LITTLE ROCK — Roger Mundell Jr ., a Massachusetts man who was attacked by a bobcat lurking in his garage, said all he heard was a hiss before the animal pounced on him and sunk its teeth into his face and then ran outside and bit his 15-year-old nephew.
Sen. Harry Reid, DNev., said he misspoke when he said on the Senate floor that damage from Hurricane Katrina in 2005 was “nothing in comparison” to the damage inflicted by superstorm Sandy, according to a statement released by his office.
John Harkins, the mayor of Stratford, Conn., is proposing to name a new school for teacher Victoria Soto, who was killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in nearby Newtown while shielding her students from the gunman.
Sarah Childs, a Louisiana woman who is suing Denham Springs and police and is asking a judge to let her continue to display her roof-mounted holiday lights that give an extended middle finger to her neighbors, said she put up the message in November because she believed her neighbor stole her dog.
Prince Charles, 64, said the prospect of becoming a grandfather for the first time has made him more determined to pursue his environmental concerns, telling ITV’s This Morning show that “I don’t want to be confronted by my future grandchild and have them say, ‘Why didn’t you do something?’”
William Hilton Paul, the 19-year-old son of Sen.Rand Paul, R-Ky., was arrested at Charlotte Douglas International Airport after a flight from Kentucky to North Carolina and charged with consuming beer/wine underage, disorderly conduct and being intoxicated and disruptive.
Sara Ege, 33, a British woman who beat her 7-year-old son to death and then set his body on fire to destroy the evidence after he failed to memorize passages from the Koran, was sentenced to at least 17 years in prison.
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