Miscellaneous.

A cat stranded on top of a telephone pole for five days, enduring thunderstorms and high winds, was finally rescued. (Elko Daily Free Press)
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It seems Keith Olbermann has more in common with Al Capone than he does with Edward R. Murrow.

Payback's a bitch, literally in this case.
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Why wasn't the Ambassador Hotel where RFK was assassinated 40 years ago today preserved?

After the preservationists' lawsuits and the environmental impact reports, the LAUSD agreed to pluck it out and maintain it intact. But the LAUSD's senior project manager, John Kuprenas, told me that an engineer said no way. "Hold the bus," is what Kuprenas told me the engineer said. "This plan looks kind of iffy." The fear was that if the district "tried to take it out in a mass, it'd all completely crumble," Kuprenas said.

So the pantry exists today not even as a kit to be eventually reassembled but in sample pieces -- 2-foot-diameter cores of floor, walls and ceiling, along with doors, electrical panels and the biggest piece, the ice machine behind which Sirhan Sirhan stood, waiting to open fire. It's all on 30 pallets, shrink-wrapped and stored in a secure, undisclosed location, waiting for a special commission and the school board to decide what historical institution might deserve them.

Except for some recycled steel, the rest of the pantry, along with most of the Ambassador Hotel, went to a landfill.