LITTLE ROCK — Vickie Bruce, 46, a North Texas teacher, was arrested after she admitted to authorities that she had been using methamphetamine in the mornings before class for about seven years, police said.
Jerry Brown, the Democratic governor of California, signed a law that permits as many as 6.3 million private workers without pension plans to set aside retirement money for management by the state.
Sen. Richard Lugar, an Indiana Republican, said on Bloomberg Television’s Political Capital with Al Hunt that President Barack Obama is following the right policy regarding Iran and warned of the dangers of war.
Yukio Edano, Japan’s industry minister, said in a new book that his nation must give up nuclear power plants as soon as possible because they pose too much risk in one of the world’s most earthquakeprone countries.
Peer Steinbruck, 65, a former finance minister under German Chancellor Angela Merkel, is set to challenge his former boss in next year’s general election after receiving the nomination of the center-left Social Democrats, Germany’s leading opposition party.
Hugo Chavez, Venezuela’s president for almost 14 years, said on state television at a rally that he’s not declaring victory yet ahead of next Sunday’s elections and that his supporters must turn out in substantial numbers to assure a large win over challenger Henrique Capriles Radonski.
Juan Roberto Rincon-Rincon, 41, one of the bosses of the Mexican Gulf cartel, was convicted in Texas on charges of conspiring to import and distribute marijuana and cocaine, and faces 10 years to life in prison for each of the two counts when he’s sentenced Jan. 7.
Charles Robert Barefoot Jr ., 49, a leader of a Ku Klux Klan splinter group from Benson, N.C., was convicted in federal court of weapons and explosives charges lodged against him 10 years ago.
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