LITTLE ROCK — Michelle Obama, the first lady, joined daughters Malia and Sasha and first dog Bo to welcome the White House Christmas tree, a 19-foot Fraser fir from Peak Farms in Jefferson, N.C., that will be displayed in the Blue Room.
Robert Toth, 54, of Shelton, Conn., has been charged with third-degree larceny and first-degree criminal trespass over allegations that the real-estate agent was stealing a competitor’s “For Sale” signs from the front lawns of area homes.
King Juan Carlos
of Spain, 74, who injured his right hip in April during an elephant-hunting safari in Africa, is back in the hospital, or “the workshop,” as he told reporters - this time to undergo surgery on his left hip.
Elizabeth Smart, 25, who was kidnapped in 2002 from her bedroom when she was 14 years old and held captive for nine months by Brian David Mitchell, a homeless street preacher, is telling her story in a memoir that is being written by Chris Stewart, a GOP congressman-elect from Utah who previously has written books with religious and patriotic themes.
Edward Alan Lucas, 33, has been charged in Slidell, La., with misdemeanor theft after being caught on surveillance video at a sheriff’s office detaching pens from metal chains and putting them into his pocket, police said.
Li Yuanlong, 52, a former journalist who wrote online last week about five boys in China’s Guizhou province who had died in a trash bin after taking shelter there from the cold, and his wife have been detained by security officers, according to a lawyer and a friend of the man.
Ahn Cheol-soo, a millionaire software mogul who was widely seen as a top contender for South Korea’s presidential election in December, has withdrawn his candidacy and thrown his support behind Moon Jae-in, the candidate of the liberal opposition Democratic United Party, who will now face Park Geun-hye, the nominee of the governing conservative Saenuri Party.
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