5 June 2007: Afternoon By The Morning News — 05 Jun 2007 Scooter Libby sentenced to 2.5 years in prison for role in Valerie Plame affair. Related: Current prisoners' opinions on the sentence; letters from high-powered Libby admirers. Twenty Taliban fighters die escaping opposing forces; kidnappings and body swaps in Afghanistan continue. Abdel Nur, final suspect in JFK plot, surrenders to police in Trinidad. ETA announces Basque ceasefire ends at midnight tonight. Spain's anthem has a melody, now it just needs some words. ACLU pushes for prisons to ID executioners, nominally to figure out who is so bad at giving injections. Why do only the cleverest criminals leave their weapons at the scene of the crime? California weighs offering all unmarried couples--not just homosexual and elderly--the option of registering a domestic partnership. Unrelated to California or its governor: New treatment for heart disease suggests combining bionics and steroids. In today's feature, Sarah Norris relocates the Mason-Dixon line to Greenwich Village. Princes the latest to complain about documentary airing Princess Diana crash photos; TV network promises 30 minutes to "debate the issues raised." There's no crying in baseball, just a lot of theatrics when a minor league manager pitches a fit. (The inevitable video.) The best in Soviet engineering theatrics. Betel nut sales far sexier than one would expect.
