Rah, Rah, Raw

About 20 girls at Salinas (Calif.) High School staged a protest at school after they heard the school’s dress code banned skimpy thong underwear. “We wear thongs!” the demonstrators chanted — until principal Joseph Pawlick issued a written statement to say the school’s dress code does not ban thong underwear, and never has. (AP) ...Ah, the wonderful power of rumor.