LITTLE ROCK — Rep. Steve Cohen, 65, a Tennessee Democrat who has never married, said the 24-year-old Texas woman he was communicating with on Twitter during the State of the Union is his daughter, adding that he decided to publicly acknowledge his familial tie to Victoria Brink after some tried to make the exchanges, which included “Ilu” for “I love you,” appear salacious.
Aydrea Meaders, 24, has been arrested in Albany, N.Y., over allegations she got on stage and started to strip during a school assembly.
Christina Regusters, 19, a day-care worker, has been charged with kidnapping, rape of a child, conspiracy, aggravated assault and other offenses in the abduction of a 5-year-old from her Philadelphia elementary school last month, her arrest being aided by what authorities said was the girl’s memory of a talking bird in the home where she was taken.
Herman Cain, a former GOP presidential candidate in 2012, has been hired to contribute to Fox News Channel and the Fox Business Network.
Capt. Kevin Lacy of the San Bernardino, Calif., sheriff’s office, said Christopher Dorner, the fugitive former police officer wanted in a deadly revenge campaign against the Los Angeles Police Department, shot himself in the head as the cabin he was barricaded inside caught fire after a shootout with officers.
Paul Hansen, a Swedish photographer for newspaper Dagens Nyheter, has won the 2012 World Press Photo award for his picture of two Palestinian children, killed in an Israeli missile strike, being carried to their funeral.
Ekkachai Tiranarat
and wife Laksana of Bangkok won about $3,300 and two diamond rings after they locked lips for 58 hours, 35 minutes and 58 seconds in a Valentine’s Day “kissathon,” in a feat that contest organizers hope will be verified by Guinness World Records as the longest recorded kiss in history.
Christopher Speight, 42, a former security guard accused of killing eight people at his Appomattox, Va., home and shooting at a state police helicopter, has been given five life prison terms after pleading guilty to three capital-murder counts, as well as other charges.
Michael Astrue, who concluded his six-year term as Social Security commissioner on Wednesday, said lawmakers have all “really walked away from Social Security,” leaving the program “fraying because of inattention to its problems.”
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