LITTLE ROCK — Alexander Maximov, 30, who is accused of driving more than 120 mph and crashing his car into a Moscow bus stop, killing seven people, was arrested on a drunken driving charge and told police that prior to the accident, he had been drinking for two days.
Colleen Conlon of Gardner, Mass., says she is grieving the loss of Lady, her 8-year-old cat, after her son, Jesse, took Lady to the veterinarian for a flea bath and unknowingly authorized the cat to be euthanized after he says he was handed the wrong forms.
Jessica Tuchman Mathews and Theodore Wells Jr. have been named members of Harvard University’s board, often called the Harvard Corporation, making them the fifth and sixth new members elected since the Cambridge, Mass.-based university’s board approved a plan to expand from seven fellows to 13.
Philippe Reines, State Department spokesman, says CNN broke a pledge to the family of Christopher Stevens, the American ambassador who was killed in an attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya, when the news channel reported on the slain ambassador’s personal journal.
Deshana Lisenby, 24, of Clarksville, Tenn., has been charged with aggravated child abuse after her unattended 1-year-old son picked up a gun that had been left on a coffee table and accidentally shot himself in the hand, causing a non-life-threatening injury.
Wang Lijun, a former top Chinese police official, was sentenced to 15 years in prison after pleading guilty to defecting, abuse of power and other crimes in covering up the murder of a British businessman by Gu Kailai, the wife of a former Communist Party official, which Lijun exposed after he and Gu became estranged.
Vincent Logan, a Norman, Okla., native and a member of the Osage Nation, has been nominated by President Barack Obama as the next Special Trustee for American Indians, which manages about $3.7 billion in Indian funds held in trust by the federal government.
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