LITTLE ROCK — Susan Guy, a Domino’s pizza delivery driver in Memphis who is credited with saving a customer who’d fallen at home, told NBC’s Today show that she became concerned when she found out Jean Wilson had gone three days without ordering her daily pizza, adding that she suspected something was wrong in part because her own mother had twice fallen and been unable to get up.
President Barack Obama
awarded six Purple Hearts during a visit to the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md.
Pam Simon, 63, a congressional staff member who was shot in the chest and wrist in the attack that left six dead and 13 wounded, including her boss, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, has returned to work at the Arizona Democrat’s Tucson office.
Irwin Krakow, 58, who was arrested in Millville, N.J., and charged with shoplifting, told police that he had lost a bet and had two ways to pay up: either steal $50 worth of merchandise from Wal-Mart or run naked through the street.
Rep. David Wu, D-Ore., who apologized for “unprofessional and inappropriate” behavior that included sending pictures of himself wearing a tiger costume to staff members during his 2010 campaign, said he has no intention of resigning.
Andrea Farmer, a spokesman for the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex near Orlando, Fla., said two workers were seriously injured outside the United States Astronaut Hall of Fame after coming in contact with a power line while setting up a metal-frame tent.
Rahm Emanuel, former White House chief of staff who garnered 321,773 votes, or 55 percent, to beat five competitors and succeed longtime Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, said he plans to quickly form his transition team, but cautioned that “Mayor Daley will be mayor until May 16, not Mayor Emanuel. It is not my job to plant my car in front of his.”
Claude Foulk Jr ., 63, a former California mental hospital director, has been sentenced in Long Beach to 248 years in prison for molesting his adopted son, as well as other young boys.
Warren Jeffs, 55, the polygamous sect leader who is jailed in Texas awaiting trial on aggravated sexual assault and bigamy charges, has resumed legal control over his Utah-based church, according to documents filed with the Utah Department of Commerce.
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