Escaped Inmate Caught After 43 Years: Associated Press reporter Brian Witte writes that Maryland police have captured convicted armed robber Willie “Pops” Parker, who escaped from Maryland’s Eastern Correctional Camp in 1965. Parker, who is now 81, was tracked down by authorities who found he was collecting social security, had a driver's license and was registered to vote under his own name.

Kansas Law Requires Drug Testing of Drivers involved in serious auto accidents, according to a story in the trucking magazine Land Line . The new law, which takes effect on July 1st, requires law enforcement to give drug and alcohol tests to drivers involved in any accident resulting in fatalities or serious injuries. Opponents charge that mandatory testing without probable cause is unconstitutional.

Gitmo Protesters Convicted: A D.C. Superior Court judge has found 34 activists who staged a January 11th protest of conditions at Guantanamo Bay guilty of violating a ban on demonstrations at the Supreme Court plaza. Washington Post writer Keith Alexander reports that the activists' antics during the three day trial included a show of solidarity with detainees. This involved each activist reciting the names and biographies of suspected terrorists. The story points out that all of the defendants were represented by fools.

Questionable Cover-Up: From the AP in Arvada, Colo.: "Police are looking for two men they say covered their faces with women's thongs to rob a convenience store. Police released a surveillance video of the two men this week as they roamed inside a gas station during the robbery." Of all the articles of clothing to use as a mask, why choose one designed to cover almost nothing?