Shock jock seeks sheriff’s job

Tampa, Fla. — An out-of-work shock jock is seeking a new job: sheriff.

Bubba the Love Sponge Clem, who was fired by radio giant Clear Channel Communications in February after it decided his raunchy radio show didn’t fit its standards, will be the lone Democrat on the ballot for Pinellas County sheriff.

His name will appear on the ballot as “Bubba Clem.” His given name was Todd Clem before it was legally changed to reflect his on-air moniker.

“For over a decade I’ve been the voice of the people,” Clem said Friday at a news conference announcing his candidacy. “Now, I want to give the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office back to the people.”

Prince’s plane had ‘near miss’

London — A Royal Air Force plane carrying Prince Charles was involved in a “near miss” incident with a passenger jet earlier this year, air traffic controllers said Friday.

The National Air Traffic Service said neither plane had been in danger when the prince’s jet neared the flight path of a Heathrow-bound Airbus A321 over southern England on March 24.

The service said both pilots filed an “air proximity report” after the incident, which occurred at about 11,500 feet.

It said an air traffic controller had acted quickly and that the planes had remained 3.1 nautical miles apart horizontally and 900 feet apart vertically.

It said the Independent U.K. Airprox Board was investigating whether there had been a risk of collision.

Creator of Internet knighted

London — The father of the World Wide Web was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II and said his revolutionary invention was the result of being in the right place at the right time.

“I suppose it’s amazing when you think how many things people get involved in that don’t work. It’s very heartening that this one actually did,” said Tim Berners-Lee, who was accompanied by his wife and two children on Friday.

While working at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory near Geneva in the late 1980s, Berners-Lee developed the architecture of the Internet — the Web system of servers and browsers — which he distributed free of charge.