In the news

Thursday, December 27, 2012

Joseph Hofstetter

and Theodore Scardino, two volunteer firefighters wounded in Webster, N.Y., when a gunman shot at them as they responded to a blaze, killing two other responders, said in a statement released by Strong Memorial Hospital that they are “humbled and overwhelmed,” by the outpouring of support.

Joe Heyming

of San Jose, Calif., has a great Christmas story to tell after his wife, Erin, went into labor two weeks early and he ended up delivering his son when the midwife couldn’t arrive in time.

Tobi Lynden, owner of Lynden’s soda shop in St. Paul, Minn., said candy cigarettes are her best-selling candy item but she’ll stop selling them after city inspectors threatened to issue a citation and levy a $500 fine.

Nelson Mandela, the former South African president and anti-apartheid icon, has been released from the hospital where he has been since Dec. 8 for treatment of a lung infection and removal of gallstones, a government spokesman said, adding that the 94-year-old will receive medical care at home.

Randy Wilson, 25, a Mobile, Ala., man who was arrested earlier this month as he prepared to board a flight to Morocco with plans, prosecutors say, to travel from there to another African country where he could join a violent Islamist jihad, pleaded innocent in federal court to providing support to international terrorists.

Romeo Maniulit Natan, 38, a San Francisco Bay Area postal worker, pleaded innocent to identity theft, possession of stolen property and second-degree burglary over allegations that he stole thousands of pieces of mail to obtain credit cards that he gave out to friends.

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