LITTLE ROCK — Gov. Chris Christie, RN.J., told a town hall crowd in Manahawkin that the aid package Congress approved Tuesday will help expedite rebuilding after superstorm Sandy, and joked that federal lawmakers were “a little late to the party,” before adding: “But if you’re coming with $60 billion, you can be a little late.”
Michael Carter, a high school senior and Eagle Scout from St. Charles County, Mo., has earned every merit badge offered by the Boy Scouts of America, 134 in total.
Edward W. Deptola, a Marine Corps staff sergeant accused of urinating on the corpse of a Taliban fighter in Afghanistan, pleaded guilty at Camp Lejeune, N.C., to multiple charges, including dereliction of duty for desecrating remains, posing for photographs with the corpses and failing to properly supervise lowerranking Marines.
Dennis Kucinich, a Democratic presidential candidate in 2004 and 2008 who ended 16 years in Congress two weeks ago, has been hired to work for Fox News as a regular contributor.
Anthony Ortolani, a Westminster, Colo., man who pleaded guilty to animal cruelty after leaving his injured German shepherd mix on a mountain, has been sentenced to a year of unsupervised probation and ordered to perform 30 hours of community service.
Sebastian Pinera, president of Chile, has planted his country’s flag and unveiled a plaque at the site of another research station in Antarctica, where the country’s army and navy already have bases.
Mark Sanford, 52, a South Carolina Republican whose political career was derailed four years ago when the then-governor disappeared from the state for five days, telling aides he was hiking the Appalachian Trail when he actually was in Argentina with his mistress, has announced his plans to run for Congress.
John “ Sonny” Franzese, a 95-year-old mob boss who authorities say boasted about killing 60 people, must serve his eight-year prison sentence for his racketeering conspiracy conviction, a federal appeals court in New York ruled.
Muhammad Daming Sunusi, an Indonesian judge interviewing for a job at the Supreme Court, said he was joking when he told a parliamentary panel “we have to think twice about imposing the death penalty” in cases of rape, since both the attacker and the victim “might have enjoyed it.”
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