After 34 years with the company, WSM air personality Keith Bilbrey has been relieved of his duties.
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Keith will no longer be on the air, and will no longer serve as a Grand Ole Opry announcer.
“The station assured him he had done nothing to provoke this, it was that they are doing away with the midday show… it will be strictly voice tracked,” wrote Bilbrey’s wife, Emy-Joe Bellenfant-Bilbrey, in an email to music industry friends and associates.
A Florida woman called 911 three times after she paid for a 10-piece Chicken McNuggets at a McDonald's but the fast-food restaurant ran out of them and refused to give her a refund.
Latreasa L. Goodman, 27, made the calls after she tried to get her money back from a Fort Pierce McDonald's and the cashier told her all sales were final. Police released the 911 tapes.
"This is an emergency. If I would have known they didn't have McNuggets, I wouldn't have given my money, and now she wants to give me a McDouble, but I don't want one," police quoted her as saying. "This is an emergency."
The cashier suggested she choose something else off the menu of equal value to the McNuggets, and offered the restaurant's cheeseburger called the McDouble.
"She's trying to force me to eat something off the menu and I don't want it," Goodman told 911.
The first dispatcher, a woman, asks if there's a manager there, but listens to Goodman's complaints and says she's sending someone.
The second, male dispatcher tells her he's aware of the incident and "we've got an officer coming out there to talk to you."
Police say Goodman was cited on a misuse of 911 charge. A current phone listing for Goodman couldn't be found.
A McDonald's spokesman said Goodman should have been given a refund, and she's being sent a gift card for a free meal.
Laurens County (The Greenville News) - Tammy Fausel said that she and her family were shocked at what happened during her uncle's funeral in Gray Court.
A Candler, N.C., woman danced in front of the service, waved a wand around the casket, opened the lid, laid her hands on the deceased's head and struck the body with a wand, according to an incident report from the Laurens County Sheriff's Office.
Nicole Marie Loretta Leonard, 25, has been charged with disturbing a funeral and public disorderly conduct in Tuesday's incident, according to tickets.
Fausel said she had never before seen the woman and had no idea why she would've been at funeral at Church of God on State 14.
"Everybody was just kind of flabbergasted," she said. "They didn't know what was going on."
The woman took flowers from the top of the casket and threw them at the family before leaving in a burgundy Toyota, according to the report.
Fausel said she called the Sheriff's Office.
A lieutenant intercepted a burgundy Toyota Corolla heading south on Interstate 385, according to the incident report.
When deputies asked the woman why she acted the way she did, the woman said "she felt that it was the right thing to do at the time," according to the report. The woman told deputies she knew no one at the church, according to the report.
Fausel said the deceased's immediate family was in another room at the time of the incident and didn't witness it.
Leonard, of 117 Davis Creek, was released from the Johnson Detention Center Wednesday, according to jail officials and tickets.
By Miranda Hitti
WebMD Health News
Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD
Feb. 25, 2009 -- Scientists may have figured out why hair turns gray, and their finding may open the door to new anti-graying strategies.
New research shows that hair turns gray as a result of a chemical chain reaction that causes hair to bleach itself from the inside out.
The process starts when there is a dip in levels of an enzyme called catalase. That catalase shortfall means that the hydrogen peroxide that naturally occurs in hair can't be broken down. So hydrogen peroxide builds up in the hair, and because other enzymes that would repair hydrogen peroxide's damage are also in short supply, the hair goes gray.
Putting the brakes on that chemical chain reaction "could have great implications in the hair graying scenario in humans," write the researchers, who included Karin Schallreuter, a professor clinical and experimental dermatology at England's University of Bradford.
The study appears online in The FASEB Journal; the FASEB is the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology.
58-year broadcast veteran, Paul Harvey, has passed away.
Reports are the-90-year old broadcast legend died surrounded by family at a hospital in Phoenix.
One of the most recognized voices and a fixture in American broadcasting for more than 50 years, passed away Saturday in Phoenix.
ABC Radio Networks announced that Paul Harvey was surrounded by his family at a hospital near where he had a winter home. No cause of death was announced according to the Associated Press.
Harvey had not only been aired locally on 1450 WATA over the years, but had been heard nationally since 1951.
"Stand by for news!" reached 24 million listeners at the peak of Harvey's career according to AP, as the broadcast was carried by more than 1,200 radio stations.
"The Rest Of The Story" began hitting the airwaves in 1976.
Harvey's wife Angel, also a Radio Hall of Fame member, passed away in May 2008.
ABC Radio Network's President, James Robinson, released the following statement Saturday:
"Paul Harvey was one of the most gifted and beloved broadcasters in our nation’s history. As he delivered the news each day with his own unique style and commentary, his voice became a trusted friend in American households. His career in radio spanned more than seven decades, during which time countless millions of listeners were both informed and entertained by his “News & Comment” and “Rest of the Story” features. Even after the passing of his loving wife Angel in May 2008, Paul would not slip quietly into retirement as he continued to take the microphone and reach out to his audience. We will miss our dear friend tremendously and are grateful for the many years we were so fortunate to have known him. Our thoughts and prayers are now with his son Paul Jr. and the rest of the Harvey family."
Paul Harvey's son, Paul Harvey Jr., also released a statement Saturday. Harvey Jr. said:
"My father and mother created from thin air what one day became radio and television news. So in the past year, an industry has lost its godparents and today millions have lost a friend."
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