World: Pakistan is on the brink of its first peaceful and democratic turnover of government. Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who was once deposed and exiled by the military, appears to have won enough votes to form a new government. His primary opposition was the handsome former cricket star Imran Khan, who ran as an anti-corruption crusader. Despite the country’s open election, the Interior Ministry ordered the New York Times’ bureau chief out of the country without explanation.

➢A plague of billions of locusts is eating crops and fields, threatening the Island of Madagascar’s 13 million residents with famine. It could take three years to bring the locusts under control.

➢Turkey says it will do what’s necessary to protect itself after a double car bombing in a town on the Syrian border killed at least 43 people. Turkey, which supports the opposition in the Syrian civil war, suspects that Syrian intelligence is responsible for the bombs.

National: A task force in Newtown, Ct. was unable to find a suitable location for a new elementary school. They decided to tear down the Sandy Hook school and build a new one where 20 children and six faculty were massacred last December. It will cost more than $40 million.

Juice: OJ Simpson goes to court Monday to argue that he should be freed from a Nevada prison. Acquitted of murdering his ex wife, Simpson ended up in prison for an armed robbery in which he tried to take back some football memorabilia. In a Las Vegas hotel room. He claims he had a bad lawyer. Simpson was sentenced to 33 years in the slam and will be 70 before he’s eligible for parole, unless he succeeds in Monday’s hearing.

The Obit Page: Malcolm Shabazz, 28, the troubled grandson of Malcolm X, died this past week of injuries sustained in a beating in Mexico City. His body was found at 3:30 AM in the street in a busy nightclub district. When he was 12 Shabazz pleaded guilty to starting an apartment fire in New York that killed his grandmother Betty, who was Malcolm X’s widow.

The Eyeball Biz: In the closing days of the television season NBC’s sitcoms have splattered like bugs on a windshield. NBC cancelled five shows, only one first-season show surviving. All together the nets cancelled 18 shows. Low ratings and competition from the cables will likely depress prices during the coming “upfronts” advertising sales season.

Conspiracy: A recent poll shows 59% of Americans believe the assassination of President Kennedy was a conspiracy and Lee Oswald did not act alone. Just 24% think Oswald did it himself. Three years after the assassination 36% thought Oswald had no help.

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