LITTLE ROCK — Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president of the National Rifle Association, said in prepared remarks to be delivered today before the Senate Judiciary Committee that banning some assault weapons and requiring background checks for all firearms purchases aren’t a serious attempt to reduce gun violence, adding: “Lawabiding gun owners will not accept blame for the acts of violent or deranged criminals.”
Nik Wallenda, 34, a high-wire daredevil, walked 500 feet without a tether or safety net across a wire suspended 200 feet above the ground in Sarasota, Fla.
Hillary Rodham Clinton
answered questions in an online town meeting, telling a woman who asked about a possible presidential run in 2016 that she isn’t “thinking about anything like that right now,” joking that instead she is “looking forward to finishing up my tenure as secretary of state and then catching up on about 20 years of sleep deprivation.”
Tammy Lowe, 53, a middle-school teacher in Grand Prairie, Texas, has been arrested and charged with manslaughter in a hitand-run accident that killed 6-year-old John Raidy.
Christopher Smidt, a New Jersey man who was one of two people aboard a 1967 Piper Cherokee that crashed in the Hudson River last weekend, said he wasn’t sure at the time that he would survive, so he called 911 only after he called his wife and asked her to “tell the kids I love them.”
Patricia Corby, 37, has been sentenced in San Diego to five years to life in prison for drowning her 4-year-old autistic son in a bathtub.
Gov. Rick Snyder, RMich., said that he is “very skeptical” of a Republican proposal in his state to award presidential electoral votes by congressional district, adding: “You don’t want to change the playing field so it’s an unfair advantage to someone, and in a lot of ways we want to make sure we’re reflecting the vote of the people, and this couldchallenge that.”
Julian Anthony Ponder, 43, a British man convicted in Indonesia of receiving cocaine from Lindsay June Sandiford, 56, a fellow Brit who was sentenced to death for drug smuggling, has been sentenced to six years in prison.
Efrain Rios Montt, a former Guatemala dictator, has been ordered to stand trial on allegations that he ordered the murder, torture and displacement of thousands of Mayan Indians during the country’s civil war.
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