Janice “Lokelani” Keihanaikukauakahihuliheekahaunaele, whose 36-character name was too long to fit on her Hawaii driver’s license and state identification card, received cards with her full name after her problem prompted the state Department of Transportation to change its policy and expand how many characters can appear on the documents.
Michalis Liapis, a former Greek transport minister, was convicted of forgery and received a four-year suspended sentence and $4,100 fine for driving an uninsured car with fake license plates to avoid paying road taxes.
Danny Leclair and his longtime partner, Aubrey Loots, plan to marry Wednesday atop a cake-shaped float in the 125th Rose Parade in Pasadena, Calif., as part of a celebration of 2013 victories for gay-marriage advocates.
Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the former Russian oil tycoon who was released and pardoned this month after a decade-long imprisonment in Russia on tax evasion and money-laundering charges, has been granted a three-month visa from Switzerland that will allow him to travel freely through most of the European Union.
Harry Carl Mapps, 59, who after a month-long search was arrested in Oklahoma in the shooting deaths of Kim and Reggie Tuttle and their daughter, Dawn Roderick, waived his right to an extradition hearing and will be transported to Colorado to face first-degree murder and arson charges.
Nancy Brinker, the founder of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, has taken a $158,700 cut in her salary, to $390,000, after stepping down as CEO to serve as global strategy chairman for the breast-cancer foundation.
The Rev. Julio Cesar Grassi, an Argentine priest serving 15 years in prison for sexually abusing a boy, was rejected in his request to be freed pending a final appeal to the national Supreme Court.
Andrzej Arseniuk, a spokesman for Poland’s National Remembrance Institute, which investigates Nazi and communist crimes against Poles, said a five-year investigation has found no evidence of foul play in the plane crash that killed Gen. Wladyslaw Sikorski in 1943 when he was serving as Poland’s leader in exile during World War II.
Summer Steele of Andalusia, Ala., said she’s been surprised by the negative reactions she received after she and her husband named their newborn son Krimson Tyde after their favorite sports team.
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