by Ian Punnett

This time last night, you might remember the big story about the disappearance of Yale student Annie Le.

"I will categorically say a body has not been found," an FBI spokesperson said last night. "Items that could potentially be evidence have been seized. Nothing that can be associated with Annie Le at this time."

The New Haven Register and other outlets reported that detectives found bloody clothing in the campus building where Le was last seen.

But tonight, the New Haven Register reported on their website:

NEW HAVEN - The blood-stained clothes found in ceiling tiles at the Yale University laboratory where graduate student Annie Le disappeared are not the clothes Le was last seen wearing, law enforcement officials said.

The items were sent for testing to see if the clothes had any connection to Le, whose disappearance five days before her wedding has attracted national media attention.

Investigators said a small amount of blood was found on the clothing found Saturday.

So whose clothes are those?  More on that in a minute.  Unfortunately, as you’ve probably heard, although the bloody clothes found hidden in the ceiling cannot be linked to Annie Le, the New Haven Independent is reporting that a body found hidden in the wall is hers.

(Updated: 9:52 p.m.) Police found what they believe is the body of missing Yale med student Annie Le, ending a five-day manhunt that transfixed the nation.

New Haven police made the announcement at a press conference at 1 Union Ave. at 9 p.m. Sunday.

Human remains were found shortly after 5 p.m. Sunday inside a wall at 10 Amistad St., the Yale medical building where Le was last seen, said Assistant Police Chief Pete Reichard. Police have not yet identified the body, but they believe it is Annie Le.

“We are assuming that it’s her,” Reichard said.

Police have ruled her case a homicide.

Le, a 24 year-old third-year Yale pharmacology graduate student, went missing on Tuesday. Video cameras captured her entering 10 Amistad St., but she was never seen coming out. More than 100 law enforcement agents descended on the city to try to solve the mystery. They watched hours of video surveillance tape taken from over 70 cameras. They combed through the 120,000-square-foot building day and night.

Sunday, they finally made a breakthrough in the case.

Shortly after 5 p.m., they found the remains of a female human body secreted inside a basement wall in the building.

O, fellowship divine, we feebly struggle, you in glory shine, for all one in thee for all are thine.  Hallelujah, hallelujah.

Very sad.

Even sadder, there are bloody clothes in the ceiling that aren’t Annie Le’s!  Could it be another victim?  A weird coincidence?  There is a killer at loose on the campus of Yale University--the only question at this hour is, is it a serial killer?

It is a dark matter--but not the “Dark Matter.”  That too, is still a mystery tonight.  There's a recap from Physorg.com:

Among the most astounding, unexpected, and important achievements of the past century (or even more) have been the discoveries of dark matter and dark energy, collectively dubbed the "dark sector."

A whopping 96% of the essence of our universe lies in the dark sector, where essence refers to everything that controls evolution and large-scale properties of the cosmos. Dark matter is unseen matter -- unseen in the sense that it emits no detected electromagnetic radiation (light, radio waves, etc) -- but it has been definitively spotted nonetheless because its gravity has measurable effects on stars, things that we can see. Of all of the matter in the universe, an incredible 90% is dark matter, with galaxies and stars being only minor constituents. We do not know what dark matter is, only that it is almost surely made of kinds of elementary particles unlike those that comprise normal atoms.

Now that we’re making progress on dark matter, isn’t it time for us to get to work on the all important red matter?  If we don’t start working on it now, how will they have red matter in time for the launch of the starship Enterprise?

From red matter to pink grasshoppers:

A rare pink grasshopper has been found by a schoolboy taking part in a nature trail.

The insect was found by 11-year-old Daniel Tate who thought it was a flower until he saw it jump and then he realised it was a grasshopper.

The insect was later identified by wildlife officers as an adult female common green grasshopper, which has been born pink.  (Telegraph UK)

Wait . . . isn’t a pink grasshopper a ****tail?  Made with gin, served with a paper umbrella?  Or is a grasshopper made with milk and creme de menthe?  I don’t know anything about ****tails but if there isn’t a “pink grasshopper,” there should be.

Either way, it wasn’t what this guy was drinking:

Here's a story I re-wrote from the Kansas City Star:

A 22-year-old man who got into a disagreement at the IrishFest last weekend picked the wrong person to douse with beer.

Kansas City Police Chief Jim Corwin, wearing plainclothes and preparing to watch a band perform with his family, was saving the space for a boy in a wheelchair who had gone to the restroom with his father.

Jesse H. Rizzo of Warrensburg, Mo., asked to stand between Chief Corwin and the stage to try to catch one of the free T-shirts being thrown from the stage. Corwin told him no.

That’s when Rizzo, according to the police chief, dumped his beer on the officer holding the space for the wheelchair bound boy.

“This is your unlucky day,” Corwin told the man while pulling out his police identification card. “You’re under arrest.”

After getting drenched, Corwin escorted Rizzo to officers working at the festival at Crown Center and the man posted bond.

Now, is that how they wrote it in the Kansas City Star?

No.  What did I do differently as I re-wrote the story?  According to the basic rules of journalism, I moved the name of the accused, Jesse Rizzo, up from the last paragraph,  of the story as it appeared in the Kansas City Star closer to the top of the story.

Why is that important?  Because naming the accused is the basic “who” of the “who, what, where, why and how” of the story.

So why did the Kansas City Star not name the accused at the top of the story like I did and instead just refer to him as “the man.”

Well, that’s the last line of the story in the Kansas City Star:

 Rizzo, the son of Kansas City Star reporter Tony Rizzo, had to post $100 bond.

Tsk-tsk.  If that drunken idiot--I mean, drunken alleged idiot--was the son of a prominent politician instead of reporter, would the Kansas City Star have been so accommodating as to bury the name?

I’m not saying that reporter Rizzo had anything to do with it, but I smell a rat.