THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW

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  • A youth football coach in Rhode Island was fired this week after he sent an adult man out onto the field to play in a pre-teen league game last weekend.
  • An Oregon couple has been getting endless grief this year because of their personalized license plate frame. It's just their last name -- Trump.
  • November 1 is the NFL's trading deadline. Gotta finish making moves by next Tuesday.
  • Actor Michael Massee has died at the age of 61. He was the villain in that first season of "24" and a bad guy on the last season of "The Blacklist."
  • How low can you go -- someone stole over 200 pumpkins from a New Jersey farm stand.
  • Sales and profit at Apple actually went down for the first time in 15 years.
  • Phil Collins has a new book, his autobiography, called "Not Dead Yet." Among the revelations in the book: he once saw Diana cheat on Charles, details on his multiple affairs and asking for a divorce from his second wife via fax.
  • Just one week left to buy a PC computer that uses the Windows 7 operating system.
  • In a survey of 733 women, 65 percent said adopting a pet makes a guy seem hotter and 68 percent said a pooch is the sexiest pet he can own. It suggests sociability and caretaking skills. She'll be watching you with Max, so smile and be playful. Who's a good wingman? (Men's Health)
  • AMC Theaters will broadcast the election results on November 8.
  • Peter Burns, the singer for Dead or Alive has died at the age of 57.
  • A Georgia teenager awoke from a coma speaking fluent Spanish which he could never do before.
  • Kanye West has promised to not attend the Grammys if Frank Ocean is not nominated for any awards.
  • A locker key from the Titanic has sold for $104,000.
  • "Saturday Night Live" star Pete Davidson said during his teen years, he had serious bouts with depression and "wouldn't be here" if it weren't for rapper Kid Cudi, who helped him through it.
  • Microsoft announced yesterday that the next version of Windows will come out next spring. It's going to be called, "Windows 10 -- The Creators Update" and it will be free to anyone with Windows 10. The big addition -- allowing users to work in 3D, including the upgraded app, Paint 3D.
  • In Kuwait, a woman was given proof that her husband was cheating on her with the housecleaner... when their pet parrot began reciting things that were said when she wasn't around.
  • Donald Trump's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame was vandalized with a sledgehammer.


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