LITTLE ROCK — John Potter, 55, postmaster general, who took over the position in 2001 four months before anthrax laced letters killed two postal workers, will retire in December after more than three decades with the Postal Service, the agency said in a statement, adding that Potter will be succeeded by Patrick R. Donahoe, the deputy postmaster general and chief operating officer.
Christopher Niter, 25, has been charged with two counts of aggravated abuse of children under 6 after police say his nephews, ages 2 and 5, were injured in a Memphis apartment fire after Niter left the two alone.
Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr ., 45, an Illinois Democrat, said in a statement that he would not run for mayor of Chicago in the forthcoming election to succeed Mayor Richard Daley.
Edwin Fry, 73, was jailed after Hydro, Okla., police said that instead of paying a $100 fine for letting his poodle run around without a leash, he tried to break the dog, named Buddy Tough, out of the pound using bolt cutters.
Yoo Chong-ha, chief of Seoul’s Red Cross, said a freighter carrying 5,000 tons of rice was headed to North Korean flood victims, adding, “We’re unconditionally sending this with our brotherly love.”
Luigi Bobbio, mayor of Italy’s Castellammare di Stabia, said he wants to ban football games in public parks and squares, blasphemy out loud, and “very skimpy clothes,” adding that miniskirts and other provocative outfits will still be allowed as long as they are not too revealing.
Dr. Harry Hunt
faces aggravated-assault charges in Columbia, Miss., after police said the physician attacked a nurse with a knife in the emergency room and apparently injured himself instead of her.
Ziad Bandak, a Palestinian official, said the government is planning to renovate Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity, an ambitious project that he expected to take several years and cost millions of dollars.
Khandi Busby, who threw her 6- and 8-year-old sons off a Dallas overpass, then jumped off the 20-foot-high bridge, has been found innocent by reason of insanity of attempted murder and injury to a child and ordered into a state mental institution.
Charles Alan Wilson, 64, of Selah, Wash., who admitted leaving threatening phone calls to Democratic Sen. Patty Murray, has been sentenced to a year and a day in prison.
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