LITTLE ROCK — Stephanie Decker, 37, an Indiana woman who lost both legs shielding her children from a tornado in March, had a 15-minute visit with President Barack Obama in the Oval Office that followed a handwritten letter from Obama and a follow-up phone call from the president while she was in the hospital.
Randy Blythe, frontman of the Grammy-nominated American metal band Lamb of God, was arrested in Prague on allegations that during a 2010 gig in the Czech capital he “injured a person who consequently died,” according to Prague police.
Mike Strain, Louisiana’s Republican agriculture commissioner, spoke out against a farm bill recently passed by the U.S. Senate, telling attendees at the Louisiana Farm Bureau Federation’s annual convention in New Orleans that the “South wasn’t treated fairly in the Senate version.”
Lin Xiao Wei, a 32-year old Chinese citizen, is facing charges that he smuggled more than $1 million worth of counterfeit Marlboro cigarettes into the United States, federal authorities in Rhode Island said.
Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, the Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, said the United States and Israel will hold a major missile defense exercise in October after it was postponed in April amid growing talk of Israel preparing to attack Iran over its nuclear program.
Lori Teel of Portales, N.M., was arrested and spent a night in jail on allegations of not returning the book Twilight and two-DVD set The Twilight Saga: New Moon to the library since 2010.
Martin McGuinness, a former Irish Republican Army commander who is now deputy leader of Northern Ireland’s Catholic-Protestant power-sharing administration, said in a London speech that he regrets “every single life” lost in Northern Ireland’s decades of violence and expressed hope that his handshake with Queen Elizabeth II would be a key building block in a new relationship between Britain and Ireland.
Rielle Hunter told CNN’s Piers Morgan she’s sorry for any pain that her relationship with former presidential candidate John Edwards caused his late wife, Elizabeth, and others.
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