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Posted: 11:39 a.m. Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Ray Lewis: Crime Will Rise If NFL Lockout Continues (VIDEO); Monitor Blood Sugar With Your Car? 

By Veronica Waters

  • A double shooting on Rock Hill Road has left one man in critical condition this morning.  Police Corporal Kay Lester says they hope to interview that man when he gets out of surgery, as he was the first one to call 911.  Detectives are interviewing one witness.  The shooting happened around 4:00 a.m.

  • Search-and-rescue crews in Joplin, Missouri, are digging through the debris of smashed houses and crushed cars, hunting for survivors of Sunday's killer tornado.  So far, nearly 20 people have been found alive in the wreckage.  The death toll is 116 and is expected to climb.  President Obama will visit the devastated town this weekend.

  • the obamas with the duke and duchess of cambridge
  • President and First Lady Obama are getting the royal treatment in England, where they are being hosted at Buckingham Palace after spending their first night in the UK at the US ambassador's house.  The Queen is giving them lodgings, lunch and dinner.  The president also will address Parliament, becoming the first U. S. leader to do so in historic Westminster Hall. 

  • A Sandy Springs man accused of groping his seatmate on a Delta flight wants a judge to let him see her Facebook posts.  Lawyers for the 62-year-old suspect say if she didn't talk about it online, she may not have been upset about what allegedly happened on the plane.

  • The state of Georgia is coming out with new license plates in 2012--and your artwork could be on them.  A new contest for Georgians to submit designs for the new tags runs through June 17, with a winner announced in mid-July.

  • The new superintendent of Cobb County Schools is taking a $100,000 pay cut to come here from Dallas.  Dr. Michael Hinojosa says he wants to listen before acting--talking to 100 people in 90 days before going to the school board with ideas.  Parents and teachers got to meet and greet Hinojosa Monday at Campbell High.

  • The California radio preacher who claimed the Rapture would occur on Saturday now says he was off by five months.  Harold Camping, an 89-year-old retired engineer, says Jesus did in fact come Saturday, but it was only in spirit--and that now we are in the final days of judgment, which will continue until October 21.  Camping says there's no need to keep warning people about it, so his Family Radio Network will play Christian music until then. 

  • Ray Lewis tells ESPN's Sal Paolontonio he's stayed out of the war of the words on the NFL lockout--a lockout which he says is largely based on pride.  Team owners and players have been wrangling over how to split up a $9 billion purse.  Lewis says real people are suffering and will suffer if the lockout lasts--not just fans, but people who work in the league, in stadiums, etc.  And he says crime will probably go up if the season doesn't happen.  Watch: 

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrOdhCP9XDY

 

  • A Salt Lake City mom is under arrest for allegedly offering to sell her daughter's virginity for $10,000 cash.  The 32-year-old woman's boyfriend called cops after finding texts on her phone with a man named Don.  She's admitted taking her daughter to a Victoria's Secret and letting Don watch her try on lingerie; she took cash from another guy to send him pictures of the girl in lingerie.

  • The owner of a Johns Creek UPS Store was arrested last week for stealing thousands of gift cards destined for tornado surviviors in Tuscaloosa.  Now police in Dalton are probing whether Edward Copenhaven is behind a theft at a UPS Store he owns there.  He and a female accomplice were arrested when the sender of the gift cards checked with a relative and found that they had never arrived. She had recorded the numbers of the cards and took to Target to be traced; the store found out some of them had been spent here in metro Atlanta.

  • Ford is working on technology to help monitor your health while you drive.  The automaker's Health & Wellness division is developing a driver's seat to monitor your heart rate; voice-control technology would also let you check blood sugar levels, and an alert system to help manage asthma or allergies to pollen and smog with their SYNC technology.  The system is being tweaked to account for a driver's weight and clothing.  Ford says that it is aware of "no automaker" other than it designing a similar system, but won't say whether the debut of the system is months or years away.

  • The KISS 104.1 weather forecast:  mostly to partly sunny high of 90.
Veronica Waters

About Veronica Waters

Veronica Waters is the morning news anchor on KISS 104.1 and B-98.5FM. She is also an anchor and reporter for 95.

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