Extra Extra: Shop Busted For Selling Synthetic Pot And "Charley Sheene" Bath Salts
- A smoke shop owner in Lombard was arrested for selling synthetic marijuana and bath salts, two items recently designated as controlled substances. Cops snagged $1 million worth of “K2,” “Spice,’’ “Red Magic,’’ “Charley Sheene” and “Ultra." No, we didn't know those drug nicknames until now, either. [Tribune]
- A police officer says his commander told him to delay the sobriety test of an off-duty Chicago cop who had allegedly struck and killed a 13-year-old boy. [Tribune]
- Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Sen. Dick Durbin and Gov. Pat Quinn all attended a Martin Luther King, Jr., prayer breakfast today. [ABC7]
- Speaking of MLK, Jr., the controversial quote inscribed into the Washington, D.C., statue of him will be changed. [Telegraph]
- Most of the awards they give you in high school are dumb, but are there any you truly regret not winning? [WBEZ]
- Newt Gingrich is linked to this political film that basically portrays Mitt Romney as completely evil, the second coming of Mr. Potter from It's a Wonderful Life. [Sun-Times, via Roger Ebert]
- The whole thing is pretty inaccurate. Four Pinocchios worth of inaccurate. [Washington Post]
