WWN is on a mission to find our most wanted subjects.  Please help us.  Have you seen Reindeer Boy?

NAME:  Rudolph.

LOCATION:  Nome, Alaska

AGE TODAY:  Ten. (14 in reindeer years)

AGE IN PHOTOS:  One (1.4 in reindeer years)

FEATURES: 7 inch antlers jutting from the sides of his cute, cuddly head. The antlers should have grown to 28 inches by the time he hit 10 – according to Dr. Carl Bevinitsky, a renowned neo-natal physician from Sweden. Rudolph has a red nose that glows when he wants his bottle.  He often got his antlers stuck in the slats of his crib, but he has half a dozen pacifiers hanging on his antlers – so it always ends well.

THE PARENTS:  “I love my son’s antlers! I just knitted him a horn hat.” Rachel (27) said. “Rudolph is a real dear.”  Father Bob says, “I hang my tie on his horns every night. He’s a real help.”  The parents do not want to have the baby’s antlers removed even though Rachel suffered severe horn pokes while breastfeeding their little Rudolph.

Here’s Rachel with her son:

Note:  Rudolph’s parents died in a bizarre igloo accident, so last reports were that Rudolph was living with his aunt and uncle – Charlie and Betty Bench of Anchorage.

WHY NOW?  -  Reindeer Boy is in hiding because the Federal Government wants to use him for experiments.  But WWN has information that could be VERY helpful to him.

NOTE:  Rudolph comes in handy during the dark Alaskan winters.  He helped light up the starting line at last year’s Nome Iditarod.

If you  have seen Reindeer Boy, please let us know in the comments below!  All tips will be kept strictly confidential

CLEVELAND, OH –  The 5,676-foot-peak, located 40 miles outside Cleveland erupted this morning.

Satellite imagery of the 5,676-foot peak, located just south of Downtown, showed a bulging lava dome forming in the volcano’s summit crater, suggesting a buildup of gas pressure.

And this morning, it blew.

Even though the volcano is in a relatively uninhabited area (due to foreclosure, the eruption still has cause a big mess and inconvenienced a number of Cleveland natives.

Some 90 percent of commercial flights in and out of Cleveland were canceled today.

There was even an eruption at Cleveland Browns stadium, where the Browns were already practicing – in front of packed house – for next season.

Officials say that more intermittent and sudden explosions could happen at any time, generating ash clouds up to 20,000 feet above sea level.

The Ohio Volcano Observatory has elevated the Aviation Color Code from Yellow to Orange, indicating that Cleveland Volcano is exhibiting “heightened or escalating unrest with increased potential of further eruptions.” Orange is the second highest warning level in the OVO’s four-color alert system.

The observatory says that as of Monday, the lava dome was approximately 130 feet in diameter.

The volcano has sent an ash plume 15,000 feet high.

But that was just a rumble compared to the eruption in 2001, which saw ash clouds as high as 39,000 feet.

Cleveland residents, as always, were undaunted.

“You seen one eruption, you seen them all.  What we need here is an eruption of jobs,” said Will Makerman of Shaker Heights.

Irish actor, Liam Neeson  has reportedly given up on his Catholic faith and is converting to Islam.

The Hollywood star, 59, was recently filming in Turkish city Istanbul and became fascinated with the Muslim faith during his stay.

Speaking to The Sun, he said: “The Call to Prayer happens five times a day and for the first week it drives you crazy, and then it just gets into your spirit and it’s the most beautiful, beautiful thing.

“There are 4,000 mosques in the city. Some are just stunning and it really makes me think about becoming a Muslim.”

Soon after speaking with The Sun,  Liam met with prominent Muslim clerics and mullahs from Turkey and reportedly has begun the conversion.

The actor was raised in Northern Ireland as a Catholic altar boy and was named after his local priest.

On his Catholic beliefs, he said: “I was reared a Catholic but I think every day we ask ourselves, not consciously, what are we doing on this planet? What’s it all about?

“I’m constantly reading books on God or the absence of God and atheism.”

Neeson stars in the action/thriller, The Grey, which follows a number of men stranded in Alaska after a plane crash, and forced to survive using little more than their wits as a pack of wolves comes after them.  It opens this weekend, January 27th.

Neeson has reportedly been seen reading a Koran and was in the middle of a meeting in Hollywood he left the room to bow to Mecca.

Could it be true?

ANCHORAGE – Alaska is being buried in snow.   They’ve already crushed all records – 160 inches

The worst winter anyone can remember in Alaska (or anywhere on earth) has piled snow so high people can’t see out the windows – of the top floors of their houses!  It’s also kept a tankers in ice-choked waters from delivering fuel on time and turned snow-packed roofs into sled runs.

While most of the nation has gone without much seasonal snow, the state already known for winter is buried in weather that has dumped more than twice as much snow as usual on its largest city, brought out the National Guard and put a run on snow shovels.

As a Russian tanker crawled toward the iced-in coastal community of Nome to bring in much-needed fuel, weather-weary Alaskans awoke Thursday to more of the white stuff and said enough was enough.

“The scary part is, we still have three more months to go,” said Kathryn Hawkins, a veterinarian who lives in the coastal community of Valdez, about 100 miles southeast of Anchorage. “I look out and go, ‘Oh my gosh, where can it all go?’”

More than 55 feet of snow has fallen in Valdez since November. The 18-foot snow piles outside Hawkins’ home are so high she can’t see out the front or back of her house. Her 12-year-old son has been sliding off the roof into the yard.

In the nearby fishing community of Cordova, more than 372 inches of snow has fallen since November; snow began falling again after midnight Wednesday. The Alaskan National Guard was called in to help move the snow, and the city is running out of places to put it. Front-end loaders are hauling snow from dump piles to a snow-melting machine.

“That’s our big issue, getting our snow dumps cleared for the next barrage of snow,” Cordova spokesman Allen Marquette said.

Anchorage had 138 inches fall as of Thursday — more than twice the average snowfall of 60.1 inches for the same time period. The weather service counts July 1 through the end of June as a snow season. More than 17 inches had fallen on Thursday and more than a three feet was expected.

This year’s total already broke the record 79.3 inches that fell during the same period in 1993-94. If it keeps up, Anchorage is on track to have the snowiest winter ever, demolishing the previous record of 132.8 inches in 1954-55.

Check out some  of the snow mayhem in Alaska:

http://www.youtube.com/v/UywFP8lz6TE?version=3&hl=en_US”

EXCLUSIVE – Sarah Palin told WWN’s Frank Lake that she is running for President in 2012!

Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, is starting her national bus tour on Sunday.  Embedded on her bus is WWN’s Frank Lake.  Palin shocked major media outlets when, in a private interview with Frank, she said she is “absolutely running for President of the United States in 2012.”

“And I’m going to kick Barack Obama’s butt!” Palin said.

The bus tour, officially launches her Presidential bid.  It starts on Sunday in Washington at the annual Rolling Thunder motorcycle rally and will work its way north along the East Coast.  The Presidential candidate will visit other parts of the country later, stopping at symbolically important sites in the nation’s history.

Palin advisers told Frank Lake that she will stop in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina – on the bus tour.

 The bus tour will include a stop in New Hampshire.  Tim Crawford, Palin’s campaign manager declined to give more details.  He would only say, “She wants to get people fired up about her running for President.”

Palin told Frank Lake that she wants to win in November.  Lake told her that the election isn’t until 2012.  “Oh, well, I will win then, too.  I will win every year.  This is America. You can do anything!” Palin said.

On her web site, Palin wrote: “I’ve said many times that America doesn’t need a ‘fundamental transformation,’ instead we need a restoration of all that is good and strong and free in America!  So, I am running for President of the United States in 2012.”

Chris Christie, Mike Huckabee, Mitch Daniels and Donald Trump immediately threw their support behind Sarah Palin.

“She’s going to make a great president,” said Trump.  “And she’s hot.  That can’t hurt.  You know, hot is good. I’d hire her on that alone.”

MOSCOW – 144 years after selling Alaska to the U.S., Russia wants it back.

March 30 marked 144 years since the day when Russia sold Alaska to the United States for five cents per hectare. The adequate agreement was signed at 4 a.m. by the Russian Ambassador to Washington Eduard Stoeckl.

The government of Alexander II sold the huge territory of over 1.5 square kilometers for $7.2 million, gold (11 million rubles, gold).

Now, Vladmir Putin wants Alaska back and he’s told Pravda that he will make it happen before Obama is out of office.

Back in 1867, many Russians were perplexed as to why the government sold the territory which the people of the country had been developing for 126 years.  Many in the country were surprised that the selling price for Alaska was so low.

In America, the deal raised many eyebrows too. They found it hard to understand why the country needed 365 million acres of frozen land. The price for that land was too high, many Americans thought.

William Seward, then-Secretary of State, was conducting negotiations with Russia regarding Alaska. He also signed the sales agreement, and he received most criticism for that. Rumor has it that the senators who approved the ratification of the agreement, were bribed by the Russian ambassador. Indeed, historians say that Stoeckl received $25,000 from Alexander II for his efforts.

If bribes did happen, they were probably the bribes that contributed greatly to the development of the country, Americans historians say. Gold was found on Alaska several years after it was no longer a part of Russia. Oil and gas reserves discovered there were worth hundreds of billions of dollars.

It is worthy of note that the sale of Alaska led to long-term negative consequences for the United States. Indians, Aleuts and Eskimos did not recognize the deal. They were granted US citizenship only in 1924.

The situation changed after the discovery of enormous oil reserves in 1968. Three years later, Washington made a decision worth of Solomon. Alaskan Aborigines received approximately 11 percent of the state territory in their property and a share in oil-mining corporations.

Today, 60 percent of Alaska’s territory is owned by the federal authorities of the United States. Twenty-eight percent is owned by the state itself. One percent of Alaska is in private property.  Russia wants it all.

The Russians plan on forcing Americans off their land starting this July.

Russian Empress Ekaterina II sold Alaska to the States. A popular song by Russian band Lube called “Don’t Fool Around, America” from 1989 has the following line: “Ekaterina, you were not right.”

There’s a new popular song in  Russia, “We Got Alaska Back!”

WASHINGTON – US forced to sell Alaska in order to combat with the rising national debt.

The US has just announced that the national debt has reached an all time high, topping $14 trillion dollars, that’s approximately $45,300 for every person in the US. The national debt is a result of the US accumulating years upon years of financial obligations dating as far back as the days of George Washington. But since 2005 alone, the debt has nearly doubled.

In order to combat the continued rising debt, Congress has been put in the hot seat, being forced to make difficult decisions. It is faced with a few potential options. One, Congress can lift the legal debt limit to create a higher credit limit for the country; Two, dramatically cut spending to keep the government on track and prevent the debt from growing further; or Three, sell government owned properties.

After an intense debate on Capitol Hill, Congress decided to go with option number three and sell Alaska back to Russia. The US purchased Alaska from the Russian Empire back in 1867 for the now bargain rate of $7.2 million dollars.

Original Check from US purchase of Alaska

“The Russians offered to write us a personal check, but that was unacceptable to the terms of the deal,” said Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, “This is a COD kind of deal.”

The US stands to turn a hefty profit with the new sale price of $2.85 trillion.  This sale will dramatically reduce the debt, buying the US precious time to rework the budget and find a way to keep the rising debt at bay.

“We initially thought that leasing the state back to the Russians would be an option but we soon discovered that the cost to administer the lease would actually cause us to go further into debt,” explained Sen. Lisa Murkoski R-AK, “That is why we opted to sell it instead. We tried to sell Puerto Rico too but no one wanted it. We had several open houses but no bites, not a one.”

This decision has not been met without extreme outrage by the American public, especially by the citizens of Alaska.

“Just because Sara Palin is from Alaska does not mean that we should be treated like a second class state that can just be sold off on a whim,” said local Alaskan business owner, Bill Kumberlan, “this sale is going to make my life a nightmare, no one on my staff speaks Russian.”

It is unclear what other drastic measures Congress may need to take in order to deal with America’s enormous debt. But if Canada wants to make an offer on Vermont, we will gladly take it.  They’ve always wanted to succeed anyway.

JUNEAU, ALASKA –   Sarah Palin is a robot and she/it malfunctioned during her new reality show!

After Sarah Palin short circuited on the set of her new TV show, TLC officials are confirming that the popular Tea Party politician and Republican Presidential hopeful is actually a robot!

Network executives are may have to push back the last six episodes of  Sarah Palin’s Alaska after its star suffered a serious software malfunction during filming.

“At first I thought she was just being weird Sarah Palin again,” said Andy Masterson, a cameraman for Sarah Palin’s Alaska, “but then I noticed smoke was coming out of her ears and her eyeballs were dangling out of her head. That’s when I knew something was wrong.”

Several Republican leaders have now come forth with admissions that Sarah Palin is indeed a robot, designed and programmed by the Microsoft Corporation to win the presidential election in 2012.

“The Republican Party apologizes to the TLC network for any harm that might have been caused by the Palin-bot” said Republican House minority leader John Boehner. “To be honest, we had no idea what we were doing when we built her. We just wanted something pretty around the office.”

According to first hand accounts, the malfunction was caused when Rob Rigelson, a tech assistant on Sarah Palin’s Alaska, accidentally inserted his cell-phone’s memory card into Sarah Palin’s central processing center, which happens to be in her butt.

“Oh man, this is all my fault,” said Rigelson. “I was just trying to download naked TSA scans of my ex-girlfriend and my SD card ran out of memory. There was an extra microchip laying around in Sarah Palin’s dressing room, so I swiped it. I didn’t know it was her artificial brain!”

When it came time to film one of Sarah Palin’s scenes, the set technicians accidentally put Rigelson’s chip into Palin’s butt. That’s when the short circuit occurred.

TLC executives then had to call Bill Gates, the head of Microsoft and chief programmer of the Palin-bot, to fly up to Alaska and “fix the problem.” Weekly World News photographers were there to capture the moment:

This is not the first time the Palin-bot has short-circuited in public. Republican officials have recently admitted that several of Palin’s embarrassing moments, including her prank phone call from Nicolas Sarkozy and her “I can see Russia from my house” comment were actually the results of software malfunctions.

I can see Alaska from my house video:

Nicolas Sarkozy prank call video:

Why Go Rogue when you can Go Mutant?!!!

There’s still a lot of buzz about Sarah Palin’s book, GOING ROGUE.  But there’s even MORE buzz about the Bat Boy book, GOING MUTANT.

Let’s look at a side by side comparison:

Home state:   Alaska                                                        Home state:  West Virginia

Supports gay  marriage                                                   Opposes gay marriage

Did not fight in Afghan war                                           Earned two Purple Hearts in Afghan War.

Can see Russia from her porch.                                    Lives in a cave – has no view

Wants lower taxes                                                           Wants more Spam

Bark worst than bite                                                       Bite is pretty damn bad

Loves God and County                                                   Loves mosquitoes

Doesn’t read any magazines                                         Likes to rip magazines to shreds

Kills moose                                                                       Kills moose better

Wants to be President                                                   Will be President

IQ:   105                                                                            IQ:  220

Mama Grizzly                                                                   Bat Boy

So which book would you rather read?   Of course, GOING MUTANT… And YOU CAN GET IT HERE.

Sarah’s reading it, why aren’t you???

ALASKA -  Sarah Palin celebrated her big Tea Party win on Tuesday by turning herself into Bat Boy!!

Sarah Palin has been riding high since the big Republican victory on Tuesday.  But to everyone’s surprise the FIRST thing she did on Wednesday morning was… she joined in the fun and Bat Boy herself!

Sarah Palin knows that even though this was a big year for her and her party, becoming Bat Boy was the highlight of your 2010.   She was inspired by seeing the picture of Bat Boy in the East Village last Monday!

Sarah Palin wanted to know what she would look like as Bat Boy?
So  she did it.

Now for the first time check out the official Bat Boy Yourself facebook application from Weekly World News.

It’s live right NOW so click below and make someone smile on Election Day!

GO BAT BOY YOURSELF on FACEBOOK!!

And here’s a little love song to Sarah Palin for you: