As people hit the road for summer vacation, there's a problem at one major destination: Yosemite National Park. Scalpers started snatching up cheap campsite reservations online and selling them for as much as six times their face value. Now, the National Park Service is cracking down.

If you show up to Yosemite to camp without a reservation, your first stop should be the campground office. You probably won't get a campsite on the spot, but you will get wait-listed. And in the afternoon, park ranger Kirk Robinson hands out any sites that come open.

Yes we do have a thing for great animal escape videos. This one needs no explanation:

h/t: Ezra Klein

Tonight’s (Thursday) the night Lexington-Fayette Urban County Council members may attempt to override budget vetoes issued by Mayor Jim Gray.  The mayor line item vetoed three areas of the council approved budget, including funds for disc golf facilities and a half-dozen jobs in the city's communications office.  The mayor also imposed a ten percent funding cut on some 26 outside agencies that provide city services.  David Barberie (BAR-ber-ee) with the city’s law department, Tuesday explained to council members their options.

Workers at a power plant in Hadera, Israel are battling a sticky problem: Israel Electric Corp. is warning that jellyfish could shut down a turbine plant and cause rolling blackouts in Israeli cities.

The turbines are cooled using seawater and as the plant sucks in water the jellyfish come with it. Over the past three days, workers say they've removed about 100 tons of jellyfish from the filters.

MSNBC reports:

In the West, HIV and breast-feeding are generally considered incompatible.

HIV-positive women are told to avoid breast-feeding all together, to give their infants the greatest chance of staying HIV-free. Not so in the developing world.

In countries that lack clean water and an affordable, reliable supply of infant formula, the World Health Organization recommends that HIV-positive mothers exclusively breast-feed their infants for the first six months.

A report released, yesterday, by Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal puts Atlanta Public Schools in the harshest of light. The report details a school system fraught with unethical behavior that included teachers and principals changing wrong answers on students' answer sheets and an environment where cheating for better test scores was encouraged and whistle blowers were punished.

In a small room at police headquarters in Dallas, Texas, a police officer and the eyewitness to a minor crime recently sat down together to consider six photographs in a photo lineup.

Eyewitness identifications like this happen every day in America, and on the surface, it is a straight-forward transaction. The witness looks at the pictures. The witness picks a person from the photos. Or the witness doesn't.

Even before Facebook said it would add Skype video and group chats, it was challenging enough for doctors to navigate the brave new world of social networking.

Two years ago, Dr. Gabriel Bosslet received two friend requests from patients on his Facebook page. "I was kind of taken aback by it. I wasn't sure how to respond to it," he says.

The mayor of Bowling Green, Kentucky believes the two Iraqi nationals being held in his city on terrorism charges are secure and American courts can handle terror suspects. On Tuesday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., told U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder in a letter that the decision to treat Waad Ramadan Alwan and Mohanad Shareef Hammadi as civilian defendants in federal court was “ill-advised.” However, the city commissioners disagreed and voted by a three-to-two margin against a resolution asking Holder to move the trial.

After spending 40 years at Louisville’s Speed Art Museum, a stolen 14th century work is going home. The Speed Art Museum bought the piece from a New York Gallery in 1973 for 38 thousand dollars, not realizing the Italian art was stolen from a home in Italy two years earlier.