October 16, 2013 The Vatican had to recall 6,200 commemorative medals that were to honor Pope Francis’s papacy but there was one very important word that was misspelled: Jesus. Surrounding the outer edge of the medals was a saying in Latin that Pope Francis said inspired him as a boy.
October 14, 2013 This coming Thanksgiving will see a very rare occurrence, one we will never see again in our lifetime. Thanksgiving and the beginning of Hanukkah will be on the same day. The last time this happened was in 1888, at least the last time it happened since President Lincoln declared Thanksgiving a federal holiday. The next time it will happen is a long, long, long time from now.
October 14, 2013 On Saturday, the St. Louis Cardinals beat the LA Dodgers 1-0 to take a 2-0 lead in the NLCS but it was Game 1 of the series on Friday that made history. The Cardinals won that game 3-2 in 13 innings making it the 12th longest game in MLB post season history. Game 3 is tonight.
October 13, 2013 Week 7 of college football saw four upsets in the top 20. Number 5 Stanford fell to unranked Utah 27-21, Utah’s first win against a top 5 opponent in school history. After outlasting LSU last week, #7 Georgia lost to #25 Missouri 41-26, the first time Missouri beat a top 10 team on the road in 32 years.
October 11, 2013
October 11, 2013 I remember as I was growing up I would from time to time read Archie comic books. Veronica, Betty, Jughead, Moose and the gang were always funny and upbeat and the town of Riverdale was like an all- American city. A new series of Archie comics will take a turn to the dark side.
October 11, 2013 The boats are ready to go and so are the crews but they are just sitting and waiting for the Government shutdown to be resolved. The federal shutdown means no crabbing permits can be handed out to the dozens of boats ready for red king crab season in Alaska.
October 10, 2013 The man of steel is coming to Ohio as an aluminum license plate. The State is selling Superman license plates with the super ‘S’ on them to recognize the Superman comic book being created in Ohio. Starting this month plates will be available for an extra $20, plus the annual renewal few, and will come with the Superman logo, name, and the words ‘Truth, Justice, and the American Way’.
October 9, 2013 The press is having a fun time with it, calling the perpetrator ‘the poopetrator’ but Yale University isn’t amused at all. They believed someone has been pooping in clothes dryers at the college. They thought they caught the person but a couple of weeks later they struck again.
October 9, 2013 The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 was blamed on a cow, probably the most famous cow in history: Mrs. O’Leary’s cow. The fire started in the barn and destroyed 3.5 square miles of the city, killed 120 and left thousands of other homeless. But did the cow start the fire?