Tattle tales.

* Those who can't do, teach: Immigration authorities busted Alejandro Llinas, publisher of Mundo Latino, at Wilmington's Gran Fiesta Latina, where the Spanish-language newspaper sponsored a workshop on how to get work visas. Seems Llinas, a Colombian, didn't have one.

* Maybe something with cross-beam suspension: A coalition of religious and environmental groups aired TV commercials in North Carolina, Iowa, Indiana and Missouri asking: What would Jesus drive? The answer: not a gas-guzzling SUV. No way. He would need room for 12 passengers.

* Alien abduction: When the Fayetteville Chamber of Commerce domain name, www.fayettevile.com, lapsed last fall, a group of Russian spacecraft enthusiasts bought it and posted a rambling message with an animated flying saucer. President George Breece won't say how much the chamber paid to bring the Web site back to Earth.

* The buck -- and truck -- stops here: Nash County will spend nearly $1 million to run a sewer line to attract what Commissioner Billy Morgan calls a state-of-the-art truck stop with "a high-quality restaurant on the level of Cracker Barrel."

* No more Shinn digs: The Charlotte homeless shelter he helped found will no longer bear Hornets owner George Shinn's name. It's not in protest of his moving the NBA team to New Orleans. Shinn's foundation has quit giving...