LITTLE ROCK — Hannah Storm, an ESPN anchor who suffered second-degree burns on her chest and hands and first degree burns to her face and neck three weeks ago in a propane gas grill accident at her home, will return to the air today as the host of ABC’s telecast of the Tournament of Roses parade.
Brian Koontz, 29, of Balsam Grove, N.C., has been charged with breaking and entering, larceny and injury to personal property in the theft of 100 meteorites, television monitors, overhead video projectors, a microscope and other scientific instruments from a science education center, police said.
Peter Velasco, spokesman for the State Department, said officials are aware of reports that al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula has offered 6.6 pounds of gold, worth about $160,000, to anyone who kills Gerald Feierstein, the U.S. ambassador in Yemen, adding: “We take these threats very seriously.”
Gov. Mark Dayton of Minnesota, who was originally scheduled to leave the Mayo Clinic on Monday after having back surgery on Thursday, has extended his stay by another day, his spokesman said.
Col. David Clark, director of the Defense Department’s 60th Anniversary of the Korean War Commemoration Committee, said the Pentagon decided to sponsor its first float in the Tournament of Roses parade to raise awareness about the conflict that has been called “The Forgotten War,” adding that with most of the surviving veterans now in their 80s, “this may be our last opportunity to say thank you to them and honor their service.”
Margaret Thatcher, 87, Britain’s former prime minister, has been released from the hospital after an operation to remove a bladder growth, the BBC and Sky News reported.
Jeannette “Jet” Crabb has been sworn in as the latest Seguin, Texas, councilman after a tie between her and Ben Amador was settled by a coin flip that fell in Crabb’s favor.
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