Mark Memmott

Forty years after he saw them start appearing in newspapers, the man who leaked the Pentagon Papers sounds somewhat surprised that he isn't sitting in a prison cell.

"A Goodyear blimp in Germany caught on fire and crashed on Sunday, killing the pilot while three passengers escaped," The Akron Beacon Journal reports.

And stories from the scene paint a picture of heroism.

As MSNBC writes:

"A vintage World War II bomber crashed and burned in a field southeast of Aurora Municipal [Ill.] Airport this morning," the Chicago Tribune writes, "but the seven people on board escaped without injury, according to aviation officials."

These things happen. But they're still funny (or not, we guess, depending on your team allegiance):

This morning, "Miami Herald readers opened their paper to find a nearly full-page ad reading 'Congratulations Miami!' next to photos of Heat championship T-shirts and hats from Macy's," writes Tim Elfrink at Miami New Times' Riptide 2.0 blog.

Four paragraphs into a story in today's Los Angeles Times about the flood of reconstruction money that the U.S. poured into Iraq in 2003 and 2004, and $6.6 billion of it that remains unaccounted for, is this stunner: