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http://www.wsfa.com/story/18603535/after-32-years-at-wsfa-12-news-bob-howell-says-good-byeWednesday, May 23, 2012
After 32 years at WSFA 12 News, Bob Howell says goodbye - WSFA.com: Montgomery, AL. - Long time news anchor Bob Howell is retiring from television, ending more than 32 years working at WSFA 12 News. The News at 6:00 on Wednesday, May 23 will be Bob's last newscast. Bob's presence in the river region has represented a standard of excellence anchoring news on WSFA and has been a fixture on television sets in central Alabama for more than five decades. He has had the job of delivering the day's news to thousands of viewers with a calm, trusted, steady and caring approach through difficult, challenging and happy times.
Oh, Zuck: Facebook's bumpy start just got a little worse – CNN.com Blogs - Regulators are now looking into the possibility that Facebook's Wall Street investment banks may have tipped off some clients that Facebook wasn't necessarily a great buy or worth the hype it was receiving, according to reports Wednesday from Reuters and several other news organizations. “Facebook changed the numbers – they didn’t forecast their business right and they changed their numbers and told analysts,” a person at one of Facebook’s banks told Reuters. The big question is: Did certain privileged customers receive information about the Facebook offering that you as an individual investor might not have?
Pakistani doctor who helped U.S. find bin Laden is jailed - USATODAY - The Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA locate Osama bin Laden has been convicted and sent to prison, the BBC and other news organizations are reporting. A tribal court Wednesday sentenced Shakil Afrid to 33 years in jail and fined him $3,500, according to The New York Times.
Oregon prep track coach takes student to prom, loses job - USATODAY - Ellen J. Horrow - Controversy has bubbled up at a small high school in Eastern Oregon after a volunteer track coach was let go because she took a 17-year-old boy to his prom in April. Melissa Bowerman, 41, who had been coaching the Condon/Wheeler track and field team with her 73-year-old husband, Jon Bowerman, was ousted this month in a phone call from school officials. Jon Bowerman is the son of Nike co-founder Bill Bowerman.
Father Doesn’t Know Best - NYTimes.com - Maureen Dowd - And it’s about a church that is obsessed with sex in ways it shouldn’t be, and not obsessed with sex in ways it should be. The bishops and the Vatican care passionately about putting women in chastity belts. Yet they let unchaste priests run wild for decades, unconcerned about the generations of children who were violated and raped and passed around like communion wine. - The church leaders headed to court hope to undermine the president, but they may help him. Voters who think sex is only for procreation were not going to vote for Obama anyway. And the lawsuit reminds the rest that what the bishops portray as an attack on religion by the president is really an attack on women by the bishops.
Pastor condemns homosexuals in sermon saying gays and lesbians 'should be put in electrified pen to let them die off' | Mail Online --A North Carolina pastor preached hate in a recent sermon when he theorized that gay and lesbian people should be put behind an electric fence and left there to 'die out'. Pastor Charles Worley, 71, gave the incendiary sermon on Mother's Day in the Providence Road Baptist Church, and his homicidal plans were met with a receptive audience.
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