Stories from my home town: Three Baltimore County students face charges after being found with Viagra at a Dundalk middle school, police said. One of the students, a 12-year-old boy, was arrested after allegedly bringing seven pills to Holabird Middle School, giving two to his two friends, police said. One child who received the drug took a pill. He was OK but was taken to the Bayview Medical Center as

William Quick tracks down the predictably scant coverage in The New York Times and The Washington Post of the three Armenian monks who escaped the militant Palestinian gunman still holed up in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. Notes the DailyPundit: For some odd reason, this isn’t being heavily reported at NYT, “The Paper of Record,” which buried a three sentence report in the fourteenth and fifteenth graf of

Ultimate Dodgeball: The Reality TV Series. No. I’m not kidding. Man, I’m already feelin’ sorry for that Natalie chick from “The Facts of Life.”

“In most cases, airplanes can sail through lightning storms with little consequence. But according to a recent report, it is possible — albeit highly unlikely — that a person could be struck by lightning while inside an airplane,”

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