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04/22/2016

It's Fun Fact Friday! Did you know...
• The Flower Shell is a 12-gauge shot gun shell that lets you plant flower seeds in the ground with a shotgun.
• It snowed in the Sahara Desert in 1979 and again in 2012.
• Artist Salvador Dali would often get out of paying for drinks and meals by drawing on the cheques, making them priceless works of art.

This weekend is forecasted to be warm and windy. Enjoy the sunshine and have a marvelous weekend!

04/21/2016

04/20/2016

10 Things to Know in Today's News:

1. WHAT RESOUNDING WINS DID FOR FRONT-RUNNERS
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump quiet their critics and move closer to clinching their parties' nominations after winning primaries in New York.

2. FALLOUT IN FLINT CONTINUES
Michigan's top prosecutor will announce criminal charges against two state regulators and a Flint employee, alleging wrongdoing related to the city's lead-tainted water crisis.

3. WHY INTEL IS CUTTING 12,000 JOBS — 11 PERCENT OF ITS WORKFORCE
The giant chipmaker makes the announcement as an extended slide in global PC sales shows no signs of leveling off.

4. GRIEVING AND DEVASTATED ECUADOR HIT WITH ANOTHER EARTHQUAKE
A magnitude-6.1 temblor struck in the early morning hours off the coast of Muisne, just days after a massive 7.8-magnitude quake killed more than 500 people.

5. FIDEL CASTRO GIVES FAREWELL SPEECH TO CUBA'S COMMUNIST PARTY
The revolutionary leader tells party members he is nearing the end of his life and exhorts them to help his ideas survive.

6. WHERE FIGHTING IS INTENSIFYING, DESPITE CEASE-FIRE
The stepped-up conflict in Syria jeopardizes peace talks in Geneva aimed at ending the five-year civil war.

7. WHY RAW FISH FANS WON'T LIKE THIS NEWS
The latest scientific assessment paints a likely bleak future for the Pacific bluefin tuna, a sushi lovers' favorite whose population has dropped by more than 97 percent from its historic levels.

8. FLORIDA PARAMEDIC INJURED WHILE AIDING STABBED WOMAN
Caroline Dorton, a central Florida paramedic, is recovering at a hospital days after being run over while assisting a woman whose husband had just stabbed her. Chericia Brown was stabbed by her husband, Henry Brown. He returned in his car and ran over her, Dorton and an unidentified nurse who was also helping.

9. NO LET-UP IN GLOBAL WARMTH
Earth not only set a record for heat in March, but it was the 11th straight month for record heat, U.S. government meteorologists say.

10. WHO'S LEAVING 'LIVE WITH KELLY AND MICHAEL'
Michael Strahan is being shifted from the daily talk show he co-hosts with Kelly Ripa to work full-time on ABC's "Good Morning America."

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http://abcnews.go.com

04/19/2016

“The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become.”
– Heraclitus

04/15/2016

It's Fun Fact Friday! Did you know...
• The longest documented time between two twins being born is 87 days.
• Scorpions glow if you shine a black light on them.
• In 1923, jockey Frank Hayes won a race at Belmont Park in New York despite being dead — he suffered a heart attack mid-race, but his body stayed in the saddle until his horse crossed the line for a 20–1 outsider victory.

KWCH shows that we're supposed to have thunderstorms Saturday and Sunday. Stay dry!

04/13/2016

10 Things to Know in This Week's News:

1. HOW AMERICANS FEEL ABOUT SUPREME COURT POLITICAL BATTLE
Nearly 2 in 3 back Democrats' demands that the Republican-run Senate hold hearings and a vote on Obama's pick Merrick Garland, but it may not damage the GOP too much.

2. 'COUNT ME OUT'
House Speaker Paul Ryan rules out a bid for president this year, insisting that the party's choice should emerge from the group of candidates who pursued the GOP nomination.

3. CHINA QUASHES SAME-SEX MARRIAGE CASE
A judge rules against a gay couple in a landmark decision, disappointing the country's emerging LGBT rights movement.

4. GANGS DECLARE WAR ON POLICE AS EL SALVADOR VIOLENCE RAGES
Analysts say the increased willingness by both sides to attack each other directly is a sign that the conflict threatens to explode into open warfare.

5. SYRIANS BEGIN VOTING FOR NEW PARLIAMENT
At stake is a new 250-member parliament that is expected to serve as a rubber stamp for President Bashar Assad as fighting rages on the ground and peace talks are set to resume in Geneva.

6. FIRST NONSTOP SOUTHWEST FLIGHT LEAVES FOR PHOENIX
Southwest Airlines celebrated its first flight from Wichita Eisenhower National Airport to Phoenix Sky Harbor International on April 12, 2016. Southwest begins its new service from Wichita to St. Louis and Phoenix, in lieu of Dallas and Chicago.

7. WHAT LEBANESE AUTHORITIES BROKE UP
A s*x trafficking ring involving 75 Syrian women trafficked to Lebanon and forced into prostitution has shocked the nation hosting one million refugees from the war-torn country.

8. WHY 'WOMEN ONLY RIDES' ARE A QUANDARY
Ride-hailing companies catering exclusively to women are cropping up and raising thorny legal questions, namely: Are they discriminatory?

9. NEW BUSINESS CATERS TO CANINES
Food trucks in Seattle have flourished to include all kinds of cuisine, but now a new truck is focusing on doggy treats.

10. ROYALS WIN 3-2 OVER ASTROS
Royals closer Wade Davis did not have his best stuff on Tuesday night against the Astros. Yet he refused to give in. After walking two Astros batters with one out in the bottom of the ninth, he bore down against the teeth of the Houston order, coaxing a fly-ball out and a strikeout to give Kansas City a 3-2 win.

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http://www.kansas.com/

04/12/2016

“Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.”
~St. Jerome

04/08/2016

It's Fun Fact Friday! Did you know...
• Nepal is the only country that doesn’t have a rectangular flag.
• Seahorse males do something highly unusual in the animal kingdom; they get pregnant and deliver their offspring.
• The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.

Saturday should be partly cloudy with a high of 72 degrees, but KWCH is expecting thunderstorms on Sunday. Have an excellent weekend!