Good Thursday morning to you…

Weather: Hard freeze expected. It will be a cold, raw day today with highs only reaching the middle 40s and winds from 10 to 15 miles per hour. Then for tonight, the National Weather Service has issued a freeze warning, with temperatures dipping all the way down to the middle 20s. Much the same forecast is in store fro Friday, though winds will die down as the day goes on.

Dropped wallet leads to arrest. Tommy Leon Stewart, 28, was arrested Wednesday afternoon on charges related to the robbery of the CVS pharmacy in Pinson a couple of weeks ago, as well as another at a CVS just down the road in Center Point. Investigators say that Stewart held up both drugstores at gunpoint, then fled through the drive-thru window. The break in the case came when Stewart’s wallet fell out of his pocket at the Pinson store; the wallet had Stewart’s ID inside. He’s held in the county jail without bond.

What a landing! A space probe that’s about the size of a refrigerator has landed on a comet, the first time any spacecraft has pulled off such a controlled landing. The European Space Agency probe, called Philae, has been on a 10-year journey which ended when the craft harpooned Comet 67P and made a bit of a bouncy landing. The agency won’t know how successful the landing was until later today, as data comes back from the craft.

Sports: Tipoff time. The high school basketball season begins in earnest tonight, as Hewitt-Trussville visits Pinson Valley. It’s another visit by Huskies coach Mike Dutton to the gym that’s named for him. Elsewhere, Gardendale travels to Minor, Hayden hosts Fairview, and Locust Fork hosts Briarwood Christian.