LITTLE ROCK — Dean Allen, a South Carolina Republican, kicked off his campaign for adjutant general of the state's National Guard with what he called a "machine-gun social," where attendees paid $25 for barbecue, a clip of bullets for target practice and a ticket for a raffle of a semiautomatic AK-47.
Alla Ali Bin Ali Ahmed, 27, who won his release from the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detention facility in a May court ruling, was sent back to his home country of Yemen, the U.S. Justice Department said.
Jane Bockstruck
of Swanzey, N.H., celebrated her 92nd birthday by tandem sky-diving from a plane at 13,000 feet and said on the ground that she doesn't know what overcame her when she decided to take the parachute jump and doesn't remember jumping from the plane.
New York Gov. David Paterson, 55, told NBC's Meet the Press that he'll campaign to keep his job next year, disregarding pressure from other Democrats, including President Barack Obama, who want him to step aside.
Milton Mbhele, 44, a municipal manager in Indaka, South Africa, was married in a traditional Zulu ceremony to four brides, each donning a white gown and receiving a ring and a kiss from the groom at a ceremony attended by hundreds.
Garrison Keillor, 67, launched a new season of his popular public radio show A Prairie Home Companion with a live broadcast from the Fitzgerald Theater in downtown St. Paul, Minn., his first show since suffering a minor stroke nearly three weeks ago.
Tawny Kitaen, an actress most famous for appearing in 1980s music videos for future husband David Coverdale's band Whitesnake and recently for her stint on Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew, was arrested by Newport Beach, Calif., police and charged with driving under the influence.
Ozzie Knezovich, sheriff of Spokane County, Wash., said he plans to bill Washington state for the $37,000 cost of hunting down an insane killer who walked away from an Eastern State Hospital field trip to the Spokane County Interstate Fair.
Carolyn Savage, 40, of Sylvania, Ohio, was praised by Paul and Shannon Morell of suburban Detroit, who said in a statement that they would be "eternally grateful" to her because she went through with the birth of their son after a fertility clinic implanted her with the wrong embryo.
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