LITTLE ROCK — Mike Leara, a Missouri Republican and state lawmaker, has proposed a measure that would make it a felony, punishable by up to four years in prison, for introducing gun-control legislation, saying in a statement, “I have no illusions about the bill making it through the legislative process, but I want it to be clear that the Missouri House will stand in defense of the people’s constitutional right to keep and bear arms.”
Tressa Montalvo, 36, who delivered two sets of identical twin boys on Valentine’s Day in Houston, said she and her husband, Manuel, 43, didn’t use fertility drugs for the pregnancy, adding: “I guess we just succeeded a little too much.”
David Axelrod, a longtime political adviser to President Barack Obama, has been hired as a senior political analyst for both NBC News and MSNBC.
Rick Maynard, a spokesman for KFC, said an unnamed employee at a Johnson City, Tenn., restaurant has been fired over a photo on social-media sites that showed her appearing to lick a container of mashed potatoes.
Tonya Battle, 49, a neonatal intensive-care unit nurse who is black, has filed suit against Hurley Medical Center in Flint, Mich., contending that her employer agreed to a man’s request that no black nurses care for his newborn and even went so far as to post a note on the assignment clipboard reading “No African American nurse to take care of baby.”
Hillary Rodham Clinton, the former secretary of state, has signed with the Manhattan-based Harry Walker Agency to coordinate her future speaking engagements.
Rep. Keith Ellison, a Minnesota Democrat and the first Muslim elected to Congress, is visiting Mogadishu, Somalia, during the recess, fulfilling a request from constituents with ties to the country.
Robert Gladden Jr ., 15, pleaded guilty in a Baltimore County, Md., court to attempted first-degree murder in the shooting of a classmate who has Down syndrome.
Rob Morrison, a New York City TV anchorman, has been charged in Darien, Conn., with strangulation, threatening and disorderly conduct over allegations he attacked his wife, Ashley Morrison, who works for CBS Moneywatch, at their home and then threatened to kill her as police were arresting him.
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