Flight Path: Investigators say “a noise was heard in the last moments of the cockpit voice recording of the Russian Metrojet charter that went down in the Sinai desert. They have yet to analyze the noise and determine what it was.

The flight data recorder says the plane was traveling at 281 knots with the autopilot engaged when it broke up in mid air.

With commercial flights cancelled in and out of Sharm el-Shaikh airport in Egypt, thousands of departing tourists have been forced to leave without their checked bags, now amounting to about 120 tons of luggage going nowhere.

Only Joking: Anti-racism protesters picketed in New York last night outside the NBC studios where presidential candidate Donald Trump hosted Saturday Night Live. Inside, Trump’s opening monologue was interrupted by a heckler who shouted, “Racist!.” The heckler was comedian Larry David, who then said, “I heard if I yelled that they’d give me $5,000”. Trump replied, “As a businessman, I can fully respect that.”

World: Voters in Myanmar went to the polls today in what was hoped to be the first open and honest election in that country after 50 years of military rule. The expected winner is opposition politician and Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, who, under a rigged constitution written by the Army generals, will have to win two-thirds of the seats in parliament to have a controlling majority.

Sales Pitch: Volkswagen is expected to announce tomorrow that it will offer $1,250 in cash and credit to owners of the company’s diesel cars in the US. Those are the cars with computers designed to defeat emissions tests while spewing polluted exhaust. One report says Volkswagen will offer a $500 cash card and $750 in credits at a dealership.

The problem for owners of a half million Volkswagen and Audi diesels is that the resale value of their cars took a dive when the defective exhaust software was revealed. Lawsuits are brewing and Volkswagen might require owners to give up their right to sue if they take the money.

Naked News: Administrators at the Cañon City, Colorado high school were shocked to learn that about 100 of their students were involved in swapping naked pictures of each other. The student with the biggest picture collection was known as “the pimp of pictures.” The kids were hiding the pictures using a smartphone app that looks like a calculator and what parent would check their kid’s calculator?

Sexting among teenagers is a known phenomenon, but Cañon City High seems to have taken it to a new level.

The high school football team appeared to be at the center of it all. Administrators benched the team and forced it to forfeit its last game.

No criminal charges have been filed, in part because it’s a confusing situation. The kids in the pictures … the “victims” … and the kids who received them are mostly minors. But some parents have expressed frustration that they told the school this was going on and nothing was done for years.

Love Me Do: A 1962 Gibson acoustic guitar stolen from Beatle John Lennon in 1963 sold at auction yesterday for $2.4 million, one of the highest prices ever for a piece of rock memorabilia. The guitar had been used to record “P.S. I Love You” and “Love Me Do.” A San Diego man bought the guitar for a couple of hundred dollars in the 1970s and held onto it, not knowing what it was. A friend recognized it from a picture in a book. The proceeds of the sale will be split with the Spirit Foundation, a charity established by Lennon and Yoko Ono.

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