LITTLE ROCK — Gov. Chris Christie, a New Jersey Republican, said he won’t seek cuts to the state budget after tax collections lagged behind targets by $100 million in the first two months of the fiscal year, telling reporters, “One hundred million is not even statistically significant,” and “it’s too early” to start making cuts.
Noel Bertrand, 27, a Portland, Ore., man and former U.S. Marine embassy guard, was found guilty in Denver of sexually assaulting a woman at a Denver International Airport concourse in April.
Lt. Gen. Francis J. Wiercinski, the commander of U.S. Army Pacific, said in an interview at his headquarters in Hawaii that as the United States withdraws from Afghanistan and the military refocuses its attention, his soldiers will be able to conduct more exercises with other nations in the region.
Henry Lee Jr. told The Seattle Times that his father, Henry Lee Sr., a 77-year-old man who was shot to death Sunday night by Seattle police after he called 911 to report a disturbance outside his home and then met officers at the door with a gun, suffered from dementia and other diseases.
Billie Joe Armstrong, 40, Green Day’s frontman, will seek treatment for substance abuse, the band’s representative said, after Armstrong had a profanity-laden meltdown onstage at the iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las Vegas on Friday.
Edward F. Bachner IV, 39, of Lake in the Hills, Ill., has been sentenced to more than 7 1/2 years in prison for illegally obtaining a deadly puffer fish toxin through the mail in 2008 in what prosecutors contended was a plan to poison his wife, Rebecca Bachner, who appeared in the courtroom to support him.
Kevin Washburn, a member of the Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma and the dean of the University of New Mexico Law School, has been confirmed by the Senate as assistant secretary for Indian Affairs.
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