LITTLE ROCK — Gunter Grass, 84, has been barred from entering Israel after the Nobel Prizewinning German poet called the country’s nuclear arsenal a threat to world peace in a new poem, which Interior Minister Eli Yishai said was “an attempt to fan the flames of hatred against Israel and the Jewish people.”
Biswamohan Pani, a 36-year-old former worker at Intel Corp., pleaded guilty to five counts of wire fraud for downloading Intel computer-chip manufacturing and design documents estimated to be worth up to $400 million while he was looking for a job elsewhere.
Jody Gardner of Newark, Ohio, said she didn’t intend to cause trouble when she put up more than 100 yellow and red signs around town offering a reward for her missing dog without getting a permit, and she’s working with officials to find a way to continue her crusade legally.
Oneal Ron Morris, who police say was born a man and identifies as a woman, has pleaded innocent to unlicensed practice of medicine in Broward County, Fla., after police say Morris injected flat-tire sealant, glue, caulk and cement into women’s buttocks as an enhancement procedure.
Nelson Hopkins Sr ., 42, who organized a Kansas City, Mo., nonprofit aimed at fighting violent crime after his teenage son’s 2009 killing, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for an armed robbery committed last summer at a pizza shop in suburban Blue Springs.
Dan Jager, a fire marshal in Juneau, Alaska, said a 7-year-old boy admitted to using a lighter to set five fires in the city in a little more than four months, causing about $1,000 in damage at a school, a legislative building and a Fred Meyer store.
Eliana Lopez, a Venezuelan actress and the wife of San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi, said the domestic-violence case against her husband is akin to a coup intended to remove him from office and said the dispute between the couple that led to the charges was a “very emotional misunderstanding.”
Sheikh Raed Salah, an Islamic activist in Israel who entered Britain despite being banned over his political activities, has won an appeal against his deportation.
Angela Norman, 42, whose 14-year-old daughter had cerebral palsy and weighed 28 pounds when she died last year, pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in Dayton, Ohio, after prosecutors said she did not provide sufficient food or proper care for the child, resulting in her death.
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