Hallelujah! “[Karl] Rove, one of the most influential Washington players in decades, announced his resignation on Monday on the conservative editorial pages of the Wall Street Journal, after six-and-a-half years at the epicenter of Bush’s stormy presidency.”

A ninth body is found in the Minneapolis bridge wreckage, 11 days after it collapsed. Four are still missing. But don’t worry! They already have a new bridge designed.

Seattle shuts down most lanes of I-5 for massive road work, and officials predict chaos. Surprise! Drivers cope, take transit, avert disaster.

Starbucks is so easy to rob, you don’t even need a weapon!

Some folks take their jobs very seriously: “The head of a Chinese company implicated in a massive U.S. toy recall has committed suicide, state media reported today, the latest casualty of China’s widening food and product safety scandals.”

Gay Lutherans can still be pastors, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America declared on Saturday.