LITTLE ROCK — Debbe Ebben, 24, a beauty queen who shaved her head in March to raise more than $4,000 for the St. Baldrick’s Foundation, which donates money for childhood-cancer research, has been crowned Miss Alaska and said she likely will keep her hair short when she represents the state at the Miss America pageant in January.
Gov. Mitch Daniels, 63, said he is saying goodbye to partisan politics to become president of Purdue University in January when the Indiana Republican’s second term expires.
Jim Wilson, who has been driving across the country in a pickup adorned with “Romney for President” signs and stickers, said his truck was destroyed in a fire on Interstate 70 in Pennsylvania but he’d be back on the road soon in support of GOP candidate Mitt Romney.
Prince William
turned 30 on Thursday and was celebrating with family and friends, Buckingham Palace said.
Osama al-Nujaifi, the speaker of Iraq’s parliament and a leader in the Sunnidominated Iraqiya political coalition, said lawmakers are prepared to oust Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, a Shiite, if he refuses to share authority with his political opponents and break a political deadlock that has paralyzed the government.
Dianne Cerny, whose great-nephew Jaydin, 6, was shot alongside his 1-yearold half brother in a Laredo, Texas, hotel room, said the older boy was taken off life support and has died in a San Antonio hospital.
Lloyd Christopher Danielson, 52, who was wrongly arrested as a suspect in Billings, Mont., after Ray Dolin, 39, of Julian, W.Va., said he’d been shot in a roadside attack that turned out to be a hoax, pleaded guilty to driving under the influence, was credited for time served and was released from custody.
Aung San Suu Kyi, 67, Burma’s opposition leader, spoke to both houses of Britain’s Parliament, telling them her country finally had a chance to “re-establish true democracy” and she would welcome help from nations such as Britain, from which Burma won its freedom in 1948.
Beth Holloway, mother of Natalee Holloway, who vanished during a high school graduation trip to Aruba in 2005, has filed suit in Birmingham, Ala., against The National Enquirer, contending the tabloid has published “false headlines, articles and statements” for nearly seven years.
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