Actress, former child star and US diplomat, Shirley Temple Black's films cheered American depression-weary moviegoers and made her the most famous little girl in the world. She died last night at age 85 of undisclosed causes.

Shirley Temple was born on April 23, 1928 and began her film career in 1932. Temple was an American film and television actress, singer, dancer, and former U.S. ambassador to Ghana and Czechoslovakia.

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The National Weather Service has forecast more snow over the next few days.

Tuesday Sunny, with a high near 28. Northwest wind 6 to 11 mph.
Tuesday Night Mostly clear, with a low around 14. North wind around 9 mph.

Wednesday Sunny, with a high near 25. North wind around 8 mph becoming east in afternoon.
Wednesday Night Snow, mainly after 1am. Low around 24. Northeast wind 6 to 9 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%.

If you really and truly love snow, then your in for another treat. However if you do not, then it does not look like it's going to get any better, with the heavy ice on the roads. So far we've had over 40 inches of snow and there is more on the way.

Light snow likely this afternoon. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 30. North wind around 6 mph becoming calm in the morning. Chance of precipitation is 60%. Total daytime snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible.

This Week in History, Feb 9 - Feb 15

Feb 09, 1971
Satchel Paige nominated to Baseball Hall of Fame. On this day in 1971, pitcher Leroy "Satchel" Paige becomes the first Negro League veteran to be nominated for the Baseball Hall of Fame. In August of that year, Paige, a pitching legend known for his fastball, showmanship and the longevity of his playing career, which spanned five decades, was inducted. Joe DiMaggio once called Paige "the best and fastest pitcher I've ever faced." Paige was born in Mobile, Alabama, most likely on July 7, 1906, although the exact date remains a mystery. He earned his nickname, Satchel, as a boy when he earned money carrying passengers' bags at train stations. Baseball was segregated when Paige started playing baseball professionally in the 1920s, so he spent most of his career pitching for Negro League teams around the United States. During the winter season, he pitched for teams in the Caribbean and Central and South America. As a barnstorming player who traveled thousands of miles each season and played for whichever team met his asking price, he pitched an estimated 2,500 games, had 300 shut-outs and 55 no-hitters. In one month in 1935, he reportedly pitched 29 consecutive games.

Feb 10, 1996
Kasparov loses chess game to computer. On this day in 1996, after three hours, world chess champion Gary Kasparov loses the first game of a six-game match against Deep Blue, an IBM computer capable of evaluating 200 million moves per second. Man was ultimately victorious over machine, however, as Kasparov bested Deep Blue in the match with three wins and two ties and took home the $400,000 prize. An estimated 6 million people worldwide followed the action on the Internet. Kasparov had previously defeated Deep Thought, the prototype for Deep Blue developed by IBM researchers in 1989, but he and other chess grandmasters had, on occasion, lost to computers in games that lasted an hour or less. The February 1996 contest was significant in that it represented the first time a human and a computer had duked it out in a regulation, six-game match, in which each player had two hours to make 40 moves, two hours to finish the next 20 moves and then another 60 minutes to wrap up the game.

Feb 11, 1990
Nelson Mandela released from prison. Nelson Mandela, late leader of the movement to end South African apartheid, was released from prison after 27 years on February 11, 1990. In 1944, Mandela, a lawyer, joined the African National Congress (ANC), the oldest black political organization in South Africa, where he became a leader of Johannesburg's youth wing of the ANC. In 1952, he became deputy national president of the ANC, advocating nonviolent resistance to apartheid--South Africa's institutionalized system of white supremacy and racial segregation. However, after the massacre of peaceful black demonstrators at Sharpeville in 1960, Nelson helped organize a paramilitary branch of the ANC to engage in guerrilla warfare against the white minority government. In 1961, he was arrested for treason, and although acquitted he was arrested again in 1962 for illegally leaving the country. Convicted and sentenced to five years at Robben Island Prison, he was put on trial again in 1964 on charges of sabotage. In June 1964, he was convicted along with several other ANC leaders and sentenced to life in prison