LITTLE ROCK — Morgan Logan, 52, a construction worker from Acton, Mont., who tried to help police in Billings corral a runaway cow, had a broken leg and sore ribs after the bovine charged at him “like a bull at a rodeo” and tossed him into the air before continuing its rampage, which came to an end when a police sniper fired a single shot through its heart.
Aimee Copeland, 24, who lost both of her hands, her left leg and her right foot to a rare flesh-eating disease, has returned to her family’s home in Snellville, Ga., after more than three months in the hospital and a rehabilitation clinic, said her father, Andy Copeland.
Mark David Chapman, 57, who is serving 20 years to life in a New York prison for killing John Lennon on Dec. 8, 1980, has been denied parole for the seventh time.
Matt Bissonnette, who retired from the Navy last summer, has been identified as the Navy SEAL who wrote No Easy Day, an account of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden that is scheduled to be released Sept. 11, with the author listed under the pseudonym Mark Owen.
Essam Fathy, chairman of the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro board, said the Tennessee mosque has received its final approval, an occupancy permit, after a nearly two-year legal battle to prevent it from opening.
Kenneth G. Parker, a former Marine lance corporal who was convicted nearly two decades ago of two killings in North Carolina, has been resentenced to life in prison after a military appeals court overturned his death sentence this week.
Rick Warren, pastor at Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif., and author of the Purpose Driven Life, said he has canceled plans for a “civil forum” this week that was to feature President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, neither of whom had committed to attend, because the presidential race has been so uncivil.
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