WKNJ EVENING NEWS

Good Eveing, it's Wednesday, May 11, 2010 at 4 o'clock and you're listening to 90.3 WKNJ-FM, Union New Jersey, and I'm Blondie Alexander with the evening news

In Local News. . .

On Tuesday, O’Sullivan, 59, was released from the hospital and subsequently arrested and charged with the attempted murder of his 61-year-old wife, Linda, On April 27 at about 3:36 a.m., O’Sullivan stabbed his wife in the chest during an argument at their Thornbury Lane home. It was after the stabbing that O’Sullivan apparently tried to commit suicide by stabbing himself in the chest three times. His wife called 911 for help and then fled to a neighbor’s home for assistance, according to a news release from police.

In National News. . . .

The Postal Service is continuing to hemorrhage money, reporting a loss Tuesday of more than $2 billion over the first three months of the year and warning it could be forced to default on federal payments. Such a default would not interrupt mail service to millions of Americans, but it could further hobble an agency struggling with a sharp decline in mail because of the Internet and a tough economy. In the last three years, the agency has cut over 130,000 jobs. And it's making more cuts, with the elimination of about 7,500 administrative jobs in regional offices. The Postal Service does not receive tax money for its operations.

In World. . .

May 9, 2011, medical workers attend to conjoined twin babies with a single body and two heads born on May 5 in a hospital in Suining city in southwestern China's Sichuan province. The local Huaxi Metropolis Daily says the twins weighed nine pounds and measured 20 inches have two spines, two esophaguses and shared other organs. Doctors were quoted as saying it would be nearly impossible to separate them.

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TECH News. . .

The CEOs for the two telecom companies told a Senate antitrust subcommittee that their $39 bil merger would benefit consumers and not stifle innovation. If federal regulators approve the acquisition, AT&T and its rival, Verizon Wireless, would handle about 80% of U.S. wireless customers. AT&T said the merger would allow the company to improve services, handle more data traffic and bring mobile Internet to more consumers than it could do on its own. AT&T shares fell 1% to 31.38.

In Weather. . .

Its’ a high of 79 degrees on campus. Tonight will be a cool 68 degrees.