LITTLE ROCK — David Blankenhorn, president of the Institute for American Values who testified in favor of California’s gay-marriage ban during a trial on the measure’s constitutionality, said in an opinion piece in The New York Times that he now thinks “that the time for denigrating or stigmatizing same-sex relationships is over,” adding that years of opposing same-sex unions had done nothing to strengthen the institution of marriage among heterosexuals.
Dorothy Kemp, 63, was charged in Milton, Ga., with simple battery over allegations the Wal-Mart employee, who was handing out food samples, pushed co-worker Marissa Moody, 56, into a fruit cooler in a dispute over a cutting board and a bottle of disinfecting spray, police said.
Blessing Chebundo, a Zimbabwe lawmaker, was one of 20 legislators to undergo circumcision in a show of “political will” to fight AIDS since the procedure has been shown to reduce the risk of HIV transmission.
Logan Mayberry, 11, of Clay County, Tenn., is the queen of marbles and 13-year-old Caleb Isaacson of Gunnison, Colo., is the king after the two won top prizes at the National Marbles Tournament in Wildwood, N.J.
Jesse Curtis Morton, 33, a Brooklyn man, was sentenced in federal court in Alexandria, Va., to nearly 12 years in prison for posting online threats against the creators of the South Park television show and others he deemed enemies of Islam.
Mary Cheney, 43, daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, has married Heather Poe, her longtime partner with whom she has two children, in Washington, D.C.
Jodi Jaecks, 47, a Seattle breast-cancer survivor whose breasts were surgically removed and who asked to swim topless at a city pool because swimsuit tops are uncomfortable, has been given permission to swim without her top during adult lap hours.
William Mason, a Yuma, Ariz., city worker, is in intensive care after a 16-foot-tall saguaro cactus fell on him and pinned him to the ground.
Col. Mark Adger, chief jailer in Fulton County, Ga., where hundreds of locks at the jail can be jammed, allowing inmates to get to one another, is trying to improve security by offering free food for any inmate who can defeat the new locks being tested in one cell block.
Front Section, Pages 1 on 06/23/2012