LITTLE ROCK — Valerie Bruno of Price, Utah, has filed a formal complaint against juvenile-court Judge Scott Johansen with the Utah Judicial Conduct Commission, contending she felt intimidated when Johansen told her that he would reduce her 13-yearold daughter’s sentence for cutting off the hair of a 3-year-old girl with scissors if she chopped off the teen’s ponytail in court.
Gary Shapiro, 65, top deputy to U.S. Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald in Chicago, will temporarily succeed his boss when Fitzgerald steps down Friday until a replacement can be selected and approved.
Henry Marin, 27, a former Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy, has been sentenced to two years in jail for attempting to smuggle heroin into a courthouse jail in a burrito.
Aimee Copeland, 24, the Georgia woman who developed necrotizing fasciitis after cutting her leg in a fall May 1 from a homemade zip line, has been upgraded to good condition and her father, Andy Copeland, said on his blog that over the weekend he was able to push her in a wheelchair around the outside of the Augusta hospital.
Vassilis Rapanos, 65, the Greek banker who last week was chosen to be the country’s next finance minister, has resigned for health reasons, three days after he was rushed to the hospital.
Natalie Munroe, a teacher who was suspended from her job last year for a blog in which she called students “disengaged, lazy whiners,” has filed suit against the suburban Philadelphia school district, contending the superintendent and her principal violated her free-speech rights, adding that since she was returned to the classroom, she has been subjected to “ridiculous and overly critical evaluations.”
Todd Parrilla, 48, a Stonington, Conn., pediatrician, has pleaded guilty in federal court in Hartford to receipt and distribution of child pornography for possessing more than 100,000images and videos.
Steve Wynn, the Las Vegas casino owner, has confessed to being the Secret Santa who anonymously gave a $2 million donation to United Way of Southern Nevada, providing $500 each to 4,000 families.
Maurice Antonio Deloatch, 24, was arrested in Clarksville, Tenn., over allegations that he and another man robbed a 51-year-old wheelchair-bound man in his home of about $800 in cash, credit cards, diabetes medicine and drugs.
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