Oprah Winfrey will announce on Friday’s “The Oprah Winfrey Show” that she is ending the talk show after 23 years, a spokesman for Winfrey’s Harpo Productions said.

“Oprah will be ending her talk show,” Harpo spokesman Don Halcombe said Thursday. “She will be speaking about it on tomorrow’s live show.”

The show will air live from its Chicago, Illinois, studio at 9 a.m. CT (10 a.m. ET), he said.

The show has been the highest-rated talk show for 23 consecutive seasons, according to the Oprah.com site. It is seen by an estimated 42 million viewers a week in the United States and is broadcast to 145 countries

Wow. Check out the new Apple store that just opened on November 14th in New York’s Upper West Side.

Schnaaazzy.

The body of Chicago school board President Michael Scott was found floating in the Chicago river. His death comes as a suprising twist of fate as the well known administrator had vanished hours before.

According to police, Scott’s body was found near the Merchandise Mart early Monday in the River North neighborhood with a gunshot wound to the head.

Scott was reported missing from his home in Monroe Sunday. His blue Cadillac was found nearby and towed away from the scene. An autopsy will be performed today to determine the exact cause of death.

His good friend Reverend Jesse Jackson spoke out about his friend’s death to local news outlets saying,

“Everyone thought Michael was their guy. People are so very sad. .. . The suddenness of it all — midday has become midnight. The sun has been eclipsed.”

Is it just me or does it seem like violence is growing rampantly in Chicago? This is ridiculous! Something’s gotta change.