LITTLE ROCK — Erich Leitenberger, a spokesman for Vienna’s archdiocese, said church officials stopped the bidding on a confessional that was advertised on eBay as ideal for conversion into a oneperson sauna, a small bar or a children’s playhouse, saying that auctioning “objects that were used for dispensing the sacraments is not acceptable.”
Brian Dean Miller, 43, has pleaded guilty in federal court in Dallas to posting on the Internet a threat to kill President Barack Obama.
Harry Mendoza, mayor of Gallup, N.M., who faced misdemeanor assault-andbattery charges stemming from a fistfight with Gallup Independent Publisher Bob Zollinger, has pleaded no contest to voluntarily engaging in a fight in a public place and was sentenced to 182 days of probation and ordered to make a $100 donation to the city’s crimestopper program.
George McGovern, a Democrat who represented South Dakota in the Senate from 1963-81 and lost the 1972 presidential election to Richard Nixon, celebrated his 88th birthday by going skydiving in Florida.
Constance McMillen, 18, has agreed to a $35,000 settlement from Mississippi’s Itawamba County School District in her discrimination suit over the school’s decision to cancel its prom rather than allow the lesbian to attend with her girlfriend.
Jeffery Emerson Gray, 58, was arrested and held at the Indio, Calif., jail for investigation of robbery and assault with a deadly weapon after police say the homeless man stabbed two people at a convenience store in a failed bid to steal their Pekingese.
Chris Wuebben, a paramedic who recently returned from Iraq and is working as a pizza deliveryman in Lakewood, Colo., used CPR and revived customer George Linn, who was in cardiac arrest when Wuebben knocked on his door and who remains hospitalized in intensive care.
Jacob Duane Teehee, 21, and David Lee Shrock, 39, both of whom wanted to become Oklahoma City police officers, were arrested after policemen conducting background checks discovered the two had outstanding warrants.
Kelly Perkins, 48, an American heart transplant recipient who climbs mountains to demonstrate the power of organ donation, and her team turned back on their attempt to climb Mount Kenya’s tallest peak, Batia, because of cold weather and loose rocks on their route.
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