Ryan Loskarn, 35, the fired chief of staff for Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., made his first court appearance in Washington on charges of possession and distribution of child pornography and was ordered held until a preliminary hearing Monday.
Kapil Sibal, India’s law minister, said the government has not abandoned efforts to make homosexuality legal and that the country must take swift action to challenge a Supreme Court decision banning same-sex relations.
Daniel Dale, a Toronto Star reporter, sued Mayor Rob Ford for suggesting the journalist was a pedophile in a recent television interview with former media baron and convicted felon Conrad Black.
Hunter Yelton, 6, a Colorado first-grader suspended for kissing a girl, will no longer have the term “sexual harassment” on his record, with the behavior now labeled misconduct after his parents and the principal met to discuss the matter.
Guo Bin, 6, a Chinese boy nicknamed Binbin whose eyes were gouged out in an attack more than three months ago, was discharged from a hospital in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen where he was fitted with prosthetic eyes.
Joseph Ali dove into the nighttime waters around a Southern California pier in search of dinner after closing his father’s business in Huntington Beach for the night and came away with a monster of a lobster weighing nearly 18 pounds.
Jonathan Griego, 23, of Albuquerque, N.M., says he suffered severe burns on his knees and buttocks after a Bernalillo County sheriff’s deputy, Chris Starr, forced him to kneel and sit on hot asphalt for nearly half an hour during a June traffic stop, according to a federal civil-rights lawsuit that seeks unspecified damages and legal fees.
Eric Justin Toth, 31, a former Washington private-school teacher who was once featured on the FBI’s list of most-wanted fugitives, where he filled a vacancy created by Osama bin Laden’s death, pleaded guilty to child pornography and faces decades in prison.
Jordan Graham, 22, a Montana newlywed, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder for pushing Cody Johnson, 25, her husband of eight days, off a cliff in Glacier National Park in July while they argued about her second thoughts about the marriage, and she could face a maximum penalty of life in prison when she is sentenced in March.
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