THE SHOW: 12/30/2009 - TO COVER OR NOT TO COVER / MOS DEF SPLIT FOR SHEEN / LOTTERY PLAYERS PLEASE CHECK YOUR TIX / TEDDY SLAM OR JAM??

Local Buzz:
"$128 Million Lottery Ticket Goes Unclaimed"

*GEORGETOWN, Ky. - If you recently bought a Kentucky Lottery ticket, you could be a winner.
Lottery officials said the owner of the winning $128 million Powerball ticket from Saturday's drawing has still not come forward.
The ticket was sold at a ProTravel Marathon in Georgetown, Ky., just north of Lexington.
The winning numbers were 32-36-37-41-53 and Powerball 30.
Prior to this jackpot, the largest ever won in Kentucky was $89 million.

*NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Police caught up with two suspected serial home burglars after a week of intense surveillance.
Convicted felon Nicholas Capito, 25, and John Riley Head, 31, now face aggravated burglary and stolen property charges in Sumner County.
Police caught up with the pair as they were counting their loot following a home-break-in in Goodlettsville.
The investigation began last week when police learned that Head had pawned items taken from another burglary in Crieve Hall.
Police say evidence found during a search of Head's home also linked them to other burglaries in the area.
Capito already received a three year sentence for car burglary in March.

*NASHVILLE, Tenn. - A Nashville woman was behind bars Wednesday morning accused of TennCare fraud.
The TBI arrested Keisha Marcano Tuesday on two counts of TennCare fraud, two counts of abuse of a vulnerable adult and one count each of theft and theft of services.
The arrest came following a one year investigation into Marcano's billing of two agencies contracted by TennCare for the same hours.
Investigators said she also left mentally disabled patients in the care of someone who was not employed by the company.
Wednesday morning, Marcano remained jailed on a $10,000 bond.

Top Stories:
"Dutch to Use Full-Body Scanners on Flights to US "

*The major international airport of the Netherlands will begin using full-body scanners on passengers flying to the United States to prevent a recurrence of the security breach that allowed a would-be bomber to smuggle explosives onto a flight to Detroit from Amsterdam on Christmas Day, the Dutch authorities said Wednesday.
The new measures were announced as the Dutch interior minister discussed the government’s early investigation into the thwarted bombing.
At a news conference at The Hague in the Netherlands the interior minister, Guusje Ter Horst, characterized preparations for the attack as professional but its execution as amateurish, according to The Associated Press.
"It is not exaggerating to say the world has escaped a disaster,” Ms. Ter Horst said. Dutch officials said the accused bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a 23-year-old Nigerian, had raised no red flags as he arrived in Amsterdam from Nigeria and transferred to his Detroit-bound flight at Schiphol Airport. He arrived at 5:37 a.m. on Dec. 25, passed through security screening at a metal detector without setting off any alarms and departed for the United States at 8:55 a.m.
He had a visa to enter the United States, and he presented a valid Nigerian passport as he boarded Northwest Airlines Flight 253. The Interior Ministry’s report said Mr. Abdulmutallab was traveling on a round-trip ticket purchased in Ghana.
Ms. Ter Horst said the explosives used in the attack appeared to be professionally made, and that it appeared they had been given to Mr. Adbulmutallab.
In a letter to the Dutch Parliament posted on the counterterrorism office’s Web site, Ms. Ter Horst said the attack demonstrated "a fairly professional approach, comparable to earlier attempted attacks against civil aviation,” referring to the thwarted 2001 attack by the "shoe bomber,” Richard Reid.
Although Dutch officials said they would deploy the scanners "immediately,” a spokesman for the country’s counterterrorism office said only 7 of the airport’s 15 full-body scanners were currently ready for use. The rest would be deployed within three weeks after receiving software upgrades.

*WASHINGTON -- The U.S. had multiple pieces of information about alleged bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, according to senior U.S. officials, including intelligence reports and communications intercepts suggesting a Nigerian was being prepped for a terror strike by al Qaeda operatives in Yemen.
The intercepts were collected piecemeal by the National Security Agency, which has been monitoring al Qaeda militants in that country, including former Guantanamo detainees believed to be leaders there.
In addition, the father of Mr. Abdulmutallab met with the Central Intelligence Agency at the U.S. embassy in Abuja, Nigeria, Nov. 19, and told of his son's likely radicalization, U.S. officials say. That led to a broader gathering of agencies the next day, including the Department of Homeland Security, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the State Department, in which the information was shared, a U.S. official said.

*A former national leader of the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan will lead evangelism campaigns and a ministry of racial reconciliation as an ordained minister in the largest body of black churchgoers in America. Ordained last month to serve within the six-million-member Church of God in Christ in Florida, Johnny Lee Clary hopes to educate people on the perils of inequality. Now 50, he joined the Klan at 14 but turned to God after feelings of guilt led him to depression and the verge of committing suicide. He's been estranged from the group for 30 years and tells the Christian Post, "I believe I have something to contribute in the area of racial reconciliation. I'm going to spend the rest of my life building bridges and bringing people together."
QUESTION:
Do you believe people can change after years of racist beliefs?

*Teddy Riley has been hit with a restraining order for allegedly assaulting his teen daughter Taja with a guitar meant to be used in the video game Rock Band. Riley was ordered to stay at least 100 yards away from the 18-year-old in the wake of the December 23rd incident, in which he is said to have "lifted a Rock Band guitar and threatened to kill person(s) with it" before "stomping, punching and bashing" Taja and her older sister.

*Rihanna is being ordered to keep it covered when she plays Abu Dhabi on New Year's Eve. The Middle Eastern city has taken artists like Beyonce and Fergie to task for the same issue in the past and RiRi is being treated no differently. Known for her sexy attire, she's reportedly been told to dress "conservatively" for her gig at the Emirates Palace. A source tells the U-K's Mirror, "Rihanna is tearing her hair out over what to do -- she wanted to put on her most eccentric and provocative show yet. She knows that she'll have to compromise her style to fit in with local traditions, but a huge part of her show is her sexy stage gear."
The source says Rihanna's camp is also being hassled about what's in the singer's dressing room. "Her people are trying to iron out all of the details for the rider, which is proving to be somewhat problematic. Apparently Rihanna always likes to have some bottles of vodka in her hotel room, but she may need to obtain a license if she is to store the alcohol in her dressing room during the gig."

*Lil Wayne played a farewell show for fans in his native New Orleans on Monday night at New Orleans Arena. Weezy pleaded guilty to a weapons possession charge in October and will be sentenced February 9th. His plea deal calls for a year in jail.

*There's a good chance Charlie Sheen will jump back into the dating pool soon.
An insider says Charlie and wife Brooke "will make their best effort at counseling, [but] divorce is definitely a possibility." The couple, who have twin sons together, have taken a break from one another after Charlie's Christmas Day arrest on domestic violence charges. In fact, Brooke was spotted partying in Aspen, Colorado the other night alongside such celebs as Paris Hilton and Gerard Butler.
Ironically, the fight that led to the arrest started, according to the source, after "Brooke asked Charlie for a separation and divorce."

Black History:

*December 30, 1960-Spingarn Medal :Langston Huges~Poet Langston Hughes presented Spingarn Medal and cited as "the poet laureate of the Negro race."

* Wisconsin man's loyalty to the Green Bay Packers has saved his life. Jim Becker began selling his blood four times a year in 1952 to pay for season tickets, a practice that managed a blood disorder he didn't know he had.
Jim Becker of Racine, Wisc., has always been a Green Bay Packers fan.
He's such a devoted fan that, in 1952, when the demands of a growing family meant he'd have to give up his season tickets, he began selling his blood four times a year to cover the cost of the seats.
He has been to 206 home games, only missing three Packers games in that time.
Becker's devotion to the Packers isn't just a pastime -- it has also saved his life, TV station WDJT reports.
After 23 years of selling blood quarterly, a routine physical revealed that Becker had a rare and fatal disorder that causes excess iron in his blood -- the same disease that killed his father at age 43.
Since Becker, now 79, didn't know he had the same disorder, he had no idea he had been keeping the disease from shutting down his vital organs by having blood drawn regularly.
"There's no cure for it," Becker told WDJT. "They said the only way to lessen it was to give blood, because the blood draws the iron out of the system."
Becker is hoping his luck when it comes to the Packers holds up, as he's been nominated for this year's Packers Fan Hall of Fame. Voting continues through Jan. 31 at the Packers Web site.
If Becker wins, he'll get four club seats to a home game, but will have a problem deciding which of his children will join him. Ten of his 11 children are Packers fans, too.

*What is the difference between a close friendship and a close relation? Most of us believe that when friendship becomes stronger, it may turn into relationship. The truth is different. Think about the kind of talk you have with your friends. You are always very open about your failures and shortcomings. You are not shy of talking about your problem and asking friends to help. In a close friendship, you expect to know everything about each other.
How about a relationship? Think about animals. They also show their best side to their mate. We human beings keep lot of secrets away from our partner. We do not want to tell about our failures and shortcomings. We also try to impress our partner when we are in romance. This difference between friendship and relationship is very deep. We calculate our moves in a relationship but are very open in a friendship. We are like a child in friendships but behave like an adult in relationships.
If you remain inside your boundaries in a relationship and not try to change it into a close friendship, you will have longer relationships. Telling all does not help in relationships.

*I like talking to her because she always seems so surprised and interested in what I’m saying. That, and because she kinda looks like the old lady in Adam Sandler’s Eight Crazy Nights.~Idaho

"What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?"~ 1 Corinthians 6:19