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Gerald Taylor, 53, has been charged with attempted murder after Johnson City, Tenn., police say he broke into Rob Williams’ home, where Taylor had lived until recently, and shot the television weatherman with a crossbow.

James Ammons, president of Florida A&M University, revealed some of the changes he wants to make to the famed marching band after a drum major’s hazing death in November, including limiting the band to full time students, toughening academic requirements and instituting a four-year limit on involvement.

U.S. Rep. Thaddeus McCotter, R-Mich., said he will not seek a sixth term through a write-in campaign after he failed to get enough signatures to get on the Aug. 7 primary ballot.

Sgt. Chad Meyers of the Council Bluffs, Iowa, Police Department said Charlotte Schilling, 41, a Nebraska woman who disappeared last month, strangled her 10-year-old son Owen with a plastic zip tie before strangling herself in the same way in an Iowa state park.

Bakhtiyar Hajiyev, 30, a Harvard-educated Azerbaijani opposition activist, has been released from jail, just days before U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s Wednesday visit to the former Soviet nation.

Stephen Quake, 43, a Stanford University professor of bioengineering and applied physics, won the $500,000 2012 Lemelson-MIT Prize in recognition of his inventions, including a chip, similar to those in electronic devices, that lets scientists take nearly 10,000 different measurements at once and a noninvasive prenatal testing method for detecting Down’s syndrome.

Sabirhan Hasanoff, a certified public accountant and dual citizen of the U.S. and Australia who lived in Brooklyn with his two children, pleaded guilty in federal court to providing material support to al-Qaida.

Charles Estell, 38, has been charged with felony bank robbery after Oak Lawn, Ill., police say he broke into a bank vault and nearly made off with $100,000 before he got stuck in an air duct and had to be cut out hours later.

Rehman Malik was suspended by Pakistan’s Supreme Court after the interior minister failed to provide proof that he surrendered his British passport as part of a probe into lawmakers who hold dual nationality with Western countries.

Front Section, Pages 1 on 06/05/2012

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