LITTLE ROCK — Beppe Bigazzi, 77, an Italian cooking show host, has been suspended for an unspecified amount of time, said RAI TV, after he extolled the virtues of cat stew, which he called a Tuscan delicacy that he had enjoyed “many times.”
Greg Taylor, 47, has been released from custody after a North Carolina panel determined that he didn’t kill prostitute Jacquetta Thomas in 1991 and said of his exoneration after more than 16 years in prison, “To think all these years what this day would be like; 6,149 days and finally the truth has prevailed.”
Jerry Holters, spokesman for Transportes Aereos Militares, said the Bolivian military-run commercial airline is giving a child born on one of its airliners free domestic flights until she reaches age 21 and a scholarship through high school ata Bolivian air force school.
Ray Gosling, 70, a British journalist who said on the BBC’s Inside Out program that he smothered his lover, who was dying of AIDS, to end his suffering, has been arrested in Nottinghamshire on suspicion of murder.
Robert Ford, a career diplomat and currently the deputy chief of mission in the United States’ embassy in Baghdad, is President Barack Obama’s pick to become the country’s first ambassador to Syria since 2005, the White House announced.
Karen Tarasevich, principal at a West Warwick, R.I., high school, said 46 students who skipped classes for a free “Grand Slam” breakfast at Denny’s have been suspended after an assistant principal caught them at the restaurant.
Thomas Wulff, 28, and Michael Wulff, 27, have been charged with felony assault after New York police say the two Pennsylvania brothers beat up a winery owner who tried to eject them from the Three Brothers Winery in Fayette, N.Y., for drunkenness.
Bishop Richard Chartres
of London is one of several Anglican British bishops urging Christians who are observing Lent to try a day without an iPod or cell phone in a bid to reduce the use of electricity and trim the amount of carbon dioxide entering the atmosphere.
Joshua Alan Wade, 29, was sentenced in Anchorage to 99 years in prison for the August 2007 first-degree murder of Mindy Schloss, a 52-year-old nurse practitioner and his neighbor, and the judge placed a restriction on the Alaska parole board to make Wade serve at least 66 years.
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