LITTLE ROCK — Bobby Jindal, Louisiana’s governor, who has distanced himself from Mitt Romney’s claim that President Barack Obama won votes from youths, blacks and Hispanics with “gifts from the government,” said the Republican Party’s key to attracting more voters should be “if we want people to like us, we have to like them first.”
Jan Gorniak, coroner in Franklin County, Ohio, said there was no indication that the suicide of Jeremy Friehling, 23, the son of an accountant for convicted Ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff, was connected to the financier’s fraud case.
Kim Dotcom, who was arrested in Auckland, New Zealand, in January and wanted in the United States on copyright-infringement charges related to his company Megaupload.com, where users stored pirated films and music, argued in an interview that it wasn’t his responsibility what users did with the content.
Staff Sgt. Louis Corral, a Fort Jackson, S.C., drill sergeant, was sentenced to five years in prison and kicked out of the Army after he was convicted of multiple charges involving sexual assault.
Adela Hernandez, a biologically male Cuban who has lived as a woman since childhood, became the first known transgender person to hold public office in Cuba, winning election as a delegate to the municipal government of Caibarien in the central province of Villa Clara.
Summer Larsen, a Delco, Idaho, fourth-grade teacher, is facing criticism from parents and administrators after she punished students who failed to meet reading goals by having classmates draw on their faces with permanent markers.
Rita Burris, an Indianapolis fire captain, says Gidget, a black cat who had been missing since a deadly explosion near its family’s house, was found hiding behind a couch in the house and reunited with its owners, Glenn and Gloria Olvey.
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