No Place Like Nome

Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has signed a book deal with Harper Collins to publish her memoirs. Scheduled to come out in Spring of 2010, the work will be 12 pages long, double spaced and written in crayon. Detailing her personal and private life, the book will be titled will be 'So Juneau What I Know.' *** Former U.S. Surgeon General Antonia Novello is facing up to 12 years in prison from charges filed in Albany New York, last Tuesday. All stemming from her time as New York Health commissioner the indictments include using staff to perform personal services including chauffeuring her on personal shopping sprees, picking up her dry cleaning, watering house plants while she was out of town and on two occasions, using a housekeeper to fill in for two scheduled pap smears. *** North Carolina law enforcement have reported that a store owner and a customer foiled an attempted robbery by a teenager who concealed a banana in his pocket while claiming it was a gun. After being overtaken and held for the police, the teen waiting calmly and ate the banana. Seriously, it was in the report. Of course, the incident has coined a new phrase in their sleepy Southern town, "Is that a banana in your pocket or are you trying to rob me?"