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Flood Victims' FEMA Deadline Today; Man Flashes Woman With Cell Phone; Woman Offers Sex For No Ticket
There are just a few hours left for Georgia flood victims to apply for federal aid; a Bartow County man allegedly used his cell phone to flash a grocery shopper; a cop says a speeder offered him sex to get out of a ticket. Today's top stories are here on KISS News Now!
- Had a home or business hit by the September floods? Today is the last day you can apply for federal aid. FEMA's Jim Homestead says a lot of people have the wrong idea about asking for the money--that they think they don't need to apply if they have flood insurance, or that they think they may be taking money from someone else who needs it more. He says neither of those is true, that in fact, the FEMA money may help fill in the gaps the insurance money doesn't reach. Applications must be postmarked today. So far, FEMA and the Small Business Administration have handed out $93 million in grants and loans. The number to call for help is (800) 621-FEMA (3362).
- A rising country start beat the King of Pop at the American Music Awards. Michael Jackson won four AMAs, including favorite male artist in pop/rock and soul R&B. But Jackson lost out to Taylor Swift as the year's favorite artist. Jermaine Jackson, wearing one sequined white glove, accepted the awards for his brother.
- Michael Jackson's doctor is expected to return to work at his Houston medical clinic for the first time since before the pop star's death. Dr. Conrad Murray hasn't been charged with a crime, but has been the focus of an ongoing homicide investigation. His lawyer says Murray will eventually reopen his Las Vegas clinic, too, which he shut down because he felt his patients were being harassed coming and going.
- A Cartersville man is out on $2,500 bond, accused of flashing a woman with his cell phone. The woman told police she was in the parking lot of an Aldi grocery store in Acworth when 29-year-old Stephen Woods walked up to her, asked her if she wanted to see something, then showed her a photo of male genitals on his phone. He's charged with distributing obscene material.
- Parents who thought their preschoolers were spending time in home-based day cares, taking naps, eating healthy snacks and learning to play nicely with others may be surprised to discover they are sitting as many as two hours a day in front of a TV. The report in the journal Pediatrics says combined with the time parents allow at home, preschoolers may be spending a third of their waking hours watching television. Other research has connected excessive TV watching during the preschool years with language delay, obesity, attention problems and aggression.
- The Democrats get a weekend victory on Capitol Hill, mustering just enough votes to send the health insurance reform bill to the floor for full debate. That begins after Thanksgiving. At least a couple of lawmakers are already threatening a filibuster, however, if a public option is kept as a key part of the bill.
- A Gainesville man is jailed without bond after his son accidentally kills himself. Police say the 22-month-old boy found a small caliber handgun on the nightstand and it fired, hitting him in the abdomen. His father, 33-year-old Raley Lane, is charged with involuntary manslaughter, reckless conduct and child cruelty.
- The man charged with taking those naked keyhole videos of ESPN Sports reporter Erin Andrews goes before a federal judge in Los Angeles today. Prosecutors say three times last year, 48-year-old insurance executive Michael Barrett found out which hotels Andrews would be using, then rented the adjacent room to shoot spy videos of her getting out of the shower and changing clothes.
- A Wheeler High School graduate is one of this year's Rhodes Scholarship winners. 23-year-old Grace Tiao of Marietta learned over the weekend that she's one of 32 Americans chosen to study at Oxford. She's the only Georgian in the bunch. Tiao graduated from Harvard, and will study microbiology at Oxford.
- Clayton County jail inmates have been brown-bagging it with bologna sandwiches for five weeks. Sheriff Kem Kimbrough says everything at the jail is broken or outdated, making it impossible to serve hot meals. He says although the county gave the green light to buy three new kitchen kettles, he doesn't know when the new equipment will arive. Kimbrough points out the county is open to a lawsuit, because Georgia law requires that inmates get at least two hot meals per day.
- Thanksgiving comes early today to nearly 200 residents of southwest Atlanta. Cascade United Methodist Church's New Advent Choir is doing their annual Thanksgiving Food Basket project. Starting at 7:00 this morning, volunteers begin "shopping" the fellowship hall with aisles of turkeys, produce, bread, and dry goods, divide it up and box it and hand it to recipients as they arrive. The event gives pre-selected families enough groceries for Turkey Day plus a full week afterward.
- A Florida woman would do anything to get out of a speeding ticket--and Hampton Police Lt. Steven Donaldson says his dashboard camera captured the entire offer as she offered him sex--in his police cruiser, or in the woods. He says she even came up with a plan to have him fake an arrest to get her away from her boyfriend and then they could go somewhere else and she could take it out in trade. When he showed up the following day at her house and arrested her, Donaldson says, she thought that was what was happening--but the arrest was very real. Donaldson ended up tacking bribery and prostitution charges onto the $191 speeding ticket.
- The KISS 104.1 weather forecast: scattered drizzle, and overcast grey skies with a chilly high of 52.
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