LITTLE ROCK — Larry Legro
of Sun Prairie, Wis., is this year’s World Champion Liar, winning the Burlington Liars Club’s award for this line: “I just realized how bad the economy really is. I recently bought a new toaster oven and as a complimentary gift, I was given a bank.”
Gregory J. Oras, 37, faces charges of misusing the 911 system and battery of a law enforcement officer after he called 911 three times claiming he had a broken nose, bleeding ears and was being shot at, when he really wanted a ride to another bar, said Oldsmar, Fla., police, adding that Oras kicked a sheriff ’s deputy during his arrest.
Rand Paul, son of former GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul, has entered Kentucky’s U.S. Senate race, seeking the seat being vacated by fellow Republican Jim Bunning.
Ben Southall, 34, who won a contest to blog for six months about life on Australia’s Hamilton Island, wrote he is feeling fine after being stung by the venomous Irukandji jellyfish, adding, “My slight knock was enough to tell me that it’s not something to be messed around with.”
Duke Lawrence Watrous, 36, was charged in Denton County, Texas, with manslaughter, criminal negligence and tampering with evidence after authorities say he fatally shot his 10-year-old daughter while recklessly handling a gun.
Bernard Madoff, 71, who is serving a 150-year sentence for cheating thousands of investors out of billions of dollars, has returned to his cell after spending more than a week in his North Carolina prison’s hospital unit, where his lawyer said he was treated for dizziness and high blood pressure.
Spc. Osvaldo Hernandez, a former paratrooper in the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division whose 2002 gun possession conviction barred him from joining the New York Police Department, has been pardoned by Gov. David Paterson, a Democrat.
Mordechai Vanunu, who leaked details and pictures of an Israeli nuclear plant to the Sunday Times of London in 1986, has been put under house arrest after police say he met with “a number of foreigners,” a violation of his 2004 release from an Israeli prison.
Rep. George Radanovich, a California Republican whose wife, Ethie, has been fighting ovarian cancer for nearly three years, said that he will not seek re-election to Congress next year because “my family needs me.”
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