LITTLE ROCK — Scott MacNichol, 30, said he met up with an 8-foot porbeagle shark while scuba diving near Eastport, Maine, and the shark mistook his camera equipment for food, adding: “He took a couple of bites at the camera. When he did that I was pretty much petrified. If you watch the video, you can hear me screaming underwater.”
Gilbert Grosvenor, 79, is retiring at the end of the year as chairman of the National Geographic Society’s board of trustees, The Washington Post reported, ending 122 consecutive years of stewardship of the society by his family.
Sandra Day O’Connor, a retired Supreme Court justice who supports a Nevada ballot measure that would change the way state judges are selected, said she didn’t give permission for a statement she made to be used in 50,000 recorded telephone calls, which awakened many Nevadans after midnight Monday when the robo calls mistakenly went out in the middle of the night instead of at midday.
Phylida Edwards, 39, has been charged in St. Louis County, Mo., with armed criminal action and discharging a firearm at a motor vehicle after authorities say she shot in the direction of two men who were repossessing her van.
Carly Fiorina, 56, the former Hewlett-Packard Co. chief executive who is challenging California’s Sen. Barbara Boxer for the Democrat’s seat, is expected back on the campaign trail today, her chief of staff said, after the Republican was hospitalized with an infection related to reconstructive surgery for breast cancer.
Jock Stirrup, the head of Britain’s armed forces, will step down this week and assume an appointed seat in the House of Lords.
Robert Park, 28, a Korean-American missionary held captive in North Korea for six weeks after illegally crossing into the country late last year, said he was beaten by guards and abused by his interrogators.
Cpl. Jose Lopez of the Magnolia, Texas, police is being praised as a hero after he helped a 26-year-old woman, who faces a drivingwhile-intoxicated charge, from her car that was stopped on railroad tracks a minute before the vehicle was hit by a train.
Liu Xia, the wife of jailed Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo, has invited 143 Chinese activists and celebrities to go to the Nobel awards ceremony in Oslo on her behalf because Chinese officials are unlikely to allow her to attend the Dec. 10 event.
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