8 at 8: Jennifer Lopez, crucifixion nails and more stuff you might have missed today

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on April 13, 2011 at 8:00 PM

1. Jennifer Lopez has been named "World's Most Beautiful Woman" by People magazine.

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2. St. Bernard "spillionaires" made out like bandits after the oil spill, the Washington Post reports.

3. French Quarter Festival attendance hits a record 533,000, producers say.

4. A runner tells his story: Why he runs the Crescent City Classic.

5. Another air traffic controller falls asleep on the job, this time in Reno, Nev.

6. Big blaze consumes abandoned apartment building in Gentilly.

7. A cancer survivor pays off her medical bills by making jewelry out of old pills.

8. A controversial filmmaker says he may have found the nails used to crucify Jesus.