Eric Justin Toth, a former U.S. schoolteacher who was on the FBI’s list of 10 most wanted fugitives as a suspect in a child-pornography investigation, was detained in Esteli, a city near Nicaragua’s border with Honduras, Nicaraguan police said.
Anthony Weiner, the former Democratic U.S. representative from New York who resigned after posting to Twitter a lewd picture of himself and lying about his account being hacked in 2011, has returned to the site, posting a link to a 20-page policy statement outlining “64 Ideas to keep New York City the Capital of the Middle Class.”
President Nicolas Maduro, Venezuela’s newly elected leader, has reshuffled his Cabinet, naming Jesse Chacon to take charge of government initiatives aimed at upgrading Venezuela’s powergrid and Nelson Merentes, who was president of the central bank under former leader Hugo Chavez, to lead the Finance Ministry.
Jenna Krehbiel, a central Kansas woman who escaped unscathed after she encountered an escaped tiger in the bathroom during the Isis Shrine Circus in Salina, said it was a “scary, surreal” ordeal for her but that her 3-year-old daughter had a different reaction, asking only “if it had washed its hands.”
President Giorgio Napolitano
of Italy, 87, was sworn in for a second seven-year term and said he would serve “as long as the situation in the country … requires and strength allows me.”
Jeff Charbonneau, a science teacher who helped transform Zillah High School in Zillah, Wash., into a place where nearly every student graduates with some college credit, was named national teacher of the year by the Council of Chief State School Officers.
Sergei Pomyazun
is being sought by the authorities after he was accused of opening fire while attempting to rob a gun store in a southwestern Russian town, killing four employees in the store and two teenage girls on the street outside before fleeing.
Jared Marcum, 14, of Logan, W. Va., returned to class after his arrest and one-day suspension from school after he refused to remove a National Rifle Association T-shirt, causing what school administrators called a disruption of the educational process.
Kenneth Smith, a Philadelphia pizza cook who called in a bogus airplane threat to get back at a romantic rival over a Facebook photo, has been sentenced to 15 months in prison.
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