LITTLE ROCK — Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr ., an Illinois Democrat who has been on medical leave for months and is being treated for bipolar disorder, is selling his house in Washington to help pay for health-care costs, his spokesman said in a statement.
Robert McTernan, 25, an Irish tourist accused of wielding a knife during the theft of two cannolis from an Italian bakery in Boston, pleaded guilty to larceny and was given nine months’ probation and ordered to return to Ireland, where he must perform 50 hours of community service.
Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., said the Obama administration will announce later this week plans to create a national monument at Chimney Rock, a rock formation in southwestern Colorado that is sacred to the Southern Ute tribe.
Alan Glover, the clerkrecorder in Carson City, Nev., said officials were floored to discover a house full of treasures, including gold bars and coins with an estimated value of $7 million, in the orange-shagcarpeted “1,200-square-foot tract home” of Walter Samaszko Jr., an area recluse who died with only $200 in his bank account.
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and his wife, Roxanne, have been charged in Leechburg, Pa., with conspiracy, not making a reasonable effort to return lost property and making a false report over allegations that they sold a neighbor’s lost Rottweiler puppy rather than return it.
Shaul Chorev, Israel’s nuclear chief, warned Iran to stop its “direct and blunt threats” against his country, saying at a 155-nation nuclear conference that the Jewish state is ready to defend itself against any nation that threatens its existence.
Shaun Samuelson, 46, of Buda, Texas, has been found guilty of capital murder and sentenced to life in prison without parole in the death of his mother, 72-year-old Virginia Samuelson, whom he had beaten when she refused to give him money and whose stretcher he drove into as she was being loaded into an ambulance.
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