[A 350-foot-long replacement for the Willis Avenue bridge, which connects Manhattan to the Bronx, is floated up the East River on a barge today. Image via AP]

Last week, a house on Staten Island burned to the ground, killing the entire Jones family—four children and a mother. Most had their throats cut. Police blamed C.J., the allegedly murderous 14 year-old son. Now, they've cleared him. Whoops?

[Russian Naval Infantry marines "perform" during the Navy Day parade in Sevastopol, Ukraine. "Perform," by, like, throwing knives all over the damn place, apparently. Pic via AP.]

Last week's killing of 17 people in northern Mexico was one of "several" carried out by inmates temporarily freed from prison using weapons on loan from prison guards. But the war on drugs should be over any day now. [LAT]

"What it does is takes a bunch of New Yorkers—most of the people on Jersey Shore are New Yorkers... drops them at the Jersey Shore, and tries to make Americans feel like this is New Jersey," said Christie. "I can tell people, they want to know what New Jersey really is? I welcome them to come to New Jersey anytime." (Note that he probably didn't mean to make that last bit sound like a threat; that's just how people talk in New Jersey.)

Canadian air force Captain Brian Bews is a lucky man. While training for an air show, he was beginning a maneuver called a High Alpha pass when sparks shot from the engine. He bailed out seconds before the plane exploded.

[Michelle Obama sends a spray of foam flying while christening the U.S. Coast Guard cutter "Stratton" at a shipyard in Mississippi today. Image via AP]

Former NYPD commissioner Bernie Kerik, currently incarcerated, is nobly tweeting out against the "Ground Zero Mosque," somehow. Hey, Muslims: Have some respect for 9/11's victims... by having affairs in apartments next to Ground Zero, like Kerik did. [Photo: AP]

Rush Limbaugh is mad as hell at "poor old Shep Smith" and Fox News for falling into a carefully orchestrated liberal trap over the Shirley Sherrod firing: "I hate the fact that these people put me in a bad mood."

[Meet Julio Camara, Mexico City's one and only sewage diver. Camara makes less than $500 a month to dive into sewers to clear blockages and repair infrastructure. Think of him next time you complain about your job. Pic via AP.]

[This young woman dressed up to promote the zombie show The Walking Dead barely looked out of the ordinary at Comic-Con International, the annual geek convention in San Diego which kicked off today. Image via AP]

[Hillary Clinton is speechless when presented with this gemstone mosaic of her and daughter Chelsea by Vietnamese Foreign Minister Pham Gia Khiem in Hanoi today. Along with a tablecloth, it was the country's wedding present to Chelsea. Image via AP]

[A polar bear is photographed in Tacoma, Wash. as it eats a fish and dreams of a time when it will exact its revenge on the hairless apes who imprisoned it. Pic via AP.]

[Flawless Secretary of State Hillary Clinton yuks it up with Afghan President Hamid Karzai while posing for a picture in Kabul today. Image via AP]

So, which finance CEOs snagged invites to tomorrow's financial reform signing ceremony, with the despised Barack Obama? Most of them! Except JP Morgan's Jamie Dimon and Goldman's Lloyd Blankfein, the "cool ones." They'll be alright. [Photo: AP]

Comic, actor, and ghostbuster Bill Murray is interviewed in this month's issue of GQ, where he claims that he thought Garfield was a Coen brothers movie. He also responds to a famous, often-repeated urban legend in which he features prominently.

Every ambitious young person in New York wishes to secure a position as an intern in the court of the city's benevolent philosopher-king, Michael of Bloomberg. But how can one get a City Hall internship? Simply follow our foolproof plan!

[This delightful furry fellow is a Horton Plains slender loris, a species thought to be extinct until it was photographed in Sri Lanka by the Zoological Society of London. Next time let's use red-eye reduction, okay guys? Pic via AP.]

Glenn Beck says that he's been diagnosed with macular dystrophy, and could go blind within a year. "I knew that at 3!" Beck said. "You might go blind someday. You might not." [Deseret News]

The heroic Wobblies of Jersey Shore may have just executed a successful strike: MTV will reportedly make a deal for somewhere near the cast's initial demand of $30,000 an episode. Solidarity forever! Bread and roses! Bread and roses! [THR]