LITTLE ROCK — Gov. Jerry Brown, D-Calif., has ordered state agencies to stop buying giveaway items, to help eliminate a $25 billion budget deficit, saying, “Not a cent of taxpayer money should be spent on flashlights, ashtrays or other unnecessary items, most of which likely end up in landfills.”
Terri Ford
of Minneapolis is the proud, new owner of Guess, the 5-month-old schnauzer-poodle mix that made headlines when the pooch was found by postal workers at the beginning of a trip through the mail to Georgia that likely would have killed the dog.
Estibalis Chavez, 19, has camped outside the British Embassy in Mexico City for nine days and went on a hunger strike in hopes of obtaining an invitation to the April 29 wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton in London.
Xue Feng, 46, an American geologist, saw a Beijing appeals court uphold his eight-year prison sentence for obtaining information on the Chinese oil industry, data that he and his lawyer contend weren’t classified until after his arrest.
Ramsal Alli, spokesman for Sacred Heart Church in Georgetown, Guyana, said the 1860s church, destroyed by fire six years ago and once used by U.S. cult leader Jim Jones, who in 1978 led more than 900 of his followers to commit suicide, will be rebuilt.
Gary Ridgway, 62, who is already in a Washington prison for 48 murders, has pleaded guilty in Seattle to his 49th, that of a 20-yearold prostitute named Becky Marrero, who was last seen in December 1982.
Li Fuyan, 30, underwent a successful surgery in China’s Yunnan province to remove a 4-inch knife from his skull, where it supposedly had been stuck for four years after he was stabbed in the jaw by a robber and the blade broke off inside his head without anyone realizing it, hospital officials said.
Danyella Higgins, 19, was arrested in San Bernardino County, Calif., on a charge of cruelty to a child after police say she put duct tape on the hands, feet and mouth of her 2-year-old son.
Capt. Cliff Arnette, spokesman for the sheriff’s office in Dillon County, S.C., said Sirlinda Hayes, 66, was killed by a pair of Rottweilers that neighbors said had never acted aggressively toward humans before, adding that the dogs also turned on their owner when he went to help Hayes, putting him in the hospital.
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