LITTLE ROCK — Billy Ray Harris, a homeless Kansas City man who returned to Sarah Darling an engagement ring she had accidentally dropped in his cup, will get quite the thank-you gift after Darling’s grateful fiance set up a website seeking donations for Harris and raised nearly $160,000 by Tuesday night.
Patricia Krentcil, 44, a New Jersey woman who was accused of taking her then-5-year-old daughter into a tanning booth, after a teacher noticed the child’s legs were sunburned, won’t face charges after a grand jury declined to indict her.
Former President Bill Clinton
said during a visit to Nigeria that violence in the nation’s predominantly Muslim north is driven more by poverty than religious differences, adding: “You have to somehow bring economic opportunity to the people who don’t have it.”
Kirke Adams, district attorney in Dale County, Ala., said authorities have demolished the underground bunker where Jimmy Lee Dykes held a boy hostage for six days, adding that there was no longer an investigative purpose for the shelter, where Dykes died in a shootout with the FBI.
Ken Salazar, the interior secretary, said a security-screening process for visitors to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island must be worked out before a decision is made on reopening the attractions that have been closed since super storm Sandy.
Barbara Walters, 83, who was hospitalized on Jan. 19 after fainting and cutting her head, is returning to The View next week, saying she’s “had enough rest and it’s time to come back.”
Jonathan Josey, a former Philadelphia police lieutenant who was videotaped punching a woman after a raucous Puerto Rican Day parade, has been acquitted of simple assault, two weeks after the officer testified that he thought Aida Guzman had thrown beer on him and he was trying to knock a bottle from her hand.
Dan Avery, 49, of Watertown, N.Y., pleaded guilty to criminal mischief, admitting that he smashed up a head shop after his 24-year-old son overdosed on bath salts sold at the store and had to be hospitalized.
Michael Daniel, the White House’s cyber-security coordinator, said at a computer-security conference in San Francisco that congressional action is needed to protect U.S. networks from cyber-attack, adding that the president’s executive order on the matter is “actually very limited in what it can do.”
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