LITTLE ROCK — Modupe Adunni Martin, 29, who was caught on videotape throwing her crutches into a car and running to meet her boyfriend at a public park, where she took part in a sex act that doctors concluded she couldn’t have done with an injured ankle, has been sentenced to nine months in jail in San Mateo County, Calif., for workers’ compensation fraud.
Michelle Obama, accompanied by first dog Bo, read A Visit From St. Nicholas during a visit to Children’s National Medical Center in Washington and told the children that she wouldn’t reveal what she was giving President Barack Obama because if she said anything, it would be in “the papers tomorrow.”
David Redden, an auctioneer and vice chairman for Sotheby’s, said a piano seen in the film Casablanca sold for $602,500, well below the auction house’s presale estimate of $800,000 to $1.2 million.
Willie Singletary, a Philadelphia traffic-court judge, has been removed from office by a judicial ethics panel for showing a female court clerk cellphone photos of his genitals, although Singletary’s lawyer said the judge resigned in February.
Leonid Labo, a circus trainer in Russia, told the Komsomolskaya Pravda daily that he gave two elephants vodka diluted in warm water to protect the pair from the Siberian cold after the elephants’ trailer caught fire and the animals had to be put out in the cold until another truck arrived.
Annette Morales-Rodriguez, 34, a Milwaukee woman who confessed to police that she tried to steal a baby by killing Maritza Ramirez-Cruz, 23, and cutting out Ramirez-Cruz’s full-term son, who also died, has been sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole.
Elena Kagan, the newest member of the Supreme Court, praised her colleague Antonin Scalia, saying he deserves a lot of credit for getting the high court to decide what laws mean by focusing on the words Congress used.
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