LITTLE ROCK — Gregg Dietrich, sales specialist at Bonhams Maritime Art Department, said that an original 12 1/2-foot statue of the famous 1945 flag-raising at Iwo Jima, later replicated in the 32-foot sculpture of the World War II flag-raising that rests in Arlington, Va., failed to sell at a New York City auction, with the bids stalling at $950,000, below the undisclosed minimum sale price.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., have been selected to receive the Allegheny College Prize for Civility in Public Life.
Albert Lexie, who has been shining shoes for $5 at the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh since the early 1980s, has donated more than $200,000 in tips he’s collected to the Children’s Hospital Free Care Fund, which helps parents who can’t afford to pay their sick children’s medical costs, said Dr. Joseph Carcillo.
David Paterson, the former governor of New York, has been hired by the Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine in Harlem to serve as a distinguished professor of health care and public policy.
Andre Bean, the fired former director of Delaware Valley High School in Reading, Pa., has been charged with felony riot, corruption of minors and other offenses over allegations that he and a second fired staff member encouraged students to act up in school so they would be rehired at the school.
Katie Stockton pleaded guilty in Rockford, Ill., to first-degree murder, admitting she left a baby girl, believed to be her daughter, to freeze to death along a rural roadside in December 2004.
Andrew Noyes, a spokesman for Facebook, said the company is working to fix a problem limiting use of pre-1910 birth dates after Gail Marlow complained that the social media site won’t let her enter her grandmother’s true birth year of 1908, meaning the 104-year-old Marguerite Joseph from Grosse Pointe Shores, Mich., remains 99 - at least on Facebook.
King Juan Carlos of Spain will undergo surgery next month for a lower-back disc hernia, the 75-year-old monarch’s second operation in recent months.
Maj. Stephen Snyder-Hill, a homosexual soldier who was booed during a GOP presidential debate in 2011 when he asked candidates if they would reinstate the ban on openly gay troops, has joined pro-gay-marriage group Freedom Ohio in the effort to overturn Ohio’s ban on same-sex marriage.
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