Top Trenders for Thursday, January 3rd
By: Liz Hogan
Updated: January 3, 2013
If you're just rolling out of bed, here's a look at the big stories from overnight. The post-Christmas rush is hitting delivery workers hard this week! These are your Top Trenders this morning.
Number 5: Return to sender!
UPS expects today to be its busiest for all those holiday returns.
The men and women in brown will mark National Returns Day by shipping more than half-a-million packages back to retailers.
The carrier should hit 2 million returns by the end of the week!
Number 4: A Connecticut airport hires sharpshooters to rid its runways of wild animals!
Number 4: A Connecticut airport hires sharpshooters to rid its runways of wild animals!
After a plane hit a deer on the runway at the Tweed airport in New Haven, administrators enlisted trained gunmen to watch for wildlife.
However, it's just a temporary fix.
The airport is considering putting up a fence around the property to keep the animals out.
Number 3: Hillary Clinton heads home from the hospital.
Number 3: Hillary Clinton heads home from the hospital.
Three days after being admitted for a blood clot near her brain, the secretary of state was discharged from New York Presbyterian.
The clot was discovered during a follow-up exam related to a concussion she suffered.
Her husband, Former President Bill Clinton and daughter Chelsea were there to take her home Wednesday.
Doctors expect her to make a full recovery.
Number 2: It seems a lot of gun owners are forgetting about their weapons when flying.
Number 2: It seems a lot of gun owners are forgetting about their weapons when flying.
Last year, more than 1,500 firearms were found by screeners at airport checkpoints, that's an average of more than four guns each day!
That number is up from the amount of weapons found in 2011.
Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta had the most, followed by Dallas, Phoenix, Houston and Denver.
And just so you know, only unloaded guns are allowed in locked, checked baggage within a hard case.
Number 1: Arkansas native Kris Allen and his wife Katy.
Number 1: Arkansas native Kris Allen and his wife Katy.
The two are recovering from injuries suffered in a head-on car crash Tuesday night.
Kris posted a photo to his Instagram account yesterday afternoon of his apparently totaled SUV.
No official word on where the accident was, but social media posts by others say it happened in Maumelle.
Allen's mother tweeted a photo showing Kris in bandages on a hospital bed.
Kris later updated fans on Twitter, announcing that wife Katy is expecting their first child.
Kris rose to fame three years ago when he won American Idol Season 8.
The Conway native is also gearing up for an upcoming tour, which he says will go on as scheduled.
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