The skinny
By TIMES WIRES
Published April 6, 2007
Egg-citement
Which doesn't belong in the White House?
Tempest in an egg cup! The annual White House display of 51 decorated eggs has Wyoming shellshocked. Since 1994, artists from the 50 states and the District of Columbia have created insanely elaborate eggs for the White House Visitor Center - like Montana's, above top. Laura Bush unveiled this year's display Tuesday. (Check them out at www.whitehouse.gov/easter.) That's when Ben Neary, a reporter from Cheyenne, noticed Wyoming's entry - a childish line-drawing of an egg skiing, above bottom - was created by Phillip LeDonne of Elmhurst, not even from Wyoming, but from Illinois. What happened? American Egg Board officials said they couldn't find a Wyoming artist to design the egg, so they chose the college-student son of an employee of the egg board. "This poor kid was trying to help out," explained Christine Bushway, director of state programs. If he were 5, we might feel sorry for the guy.
More Easter trouble
This 'grass' not for Easter basket
Officers in East Hartford, Conn., who pulled a man over for running a red light found a plush Easter bunny in the car, police say. Which wasn't at all suspicious until the officer smelled marijuana and found two bags in the glove box. Suddenly the stuffed animal took on new meaning. Inside it, they found 16 bags of pot, police said. Ian Lawrence, 25, was charged with possession, operating a drug factory, possession with intent to sell within 1,500 feet of a school and motor vehicle charges.
Bikinis, booze don't mix
Next time, get dressed there
A man wearing a blond wig, pink flip-flops and a striped bikini with the top filled out by water balloons was charged with taking a drunken afternoon romp through a park in Mason, Ohio, officials said. Steven S. Cole, a 46-year-old volunteer firefighter, told an officer he was on his way to a Dayton bar Tuesday to perform in a contest offering a $10,000 prize. He has pleaded not guilty to charges of drunken driving, public indecency and disorderly conduct - and he's now on leave as a firefighter.
Government of none
No one's calling shots in this town
Joe Selle didn't exactly get voted out office, but he wasn't re-elected, either. Selle, running unopposed for the Missouri City, Mo., City Council, didn't get a single vote - not even from himself. Selle, 42, said he forgot Tuesday was Election Day, and apparently so did Ward 3's other 34 registered voters. But the city charter lets him keep the seat.
Compiled from Times wires