LITTLE ROCK — Vladimir Putin, the Russian prime minister, who was in Ukraine for talks with the country’s new Russiafriendly leadership, leaped on a Harley-Davidson and roared into an international biker convention on the Crimea peninsula, where he described the motorbike as “the most democratic form of transport.”
Sterling Hospedales, 27, an Army sergeant from Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state, pleaded guilty in federal court to sex trafficking of a child and attempted sex trafficking of a child over allegations that he set up one child in a Lakewood, Wash., apartment to work as a prostitute and had a second child flown in from Wyoming to do the same.
Capt. Brian Bews
suffered a sore back and scraped-up arms after ejecting from his Canadian air force jet before it crashed and exploded in a ball of flames during a training run for a weekend international air show in Alberta.
Samuel Sneller, 20, of Wooster, Ohio, is charged with criminal damaging, arson and desecration over accusations that he set fire to 19 U.S. flags planted around his neighborhood over the Memorial Day weekend.
Gordon Brown, the former British prime minister who lost power in May, told the BBC in Uganda in his first interview since his ouster that he’s looking forward to the future after his Labor party’s election loss and is “very cheerful” about working as a back-bench lawmaker.
Sen. Tom Coburn, ROkla., who had been a key behind-the-scenes counselor to Sen. John Ensign before the Nevada Republican publicly admitted an affair with a part-time staff member, is providing information to federal authorities investigating whether Ensign broke the law in trying to keep the affair secret.
Isaac Baichu, a former immigration agent, was sentenced in New York to at least 18 months in prison for threatening to block a woman’s citizenship application unless she gave in to his sexual demands.
Virginia A. Phillips, a federal judge in California who was appointed by President Bill Clinton, was asked by the Republican gay-rights organization the Log Cabin Republicans to issue an injunction halting the military’s ban on openly homosexual servicemen.
Allen Wayne Porter, 39, of Houston was released from prison after an investigation by the district attorney’s office found he was locked up 19 years for a rape he didn’t commit.
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