LITTLE ROCK — President Barack Obama said in a radio interview with the Rev. Al Sharpton that next week’s dedication of a statue of civil-rights pioneer Rosa Parks will be a “powerful moment,” adding that the Parks statue will be the first full-length one of a black woman in the U.S. Capitol building.
Robert Sand, 50, who was once dubbed by prosecutors as the government’s most-wanted deadbeat parent, pleaded guilty in a Central Islip, N.Y., court to failing to pay child support, owing more than $1.2 million on three children from two failed marriages.
Laura Bush, the former first lady, has asked the Respect for Marriage Coalition, a group that supports same-sex marriages, to remove her from its latest national advertising campaign, which included a clip of her telling CNN: “When couples are committed to each other and love each other, then they ought to have the same sort of rights that everyone has.”
Robin Willette Rumsey, 38, and Krista Jean Miller, 33, were arrested in Salt Lake City on multiple felony child-abuse and endangerment charges over allegations that they forced Rumsey’s 14-year-old son to inhale marijuana and poured hot sauce in his eyes as punishment for breaking a glass dish.
Ron Kronenberger, 53, has been charged in Waynesville, Ohio, with assault over allegations that the landlord whipped a 29-year-old male tenant on his bare buttocks for falling behind on his rent.
Cardinal Julius Darmaatjadja, 78, of Indonesia, said he will not attend the conclave to elect the next pope because he is too old and infirm to participate, specifically citing poor eyesight and inability to have an assistant inside the Sistine Chapel as reasons for staying home.
Patricia Kunkle has filed suit in an Ohio court against her former employer, defense contractor QMark Inc., contending that she was fired because she voted for President Barack Obama, a claim the company denies.
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