LITTLE ROCK — George P. Bush
“is considering” running for Texas land commissioner, according to a fundraising letter written by his father, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, but Trey Newton, a political strategist for the younger Bush, contends that “no firm decision has been made.”
Holly Solomon, a Mesa, Ariz., woman who opposed President Barack Obama, has been arrested on an aggravated-assault charge over allegations she ran over her husband with a sport utility vehicle because she was angry he didn’t vote in the presidential election.
Peggy Ray, a Marysville, Wash., woman who crawled through a broken window of a vehicle and helped stabilize a bleeding driver and his passenger until an emergency crew arrived at the scene of an accident on Interstate 5 near Seattle, said $900, or about two weeks of work for the barista who supports six teenagers, was taken from her purse while she helped.
William Adams, a Texas judge who was seen lashing his then-teenage daughter on her legs more than a dozen times in a 2004 video that she posted online last year, has returned to the bench after a year-long suspension.
Jose Manuel, president of the European Commission, said the European Union has decided to spend its $1.2 million Nobel Peace Prize award on projects helping children in war and conflict zones.
Sen. Scott Brown, a Massachusetts Republican and the only incumbent senator to lose re-election this fall, said moderates like himself and retiring GOP Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine are a vanishing breed in Washington, and he urged Republicans to become “a larger-tent party” that can better appeal to women, members of minority groups and moderates.
Mark Hitchner, 49, has been arrested in Providence, R.I., over allegations he tried to settle an argument about noise by shooting his neighbor Joseph Motta, 59, in the neck with a flare gun, setting Motta’s jacket on fire.
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