LITTLE ROCK — Cor y Booker, the Democratic mayor of Newark, N.J., and a vocal advocate for gay rights, wrote a column in 1992 while at Stanford University about overcoming the “disgust and latent hostility” he once felt toward homosexuals, saying in the piece that the change occurred after hearing a gay student describe experiences that Booker found to be “almost identical to stories my grandparents told me about growing up Black.”
Jason Earl Dean, 25, a Dalton, Ga., man who handcuffed himself to a female Taco Bell co-worker in hopes of getting a date, has been sentenced to four years in prison for false imprisonment.
Sgt. J.D. Nelson
of the Alameda County, Calif., sheriff’s office said deputies searching a probationer’s house found 34 pounds of marijuana, as well as a 5-foot-long caiman, a relative of alligators, in a Plexiglas tank guarding the stash.
President Barack Obama
has signed legislation making Pinnacles National Monument in California the country’s 59th national park.
The Rev. Louie Giglio, an Atlanta pastor chosen to give the benediction at President Barack Obama’s inauguration, has withdrawn from the ceremony after gay-rights groups protested remarks made in the 1990s in which he condemned homosexuality, saying he was stepping aside because he thought his prayer would be “dwarfed by those seeking tomake their agenda the focal point of the inauguration.”
Eric Rudolph, who was convicted of bombing Atlanta’s Centennial Park during the 1996 summer Olympics, has announced plans to write an autobiography from prison.
Denise Manco, 35, and Rondell Moore, 37, parents of an 11-month-old who died of heroin intoxication, pleaded guilty in Ocean County, N.J., to manslaughter, admitting they rubbed heroin on their son’s gums because he was teething.
Gene Shalit, a retired television movie critic who was charged in an October crash in Lenox, Mass., will see the misdemeanor charge of driving to endanger dismissed at a hearing in April, his attorney said, after a judge signed off on an agreement between Shalit’s attorney and police.
Scott Compton, a high school English teacher in Chapin, S.C., is on paid leave and facing disciplinary action after school officials say he stomped on an American flag in front of his students to spur a discussion.
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