The performance of some seven-year-old girls in a dance competition is drawing criticism for their risque routine; Gwinnett County schools are set to hire lots of teachers; researchers say younger husbands may shorten life expectancy for older wives. Get all the latest on today's KISS News Now!

It's a familiar headline: a school system deals with budget cuts. But the state's largest district will not lay off employees to manage its $115 million shortfall. Gwinnett County will actually hire about 200 new teachers to accomodate the opening of eight new schools and the influx of up to 1,600 new students.

Shocking new findings about metro Atlanta playgrounds. The Keenan Kids Foundation's playground safety report finds instead of playgrounds becoming safer over the past five years, 70% of them have gotten worse. The playground report examined nearly 30 metro Atlanta playgrounds and found 92% of them failing in at least three critical safety areas.

Little girls go hard on Single Ladies.  Have you seen this video on YouTube?  Five seven-year-old girls are shown in a California dance competition, wearing two-piece red and black ruffled and rhinestone outfits and some of the choreography is...provocative, to say the least.  Two of the girls' parents defended the racy dance on Good Morning America, saying both the skimpy outfits and the dance moves are typical for competitions.  They also say the dance was never meant to be seen worldwide. What do you think about the routine? Too risque, or too much ado about nothing?  

A Kennesaw State student who's stirred up controversy over her illegal immigrant status is surrendering to police on accusations that she gave them a bogus address when she was arrested for not having a valid driver's license. 21-year-old Jessica Colotl was given a year's deferrment on being deported so she could finish her degree at KSU, where she's been enrolled since 2006. Colotl graduated from a high school in DeKalb County with a 3.8 GPA.

A hoarder leaves a Cherokee County landlord's home in a mess. Steve Closs says he spent five months trying to evict the woman, who refused to pay her rent. Once he got inside, Closs says every room in the house was packed to the ceiling with junk. The woman also left behind bags of garbage, rotten food and animal waste from goats, roosters and ducks. Damage estimates are about $10,000.

A company in Gainesville, Georgia has developed what looks like a giant paper towel that helps clean up massive oil slicks. But the CEO of MyCelx says even though the pad is used from the Middle East to Europe, they haven't been able to garner interest from the agencies now doing the cleanup in the Gulf of Mexico. The pad is treated with a polymer that attracts oil, and it can hold up to 50 times its own weight in oil.

Have you seen that video of the gushing well-head in the gulf? A UC Berkeley professor analyzing it calculates the actual oil spill rate is much greater than BP is indicating--he says instead of 5,000 barrels a day, it's closer to 100,000 barrels a day.

In KISS news about your health: think twice, cougars. A younger husband actually may shorteen the life expectancy of an older wife. German researchers say a woman who marries a man seven to nine years younger is 20% more likely to die at an earlier age than if she's married to someone her own age. The converse does not hold true: an older man's life expectancy is greater with a younger wife. Apparently, she'll nurse him--while younger men can't be counted on when their cougar gets sick.

Want ribs, but don't feel like firing up the grill? For the third year in a row, Shane's Rib Shack is celebrating May, the official month of barbecue, by giving away a free half rack of ribs to the first 100 customers at each store on tomorrow, May 15.

Johns Creek Police are looking for the fourth and final suspect in an attempted burglary at a home in Wellington off of Sargent Road. Would-be home invaders were startled when they approached a home to break in, and the homeowner's son called out. Police spokeswoman Rosemary Taylor says this subdivision's been hit three times in two weeks. It's the same one where a little girl hid in a closet and texted for help last week when crooks broke into her home.

Federal authorities arrest three men they suspect financed the alleged would-be Times Square bomber in a series of raids stretching from Boston to New Jersey. Investigators don't yet know whether the three Pakistanis knew how the money was going to be used.

Senate Democrats and Republicans have sided against banks in a vote to force credit card companies to reduce fees for debit card transactions. Merchants would also be allowed to offer customer discounts based on their payment method. The proposal is part of the overhaul of financial industry regulations pending before Congress.

Common says he thought he could hang with NBA pros Dwayne Wade and Dwight Howard when he was ready shoot scenes on the court for his new movie. After all, he was in shape, had played hoops before and an NBA trainer said he was in shape. "Reality hit me when I drove to the basket, and Dwight Howard smacked my shot into the stands," says Common. "Just Wright" co-stars Queen Latifah as a physical therapist who catches baller Common's eye. It opens today.

No more Law & Order? Sources say NBC will bring the long-running series to a close this season, but the network won't confirm the rumor. The show co-stars Anthony Anderson as an NYC detective and S. Epatha Merkerson as his commanding lieutenant (both shown here with co-star Jeremy Sisto). NBC's fall schedule will be released Sunday. If L&O goes one more season, it would break Gunsmoke's title as the longest-running television drama.

A Pennsylvania cop who said he was shot while on patrol last month admits he intentionally shot himself in the shoulder. A 21-year veteran of his West Philly police force, 46-year-old Robert Ralston had blamed the shooting on one of two black men he claimed to have started questioning after he confronted the pair arguing on some train tracks. The story launched a big search for a suspect who never existed. His boss says Ralston made up the story apparently because he wanted a transfer or just some attention. He's now suspended with intent to dismiss, and will have to pay the cost of the investigation which was prompted by his phony account. He won't face criminal charges because he was granted immunity in order to get the truth.

The KISS 104.1 weather forecast: partly to mostly cloudy Friday, with a hazy, humid high of 86.