Wednesday, 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.
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