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  • Weather Reports: 7 days a week throughout the day. Weather alerts when merited.
  • Old Farmer's Almanac: 7:55 a.m. Monday-Friday.
  • American Health Report: 10:30 a.m. Monday-Friday.
  • Farm Market Report: 12:45 p.m. Latest prices from the Chicago Trade, plus today's prices from Consolidated Grain in Jeffersonville.
  • Five Minutes Live: 8:15 a.m. each week.Mort Crim
  • Second Thoughts with Mort Crim: 2:30 p.m. Monday-Friday. (Click on photo to hear sample: 1.9 MB).

  • Billy Grammer, 83; Tommy Sands, 71;Mason Williams, 70; Daryl Dragon (Captain & Tennille), 66; Carl Mann, 66; Vic Dana, 66; David Soul, 65; Chuck Colbert (American Breed), 64; Gene Simmons (Kiss), 59; Michael Jackson, 50.
  • 1895: Eleanor Rigby — the real one — is born in Liverpool.
  • 1960: Barry White is released from prison, where he served three months for stealing 300 tires.
  • 1968: The Who's Keith Moon parks his Lincoln Continental in the Holiday Inn swimming pool in Flint, MI.
  • 1970: Elton John makes his U.S. concert debut in Los Angeles.
  • 1970: The Isle of Wight is the scene of Jimi Hendrix's final concert.
  • 1977: Three men are arrested in Memphis for trying to steal the late Elvis Presley's body.
  • 1981: John Lennon's killer, Mark David Chapman, gets a prison sentence of 20 years-to-life.
  • 1994: Jimmy Buffett is unhurt when his seaplane crashes on takeoff in Nantucket.
  • 1994: Billy Joel and Christie Brinkley divorce.
  • 2007: Arthur Brown gets into his act the hard way — while singing "Fire," he accidentally sets himself on fire onstage.


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