If it has escaped your attention this morning, today is Friday the 13th. Under normal circumstances, it would be just another Friday the 13th. You might even drive more safely because you're so aware of it. However, coupled with the fact that nowadays comedians bring you more real news than news channels and the most famous family in America is not the First Family, but the Kardashians, we really wonder if the world isn't actually ending this year. Is it just coincidence that the year the Mayans said the world would end is a year that starts off with the 13th day on a Friday? With that in mind, we took a closer look at why today might truly be the beginning of the end... More»

• Despite formally pledging to make such information and statistics public, new findings show the administration of Mexican president Felipe Calderon and attorney general tried cover up the 2011 death toll of Mexico's bloody drug war. [LATimes]
• So a Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputy smuggled heroin hidden in a burrito into a courthouse jail... [KABC]

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• Oh you flyover states never cease to amaze with your absolute insanity and ability to work Satan into any conversation: yesterday someone defaced a North Carolina church sign to read "Beyonce had her baby. Satan is on Earth." What did Blue Ivy ever do to you? [TMZ]
• As exit polls reflected, GOP presidential front-runner Mitt Romney wins the New Hampshire primary in an "across-the-board sweep." [LATimes]

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• While in town filming a movie, Denzel Washington goes clubbing in Atlanta in a Nike tracksuit and New Balances, then buys his party 15 bottles of booze for a $5,000 bar tab. [TMZ]
• After nixing the NBA preseason, commish David Stern cancels the first two weeks of the NBA's regular season as players and management are unable to meet each other in the middle on a new labor agreement. [KTLA]

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