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When I first heard the story of 68-year-old Karen Klein--an upstate New York bus monitor--who was verbally abused by students on her bus, I was outraged, simply furious. 

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A few months ago we told you about a group of students from Western Kentucky University, Bike 4 Alz, planning to bike across the country in hopes of raising $175,000 for Alzheimer's research. Well, theyare about 1,000 miles into their journey and made a stop here in Owensboro.

They stopped by the studio this afternoon and I really enjoyed their visit. They are SO much fun and I hope that they not only meet, but exceed their goal!

They will be making several appearances in town today and tomorrow starting with Friday After Five tonight downtown. They even have two hometown boys on the team.  

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How many of you still have a VCR? If it's gone to that great scrap heap in the sky, how many of you still have old VCR tapes?

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I have never been ashamed to say that I'm a pageant junkie. Yep, I love em! I can remember sitting in my living room as a little girl, my mom, sister and I having friends over with our own score sheets watching the Miss USA and Miss America pageants.

Last night, another little girls' dreams came true and we have a new Miss USA. Warning: She is gorgeous!

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On Yesterday's Waking Crew Show Chad and I talked about New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg wanting to ban super-sized sugar soft drinks in the Big Apple. We had a Facebook Tad Poll to determine what you thought about it.

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Over the Memorial Day weekend, a homeless man in Miami, FL,was discovered cannibalizing the face of another homeless man. Ronald Poppo, 65, was viciously attacked by 31-year-old Rudy Eugene in a gory assault which ended in law enforcement officials

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For the second year in a row, Santa Claus is a finalist in the 2012 Best of the Road Rally sponsored by USA Today and Rand McNally. The town will compete with six other destinations in the category for “Most Fun” small town in America. Santa Claus, Indiana was chosen from more than 650 competing destinations.

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This day and age, it's just too hard to steal someone's iPhone without getting called out front of the whole internet. One iPhone thief learned that the hard way, when the photos he took on a stolen phone were automatically uploaded to the phone owner's online phone gallery. And the original owner - a woman named Katy McCaffrey - uploaded the photos directly to Facebook (of course).

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Yesterday, an anonymous dad wrote an article for Huffington Post about the 'inappropriate' outfit his daughter was pulled out of class for - forced to sit embarrassed for a whole class period while her classmates walked past gawking. What was she wearing?

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The recent cover of TIME magazine has people alittle uncomfortable. It is sparking a debate over how old is too old for breastfeeding. The little boy featured on the cover is three-years-old and still nursing. And, yes, this is a real mom with her actual son.

Twenty-six year-old Jamie Lynne Grumet and her three year-old son, Aram are proudly on the cover and he's apparently pretty thirsty.

*This photo is actually the mother nursing her son*

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Newsrooms around the country are mourning the loss of one of the greats today. Mike Wallace passed away overnight in Connecticut. Many attribute Wallace as a giant in the world of news.

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Chad and I talked about the brand new concept from Google Project Glass today on "Nothin' but Net' It's really remarkable what they are trying to achieve but what would we do with it?

I can hardly take a screenshot or make my cell camera work much less control voice-activated glasses that are basically wearable computers

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