LITTLE ROCK — Sen. Michael Crapo, an Idaho Republican who previously has said he doesn’t drink because of his Mormon faith, has been charged in Alexandria, Va., with drunken driving after he registered a blood alcohol content of 0.11 percent, over the legal limit of 0.08, after a traffic stop for running a red light, police said.
George H.W. Bush, 88, won’t be going home for Christmas and instead will remain in a Houston hospital for treatment of a fever and weakness after a monthlong, bronchitis-like cough, the former president’s spokesman said.
Terry Sherrod, manager of the Fred’s Super Dollar store in Dyersburg, Tenn., said two anonymous donors helped 30 area families put presents under the Christmas tree this year by paying off their layaway accounts.
Eliahu Bakshi-Doron, 71, a former Israeli chief rabbi, has been indicted on charges of fraud and breach of trust over allegations he and others falsified rabbinical certificates for more than 1,000 soldiers and police officers so they could be eligible for salary increases.
Raychellet Williamson, principal at Shannon Elementary School in Memphis, has assigned pupils to watch 60 minutes of closed caption television each day during the Christmas break as part of an effort to improve literacy, an idea promoted by Kent State University literacy professor Tim Rasinski.
Nelson Mandela, 94, South Africa’s first black president, will spend Christmas in the hospital, where he has been treated for a lung infection and also underwent surgery for gallstones, with authorities announcing that doctors have no plans to discharge him.
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