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OGDEN’S MAYOR IS GETTING PERSONAL WITH HIS VOTERS. MAYOR JIMMY BOND IS GOING PUBLIC ABOUT SPENDING MORE THAN 10 YEARS IN ILLINOIS AND OHIO PRISONS BACK IN THE 1970s AND 1980s. BOND SAYS HE IS LETTING PEOPLE KNOW BEFORE A RECALL ELECTION ON MARCH 9TH. HE WANTS EVERYONE TO KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT HIM. SUPPORTERS OF THIS RECALL SAY BOND ABUSED HIS POWER AS MAYOR.


THE MAN WHO’S CONFESSED TO KILLING KANSAS ABORTION PROVIDER IS EXPECTED TO TESTIFY TODAY. SCOTT ROEDER HAS PLEADED NOT GUILTY TO FIRST DEGREE MURDER SAYING HE KILLED DOCTOR GEORGE TILLER TO SAVE THE LIVES OF UNBORN CHILDREN. ROEDER’S LAWYER MAY SEEK A LESSER CONVICTION OF VOLUNTARY MANSLAIGHTER. DISTRICT JUDGE WARREN WILBERT SAYS ROEDER WILL BE ABLE TO TESTIFY ABOUT HIS ABORTION BELIEFES BUT WILL NOT BE ABLE TO GET INTO MEDICAL PROCEDURES OF LATE TERM ABORTIONS.


A CLARK COUNTY UNDERSHERIFF HAD A HUGE FIND WHILE SEARCHING A CAR NEAR MINNEOLA. DANIEL KNOWLES WAS SUSPICIOUS OF THE DRIVER HE PULLED OVER AND SEARCHED THE CAR. HE FOUND AN EXTRA COMPARTMENT WITH MORE THAN $1 MILLION IN IT. KNOWLES SAYS THE MONEY SMELLED LIKE MARIJUANA. THE DRUG ENFORCEMENT AGENCY IS HELPING INVESTIGATE THE CASE.


LAST NIGHT PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA GAVE HIS FIRST STATE OF THE UNION. HE SAID HE REALIZES THAT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AREN’T HAPPY ABOUT THE PACE OF HIS CHANGE SINCE BEING ELECTED. HE ALSO PROMISES TO WORK ON GETTING PEOPLE BACK INTO WORK. TODAY HIM AND VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN ARE IN FLORIDA HOLDING A TOWN MEETING WHERE THEY WILL ANNOUNCE EIGHT BILLION DOLLARS IN FUNDING FOR A NATIONAL HIGH SPEED RAIL SYSTEM. THE REPUBLICANS SAY OBAMA IS SPENDING MORE THAN THE COUNTRY CAN AFFORD.


TOYOTA HAS EVEN MORE RECALLS THAN THEY DID BEFORE. THEY ARE NOW RECALLING 75,500 VEHICLES FROM CHINA. THESE CARS HAVE THE SAME GAS PEDAL PROBLEM THAT CAUSED THE RECALL IN THE US AND EUROPE. A TOYOTA SPOKESWOMAN SAYS THEY ARE RECALLING THE RAV-4’S THAT WERE MANUFACTURED IN CHINA BETWEEN MARCH 2009 AND JANUARY 2010. THE PROBLEM IS THE GAS PEDAL IS GETTING CAUGHT ON THE FLOOR MATS.


THE US MILITARY SAYS A KEY AL-QAIDA LEADER HAS BEEN KILLED. HE WAS KILLED JANUARY 22ND AFTER ATTACKING AN ATTACK IN THE NORTHERN IRAQ CITY OF MOSUL. ABU KHALAF WAS INDENTIFIED THROUGH FINGERPRINTS. US INTELLIGENCE OFFICIALS SAY HE WAS THE TERROR NETWORKS EXPERT IN PREPARING FIGHTERS FOR SUICIDE ATTACKS.


IT’S LOOKING UGLY FOR ONE ABC SHOW. IT’S BEEN CONFIRMED THAT THIS WILL BE UGLY BETTY’S FINAL SEASON. AN ABC SPOKESPESRON SAYS THEY “WANT TO ALLOW THE SHOW AMPLE TIME TO WRITE A SATISFYING CONCLUSION”. ONE PROBLEM THE SHOW HAS HAD IS MANY MOVES. IT MOVED FROM THURSDAYS TO FRIDAYS LAST SEASON AND WHEN IT RETURNED AFTER JANUARY IT WENT TO WEDNESDAYS. MAYBE FOUR YEARS ARE ENOUGH FOR BETTY’S BRACES.