Once-homeless man back on airwaves
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Five years after a homeless man’s silky voice won him Internet fame, he’s on the air again at the same Ohio radio station where he began his career before addiction pushed him to the streets.
The new weekday radio program on WVKO-AM is the first steady employment Ted Williams has had since 1993. He became an online sensation after a newspaper story featured the 58-year-old’s golden voice in a video.
Williams tells the newspaper he’s had ups and downs in the years since the video was published. But he says he’s just trying to move forward living with his daughter and his longtime girlfriend.
First-time player wins $2M Powerball
Lottery officials say a 19-year-old central Florida man and first-time lottery player used the numbers off someone else’s unpurchased Powerball ticket to win $2 million.
Frederick Walker said there was already a completed play slip at the Sav-A-Ton in Lake Mary where he purchased his ticket and he decided to try using those numbers.
He matched five numbers in Wednesday’s drawing to win $1 million, plus PowerPlay which doubled his prize.
Launch set of satellite to monitor oceans
LOS ANGELES – The latest in a series of U.S.-European ocean-monitoring satellites is scheduled for launch into orbit on Sunday.
The Jason-3 satellite will be launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that will then attempt to land its first stage on an unmanned floating barge in the ocean.
The satellite has a radar altimeter to bounce microwave energy off the ocean and measure sea levels, which in turn indicate the warming or cooling of surface waters.
Ex-DA a key witness at Cosby hearing
PHILADELPHIA – An ex-prosecutor is expected to testify that he promised Bill Cosby would never be charged over a Pennsylvania sex-assault complaint, but a judge must decide if that constitutes an immunity deal.
Then-District Attorney Bruce Castor will be a key defense witness at a Feb. 2 hearing to determine if the case is thrown out. The defense argues that prosecutors who arrested Cosby last month unfairly used his deposition testimony from the accuser’s 2005 lawsuit against him.
But new District Attorney Kevin Steele says there’s no evidence of a signed immunity agreement. Accuser Andrea Constand’s lawyer says she doesn’t know of one.
Associated Press
