The director of a Thailand museum was indicted on a wire fraud charge in connection with a federal investigation into looted Southeast Asian antiquities. via USA Today

Elections officials from Ohio and California have been honored at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston for their efforts to maintain the integrity of the vote in their respective states. via WNWO-TV Toledo

"Being in an environment like Stanford isn't helpful"

Naomi Brown, a staff psychologist at Stanford University, was stunned at the number of students with anorexia and bulimia that she encountered when she began working at the student health center a decade ago. via Palo Alto Daily News

"The state of California really has to make our state attractive to businesses to locate here."

Cheeseheads don't need to be bleu: Experts say predictions that California will soon overtake Wisconsin as the nation's top cheese producer are unlikely to come true.

The Golden State and its cows gained quickly on Wisconsin in the past decade, but cheese plants in California are maxing out, while efforts to boost production in Wisconsin are paying off, said Dick Groves, longtime owner of the Madison-based trade publication, Cheese Reporter.

Groves helped spark the friendly competition between the states 10 years ago with an editorial predicting California would overtake Wisconsin in cheese production by 2005. He later amended it to 2010 and then, last month, to 'not anytime soon.' Read more

"Do we want these people allowed on a highway near a security checkpoint?"

SAN DIEGO When members of an anti-illegal immigration group offered to sponsor litter cleanup on local roads, they never imagined California officials would offer them an Adopt-a-Highway stretch near a Border ... via Free Republic

"The news is surprisingly optimistic, and if you put everything together this looks fairly encouraging"

With a bulbous head and plank-like wings, the aircraft resembles a lumbering whale. via KCPQ

"Weve sold an ungodly amount of rice, the price has nearly doubled _ and this is the crop theyre just beginning to plant."

Dipping its left wing, a canary-yellow biplane makes a sharp turn and dives over a flooded field, showering rice on the shallow water 15 feet below. via KVML

"They just seem to lose their fear of humans."

LOS ANGELES - The coyote was limping as it approached a girl in a sand box at a public park _ but it was still dangerous. via KOB-TV

"If they were not guards they could file a petition with the (National Labor Relations Board) and then they would have to have an election."

This week I wrote about the Kaiser Permanente / Inter-Con Security Security Guard strike. via The Huffington Post

Reports that ABC's hit TV show 'Ugly Betty' is leaving Los Angeles has Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger speaking out. via KABC