Alabama

In the big kitchen of Chris and Karla’s catering, chef Chris Miller has got his hands in different pots. This is the time of the year when caterers make some extra dough with extra banquets and balls.

You’re tired but at the same time the joy you see people dancing, laughing having a good time,” says owner Karla Miller. “Eating is a part of that.”

Amid the rice, chopped pepper and live crawfish, it seems gumbo is still the most popular dish. Chef Chris says the flavors are complex but actually making it isn’t.

“It’s very simple, in 15 minutes or less I can put any of them together, but time cooking you’ve got your vegetables, they have to cook,” says Chris. (Read the full post about ‘Mardi Gras Food has Spicy Appeal’…)

The Escambia County Sheriff’s Office has arrested a mother they say left her 4-year-old and 2-year-old children home alone.
Deputies were called to a home on Highway 97, west of Molino, Tuesday when a man found the 4-year-old child wandering in the street. They went to the child’s home and found the front door standing wide open. The child’s mother was not home, but her crying 2-year-old was found inside.
A neighbor helped deputies find the childrens’ mother, 26-year-old Shannon Whitaker. Whitaker told deputies the children were asleep when she left for a doctor’s appointment. During the 2 and 1/2 hours she was gone, Walker’s 4-year-old managed to get out of the house.
Walker is charged with two counts of child neglect. (Read the full post about ‘Home Alone’…)

QUITMAN, Miss. (AP) - Lex, the former bomb-sniffing dog of the
late Marine Corporal Dustin Lee of Stonewall, will be given a
Purple Heart next month at the Working Dog and Fallen K-9 Handler
Tribute in northwest Florida.
The tribute will be February 16th at the Air Armament Museum,
Eglin Air Force Base, Fort Walton Beach, Florida. Lee’s family is
scheduled to be on hand for the event.
Eight-year-old Lex was working with Lee when the Marine was
killed during a bombing in Iraq last year. The German Shepherd was
also injured. He has since been retired and lives with Lee’s family
in Clarke County.
In December, the Marine Corps announced Lex could go home to
Lee’s family. (Read the full post about ‘Man’s Best Friend To Receive Purple Heart’…)

The Magnoila Springs Fire Department is investigating an early morning trailer fire that claimed the life of a 2-year-old girl.
Firefighters responded to the home off Mannich Lane just after 5 a.m. Strong winds made it impossible for firefighters to save the trailer.
Inside, they found Nikki Horton in her cradle. Her parents, Chad Horton and Jessica Pickard, were airlifted to USA Medical Center where they are listed in critical condition.
Making this case even more tragic, Horton and Pickard just celebrated their daughter’s 2nd birthday yesterday. (Read the full post about ‘Baby Girl Killed in Fire’…)

NEW YORK (Jan. 30) - Veteran CBS Washington hand Bob Schieffer, who has anchored “Face the Nation” since 1991, said Tuesday he plans to step down from the Sunday morning political talk show with the inauguration of a new president.
The start of a new administration next January provides a natural transition, he said.

“That’s when I’ll stop doing what I’m doing now,” Schieffer, who turns 71 next month, told The Associated Press. “But I’ll still have some relationship with CBS, at least I hope so.”

Schieffer has talked retirement before. The bladder cancer survivor once planned to step down when he reached 70, but he spent a year and a half filling in as “CBS Evening News” anchor between the exit of Dan Rather and entrance of Katie Couric. (Read the full post about ‘CBS News Veteran Plans to Retire’…)

Unlike cable, network tv could launch a new show and viewers would be loyal to the series and show up.  Now series are gone. CBS NBC FOX ABC stunt with repeats and shifts that confuse the viewer as to the meaning of network television. The golden era of tv is dead. Too bad. The community viewing we knew as a nation is now less and less, those were the good old days. Everything is now pay per view I tune you tube me tube confused.

Clifton Morrissette has lowered the prices, softened the acoustics and improved the portions (that were too large). The pink motel down the street on the causeway is getting structural modifications.

Lagnaippe says Randy is leaving after 8 months. Anna Luce is joining the team. Carlos Parkman will find a new manager.

Hillary is to severe for tv. McCain is too ____. Obama versus Romney would be hopeful for the country. Hillary versus McCain would be painful beyond hope.

Home owners are refinancing for 5.68% as the Fed rate second cut was the fastest in 20 years. Another cut next week probable as Fed tries to stop a major recession from stripping the Republican 2008 Congress in November.