Wheel of Fortune will sound different moving forward. Jim Thornton, the show’s announcer, has been suspended indefinitely by Sony Entertainment. The company said it learned of allegations involving Jim on a commercial flight in May. Due to those allegations, Jim has been suspended, and the show is recasting while it conducts a thorough investigation.
The highly publicized Lindsay Clancy trial could head for a mistrial after the jury deadlocked on a verdict. Lindsay is accused of 3 counts of murdering her children. The prosecution claims it was all planned and premeditated, while Clancy has pled not guilty, instead blaming her actions on postpartum depression.
And his name is “Grey Beard,” but he’s not a pirate. He’s Dale Sanders, and he just reclaimed the record for the oldest person to hike the Appalachian Trail. At 91, he hiked 2193 miles from Springer Mountain in Georgia to the summit of Mt. Katahdin in Maine. On his journey, he fell 71 times; 6 of those falls were significant, and one even landed him in the hospital temporarily.
