Bethany

You don't think anything of it when your kids come home from school and tells you they had a fire drill at school.  You don't think twice anymore about an "emergency go-home" drill, or even a "lock-down" drill.  But as of late, schools around the country have been conducting active "shooter" drills...

Kevin Richards and I had the privilege of spending the afternoon hanging out with The Eli Young Band in the studio!  We put the guys live on the air to get the Capital Region pumped up for their concert tonight with Darius Rucker and David Nail at the Times Union Center...

Last year, major sponsors gave Paula Deen the boot as controversy raged over her past use of racial slurs. Her new cookbook was canceled. She gave a weird, tearful apology to Matt Lauer on “The Today Show,” and then she dropped out of the spotlight...

WGNA Secret Star Jam favorite, Jerrod Niemann and his longtime girlfriend, Morgan Petek, are officially engaged and planning a wedding for 2014! Jerrod has actually been kinda keeping it a secret for a while.  Niemann actually proposed late last year in New Orleans...

A Russian race car driver took his son on a ride in his car and the kid is having a ball!  The facial expressions are priceless!  And who doesn't like a kid giggling! But, some people are concerned about the safety of the boy.  The father is dealing with claims that he endangered the child, even though he's a professional on a closed course...

The earth opened up in the middle of a showroom at the National Corvette Museum in Kentucky yesterday, and swallowed not one, but eight cars. A spokesman didn't say what the total value of the cars was.  But just to give you an idea, one of the newer models that fell in had a base price of over $103,000 when it came out in 2009...

Rascal Flatts fans rejoiced this morning when the guys debuted their video for their new smash, 'Rewind' live on Kathie Lee and Hoda.  (Which only seems fitting given the presence of red wine throughout the song.) Rascal Flatts is part of this year's Megaticket at SPAC, and they never seem to disappoint...

What better way to celebrate Valentine's Day than with your favorite country stars!  Feel free to download and share these Country Valentines!               Here are some 'GNA Valentines! Make sure ...

A coffee shop called Dumb Starbucks has opened in the Los Feliz neighborhood in Los Angeles.  They are serving a dumbed-down menu of dumb iced coffee, dumb lattes, and dumb pastries. No one knows why the store is there, or what they are trying to prove...

From our partners at NEWS!0 ABC - The Albany County Sheriff's Department is currently on the scene of an ongoing situation in the Town of Knox. According to Albany County Sheriff Craig Apple, a man has allegedly set his house on fire, at 75 Saddlemire Road, and is threatening first responders...

Yep, he sure is!  The American Idol contestant turned Broadway crooner Clay Aiken says "Washington is dysfunctional." And he's like to try and fix it, or at least try to represent North Carolina in the best way possible! Aiken is officially throwing his hat in the ring to run as a Democrat against conservative Rep...

JEWEL MOORE, a high-school junior from Farmville, Virginia, started a petition on Change.org to get Disney to make a movie about a Plus-Sized Princess. Jewel is plus-size herself, beautiful, and wise beyond her years.  Her petition states, quote, "Studies show that a child's confidence correlates greatly with how much representation they have in the media...