Melvin Maynard, whose 37-year-old son, Tennis Melvin Maynard, is suspected of killing a West Virginia sheriff as the man ate lunch in his car, said his son was mentally disturbed and likely did not target Mingo County Sheriff Eugene Crum, adding: “He would have probably shot anybody, the first one he come to, you know what I’m saying?”
Michelle Obama and schoolchildren from Washington, D.C., Bradenton, Fla., Somerville, Mass., Knox County, Tenn., and Milton, Vt., planted lettuce and other crops in the first lady’s garden on the South Lawn of the White House.
John Kerry, the secretary of state, and Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew said they will donate a portion of their salaries to charity to show solidarity with furloughed government workers, while Attorney General Eric Holder said he will take similar action if Justice Department employees are forced to take unpaid leave.
Nancy Levandowski, 53, and Steve Keller, 54, who both work in the food industry in Iowa, have become the first couple to wed at the Denny’s chapel in Las Vegas.
Grant Smith, 50, a Utah man accused of viewing child pornography on an airline flight, pleaded guilty in Boston to possessing child pornography and got a suspended 2 ½ -year sentence and five years’ probation.
Queen Elizabeth II was recognized for her support of British film and television, with John Willis, chairman of the British Academy Film and Television Awards, joking that the award was also in honor of the queen’s performance as the “most memorable Bond girl yet” during the Olympics opening ceremony.
Hillary Rodham Clinton, 65, has signed a deal with Simon & Schuster to write a memoir and policy book about her years as secretary of state in the Obama administration.
Christopher Bryant, 28, pleaded innocent in St. Johnsbury, Vt., to charges stemming from a confrontation with his girlfriend, in an arraignment that was stalled after a judge objected to his T-shirt, which had the words: “I bust mine to kick yours,” and only continued after Bryant wore his attorney’s suit jacket backward to cover the shirt’s message.
Julia Gillard, Australia’s prime minister since 2010 and its first female leader, told a forum in Sydney that her not being “a man in a suit” has taken “the nation some time to get used to.”
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