LITTLE ROCK — Michelle Obama presented national arts and humanities awards to 12 community-based after school programs during a White House ceremony and praised educators, artists and leaders for working with tight budgets and putting in late hours, saying: “You are pushing and inspiring our kids. You’re revealing their boundless promise and teaching them to believe in themselves.”

Jacques Quinn, 32, has been sentenced in Galveston, Texas, to 20 years in prison for biting his female roommate’s arm as he argued with another woman.

Barry Bedford, police chief in Coralville, Iowa, said shoppers at an area Kohl’s store had an interesting run-in with wildlife after a doe and two fawns wandered into the store via the automatic doors and eventually strolled back out, adding that no injuries or damage was reported.

Gilberto Valle, 28, a New York City police officer accused of plotting in e-mails “to kidnap, rape, torture, kill, cook and eat body parts of a number of women,” has pleaded innocent in federal court in Manhattan.

Gov. Bill Haslam, R-Tenn., said a lack of information from the White House is delaying a decision about whether his state should run its own health insurance exchange under the new federal health-care law.

Charles Moreau, 48, former mayor of Central Falls, R.I., pleaded guilty in Providence to a federal corruption charge, admitting that he accepted gifts from a political supporter who received a lucrative city contract to board up vacant homes.

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