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Here’s the wrap:

1,000 stolen wedding gowns recovered on their way to Mexico. I could make a funny Mitt Romeny/ Mormonism joke here, but I’ll leave that one alone.

• All charges against the Duke lacrosse players have been dropped. Oh, the money these kids will get.

Law & Order star and presidential candidate Fred Thompson says he has lymphoma, but he’s okay.

• Katie Couric caught in plagiarism scandal. Her defense: “I did not have sexual relations with that woman.”

15-month mandatory stays in Iraq for Army soldiers. Don’t everybody sign up at once, now.

• A 50-year-old drummer for a punk band, who wears dentures, is arrested when his soap tests positive for GHB, a rape drug.

‘’A date-rape drug is the last thing I need,’’ he said. ‘’If anything, I need a way to keep the girls off me. They make my girlfriend mad.’’

• Giuliani says flying the confederate flag is a state’s right, proving that if this president thing doesn’t pan out, he’ll run for governor of South Carolina. —Greg Hambrick


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