Archive for March, 2009
Traci Cloyd Headlines for March 31
President Obama Travels To Europe The President and the First Lady are on board Air Force One on their way to London. It’s his first time on the world stage since becoming President. He’s going for the G-20 Summit. He’ll meet with leaders of the world’s wealthiest nations. Obama expected to ask them to co-operate with America [...]
Bodies of missing brothers and father found
BLOOMINGTON, Ill. (AP) — Authorities in Illinois say bodies have been found matching the descriptions of two small boys and their father who had been missing about three weeks. Nine-year-old Duncan Connolly and his 7-year-old brother Jack went missing March 8 after their father allegedly failed to return them to their mother following a custody [...]
Traci Cloyd Headlines for March 30
Warehouse Fire Miami Dade firefighters working through the night to get the upper hand on a major warehouse fire on NW 66th Street in West Miami Dade. It housed either an auto body or machine shop. The fire broke out just before 3AM. Firefighters say metal doors made it difficult to get in, and once they did, they found potentially [...]
Traci Cloyd Headlines for March 27
Deadly Wrong Way Accident Right now investigators are on the scene of a deadly wrong way accident on I-95 in Broward County, southbound at Commercial Boulevard. It’s unclear if one car spun out and hit another, or if alcohol was a factor. Authorities are conducting blood samples. It is typically several weeks before the results of [...]
$25,000 Video Game Tournament Announced
Who ever said playing video games wouldn’t pay off? Well they are about to as Sony Computer Entertainment of America, Bend Studio and GGL offers $25,000 plus other great prizes to anyone who’s “Got Game” to compete. The game is Resistance Retribution for the Playstation Portable (PSP) which will begin registration and a qualifying [...]
Traci Cloyd Headlines for March 26
Live Online Town Hall Forum President Barack Obama is hosting a Town Hall meeting, in cyberspace. It’s an online forum, LIVE. Thousands of questions have already been submitted. Questions like, “Will we ever see any Wall Street CEO’s go to jail?” The President will be in the same room where he took questions from the press [...]
Power outages in Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood area
Today it was difficult to keep the stories going and work due to power losses north of the Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International Airport. The first sign of a power loss started at approximately 11:30am as brown outs cause lights to flickers and backup batteries to click in and out. At 11:40am there was a complete loss of power after [...]
Traci Cloyd Headlines for March 25
Sony Ericsson Opens! The eyes of the world are literally on South Florida. This is the first day of the Sony Ericsson Tennis Tournament on key Biscayne. It’s seen in more than 180 countries and features some of the best players in the world. On the ladies side, Venus and Serena Williams have won it the title 8 times in the past 11 [...]
Traci Cloyd Headlines for March 24
Attempted abduction We begin with breaking news in N.W. Miami Dade, on 17th Avenue. We’re learning a man tried to abduct a young boy. Authorities releasing a very limited description of the suspect. It’s believed he was in his 30’s, wearing a red shirt and took off on a bike. As soon as HOT 105 has more information [...]
Best Buy Staff Paid Bonuses to Deny Legit Guaranteed Price Matches
Best Buy, like many other stores, has a public "price matching" policy. But HD Guru reports that according to internal docs, personnel are trained to deny price-matches and even paid bonuses for shutting them down. This all comes out of a lawsuit that was just granted class action status. Internal documents, plus depositions from past [...]
