LITTLE ROCK — Jorge Rafael Videla
and Reynaldo Bignone, former Argentine dictators, face life sentences if convicted in the kidnapping of 34 children in what prosecutors say was a systematic plan to steal the babies of political prisoners between 1976-83.
James St. George, 45, of Lansdale, Pa., was fired as a part-time theology professor from Chestnut Hill College after officials learned from his blog that he has been in a same-sex relationship for 15 years, the private Catholic school said.
Prince Frederic von Anhalt, 67, husband of Zsa Zsa Gabor, said he chased two intruders down the block with a baseball bat after catching them burglarizing the couple’s Bel Air, Calif., mansion in the middle of the night.
Xiomara Castro, wife of ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, said her husband’s followers have decided not to form a political party to take part in 2013 elections, saying conditions are not in place for a democratic process.
David Jones
told girlfriend Dee Horton to watch a midday newscast on Cleveland’s WJW-TV, and she tuned in to find him in a message asking, “How about you and I show the world what true love is all about?” before he popped out and proposed marriage in person.
Sheadon O’Day, 3, joined his father, who sets concrete with a laborers union, at a protest at the Indiana Statehouse, where lawmakers were in a standoff over limits to collective bargaining rights, and made friends amid his chants of “Protest!”, “Save daddy’s job!” and the slightly off topic, “Can I have a cheeseburger?”
Miguel Mancera, Mexico City’s chief prosecutor, said that Botox doses he contends were allowed illegally into a city prison were not used on jailed drug-cartel suspect Sandra Avila Beltran, the reputed “queen of the Pacific,” but more likely the prison’s former warden.
Rep. David Wu, D-Ore., said his mental-health condition doesn’t prevent him from doing his job, adding he doesn’t need to disclose the specific diagnosis “because I’m not the president of the United States with my finger on the nuclear trigger.”
Jack Cam, 67, a former veteran federal judge in Atlanta who pleaded guilty to two drug-related charges after a stripper claimed he used cocaine with her, said in court papers that troubles stemmed from his battle with depression and brain damage from a 2000 bicycling accident.
Front Section, Pages 1 on 02/28/2011