Mark Memmott

"Giovanni Ramirez, a stocky 31-year-old with a head shaved bald," was arrested by Los Angeles police yesterday in connection with the March 31 beating of a San Francisco Giants fan following the Opening Day game between the Giants and the Los Angeles Dodgers.

When you famously predict that Judgment Day will come on May 21, and it doesn't, what do you say for yourself?

"It has been a really tough weekend," 89-year-old radio preacher Harold Camping told The San Francisco Chronicle on Sunday.

He's "flabbergasted" that The Rapture hasn't begun.

We're hearing and reading words such as "war zone," "atomic bomb" and "devastation" this morning about the effects of a tornado that roared through Joplin, Mo., Sunday night.

The death toll, already a grim 89, is expected to exceed 100, the local Joplin Globe reports.

Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels announced early Sunday that he will not be going after the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.

The Associated Press reports that in an e-mail sent to supporters just after midnight, Daniels said that as he debated whether to run or not, "I was able to resolve every competing consideration but one. The interests and wishes of my family, is the most important consideration of all. If I have disappointed you, I will always be sorry."

Earthquakes of unprecedented magnitude? No.

Headlines about disasters in places where day has already turned into night? No, no and no.