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Captured and Tortured Beach Balls are Finally Found and Other AM News

- 9,000 people a month turn in their California driver's licenses for Arizona ones - LAT
- LA coach builders + Mini Coopers = Mini Cooper limos - bornrich
- The only thing worthwhile in the holier-than-thou feature about author Roger Kahn who wants to pretend that there's something wrong with betting on your own team, is this quote by Jim Murray about Pete Rose: "Did Rose bet on the game?" Murray once asked in a column. "Probably. Rose bet on the color of the next car coming down the street." - LAT
- NPR this morning aired an interview they did with a woman who was taken from an LA hospital to Skid Row where she lived for six years - NPR
- Frisco woman gives birth on a sidewalk and then leaves the baby on the street - CBS5
- Clearly inspired by our own tomdog's tomdogbug, we bring you the Blood Puddle Pillow - from keetra
More copycats: New York suddenly wants 1 million trees - AP
- Green power might hurt the environment? - CS Monitor
- Jessica Biel setting the standard - Yeeeah
- Dita reveals that she divorced Marilyn Manson because the rock star parties too much and was cheating on her with a teenager - Telegraph
- In her Coachella preview, Kate Sullivan of the LA Weekly agrees with us that the state of music today is much better than 7-8 years ago - LA Weekly
- Myspace is allowing Photobucket's videos on their site again - Photobucket
- RIP, Keith Richards' mom - Reuters
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