Rope dancing into the top tier

Miss Hawaii Lauren Cheape enters the final round of the Miss America pageant in Las Vegas having won the talent competition by impressing judges with her jump-roping routine. She rope-danced in rhythm with "Hawaii Five-0" at Thursday night’s competition. She won a $2,000 scholarship for the victory performance, which counts for 35 percent of a contestant’s overall score.

Check out the finals tonight to see if she goes all the way for the crown.

Bellows golf driving range is da bomb!

Unexploded ordnance should not be a subject of mirth, of course, but everyone can at least appreciate the bizarre nature of reports that bombs from the World War I era were found on the golf driving range at Bellows Air Force Station.

Three of the 25-pound Cooper bombs, one that still had a fuse, were found and destroyed, and two 100-pound bombs with no explosives were examined by ordnance experts. The detonation of the Coopers caused barely any damage to the plywood covering the blast. But still: Imagine what might have happened if the fused bomb had gone off somehow while golfers were innocently whacking balls down the range. They might have been too startled to try the range, or even the mini-putt golf, ever again.