Raul Villarreal
and Fidel Villarreal, brothers who worked as Border Patrol agents in California, were sentenced to 35 years and 30 years in prison, respectively, for smuggling hundreds of illegal aliens into the United States, a scheme that prosecutors said earned them more than $1 million.
Car y Ferguson, a 58-year-old western Tennessee man who became trapped in a deep creek bed while walking his dog and couldn’t yell for help because he had a tracheotomy, was rescued after Jinxie’s barking led searchers to the difficult-to-see spot.
Ai Weiwei, a Chinese dissident and artist who was detained for 81 days in 2011 as part of a crackdown on dissent, has released a music album, The Divine Comedy, which mocks and criticizes the Chinese government.
Emily Dreyfuss, 29, whose fiance ordered a tie from Banana Republic’s website, said the couple at first “totally laughed” when they instead received the confidential files of about 20 former employees from the retailer’s parent company, Gap Inc., but Dreyfuss, the daughter of actor Richard Dreyfuss, later called the mix-up “crazy and scary.”
Tony Holden, 36, of Winnfield, La., was arrested in the death of Addarren Ross, an 18-year-old rapper known as Lil Snupe, who was shot twice in the chest after an argument broke out while the two were playing a video game at a friend’sapartment.
Fran Marek, the superintendent of the Joshua School District in Texas, apologized to Remington Reimer, a high-school valedictorian whose microphone was switched off during his graduation ceremony when he deviated from prepared remarks and began talking about his religious beliefs.
Paul Alan White, also known as Jonathan Alan Davenport, a Houston-area man who pretended to be a CIA agent to get personal information from a friend of a co-worker, was sentenced to two years in prison on two counts of pretending to be a federal agent.
Joan Vila, a former Spanish nursing-home worker, was sentenced to more than 127 years in prison for murdering 11 elderly residents by forcing them to drink toxic liquids such as bleach but will serve only 30 years in accordance to Spanish law.
Nicole Wong, Twitter’s legal director of products since November, is joining President Barack Obama’s administration as deputy U.S. chief technology officer.
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