Hey Scott!
I just saw this article on CNN and thought it might be an interesting addition to the news story ideas.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/04/23/ny.la.taxi.ride/index.html?hpt=C2

Key notes:
-Plan to pay a cab driver $5,000 to bring him and his friend Dan Wuebben from the East Coast to the West Coast in one trip.
-Mohammed Alam, the cab driver who left his crying family behind to endure several sleepless nights with a pair of strangers. But he made it, with a little help from his new friends.

Surely someone is working on this. I mean, the title is even there:

The Bling Ring, sometimes referred to as the "Hollywood Hills Burglar Bunch", "The Burglar Bunch", or the "Hollywood Hills Burglars", were a group, mostly of teenagers based in and around Calabasas, California, who burgled the homes of several celebrities over a period believed to have been from around October 2008 through August 2009. In total, their activities resulted in the theft of about $3 million in cash and belongings, most of it from Paris Hilton, whom they robbed several times. However, over 50 homes were reportedly targeted for potential burglary. Nancy Jo Sales, who covered the story for Vanity Fair, called the events "completely unprecedented in the history of Hollywood".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bling_Ring

I saw this story as well. It's great. Didn't Val Kilmer have something similar all over him in the Salton Sea?