LITTLE ROCK — Carlos Boc, 29, was arrested in Framingham, Mass., on identity fraud charges after police say the illegal alien from Guatemala went to a police station, told officers that he had stolen another man's identity and asked to be deported because he could no longer make ends meet in America.
Michelle Bachelet, Chile's president, celebrated her 58th birthday by dancing a traditional Chilean cueca, the country's national dance, with a library worker at the inauguration of a library in Santiago.
John DeCando, an animal control officer in Paterson, N.J., said "police did a fantastic job corralling" a 1,400-pound bull that escaped while being unloaded from a truck at a slaughterhouse and took a several-block run down city streets.
Raymond Vance Fulkerson, 63, a University of Northern Colorado theater professor who faces sexual misconduct charges over accusations that he videotaped guests at his home with a hidden bathroom camera, has resigned his post at the university.
Army Gen. Walter Sharp
, the top U.S. commander in Korea, told reporters in Washington that North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, who reportedly suffered a stroke in August 2008, appears healthy and "in charge."
Antonio Judd, who stole a hot dog from another man sitting under a tree in a park and flashed what appeared to be a gun, was sentenced in Worcester, Mass., to 18 months in prison.
Michelle Obama
told Prevention magazine that women need to learn to put themselves higher on their priority lists, adding, "I can make choices that make me happy, and it will ripple and benefit my kids, my husband and my physical health."
Brian Randone, 45, who appeared on the Fox special The Sexiest Bachelor in America in 2000 but did not win, pleaded innocent in Pasadena, Calif., to murder in the beating and choking death of his girlfriend, Felicia Lee, a former adult movie actress.
Edward Cox, a Manhattan lawyer who is married to former President Richard Nixon's daughter, Tricia, was named New York's Republican chairman.
Todd Marcum, a Salem, Ore., man who used a shock collar for dogs on his four children, ages 3 to 9, has been sentenced to three years of supervised probation and is prohibited from having contact with children without approval.
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