In the news

Saturday, December 8, 2012

James Irvine, 41, of Palm Coast, Fla., has been charged with child neglect on accusations he left his 10-month-old son in a bedroom, with his pit bull keeping watch at the room’s closed door, while Irvine went to a bar.

John Lofthouse, chief executive of King Edward VII hospital in central London, said in a statement that Jacintha Saldanha, 46, a nurse who fell victim to a prank call by Australian disc jockeys seeking information about the Duchess of Cambridge’s pregnancy, has died under unexplained circumstances.

David Axelrod, strategist for President Barack Obama, had his trademark mustache shaved on MSNBC after the hosts of the Morning Joe show helped raise $1 million for Axelrod’s epilepsy charity.

Michael Misick, the former prime minister of the Turks and Caicos Islands who disappeared a couple of years ago, has been arrested in Brazil on an Interpol warrant related to accusations of corruption, misusing public money and profiting from the sale of government-owned land to developers, charges Misick calls politically motivated.

Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, speaking in response to a request by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta for a review of ethics training after a series of highly publicized lapses by top military officers, said that the training is adequate but should begin earlier in an officer’s career.

Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan president, who has been fighting an unspecified type of cancer for the past year and half, arrived home in Caracas after 10 days of medical treatment in Cuba but skipped a scheduled meeting in Brazil with leaders of a South American trade bloc.

Sgt. Jim Preston of the Roswell, N.M., police said his office was puzzled about how a handgun and ammunition got inside a package of frozen ribs found at a grocery store.

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