(Tuesday, 14 July 2009)  A computer store smash & grab is stopped by a lot of noise and a second wall; LaToya Jackson tells a reporter more about her suspicions surrounding brother Michael's death; President Obama nominates a Morehouse Med School grad as the next Surgeon General.  Details are on today's KISS News Now!

• A second wall and a lot of noise help stop some would-be smash-and-grab thieves at a Microcenter computer store in Marietta.  Neighbors complained about the loudness as the crooks smashed thru the first wall with a sledgehammer.  They were trying to hammer through another interior wall which kept them out until police arrived, chased the pair through the parking lot, and arrested them.
  
  
• LaToya Jackson tells a British reporter that her brother Michael died not in his own bedroom, but in the bed of his cardiologist.  Caroline Graham tells CNN's Larry King that LaToya says it's true that Dr. Conrad Murray left the UCLA Medical Center after Michael's sudden death.
  
  "She was at the hospital with the screaming children, asking to speak to Michael's doctor," said Graham.  "When she went up to him and said, 'What the hell happened to my brother?', he mumbled something that she said was a whole bunch of nothing.  And then the next time she looks around, after she's been to see her brother's dead body, the doctor's cleared off."
  
  A spokesperson for Dr. Murray said LaToya was wrong, that Murray did indeed administer CPR in Michael's room.  The spokesperson did not respond to LaToya's claims that there were an IV stand and oxygen canisters in Michael's bedroom.
  
  LaToya Jackson would not reveal what a private autopsy found.  Los Angeles authorities say toxicology results could be out this week.
  
  
• Fans swarmed O2 Arena in London last night, which would've been the start of Michael Jackson's This Is It tour.  Official merchandise from the planned concerts, including designs approved by the King of Pop himself, is now for sale. Jackson sketched out ideas for many of the items he wanted sold at the events, including a varsity jacket and a red shoulder bag which evoked his "Thriller" video, during a brainstorming session in May at his rental home in Los Angeles.   Click here for the official website. The company also says that some of the items will be for sale nationwide in several retailers including Target and JCPenney.
  
  
• A Morehouse School of Medicine alum is President Obama's Surgeon General nominee.  Dr. Regina Benjamin graduated in 1982 and did her residency in Macon; she's known to make house calls for those in need and accepting whatever payment her patients could scrounge up.  She pledged to be a voice for patients in need and to fight the preventable diseases that claim too many lives each year.  She said her family was not present at the Rose Garden ceremony because of preventable illnesses--her father died with diabetes and hypertension; her only brother of HIV; her mother of lung cancer "because," Dr. Benjamin said, "as a young girl, she wanted to smoke just like her twin brother could;'' and her uncle is now on oxygen as a result of all that smoking.  The 52-year-old's nomination will have to be confirmed by the U. S. Senate, which is today having Day 2 of the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee, Judge Sonia Sotomayor.
  
  
• A Compton teen is believed to have made history as the youngest black female pilot to fly solo cross-country.  Fifteen-year-old Kimberly Anyadike flew in a single-engine Cessna with an adult safety pilot and one of the original Tuskegee Airmen to Virginia, making about a dozen stops along the way, before returning to California Saturday.
  
  
• A Cobb County crossing guard is charged with child molestation.  Police say 62-year-old Jerry Cox is a longtime friend of the 12-year-old girl's family.  He worked as a crossing guard at Tritt Elementary, Hightower Trail Middle, and Walton High Schools.
  
   
• Three young men are arrested in connection with the latest attempted robbery near Georgia Tech's campus.  Police Sgt. Reginald Moorman says the trio was heavily armed when they rolled up to a pedestrian at Spring and 4th, demanding money at gunpoint.  They had a loaded AK-47, ammunition, ski masks and military-style body armor.  Two of the three arrested are 21, and the third is 19 years old.
  
  
• Plug in that Wii.  Oklahoma researchers found children use the same energy and burn the same calories playing something like Wii Boxing or Dance Dance Revolution as they do walking 2.6 miles an hour.
  
  
• Convicted swindler Bernie Madoff is in Atlanta.  He is being held at the federal lockup here on his way to his final prison destination, which is expected to be Butner prison in North Carolina, for a 150-year sentence.
  
  
• The KISS 104.1 weather forecast: mostly sunny, and a high near 89-90.  Tonight's low, upper 60s to about 70.  Tomorrow, a mix of sun and clouds with highs in the low 90s.