Eliot Spitzer, the former governor of New York who stepped down after a prostitution scandal in 2008, said his wife, Silda Wall Spitzer, won’t be accompanying him as he campaigns for New York City comptroller, adding, “She’s got a career.”
Carmen Collins, an 18-year-old Georgia woman who pleaded guilty in the 2012 shooting death of her 12-year-old sister and to setting fire to their family’s house in hopes of covering up the crime, was sentenced to life in prison.
Andrew Cuomo, governor of New York, signed a law banning trade in shark fins in the state starting next summer in an effort to protect the fish.
Manuel Diaz Hernandez, a 10-year-old street vendor whose mistreatment by a Mexico City inspector tugged on the heartstrings of Mexicans after a video of it appeared on social media, was offered a scholarship and medical and psychological help by Tabasco state Gov. Arturo Nunez’s administration.
U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken
of Oakland, Calif., ruled in a class-action lawsuit that Cold War military veterans who say they were harmed by government-backed chemical and biological experiments aren’t entitled to treatment outside the Department of Veterans Affairs medical system.
Kaitlin Norton, 21, of Wildwood, Mo., who admitted leaving her newborn son under a tree after secretly giving birth at her boyfriend’s home, has been sentenced to five years’ probation on a child-endangerment charge and also must complete treatment programs and perform 500 hours of community service.
Meghan McCain, blogger and 28-year-old daughter of Republican Sen. John McCain, is getting her own TV show titled Raising Mc-Cain, which will debut on Pivot and is described as a documentary-talk series for viewers ages 15 to 34.
Kevin Trudeau, author and infomercial pitchman, was found in contempt of court by a federal judge in Chicago for failing to pay a more than $37 million fine imposed over misleading ads for one of his weightloss books, The Weight Loss Cure “They” Don’t Want You to Know About.
Nathan Woessner, a 6-year-old Illinois boy who was trapped in a sand dune for more than three hours, has been released from the hospital and is expected to make a full neurological recovery but may suffer lingering lung problems from inhaling sand, according to his doctors.
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