Momma told you not to hitchhike: The creators of a hitchhiking robot say they may rebuild the peripatetic android after it made the mistake of accepting a ride from someone in Philadelphia over the weekend.
They want the robot to resume its journey across the nation, but may just buy it a Rick Steves guidebook and send it to Europe.
Get stuffed: In the wake of the Cecil the Lion controversy, Delta Air Lines says it has banned shipment of lion, leopard, elephant, rhinoceros and buffalo trophies as freight.
Left unsaid is whether airlines will also ban big-game hunters, although it seems there will be room for them in the cargo hold.
Spread the payments over 10 years: Car sales rose by 5 percent in July, thanks to intense demand for luxury cars, defying predictions that the Great Recession would motivate America to downsize and economize.
But that was before America took a test drive in a no-frills Nissan Versa, then said, “Hey, let’s go check out those new Audis.”
— Mark Carlson, Herald staff
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