MRE & Wise Words with CMSgt Leible

THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW

• The final season of "American Idol" is set to begin January 6 on FOX.
• Celebrity chef Cat Cora says she is getting a divorce from Jennifer, her partner of 17 years.
• Now the rumor is that AMC is going to turn George Romero's zombie comic, "Empire of the Dead" into a new undead series.
• A Pennsylvania man who appeared on "The Howard Stern Show" as Hillbilly Jack has died in a fire that began when he fell asleep while cooking.
• Tommy Hanson, who spent four of his five MLB seasons with the Atlanta Braves, died Monday at the age of 29.
• A 60-year-old church usher was arrested Sunday in Marion County on allegations of stealing money from offering baskets while the congregation prayed with their eyes closed and heads bowed. Most damaging evidence -- the video of him stuffing the money into his pockets.
• Johnny Depp is remembering the time he auditioned for the TV show "21 Jump Street" and that fact that during his audition, he had a really bad flu.
• An elderly care home in Sweden tried an experiment: keep the same employees, have them do their same jobs, but pay them the same salary for a 6-hour work day, instead of an 8-hour day. The employees had more energy, higher efficiency, and an overall boost in well-being ever since they started working shorter days earlier this year. The patients, in turn, are experiencing better care and attention, and the establishment has had a lower turnover rate.
• Daniel Fleetwood, that dying Texas man who got to see a rough cut of the new Star Wars movie, lost his battle and died Monday.
• Yet another woman is claiming Bill Cosby defamed her after she came forward to accuse him of raping her in 1965.
• Seal says that Heidi Klum insisted that they renewed their wedding vows every year and it "turned into a circus."