In the news

Thursday, January 24, 2013

Terry Box, sheriff of Collin County, Texas, who gained attention after he posted on Facebook that he wouldn’t enforce any laws by “misguided politicians” that “violate our precious Constitutional rights,” said in an interview that he doesn’t consider all gun control to be a violation of the Second Amendment and doesn’t have a problem with the 23 executive actions announced by President Barack Obama.

Geir Joergensen, a Norway regional traffic-department chief, said a road tunnel near Tysfjord will be shut for several weeks after a 27-ton truckload of sweet goat’s milk cheese caught fire and took four days to extinguish.

Sen. John Kerry, a Massachusetts Democrat and secretary of state nominee, has notified the State Department that if he is confirmed by the Senate, he will move to sell off holdings in three trusts benefiting him and his wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, within 90 days.

Gao Zhisheng, a lawyer and one of China’s most prominent dissidents, has been visited in a Xinjiang prison by his family, according to Gao’s older brother and a human-rights advocacy group.

Florence Cassez, a French citizen who was sentenced in Mexico to 60 years in prison for her role - denied by Cassez - in a kidnapping ring, has been ordered released by a Mexican Supreme Court panel over procedural and rights violations during her arrest.

Gov. Gary Herbert, a Utah Republican, has called for the creation of a state government office devoted to outdoor recreation as part of his plan to cultivate such recreational activities as a pillar of Utah’s economy.

Nicholas Taverna, 22, and Cassidy Michalski, 25, have been arrested in Northampton, Mass., on charges of unarmed robbery, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and shoplifting over allegations that they stole nearly $400 from Girl Scouts selling cookies at a store and broke the nose of an adult who was supervising the Scouts and had tried to stop the two.

Ulises Rodela, 39, has been arrested in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, after he confessed to killing his neighbor’s three dogs and barbecuing them, police said.

Ryan Walker Grant, 35, the owner of an Arlington, Texas, topless club that was in danger of being shut down, has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for a failed murder-for-hire plot against the city’s mayor and an attorney.

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