Troubling Findings Regarding LAPD and Fingerprints Today’s Los Angeles Times has published a very frightening piece. It seems the LAPD wrongly implicated people for crimes based on finger prints that erroneously “identified them as suspects.”

Luckily for us, this confidential report is now in the open. How widespread such mistakes have been is not yet clear and the department is now in full internal investigation throttle. That it occurred at all is cause for worry.

Obama and McCain Trade Some Earnest Jokes at Dinner The rivals got together to speak at the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner, a charity event held by upper crust New York. After Wednesday’s fraught exchange, the two maintained calm, friendly and even self-deprecating miens. While McCain joked he would fire his advisers in favor of Joe the Plumber, Obama chuckled, and wondered where the Greek columns he’d requested were. He also mockingly explained his name meant “that one” in Swahili while McCain indicated Obama’s nickname for him must be “George Bush.” Guess politicians can always unite on their ability to be…politicians.

Hard Times Make Tuition That Much Harder…to Meet On a more sober note, the recession is calling attention to another expenditure ever difficult to pay: college tuition. As unemployment rates rise and lending woes deepen, obtaining financial aid may become a greater challenge, forcing more to depend on student loans and funds culled from various means.

British Prime Minister Writes About the Financial State of Affairs The Washington Post released an article written by British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. His words, functioning as a sort of call to arms, encouraged the U.S. to join other countries in a more unified approach to salvaging the global economy.

English Chef Who Ate Former Lover Found Guilty of Murder Former Mr. Gay UK Anthony Morley, 36, was found guilty of murder today. The English chef had slashed the throat of his lover, Damien Oldfield, claiming he thought the latter would rape him. In what he also said was a fright induced daze and one causing him to believe he was at work cooking meet, Morley sliced Oldfield’s thigh, seasoned it with herbs and sauteed it in olive oil before nibbling the morsel.

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