LITTLE ROCK — Annette Morales-Rodriguez, 34, a Milwaukee woman who confessed to attacking a pregnant woman and slicing out her unborn child in hopes of passing off the full-term boy as her own, has been found guilty of two counts of first-degree intentional homicide in the October 2011 deaths of Maritza Ramirez-Cruz, 23, and the baby.
Rob Bittner, an officer at New Jersey’s Burlington-Bristol Bridge, said Brandi, a beagle that got away from her owner during a walk, is one lucky dog after the pooch survived a 70-foot fall from the bridge into the Delaware River, suffering a bruised abdomen but no broken bones.
Shawn McAleese, 43, a burglar who dug through walls or tunneled his way into several Manhattan restaurants and bars, stealing vodka, sake, pork belly, hamburgers, as well as computer equipment and nearly $23,500 in cash, has been sentenced to 56 years in prison.
Roger Ebert, 70, the noted film critic, will receive the Vanguard Leadership Award from Robert Redford’s Sundance Institute for his support of independent cinema.
Jennifer Blazey, spokesman for Southern California’s Knott’s Berry Farm, said the park’s Windseeker attraction, which lifts fun-seekers 300 feet over the park with their legs dangling and spins them in a circle, malfunctioned Wednesday, stranding 20 riders in the air fornearly four hours.
Kimberly Rivera, 30, an Army private who fled to Canada in 2007 with her family to avoid being redeployed to Iraq, has been arrested and detained at the U.S. border after losing her deportation case.
Bruno Rodriguez, Cuba’s foreign minister, encouraged the next president of the United States to seize a “historic opportunity” and end Washington’s 50-year embargo on the island, calling it an “obsolete” holdover of the Cold War.
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