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against NBC's Fallon and ABC's Kimmel, remains to be seen.
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• 8. 'MILWAUKEE MADE THIS BEER WHAT IT IS'
• Pabst Blue Ribbon would leave Los Angeles and return to its Wisconsin birthplace, if a group of residents succeed in a long-shot effort.
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• 9. ONCE FUTURISTIC, NOW RUSTED RELICS
• Nearly 50 years after the 1964 World's Fair in New York City, there's debate about whether the decaying towers that remain should be restored, or torn down.
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• 10. PAULA DEEN'S RESTAURANT CLOSES
• A popular Georgia restaurant at the center of a lawsuit that left the reputation of the famed Southern celebrity cook in shambles has reportedly closed.
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AP News in Brief
2 ships carry out hunt for missing jet's black boxes in remote stretch of Indian Ocean
• PERTH, Australia (AP) -- Two ships with sophisticated equipment for searching underwater zeroed in Friday on a remote stretch of the Indian Ocean in a desperate hunt for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet's black boxes, whose batteries will soon run out.
• An arduous weeks-long hunt has not turned up a single piece of wreckage, which could have led the searchers to the plane and eventually to its black boxes containing key information about the flight. But the searchers have apparently decided to make a direct attempt to find the devices, whose batteries last about a month.
• Two ships with equipment that can hear the black boxes' pings were slowly making their way along a 240-kilometer (150-mile) route that investigators are hoping may be close to the spot Flight 370 entered the water after it vanished March 8 on a flight from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Beijing.
• But the head of the joint agency coordinating the search acknowledged that the search area was essentially just a best guess -- and noted that time was running out for search crews to find the coveted data recorders.
• "The locater beacon will last about a month before it ceases its transmissions -- so we're now getting pretty close to the time when it might expire," Angus Houston said.
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