Old news by now, but Barack Obama chose Joe Biden as his running mate. The LA Times creamed their pants over the choice in an op-ed today. Also, the Democratic convention kicked off today. (The Mercury‘s Andrew Tonry is there, as is videographer Travis Huntington. Reports coming up!)
Oh dear: “Neighbors ignored a dying woman’s cries for help early Saturday morning in New York City, newspapers report… ‘One neighbor said she heard Garcia screaming for 35 minutes but ignored the cries because she thought the victim was drunk,’ the paper says.”
Could the mortgage bust have been prevented? FBI saw signs of fraud in 2004.
Traffic deaths are down as low as they were in the 1960s–thanks, perhaps, to high gas prices.
The 2008 Olympics are mercifully over.
The baby elephant at the Oregon Zoo has been born! After mom kicked it, they’re finally bonding.