LITTLE ROCK — Sen. Robert C. Byrd, 91, the longest-serving senator in history, has been released from the Washington-area hospital where he spent two days after tests uncovered an elevated white-blood-cell count, his office said, adding that the West Virginia Democrat will continue receiving antibiotics and recuperating at home before returning to Congress.
Anthony Brown, 53, whose son Trevor Brown, 19, had been arrested on suspicion of drunken driving, was jailed on the same charge after bailing out his son, the Nebraska State Patrol said.
Spike Mendelsohn, a former contestant on Bravo's Top Chef, unveiled the "Michelle Melt" turkey burger, which includes herbs found in the White House garden started by Michelle Obama, at Good Stuff Eatery in Washington and said he will donate the proceeds to aid the homeless.
Phillip Arnold Paul, an insane killer who walked away from a county fair field trip arranged by his Washington state mental hospital, said his escape wasn't planned but occurred when he saw an opportunity at the Spokane County fairgrounds and took it.
Mao Xinyu, a Chinese military historian and Mao Zedong's only grandson, has become the youngest general in the People's Liberation Army at age 39, the state-run Changjiang Daily reported.
Alan Jones, 28, a Palermo, N.Y., man who prosecutors said used a rope to strangle his 11-year-old stepsister, was convicted of second-degree murder in the death of Erin Maxwell, who also was starved by her parents and lived in a home filled with animal feces and rotting garbage.
Gordon Brown, Britain's prime minister who lost the use of one eye in a sporting accident when he was a teenager, dismissed reports that he is slowly going blind and told NBC Nightly News anchorman Brian Williams his "sight is not at all deteriorating."
Ted G. Loza, 44, the chief of staff for Washington, D.C., Councilman Jim Graham, pleaded innocent to bribery charges over allegations he promoted legislation that would require taxi drivers to pay a monthly fee to operate in exchange forcash, the use of vehicles and trips.
Peter McParlin
of Britain's Prison Officers Association, said the Verne prison in Dorset, England, has banned inmates from using hand-sanitizing gel after discovering the prisoners were using it to make illicit alcohol by mixing it with fruit, water and sugar.
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