Quick LInks: “Check Engine Light” on in 1 in 10 Cars; Georgia Driver’s Pay for “In God We Trust”
Friday, 15 July 2011 | by Pat's Picks
The Louisville Courier-Journal says 16,837 people showed up to enter a lottery for 1,800, $15.51-an-hour jobs at the local Ford plant.
The check engine light is on in one out of every ten cars in the US at any given time says the Arizona Republic.
We may only have 49 states. The Grand Forks Herald says North Dakota may not actually be a state.
Eleven pieces of stolen artwork were found in the home of suspected Picasso thief Mark Lugo says the San Francisco Chronicle.
Chicago is unveiling a 20-foot statue of Marilyn Monroe today. Tribune columnist Mary Schmich says it’s sexist.
If Georgia drivers want “In God We Trust” printed on the state’s new license plates, they’ll have to pay an extra dollar says the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Rebekah Brooks resigns as head of Rupert Murdoch’s British newspaper empire amid growing scandal, the New York Times reports.
Analysis: According to the Washington Post‘s Paul Fahri, the British media is a “culture of expose.”
During a ride-along with LAPD officers, Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Pena witnessed a gang shootout says the LA Times.
An amateur detective found the video that led to the killer of slain Brooklyn boy, Leiby Kletzky says the New York Daily News.
HBO dominated the Emmy nominations says the LA Times.
The Wall Street Journal asked Simon Cowell about the “X Factor.” He had one thing to say: “This better bloody work.”
A US solider, detained in Arizona after TSA officials found “one-half ounce of C4 explosive hidden in an empty can of smokeless tobacco,” says it was just a souvenir, reports the Yuma Sun.
The LA Times says surprisingly, there are many ways a penis can be re-attached.
The San Diego Union-Tribune says police are trying to determine whether a body found bound and hanging by the neck of a multimillionaire CEO’s balcony is a suicide or a homicide.
A Florida couple faces 45 years in prison after a jury found them guilty in the “snake killing” of a toddler reports the Orlando Sentinel.
“I’m not a hero. I’m just a mom,” says the woman who jumped from her car-jacked vehicle clutching her infant son. Washington Post.
