Posted: 11:50 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 9, 2010
Teens Get High Snorting Nutmeg; Aretha Franklin Hasn't Confirmed Cancer Report; Ex-Baller Picks Railroad Over NFL; Next Smoke Could Be Your Last
By Veronica Waters
- Some metro Atlanta teens have beengetting high not on the spice of life, but on a spice from the kitchen cabinet: nutmeg. A doctor from the Georgia Poison Center says a mother called them, alarmed, when she found her son high from snorting an ounce of the spice--as well as pale, weak and in a stupor. Nutmeg has oils that mimic hallucinogens. Two people--neither in Georgia--have died doing nutmeg.
- Aretha Franklin's cousin says the ailing legendary singer is "doing better than doctors expected'' and expects to be released from the hospital this weekend. A Detroit TV station says relatives have confided that the 68-year-old is battling cancer, but neither Franklin nor her medical team has confirmed those reports. Franklin announced last week that her surgery for an undisclosed illness was "highly successful." Rev. Jesse Jackson says he's visited with her four or five times and that her spirits are high.
- In KISS news about your health: The next time you light a cigarette, it could be the last thing you do. Surgeon General Regina Benjamin is out with a report warning that tobacco smoke begins poisoning immediately, as more than 7,000 chemicals in each puff rapidly spread through the body to cause damage to nearly every organ. Dr. Benjamin says that even a bit of social smoking--or inhaling someone else's secondhand smoke--could be enough to block the arteries and trigger a heart attack.
- He'd rather ride the rails than go back to the NFL. Former Lovejoy High football standout Keith Fitzhugh was cut three times by two NFL teams and has declined an offer to return to the Jets to play on their practice squad.
- Wesley Snipes reports to a minimum security federal prison in Pennsylvania today. He admits to CNN's Larry King, he's a bit scared, saying, "I think any man would be nervous if his liberty is at stake." But he goes on to say that he is also very upset and disappointed that the system doesn't seem to be working for him. He's sentenced to three years on tax violations.
- There may be no business like show business, but some Atlantans say when there's show business, they have no business! A new movie is being filmed in the area of Mitchell Street--and the street is being shut down for a week, drawing complaints from business owners who complain that the movie folks should be compensating them for the lost revenue. The state doesn't require them to do that. When AMC's "Walking Dead" filmed in the area, residents got $1,000 for the inconvenience.
- A group calling itself "Operation Payback" is claiming responsibility for making MasterCard and Visa websites temporarily inaccessible. The hackers are angry the credit card companies stopped processing donations to WikiLeaks. Cardholders' accounts were not at risk.
- India's ambassador to the U. S. says her trip to a conference at Mississippi State--go Dawgs--was wonderful...but that her airport experience ruined it. Meera Shankar got a TSA pat-down. She was wearing her traditional Indian sari. The TSA says diplomats aren't exempt.
- The KISS 104.1 weather forecast: sunny, high around 44.
The 25-year-old is training with Norfolk Southern to be a railroad conductor, and decided to stay in metro Atlanta for that steady paycheck which helps him help his mother and disabled father. Fitzhugh says unlike football, that's job he can still do into his 40s and 50s.
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