Nelson Mandela, the 95-year-old former South African president, is “not doing well” but is continuing to put up a courageous fight from his “deathbed,” members of his family said.
Jeremy Bradley, 35, faces a charge of breach of privacy after a woman in the dressing room of a Kohl’s store in Lenexa, Kan., saw a hand holding a cellphone under the partition and then chased the suspected Peeping Tom across the store topless.
John Muza, 55, an accountant for the Triangle Club, a Princeton University musical-comedy group whose members have included F. Scott Fitzgerald and Brooke Shields, was accused of embezzling more than $100,000 from the club since 2010.
Kathryn Ruemmler, President Barack Obama’s lawyer who had announced plans to leave by the end of the year to go into private practice in New York, has agreed to stay at the White House until spring.
Sebastian Schmidtke, the head of the German National Democratic Party’s Berlin branch, was convicted of incitement and displaying the symbols of anti-constitutional organizations and received a suspended eight month prison sentence for selling CDs with music that glorified Nazism and incited violence.
Philip Chism, a 14-yearold Massassachusetts boy, pleaded innocent to murder, aggravated rape and armed robbery in the killing of Colleen Ritzer, his math teacher at Danvers High School, whose body was found in woods near the school with her throat slit and a note reading, “I hate you all.”
Amy Lacey, a Texas school principal, was placed on paid leave after she banned students from speaking Spanish in class at Hempstead Middle School, where more than half of the school’s 330 students are Hispanic.
Francois Hollande, the 59-year-old president of France, acknowledged having surgery in February 2011 for prostate enlargement, a matter that is sensitive because former President Francois Mitterrand kept the public in the dark for years during his presidency about the prostate cancer that eventually killed him.
Robert Davidson, the sculptor of the Statue of Liberty replica outside the New York-New York casino hotel in Las Vegas, is suing the government for copyright infringement over allegations that a 2011 postage stamp featured the image of his statue, not the original in New York Harbor.
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