LITTLE ROCK — Carly Fiorina, 56, the California Republican challenging U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer, has been admitted to a Los Angeles-area hospital to be treated for an infection associated with her reconstructive surgery after breast cancer, said her chief of staff, adding that doctors expect Fiorina to be back on the campaign trail soon.
Chris Voigt, executive director of the Washington Potato Commission who vowed to eat only potatoes for 60 days to show that they are nutritious, told the Tri-City Herald that he wishes he would have set a goal of one month instead of two because he misses other foods.
Makeda Jahnesta Marley, 29, the youngest child of reggae legend Bob Marley, has been given seven years of probation for growing marijuana in her Philadelphia-area home.
Avi Dichter, Israel’s former internal-security chief who is now a member of the parliament, won’t be attending a peace conference in Spain, his aide said, after the Spanish government could not guarantee Dichter wouldn’t be arrested on war-crimes charges stemming from a 2002 airstrike that killed a Hamas commander and 14 civilians in the Gaza Strip.
Feris Jones, the New York City police officer who stopped an armed holdup in a salon where she was getting her hair done while off duty, has been promoted to detective.
George Soros, the billionaire financier and liberal activist who has long supported medical marijuana and decriminalizing the drug for personal use, has donated $1 million to support efforts to legalize marijuana in California.
Shirley Ann Smith, 74, was in serious condition at a Pascagoula, Miss., hospital after the Alabama woman spent two nights with her hand pinned under her van’s tire after the vehicle rolled into a drainage ditch.
President Barack Obama
has filled out an absentee ballot to vote in his home state of Illinois, said White House spokesman Robert Gibbs, adding that the president voted for Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn, a Democrat who is running for re-election, and Democrat Alexi Giannoulias, who is running for Obama’s former Senate seat.
Michael Bloomberg, the mayor of New York City, who two years ago fought to have the city’s term-limits law extended so he could run for a third term to guide the city through the national financial crisis, said he supports a ballot measure to set it back to two terms.
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