NOVEMBER. SERVICES FOR DAVIS WILL BE HELD SUNDAY IN AURORA, COLORADO. SHE IS SURVIVED BY HER SON, EIGHT GRAND CHILDREN, TWO GREAT GRAND CHILDREN, AND A SISTER.


THE WELL KNOWN PARTY GIRL AND ACTRESS TARA REID MAY FINALLY HAVE A REASON TO SETTLE DOWN. SHE AND BOYFRIEND MICHAEL AXTMANN ARE ENGAGED. AXTMANN ASKED HER MONDAY NIGHT AT THE LITTLE DOOR RESTAURANT IN LA. ACCORDING TO REID’S REP, PATRONS OF THE RESTRAUNT CLAPPED AND CONGRATULATED HER. REID JUST FINISHED UP PRODUCTION FOR THE COMEDY LAST CALL AND THE THRILLER FLICK THE FIELDS.

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