The mayor of Jamaica, Iowa was busted last Wednesday for growing\u00a0marijuana\u00a0in her basement.\u00a0 The cops received a tip about a fugitive hiding in her house, but when they arrived, they smelled a whole lot of weed instead.\u00a0 They found\u00a018 marijuana plants in her basement, and a couple pounds that were pre-packaged.\u00a0 Now the mayor and her husband are in custody.<\/p>\n
______________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Netflix is brining back “Unsolved Mysteries”!!\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/em>It<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>started as a series of specials on NBC in 1987, then became a regular series in ’88.\u00a0 It ran for nine seasons, then moved over to CBS for two more.\u00a0The new show will be like the old one:\u00a0 Spotlighting unsolved mysteries and asking the public to help crack the case.\u00a0 There will be 12 episodes, and each one will focus on a single case. It’s being done by the same people, and they promise to, quote, “maintain the chilling feeling” of the original.\u00a0(Which might be hard to do without the foreboding voice of\u00a0host\u00a0ROBERT STACK.\u00a0 He died in 2003.)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n ______________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n ENTERTAINMENT<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n _______________________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n TODAY IS\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cAnswer Your Cat\u2019s Questions Day\u201d, a day to concentrate on your feline and answer the questions you think it\u2019s asking.\u00a0 People often consider cats unaffectionate, not true companions. But the truth is, they only talk to humans. Studies show they rarely \u2018meow\u2019 at other cats.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cHot Sauce Day\u201d, if you are one of those people who feels that \u201cspicy\u201d is never quite spicy enough, Hot Sauce Day is the perfect holiday for you!\u00a0 Current best-rated hot sauce on Amazon: \u201cSecret Aardvark Habanero Sauce\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 2008 \u00a0Australian actor Heath Ledger (Oscar-\u201cThe Dark Knight\u201d) dies in NYC of a pharmaceutical overdose at age 29<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 2006\u00a0 LA Lakers superstar Kobe Bryant scores 81 points against the Toronto Raptors.<\/p>\n The 2nd-most points in a single NBA game in history behind Wilt Chamberlain\u2019s 100 in 1962<\/p>\n ______________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n COUNTRY MUSIC NOTE<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n January 22nd<\/sup>, 1994\u00a0 <\/strong>Hal Ketchum performs “Small Town Saturday Night” as he joins<\/p>\n the Grand Ole Opry<\/p>\n _____________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n WEATHER BE WEATHERIN\u2019 <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Ottawa as the coldest capitol city in the world on Saturday<\/p>\n The temperature in Ottawa fell below every other national capital in the world on Saturday morning \u2014 and that doesn’t include the wind chill.<\/p>\n Ulan Bator, the capital of Mongolia, is on average the coldest capital city in the world.<\/p>\n But the temperature in Ottawa \u2014 ranked the seventh coldest capital based on annual average temperature \u2014 dipped to \u201324 C, compared to \u201323 C in Ulan Bator.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n While much of Canada has been in the grip of intense cold, it’s been quite the other story on the opposite side of the globe, where Australia has been smashing all-time records in the midst of a ferocious heat wave.<\/p>\n The Australian Bureau of Meteorology said the six days between January 12 and 17 marked the hottest ten days on record in the country; even the hottest-on-record\u00a0minimum\u00a0<\/em>temperature was toppled by a scorching 35.9\u00baC<\/p>\n You’ve likely seen cookies baked in cars and eggs fried on sidewalks amid our own heat waves here at home, but with temperatures topping 40\u00baC for 37 days and counting since December 16 in some places, Aussies are finding new ways to showcase the searing heat — quite literally. One pub cooked a steak in a pan inside a vehicle.<\/p>\n While a cool-down was expected this weekend, it won’t be long-lived.<\/p>\n The heat wave has been blamed for massive die-offs of bat\u00a0and\u00a0fish populations, and losses for farmers who are seeing fruit still on the tree cook from the inside out.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n ______________________________________________________________________________________<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Guy Was Accidentally Invited to a Stranger’s Bachelor Party . . . Now He’s Going<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n There’s a 35-year-old guy named Will Novak in Phoenix, and he recently got an email about a bachelor party for a guy named Angelo.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Will doesn’t know Angelo, and it turns out Angelo’s friends sent him the invitation by mistake . . . they meant to send it to their friend who’s also named William Novak, and his email was only one letter different than Will’s.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n But when Will read the email, he thought the bachelor party sounded GREAT.\u00a0 The guys were going on a ski trip in Vermont and they’re supposed to, quote, “bring . . . ’80s attire [and] ridiculous awesome get-ups.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n So Will wrote back and said, quote, “I am Will Novak who lives in Arizona.\u00a0 Vermont seems like a very far way for me to travel for the bachelor party of a guy I’ve never met.\u00a0 That being said:\u00a0count me in!”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n He set up a Go Fund Me\u00a0to pay for the plane ticket, car rental, lift tickets, and a wedding present for Angelo . . . and because his situation was so ridiculous, he hit his $750 goal in a few hours.\u00a0\u00a0(Will says any additional money raised will go into a fund for Angelo’s first child.)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Will Novak got off the plane at Boston’s Logan International Airport Friday evening and was greeted in baggage claim with six cases of beer from a local brewer.<\/p>\n The 35-year-old Phoenix man doesn’t drink.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n When he went to pick up his rental car from Enterprise Rent-A-Car, they upgraded him to an $75,000+ Maserati SUV. When the two-night bachelor party wrapped on Sunday, Novak was up to 11,700 Instagram followers and exhausted, un showered and still dressed in the white-and-rainbow striped ski suit he wore most of the weekend.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n And the trip wasn’t over. Novak’s flight back to Phoenix Sunday was canceled due to storms.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Novak, said he met Angelo at 3 a.m. Saturday morning when he arrived at the group’s ski chalet. Despite the social media storm surrounding the accidental bachelor party guest, Novak said Onello didn’t find out until shortly before the party. The organizers wanted to keep it a secret.\u00a0 The group didn’t get to sleep the first night until 5:30 a.m.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Novak slept through a ski lesson he had scheduled for 7:30 a.m. at Okemo Mountain Resort.<\/p>\n Novak’s only mishap: he ran into a man on one run and they tumbled together into a fence.<\/p>\n “I would call it more of a fender bender than a crash,” he said.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Will wasn’t so lucky. He dislocated his shoulder on a run and had to go to the infirmary for a sling.<\/p>\n ______________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n TODAY\u2019S GOOD NEWS<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n A guy in Pittsburgh named Michael Klimkos is recovering and doing well after donating one of his kidneys to SANTA CLAUS last week.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Back in the mid-70s, he was in a fraternity at Clarion University in Pittsburgh.\u00a0 And one of his frat brothers was a guy named Ott Quarles.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ott now works as a professional Santa Claus around the holidays.\u00a0 And he’s a QUALITY Santa too.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n They lost touch after college but recently connected on Facebook, and Ott mentioned he was looking for a kidney.\u00a0 He was on dialysis four hours a day, three days a week at that point.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Michael immediately said he wanted to donate . . . asked how to get tested . . . and they were a match.\u00a0 The surgery happened last Tuesday, and they’re both doing great.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ott says they may have been frat brothers 46 years ago.\u00a0 But he feels like he’s gained an ACTUAL brother after this.<\/p>\n ______________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong> <\/u><\/p>\n <\/p>\n BIRTHDAYS <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n [67] Teddy Gentry, bass player, singer (Alabama)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [60] Linda Blair, actress (\u201cThe Exorcist\u201d)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [54] Diane Lane, actress (\u201cUnder the Tuscan Sun\u201d, \u201cUnfaithful\u201d)<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n I’M TOO OLD FOR THAT…..<\/p>\n ______________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n People Increasingly Not Using or Carrying Cash<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n People are increasingly not using or even carrying cash, with a Pew Research Center poll finding that about 30 percent of Americans say they don’t make any purchases with cash in a typical week, up from 25 percent in 2015.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Another survey by U.S. Bank found that 50 percent said they carry cash less than half of the time when they are out, and when they do, 76 percent said they have less than $50 and nearly half said they have less than $20. Millennials are unsurprisingly most likely to be using credit, debit or digital payments, through apps like Venmo and Apple Pay, instead of cash.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Income also plays a role, with adults who have a household income of over $75,000 more than twice as likely as those making less than $30,000 to say they don’t make any purchases using cash in a typical week.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n ______________________________________________________________________________<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n SAD TIME OF YEAR:<\/u><\/strong> \u25ba Spend more time outdoors during the day.<\/p>\n \u25ba Try to arrange the spaces you spend time in to maximize sunlight exposure<\/p>\n \u25ba Keep curtains open during the day.<\/p>\n \u25ba Build physical activity into your lifestyle preferably before SAD symptoms take hold.<\/p>\n \u25ba Make a habit of taking a daily noon-hour walk, particularly if you commute to school or work in the dark hours of the day.<\/p>\n \u25ba Try to resist the carbohydrate and sleep cravings that come with SAD.<\/p>\n \u25ba When all else fails, try a winter vacation in sunny climates\u2014if the pocketbook and work schedule allow. There are professional treatments for SAD as well, including light therapy, medication and counselling.<\/p>\n ____________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n TUESDAY JANUARY 22ND<\/sup> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n TODAY\u2019S BIRTHDAYS <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n [67] Teddy Gentry, bass player, singer (Alabama)<\/p>\n [60] Linda Blair, actress (\u201cThe Exorcist\u201d)<\/p>\n [54] Diane Lane, actress (\u201cUnder the Tuscan Sun\u201d, \u201cUnfaithful\u201d)<\/p>\n ——————————————————————————————————————————-<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n CNBC estimates the cost of attending this year’s\u00a0Super Bowl<\/strong>\u00a0at somewhere between\u00a0$3,928<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0$18,087<\/strong>\u00a0. . . depending on how high-end you go for tickets, lodging, travel, and food.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n But it was cancelled . . . because of a snowstorm.<\/p>\n Apparently the organizers want to celebrate snow . . . but they felt like a major snowstorm with freezing temperatures was too much snow for the festival to handle.\u00a0 They’re going to give it another shot this weekend.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n __________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Here’s How Your Favorite Country Bands Came Up With Their Names<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n The Boot has a great story about how different country bands came up with their names.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Here are two that most people seem to know about:\u00a0 The\u00a0Dixie Chicks\u00a0got their name from the\u00a0Little Feat<\/strong>\u00a0song\u00a0Dixie Chicken and Florida’s\u00a0Brian Kelley<\/strong>\u00a0partnered up Georgia’s\u00a0Tyler Hubbard<\/strong>\u00a0to form\u00a0Florida Georgia Line.\u00a0 Here are some you may not know:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n LADY ANTEBELLUM<\/strong> That name originated at a publicity shoot that featured a pre-Civil War Southern mansion for a scenic backdrop.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n LITTLE BIG TOWN<\/strong>:\u00a0 They heard about a Nashville music publisher called Little Big Town Music Group, and then got the okay to go ahead and use it.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n LANCO<\/strong>:\u00a0 They started out as Lancaster & Co. thanks to lead singer\u00a0Brandon Lancaster<\/strong>.\u00a0 They eventually shortened it to Lanco.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n LOCASH<\/strong>: \u00a0When\u00a0Preston Brust<\/strong>\u00a0was a kid he hung out with a bunch of friends that called themselves LoCash Money Boys. \u00a0He and\u00a0Chris Lucas<\/strong>\u00a0turned that into LoCash Cowboys before settling on LoCash.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n MIDLAND<\/strong>:\u00a0 No, they’re not named after Midland, Texas.\u00a0 They’re all from the West Coast and their name comes from the\u00a0Dwight Yoakam<\/strong>\u00a0song\u00a0Fair to Midland.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n ELI YOUNG BAND<\/strong>:\u00a0 You may know this one:\u00a0 It’s a combination of lead singer\u00a0Mike Eli<\/strong>\u00a0and guitarist\u00a0James Young<\/strong>. \u00a0They eventually added bassist\u00a0Jon Jones<\/strong>\u00a0and drummer\u00a0Chris Thompson<\/strong>\u00a0to the band . . . but NOT to the band’s name.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n SHANIA TWAIN PUTS BAHAMAS HOME ON THE MARKET – (01\/21\/2019)<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Shania Twain<\/strong>‘s vacation home in the Bahamas can be yours if you got about $10 million to spend.<\/p>\n The superstar has put her\u00a0the 7,000 square foot villa in the exclusive Old Fort Bay development on the market.<\/p>\n The property boasts six bedrooms, six bathrooms, a media room and a freshwater pool. The official asking price is $10.95 million.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Carly Pearce Got Body-Shamed?<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n CARLY PEARCE<\/strong>\u00a0is starting to experience the downside of being famous.\u00a0 After a recent show somebody sent her photos of her performance . . . but they weren’t trying to flatter her.\u00a0 In fact, it’s just the opposite.<\/p>\n The pics are close-ups of her stomach, and the person wrote, “Are you pregnant?” at the top of the page . . . and . . . “Cause you run 10 miles a day” at the bottom.<\/p>\n It bothered her so she did a screen shot, covered up name of the person, and then\u00a0posted\u00a0it.\u00a0 Then she wrote this caption, “I got these last night after my show.<\/p>\n “Honestly I’m still in disbelief but I wanted to share this with you because I feel this is important [especially for women] to see that words are powerful and no matter what, think before you speak and be kind.\u00a0 Body-shaming and bullying are NEVER okay.”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"January 22nd","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":3404,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mornings"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-22 15:56:37","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/mornings\/2019\/01\/on-todays-show-85\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3556"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3567,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3556\/revisions\/3567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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\n<\/u>Seasonal affective disorder, or SAD, is a kind of depression that appears at certain times of the year. It usually begins in the fall when the days get shorter and lasts through the winter in northern countries.\u00a0 Here are some tips to Ease Winter SAD Symptoms:<\/p>\n\n
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\n\u2022 \u201cBig Brother: Celebrity Edition\u201d (CBS): Celebrities live together in a house; and each week one or more of them will be voted out.<\/li>\n\n