AUTHORITIES SEARCHING AN APARTMENT IN SPOKANE, WA AS PART OF AN **

NO ARRESTS HAVE BEEN MADE **

AN FBI SPOX HAS NOT SAID WHETHER AGENTS ARE QUESTIONING ANYONE IN **

INVESTIGATION COMES A MONTH AFTER LETTERS CONTAINING RICIN WERE DISCOVERED **

AT LEAST 16 KILLED, EIGHT COPS ABDUCTED IN IRAQ, AS SECTARIAN VIOLENCE **

IN THE DEADLIEST OF SAT'S ATTACKS, AN ANTI-TERRORISM POLICE CAPTAIN ALONG **

THE EVENTS FOLLOW THREE DAYS OF ATTACKS THAT KILLED 130 PEOPLE IN BOTH **

SUSPECTED U.S. DRONE STRIKE KILLS FOUR AL QAEDA MILITANTS IN SOUTHERN YEMEN **

UNIDENTIFIED OFFICIAL SAYS THE ATTACK TOOK PLACE SAT MORNING IN ABYAN **

WASHINGTON HAS SAID AL QAEDA IN YEMEN IS AMONG THE GROUP'S MOST DANGEROUS **

AS MANY AS 60 PEOPLE INJURED AFTER A CAR DRIVES INTO A GROUP OF HIKERS IN A **

THREE OF THE VICTIMS WERE AIRLIFTED TO LOCAL HOSPITALS, WHILE MOST WERE **

THE NUMBER OF CRITICAL INJURIES WAS NOT IMMEDIATELY KNOWN **

EMERGENCY OFFICIAL SAYS THE CAR'S DRIVER MAY HAVE SUFFERED A MEDICAL **

OXBOW WINS PREAKNESS, RUINING ORB'S BID TO WIN THE THOROUGHBRED TRIPLE **

THE VICTORY MARKS HALL-OF-FAME TRAINER D. WAYNE LUKAS' 15TH WIN IN A TRIPLE **

ORB FINISHED FOURTH AS THE 3-5 FAVORITE, WHILE OXBOW WENT OFF AS A 15-1 **

JAILS IN BALTIMORE, ST. LOUIS AND PHILADELPHIA FACE NATION'S HIGHEST LEVELS **

DOJ REPORT SAYS MARION COUNTY JAIL IN INDIANAPOLIS HAD THE HIGHEST RATE OF **

REPORT'S AUTHORS SURVEYED INMATES AT 233 PRISONS, 358 LOCAL JAILS AND 15 **

OFFICIALS INVESTIGATING FRI'S RUSH-HOUR TRAIN COLLISION IN CT RULE OUT FOUL **

I know the ON THE RECORD STAFF WILL MAKE FUN OF ME FOR THIS POSTING …. what do Appleton and the Super Bowl have in common?

Some trivia….I was just watching the Super Bowl ads on line and see that actor Willem Dafoe is in the Mercedes-Benz ad.  I grew up with him – Willem is from Appleton (or as the staff would tease me, ‘isn’t everyone from Appleton?’)  His Father was one of the few family doctors in town and Willem, who I have not see in years, was just about the nicest kid in town.  And if he was not the nicest, then it was one of his siblings.

And while I am bragging…we have had other Super Bowl stars from Appleton (and this will test your Super Bowl trivia knowledge) — do you know who Rocky Bleier is?  He went to my high school but graduated many years ahead of me – he is a legend at my high school.