LITTLE ROCK — Mickey Bradley, an inspector with New Jersey’s Bergen County sheriff’s office, told The Record newspaper that he bought the Web address facecrook.net for $17 after coming up with the idea of the new Facecrook website, which features the names, photos and last locations of fugitives wanted by the department.
Mary Neubauer, spokesman for the Iowa lottery, said 20 workers at a Quaker Oats plant in Cedar Rapids have claimed a $241 million Powerball jackpot, adding that if the group chooses the lump-sum cash option, each person would get about $5.6 million after taxes.
Capt. Gregory Hitchen
said Coast Guard officials are investigating the possibility of a link between a hoax distress call reporting a yacht explosion off New Jersey earlier this month and a mayday call in Texas last month because of similarities in the voice and phrasings.
Zoe West, a 22-year-old model who was arrested by New York police in August as her nude body was being painted by an artist in Times Square, has filed a federal civil-rights lawsuit against the city.
Patricia Maione, who told Northbridge, Mass., police she drove her car into a sand trap on a golf course because her GPS sent her the wrong way through a cornfield and onto the course, has pleaded innocent to charges including driving with a suspended license and fourthoffense drunken driving.
Aung San Suu Kyi, 67, the leader of Burma’s opposition who spent 15 years under house arrest, has finally collected her honorary doctorate in civil law from Oxford University, nearly two decades after it was awarded to her in 1993.
Margo Reed, a Yonkers, N.Y., library worker who stole more than $160,000 in overdue book fines and other revenue, has been sentenced to six months in jail.
Alice Walker, 68, wrote a letter to Yediot Books telling the Israeli publisher that it can’t release a new Hebrew edition of her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Color Purple, because of Israel’s treatment of the Palestinian people.
Narcy Novack
of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and her brother, Cristobal Veliz of New York City, have been found guilty of racketeering, domestic violence, stalking, money laundering and witness tampering in the 2009 beating deaths of Novack’s millionaire husband and his mother in a grab for the family estate.
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