LITTLE ROCK — Annie Dookhan, 34, a Massachusetts chemist accused of faking drug-test results, forging paperwork and mixing samples at a state police lab, has been arrested and charged with felony obstruction of justice and pretending to hold a degree for a college or university, a misdemeanor, in a case that threatens thousands of criminal prosecutions.
Rep. Kay Granger, R-Texas, has blocked the State Department’s plan to transfer $450 million in already appropriated cash to the new government of Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, saying it warrants further review.
Amy Bishop, a former University of Alabama-Huntsville professor convicted of fatally shooting three colleagues and sentenced to life in prison, won’t face a Massachusetts murder trial in the 1986 death of her brother, after prosecutors withdrew their indictment.
Dennis Strow, police chief in Williston, Fla., said officers disposing of evidence in accordance with a court order heard whimpering sounds and rescued a 2-week-old puppy that had been buried alive near a pit.
Gigi Chao, 33, whose father, Cecil Chao, made headlines this week when he offered a $65 million marriage bounty to any man who can woo her away from her same-sex partner, said she’s not angry at the Hong Kong tycoon who “just has a very interesting way of expressing his fatherly love.”
David Felts was arrested in Clarksville, Tenn., where police said they caught him shoplifting from a Kroger and then a Publix store on the same day.
Robert Everhart, 28, a Pascagoula, Miss., man born Robert McCarthy who wanted to take his wife’s last name, has been allowed to change his last name on his driver’s license by using his marriage certificate, as many women do, after the ACLU complained he was told by state officials that he would need a court order to do so because it was not traditional.
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