President Barack Obama will make stops in Galesburg, Ill., and Warrensburg, Mo., next week to draw attention to the economy and to measures he says will help step up the recovery, the White House said.
Varg Vikernes, a Norwegian black-metal musician who was convicted of manslaughter in the 1990s in the stabbing death of a fellow band member and for arson attacks on three churches, was freed from custody in France by prosecutors who dropped terror charges but still want him to go to court for purportedly inciting racial hatred.
Hank Aaron, 79, the former baseball player who broke Babe Ruth’s record of 714 career home runs April 8, 1974, was the victim of a burglary at his Atlanta home, where officers found two BMWs missing, closets ransacked, and jewelry and car keys taken.
Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., and Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., urged President Barack Obama to consider recommending a new site for a Group of 20 summit in September in St. Petersburg, Russia, if Moscow continues to allow National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden to remain in the country.
Chrissy Mazzeo, a former Las Vegas cocktail waitress, has settled a federal lawsuit that accused former Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons, a Republican, of threatening to rape her after drinks at a restaurant just weeks before his election in November 2006.
Bawer Aksal, 49, a Turkish-born American citizen, was convicted in New Jersey of sexually abusing a woman on a cross-country flight who said she woke up to find his hands groping her from behind.
Audrea Gause, 26, of Troy, N.Y., was arrested over accusations she used fake hospital records to pose as a Boston Marathon bombing victim and fraudulently collected nearly $500,00 from the fund for victims, Massachusetts authorities said.
Montserrat Serra and Blanca Thiebaut, Spanish aid workers for Doctors Without Borders who were kidnapped in Kenya by Somali militants and held hostage for nearly two years, have arrived home, the group said.
Trevor Jacob Fortner, 25, a former youth minister in West Texas, pleaded guilty to attempted transfer of obscene material to a minor and faces up to 10 years in prison for sexually explicit online contact with someone he thought was a 15-year-old girl.
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