LITTLE ROCK — Sean O’Keefe, the former NASA chief who was one of four people to survive a plane crash in Alaska that killed five, including former GOP Sen. Ted Stevens, told NBC’s Today show that he regained consciousness after the crash to find 86-yearold Stevens dead in a nearby seat and that “the degree of separation between survival and not was a fraction of what you’d ever imagine, and it could have been anybody.”
Troy Dale West, a white man accused of assaulting Tasha Hill, a black Army reservist, in front of her daughter and yelling racial slurs at a Georgia Cracker Barrel, has been sentenced to six months in prison.
Terry Jones, a Florida pastor who threatened to burn the Koran on the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, picked up a 2011 Hyundai Accent, which Brad Benson, a New Jersey car dealer and former NFL tackle, had promised to give Jones if he would agree to never burn the Muslim holy book, then donated the car to a charity that helps abused women.
Denis McDonough, one of President Barack Obama’s national security aides, has been promoted to deputy national security adviser.
Glenn D. Shriver, 28, of Michigan pleaded guilty to conspiring to provide national defense information to Chinese intelligence officers, admitting that he accepted $70,000 from spies and attempted to secure jobs with the CIA and the U.S. Foreign Service to gain access to government secrets.
Joe Daniels, president of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, told the New York Post that someone stuffed $10,000 in cash into a donation box at the memorial preview site.
Peter Erlinder, a Minnesota law professor jailed in Rwanda earlier this year, said “no doubt” he’d be killed if he returns to a Rwandan court to face charges of denying that country’s 1994 genocide, but he will follow the advice of his attorneys.
Tech. Sgt. David Gutierrez, 43, a Kansas airman accused of having unprotected sex without telling his partners that he was HIVpositive, will face a general court-martial, the Air Force said.
Steven Nicholson, 27, pleaded innocent in Allen Park, Mich., to murder charges in the drownings of his children, 15-month-old Ella Stafford and 13-monthold Johnathan Sanderlin, saying after he was arraigned that “I didn’t hurt my babies.
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