LITTLE ROCK — John Quinley, a Yosemite National Park spokesman, said the park will offer testing to all its employees to determine if they have ever been infected with hantavirus, a mouse-borne virus that has infected nine park visitors this year, including three who died.
Angela Merkel, chancellor of Germany, urged her countrymen to show tolerance for Muslims, telling members of her conservative Christian Democratic party that Islam is now a part of Germany.
Bill Panagopulos, president of Alexander Historical Auctions in Connecticut, said love letters and other prewar writings of Adolf Hitler propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels have failed to sell, adding that an overseas phone bidder made an offer that was too low to be accepted.
Kerry Prater
of West Liberty, Ky., has been detained by federal authorities who say he drove through a roadblock while carrying three weapons and at least 500 rounds of ammunition in his vehicle during President Barack Obama’s recent visit to the Cincinnati region.
Michael Bloomberg, mayor of New York City, announced plans for a 625-foottall Ferris wheel, the largest in the world, which will be part of an almost $500 million development on Staten Island that will also feature an outlet mall and a hotel next to an existing minorleague baseball stadium.
David Viens, 49, a chef who told police he boiled his wife’s body for four days to hide evidence of her death and then jumped off an 80-foot cliff after learning he was a suspect in her disappearance, was convicted in Los Angeles of second-degree murder.
Charles Moreau, the former mayor of Central Falls, R.I., the only city in the state to have filed for bankruptcy, appeared in court on a federal corruption charge of accepting gifts from a friend and political supporter and said he owes residents an apology.
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