Good morning all! I’m going to be filling in for Sid Salter this afternoon on Super Talk Mississippi. I’ll be on the air at 3 p.m. My vacation continues!
Daily Free-For-All can be found here.
Weather. It’s going to be 71 degrees today with a few sprinkles. Yes, it was 20 a couple of days ago. And there will be severe weather on New Year’s Eve. Watch out for drunk tornadoes.
Know a State Fan? They’ll be in Jacksonville. You can go rob their house. And when you’re done, click here for great Gator Bowl Coverage Coverage.
Scott sisters freed. Yes they did the crime. And they did the time (16 years). Life was too stiff of a punishment and Gov. Haley Barbour remedied that yesterday. Was it a reaction to his own “sticking his racial foot in his mouth” problem? I don’t know. But I do know that he did the right thing. The only stipulation: One sister must donate a kidney to the other.
Jobless claims fall below 400,000 for the first time since this mess got started. There’s some good news for the new year.
One in five Britons live to 100. Prince Charles just figured out his mother will be one of them.
After 118 years, Amory pharmacy is closing its doors. It survived fire and economic downturns. People’s Pharmacy’s owner Dick Millender explains why: “Things have changed 200 percent since I began as a pharmacist in 1959,” Millender told the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal. “Everybody wants to do things by computer now. There is not a place for a mom and pop business anymore. Big pharmacies can sell merchandise cheaper than we can buy it.”
NY Mayor Bloomberg’s political career was found frozen to death in a snow drift in Brooklyn.