President Barack Obama
announced that he would nominate Anthony Foxx, the Democratic mayor of Charlotte, N.C., to be the next transportation secretary, saying his local government experience would help him manage the nation’s roads, bridges and airports.
Stephen Breyer, the 74-year-old Supreme Court justice, was released from a Washington hospital two days after undergoing surgery for injuries suffered in a bicycle accident.
Andrew Cuomo, the governor of New York, said on public radio that he’s not talking about running for the Democratic nomination for president in 2016 and he’s not waiting to see whether Hillary Rodham Clinton runs, as he dismissed a New York Post column that stated he has “quietly conceded” to associates he can’t run ifClinton runs.
Carla Hale, 57, a gay teacher who said she was fired by an Ohio Catholic school after her mother’s published obituary included the name of Hale’s domestic partner, plans to file a complaint with the city of Columbus.
Ian Khama, 60, the president of the southern African nation of Botswana, was scratched on the face and needed two stitches to his nose after an overexcited cheetah jumped up from behind a fence at a defense barracks.
Mohammed Nisham, who allowed his 9-year-old son to drive his Ferrari in the Indian state of Kerala, was arrested on charges of endangering a child and allowing a minor to drive.
Catherine Kieu, 50, was convicted of drugging her estranged husband, cutting off his penis and tossing it in the garbage disposal in July 2011 and faces a maximum sentence of life in prison with possibility of parole, the Orange County, Calif., district attorney’s office said.
Donald Tusk, Poland’s prime minister, fired his justice minister, Jaroslaw Gowin, who made comments alleging that Germans may be experimenting on Polish embryos from in vitro fertilization procedures.
Nicole Miller, an Ohio first-grader, received a kidney from Wendy Killian, her former kindergarten teacher.
Erica DePalo, 33, a 2011 Essex County, N.J., Teacher of the Year who admits having sex with a 15-yearold student from her honors English class, was sentenced to lifetime parole supervision and will have to forfeit her teaching certificate and register as a sex offender.
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