LITTLE ROCK — Christian Schuster, 12, present as his grandmother and three siblings were shot dead, survived by pretending to be dead as he lay under his slain brother’s body, while his 8-year-old sister was spared because she was outside the New Town, N.D., house, sledding on a nearby hill, said the Rev. Grant Patterson.
David McCullough, the Pulitzer-winning historian, will headline a Nov. 22, 2013, ceremony in Dallas to mark 50 years since the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, said Mayor Mike Rawlings.
Jessica Tata, 24, a Houston day-care owner who left her charges alone to go shopping at Target, has been sentenced to 80 years in prison in the death of 16-month-old Elias Castillo, one of four children who died when a fire broke out at her home while she wasn’t there.
Rocco Landesman, 65, a producer known for taking such hits as Big River, Angels in America and The Producers to Broadway, announced that he would step down as chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts at the end of the year.
Douglas Wright, 27, Brandon Baxter, 21, and Connor Stevens, 21, received prison sentences in Akron, 1 Ohio - 11/2 years, nearly 10 years and more than eight years, respectively - for their roles in an unsuccessful plot to bomb a highway bridge in Ohio with what turned out to be a dud device provided by a government informant.
David Cameron, England’s prime minister, said next year’s G-8 meeting will be held in Northern Ireland’s County Fermanagh, an area of the long-troubled British territory that still sees occasional bomb and gun attacks.
Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve, urged Congress and the Obama administration to strike a budget deal, telling the Economic Club of New York that resolving the fiscal crisis would prevent a sudden and severe shock to the economy, help reduce unemployment and strengthen growth.
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